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0 pointsamrocha2y ago0 comments

The pandemic where governments in the global south were fleeced by pharma companies, while the global north enforced patents and let millions of people die? Which, by the way, is still happening in a lot of poor countries that just don't have the money to afford the vaccines.

Not to mention the fact that the vaccines were developed with public money.

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epups2y ago

Yeah, the pandemic where rich countries had developed economies capable of producing such vaccines, which they then donated massively to poorer countries [1] or sold to other countries at reduced price. If these companies did not exist, or if they had no profit motive, no one would have had vaccines.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covax-donations

amrochaOP2y ago

You're wrong. Covax is a bandaid. If I cut your arm off, and then offer to pay for half the price of the treatment, that doesn't absolve me of guilt.

And you're wrong about the vaccines too. They were mostly developed with public money, private companies just profited off them.

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