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Re: "U.S. President Biden calls for intellectual property protection waivers after Omicron discovery"

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On 28 Nov 2021, Rudy Canoza <notgenx32@gmail.com> posted some
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> On 11/28/2021 11:37 AM, David Hartung wrote:
>> On 11/28/21 11:07 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:
>>> On 11/28/2021 7:54 AM, David Hartung wrote:
>>>> On 11/28/21 8:57 AM, edell@post.com wrote:
>>>>> On Sunday, November 28, 2021 at 9:28:50 AM UTC-5, David Hartung
>>>>> wrote: 
>>>>>> https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-pre
>>>>>> sident-biden-calls-intellectual-property-protection-waivers-covid-
>>>>>> 19-2021-11-26/ 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> WASHINGTON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday
>>>>>> called on nations expected to meet at the World Trade
>>>>>> Organization next week to agree to waive intellectual property
>>>>>> protections for COVID-19 vaccines in the wake of the
>>>>>> identification of a new coronavirus variant in South Africa.
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What an absolute idiot!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> How so?  You do realize that most of the drug research and
>>>>> development money Big Pharma gets is from the government, i.e.
>>>>> taxpayers, not to mention that the government also pays to cover
>>>>> the costs of providing the vaccine to the population, again at
>>>>> taxpayers' expense, and then Big Pharma has the nerve to want to
>>>>> jack up the prices, especially in the uncontrolled price 
>>>>> environment US, to reap fat profits, at taxpayers' expense
>>>>> again?  The idea behind exempting intellectual property
>>>>> protections for Covid is that the virus continues to be an
>>>>> evolving one with no end in sight, especially when dumbfuck stupid
>>>>> right wingers refuse to protect themselves from it, producing
>>>>> ongoing multiple variants and mutations, meaning that Big Pharma, 
>>>>> despite getting social welfare money from the government (i.e.
>>>>> taxpayers again), would want to even further reap fatter profits
>>>>> to an even more obscene extent, which would then threaten the easy
>>>>> and free (at taxpayers' expense) availability of vaccines and
>>>>> actually further prolong the virus lifespan.
>>>>>
>>>>> No, the smart thing to do is what's being done now and keep doing
>>>>> it until the virus no longer proves to be a threat, and then allow
>>>>> for intellectual property protections on it should Covid reappear
>>>>> later in the future in some other form for Big Pharma to make
>>>>> money off of it.  But you're just a backward Mississippi thinker
>>>>> who thinks kiling off more people just so Big Pharma can make more
>>>>> money now is more important than saving more people's lives while
>>>>> Big Pharma still makes money from taxpayers, though not as fat 
>>>>> an amount as they would otherwise make with IPP.  Such a phony
>>>>> pastor man of God you are.
>>>>
>>>> What I realize is that the companies who develop the vaccines
>>>> invest their own money and resources into these vaccines 
>>>
>>> What you realize is, as usual, complete bullshit.  It was
>>> government money, not private money, that was invested in the
>>> vaccines' development: 
>>>
>>> "It Was The Government That Produced COVID-19 Vaccine Success"
>>>
>>> https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210512.191448/full/
>>>
>>> The government forked over between $18 billion and $23 billion to
>>> the vaccine companies.
>>>
>>> I worked as a contractor in IT for decades, most of it as a
>>> developer (programmer). 
>> 
>> You haven't the brains to be a computer programmer.
> 
> I do, of course, because I've been successfully doing it for many
> decades. 

Doubtful because you have no presence in any professional working groups 
or organizations.

> We know 

You got rats in your pocket?

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