Gregory's Server
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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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:
https://www.osborneclarke.com/insights/trade-secrets-remain-sticking-point-global-debate-over-vaccine-ip-waiver
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:
https://twitter.com/TheKaranMenon/status/1466912293380231168
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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:
https://www.osborneclarke.com/insights/trade-secrets-remain-sticking-point-global-debate-over-vaccine-ip-waiver
It's a maneuver only an IP lawyer could love.