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> I’m sure they benefitted from various forms of government support …like paying for all the vaccines ahead of time, without any guarantee they worked, and the
by bugglebeetle 4y ago
> I’m sure they benefitted from various forms of government support
…like paying for all the vaccines ahead of time, without any guarantee they worked, and the decades of government-sponsored research that made them possible in the first place? The drug companies were not in anyway “heroes,” but net beneficiaries of the enclosure of public research, which, combined with decades of bribing politicians to prevent state manufacturing capacity and enforce bogus IP restrictions, has resulted in wildly inequitable global vaccine access and countless, unnecessary deaths across the world.
- megaman821 4y agoThis is like saying LeBron James' mom is the real basketball star. She carried him in her womb and fed an clothed him throughout his childhood.
- bugglebeetle 4y agoThis is a hilarious analogy because #1, I’m sure LeBron would say this publicly while drug companies pay millions of dollars to PR firms to lie about how much they profit from public research, #2 LeBron’s mom didn’t invent the techniques that made him a star player, while the publicly-funded research did this for MRNA vaccines: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/jun-12-missions-to-venus-learning-instant-replay-wrens-spectacular-duet-and-more-1.6061094/meet-the-canadian-scientist-who-paved-the-way-for-groundbreaking-mrna-covid-vaccines-1.6061099 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/jun-12-missions-to-venus-lea...