Legalizacja zabijania pacjentów jest coraz bardziej powszechna pch24.pl - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pch24.pl Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Getty Images
Politicians have not adequately grappled with the ethical problem of who should get vaccines first, and are unwilling to lead people through the necessary excruciating questions that need answers, writes
John Authers
As the year began, so it is ending.
Early in 2020, the pandemic blindsided governments, which dithered over both the scientific and moral imperatives while much of the populace indulged in selfish and conflicted behavior that seemed to belong in Glengarry Glen Ross or Lord of the Flies rather than in a modern democracy.
Those same problems now afflict the distribution of the vaccine, the miracle of scientific achievement that has the potential to bring the pandemic to an end. The lamentable difference is that this time, we’ve had months to think about the issues at stake and to prepare. Scientists and boards of ethicists have done the work. Yet politicians still seem clueless or cowardly, unwilling to lead the public through the excrucia