You seem to be jumping to an awful lot of conclusions without really explaining what you understand is happening here.

(I note that I don't understand at all what you're asserting.)

> Intentionally murdering possibly thousands of people (or tens of thousands? or what, who knows?!) for some assumed political gain is absolutely, 100% an unreasonable decision for any human to make. Intentionally delaying a vaccine would certainly be a crime, no? Not to mention absolutely abhorrent and completely evil.

You mean delaying the announcement of a vaccine. They didn't delay the process.

No. I didn't write "Intentionally murdering possibly thousands of people" or "Intentionally delaying a vaccine"

I wrote "We're talking about announcing a result a few weeks earlier versus later."

And if that was the goal, I think it worked. It looks like Biden won by literally tens of thousands votes. An announcement a week earlier probably would have swung the election to Trump.

At a cost of zero lives.

If the vaccine works as announced, we're still weeks away from the end of the trial, and months away from widespread distribution.