We have to let hundreds of thousands of people die, otherwise we might cure cancer in people who didn't pay for it :porky-scared:
Can't let foreigners access our life saving technology because then they might save the lives of the wrong people.
:amerikkka:
Lobbyist: "It's bad for business to give medicine away for free!"
Congress Person: "But variants spreading will also be bad for busi.."
Lobbyist: "ughh....what I meant to say was ugh....because....ughhh....China bad?"
Congress Person: "hmmmm...."
Lobbyist: "In fact, Russia/China VERY BAD!"
Congress Person: "I must say, you make a very compelling argument. I will recommend you for promotion when I go sit on your company's board."
Love declaring Total War on China for checks notes trying to cure cancer.
Imagine the harm that could be done if spooky foreigners came up with a cure for cancer! I cannot take this absurd shit.
Here's the article it's behind a paywall, so if anyone can get in please archive it.
http://web.archive.org/web/20210426181752if_/https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2Ffa1e0d22-71f2-401f-9971-fa27313570ab
The battle over IP comes as drugmakers are once again under pressure domestically, as drug pricing reform moves up the Biden administration's agenda. This includes proposals to peg drug prices to those in other industrialised nations, which are usually far cheaper, and allowing Medicare, the pension plan for older people, to negotiate prices.
LET US PRICE GOUGE THE ELDERLY! WAAHHHH!!
Lol if you think they aren't also gouging 3rd world governments. There's a reason Sinovac is the most distributed vaccine as they aren't requiring privatization of public industry.
god imagine the horrors those chinese bastards would commit if they got their hands on... livesaving medical technology
Give the Cubans mRNA technology already and save the workers of the world from cnacer and heart disease
