* The reddit thread on the BBC article about the developed world stopping the rest of the world manufacturing vaccines has a justification for it: if any pharmaceutical company could make them, there would be a drop in quality control, causing a bad batch that harms people, which would lead to bad press, increased vaccine hesitancy, and thus a large enough population for the virus to replicate in and throw up variants of concern and inevitably vaccine resistant strains.

Even if you accept the proposition that it is impossible to cooperate and maintain quality in a more equitably distributed manufacturing process (and I don't agree that's a given), the rest of the argument is obviously bullshit. The situation we are in right now us it will take 3 years to vaccinate the entire world. That's a much larger population for VOCs to evolve in.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ma3cbr/wealthy_countries_including_the_uk_are_blocking/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-56465395?=