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Contrary to what the title implies, those vaccines aren't 'shared' with the developed world either. They're kept by the pharma companies, and the developed worl
by MikeUt 5y ago
Contrary to what the title implies, those vaccines aren't 'shared' with the developed world either. They're kept by the pharma companies, and the developed world has to pay for doses, despite having funded over 97% of the vaccine development cost with taxes [1,2]. Yet these articles are implicitly asking us to feel guilty for.. what? Allowing the patent cartel to bribe our politicians and extort us?
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/15/oxfordastrazeneca-covid-vaccine-research-was-97-publicly-funded https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/15/oxfordastraz...
[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.08.21255103v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.08.21255103v...
- pbak 5y agoWell, we _are_ living in democracies, aren't we ?
- MikeUt 5y agoEmpirically, no: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- airhead969 5y agoThe US was ostensibly a representative republic, not a democracy, but it's actually an oligarchy. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746 https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
- pbak 5y agoI forgot to add /sarcasm
- WalterGR 5y agoYet these articles are implicitly asking us to feel guilty for.. what? Sorry to be obtuse, but what's the answer to this question? What should I feel guilty for?
- MikeUt 5y agoThat 'we', the developed world, aren't sharing vaccine formulas with the developing world. But that guilt trip only works if you accept that the private citizens of the developed world, and the pharmaceutical companies trying to wring every last dollar and euro out of us, are part of the same 'we', instead of two fundamentally opposed groups.