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Dear God, HN, exercise some reading comprehension. The part that's making so many commenters here shut their brains off: > Welt am Sonntag also quoted an unid
by redsymbol 7y ago
Dear God, HN, exercise some reading comprehension.
The part that's making so many commenters here shut their brains off:
> Welt am Sonntag also quoted an unidentified German government source as saying Trump was trying to secure the scientists’ work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, “but only for the United States.”
The quote above is manipulating you into believing that the USA is attepmting to prevent Germans from getting that vaccine. THAT'S the part that is completely not real.
EDIT: Some of the questions you want to ask when you see an article quote like this:
- Who is this unnamed source, exactly?
- Is the article accurately representing what they said?
- In particular: does it accurately represent their intended meaning, in context?
- Does that person speak for the German government? Or is this one government employee's opinion?
- If a German company moves its research labs into the USA, but remains a German company - like the article says - wouldn't that make it impossible for them to hide the secret formula for a vaccine?
- Why would the USA (or any country) even try to keep a vaccine formula secret, in the face of a global pandemic like this? If you think about it, is that comic-book-villain scenario even plausible?
- wool_gather 7y agoAre you saying that the quote is false? What's the reading of "only for X" that doesn't equal "not for Y"?
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