• Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    So when is the west going to make their covid vaccines open source? Since they would never withhold crucial, lifesaving knowledge.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      No no no... You see, you can't release vaccines into the public domain. It's just not possible. Rich people simply wouldn't hire smart people to develop vaccines if it didn't make them even richer. And yes, that's the only way to develop vaccines, everything else would be socialism and bound to fail every time.

    • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      No. You see, those countries are full of dumb and poor people who cannot possibly make a vaccine correctly. It's dangerous to let them make the vaccine because they will do it wrong and kill people.

      • panopticon [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        It sucks ass that that is the main rationale that shits like Bill Gates are giving for this vaccine apartheid, and it seems to be considered acceptable.