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I don't understand what there was to negotiate about which apparently was done better by the UK than the EU when these vaccines are being sold without profit; s
by difosfor 6y ago
I don't understand what there was to negotiate about which apparently was done better by the UK than the EU when these vaccines are being sold without profit; so for a fixed price? If there subsequently is a shortage in production you can not accept extra money to provide more to one than the other (then you would make a profit) so I'd say it logically follows that you either go with a first come first serve distribution or a social, per capita, distribution.
PS: I was really hoping the world would have banded together to develop all vaccines publicly; sharing their recipes and allowing the whole world to produce as much vaccine as possible without artificial financial limitations.
- kyriakos 6y agoSo much felt the same about your last point. Unfortunately it looks like every country / bloc is trying to gain advantage by getting to a post covid economic prosperity state first. It is reasonable in real world terms though though because very few countries have the facilities to manufacture vaccines at scale even with open recipes.
- difosfor 6y agoHow does that make it reasonable to close and effectively keep medicine away from people unless they pay more than cost price? Of course if some countries can not produce it themselves they will buy it from other countries. Having an open recipe just means factories will only be able to compete on price and quality; not on secret recipe. I don't understand why we allow capitalistic control of medicine at all. The goal should be to maximize health, not profit. And in many ways, directly through subsidizing and indirectly by providing the wealthy infrastructure and schooling etc the public are already paying for medicine research anyhow. Why not go all the way and make it public altogether? But I guess I'm a bit of an idealist..