The fate of the world always passes through America. It is in the space of freedom that the idea of the future and its realization are defined. The greatest discoveries, inventions and enterprises were born and raised in this extraordinary dimension, between the skyscrapers and the ranch, 5th street and the West. Here Albert Einstein and other geniuses of the formidable scientific and philosophical dawn of the twentieth century found shelter from Europe oppressed by Hitler, here man dreamed and touched the moon, here the Internet was born. Tomorrow is always called America.
Pfizer’s announcement on the anti-Covid vaccine reminds us that our hope is called freedom, that where there is oppression there can be no well-being, that our horizon is called the West, that the news may be fallacious, but history end does not lie. Prudence is a virtue, but no one wins a war without enthusiasm and courage. Waiting for Godot, nothing happens, it inexorably declines. And luck alone is not enough, never forget the lesson of Niccolò Machiavelli: “That prince who relies entirely on luck, ruin, like that varies”. For this reason, fortune must be accompanied by virtue.
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Biontech laboratories
Luck for now accompanies Joe Biden, president elect of the United States. Because he will be the one to reap the benefits of many months of research by American companies on the vaccine for the coronavirus. Anthony Fauci called the tests “simply extraordinary”. The president-elect announced the team of scientists for his anticoronavirus plan. Biden’s is a very lucky start. To make it effective it will have to accompany it to virtue, we need thoughtful political decisions to be transformed into concrete actions.
STOCK MARKET UP BIG, VACCINE COMING SOON. REPORT 90% EFFECTIVE. SUCH GREAT NEWS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2020
Biden’s luck is triple:
1. His election comes when they begin to see each other the fruits of the Warp Speed operation launched by the Trump administration to enhance vaccine research. It is no coincidence that the incumbent president claims Pfizer’s results and Wall Street’s leap, but time hasn’t played in Trump’s favor;
2. Pfizer’s announcement comes after and not before the presidential vote. It is not a detail. The news would have affected the outcome of the election, Trump would have used it to boost his campaign, would probably have turned the wind in his favor. This has not happened, the fact will fuel a storm of conspiracy theories, but at the same time it will increase the confidence of American citizens in the use of the vaccine (which is still low), give further impetus to research and inject a fundamental dose into public opinion. of hope in the future. In the Washington Post this timeline is titled like this: “Perfect Timing”. And a perfect time like never before: the Biden administration will take office on January 20, 2021, an ideal start for a presidency won with a contested victory, a polarized political scenario, a split Congress and a president who lost the White House. but compared to four years ago it has the leadership of the “red nation”. Mitch McConnell, leader of the Republican majority in the Senate supports Trump’s legal initiatives on the vote, the Gop is with the president and for the dems this is a problem, the division between the party and Trump does not exist for now, the work in Congress will be difficult. Biden needs the good news, the vaccine is the good news. That’s why he didn’t let Trump play the vaccine card alone on the communications poker table and immediately expressed his satisfaction with Pfizer’s announced results, right on the day it launched its coronavirus panel of experts. Coincidences. Luck. Last but not least, another American company, Moderna, is in the wake of Pfizer, and is expected to present important clinical test results by November. Final outcome: the United States in the first part of 2021 could have two vaccines. It would be another stroke of luck;
3. Wall Street takes off like a rocket, oil flies. The stock market indices and the price per barrel measure hope for the new beginning of the economy. If the tests are confirmed and followed by those of other biotech companies, there will be a V-shaped shot of production, the return not to the past, but to a “new normal”, because nothing in any case will be the same, the coronavirus leaves wounds and lessons not to be forgotten in terms of security and cooperation, transparency (failure), immense value and fragility of democracy in competition with totalitarian regimes.
Statement by President-elect Biden on Pfizer’s vaccine progress: pic.twitter.com/eOiLZnqO8N
— Biden-Harris Presidential Transition (@Transition46) November 9, 2020
On the geopolitical level, the consequences are enormous: Pfizer is an American pharmaceutical giant, Biontech is a German company. The United States and Germany are the new world rewriting its history and the leading country of a Europe in search of an author. They are the answer and the counterweight to the disruptive force of China, the only country that, according to data from the International Monetary Fund, in 2020 it will have a positive gross domestic product.
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The Sinovac laboratories where one of the 11 Chinese vaccines that have reached the experimental stage is developed and produced
A vaccine born in Washington and Berlin ensures the West the autonomy, strength and distance that are necessary in the confrontation of power with Beijing, is an effective antidote to contain the expansionist policy of Xi Jinping which is multiform, uses finance, technology and biotech to catapult beyond the Great Wall. A vaccine in the hands of China would be a further acceleration in Beijing’s favor in what Henry Kissinger foresightedly called the new coronavirus order. The game is being played for global hegemony, we must hope that the free world wins it.
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