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by Brian Peacock » Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:37 am
I remember when the Oxford team announced they had developed a viable vaccine and their intention was to make it open source. And then the UK govt sided with Pfizer's claim that to produce enough vaccine they'd have to massively ramp up production and so they should retain an exclusive licence to cover the outlay, but that they'd definitely sell it at cost. And I remember the govt then deciding to subsidis production costs, and Pfizer outsourcing a chunk of production to India when nobody in India had access to the vaccine, and Pfizer selling cheaply to the UK and at a 'fair market price' elsewhere, and other Pharmas basically catching up and making similar arrangements.
None of this is a conspiracy, it's just capitalism in action. The conspiracy is believing the stories that people who are critical of, or downright anti-capitalist, the Left, are in league with big Pharma, that they are friends of big Pharma, that they endorse and appeove big Pharma.
Your complaints about big Pharma are valid Cunt, and they're fundamentally anti-capitalist complaints. But you've been repeatedly and effectively primed and triggered (radicalised) to revile and despise the Left, and to such an extent that you believe that if you're saying White the Left must be saying Black, and if the Left are saying Black you must say and can only ever say White. Do you understand where that's taken you?
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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