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The pharma lobbyists who have blocked a WTO waiver are the true vaccine deniers. They are literally denying vaccines to billions of people, but also implicitly denying that constitutes an existential risk to all of us, as unvaccinated nations offer fertile breeding grounds for new, scarier variants.

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7 Dec 2021 at 16:34 | Open on mamot.fr
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  Cory Doctorow's linkblog

Big Pharma - and its shills, like Howard Dean - has based this vaccine denial on two big lies:

I. That vaccine factories take too long to build to be of use. Moderna privately admits that new factories could have been built in 3-4 months.

II. That poor brown people are too primitive to make their own vaccines. The world's largest vaccine factories are in the Global South.

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7 Dec 2021 at 16:34 | Reply | Open on mamot.fr
  Cory Doctorow's linkblog

The latest delaying tactic? Insisting that any WTO vaccine waiver should exclude trade secrets - the know-how necessary to turn patents and scientific papers into vaccine production:

osborneclarke.com/insights/tra

It's a maneuver only an IP lawyer could love.

It takes a lot of work to make an issue as clear-cut and urgent as vaccine equity into a controversy. Karan Menon manages to lay out the whole case in 95 seconds in a Tiktok video:

twitter.com/TheKaranMenon/stat

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The latest delaying tactic? Insisting that any WTO vaccine waiver should exclude trade secrets - the know-how necessary to turn patents and scientific papers into vaccine production:

osborneclarke.com/insights/tra

It's a maneuver only an IP lawyer could love.

7 Dec 2021 at 16:34 | Reply | Open on mamot.fr
  Dr. Quadragon ❌

@pluralistic
I agree. Vaccines are essential and we should be as open as possible about the information necessary to produce them.

It never should be about "competition". It is not a game.

7 Dec 2021 at 18:03 | Reply | Open on mastodon.ml
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