Thread by @proustmalone

Capitalism is when a vaccine to a deadly pandemic exists but we can’t create or distribute enough of it because two pharmaceutical conglomerates refuse to lose out on shareholder profits by sharing the patent information.

My patience is too thin to deal with people who have been intellectually destroyed by pharmaceutical propaganda but I appreciate their efforts to generate sympathy for Pfizer in this most difficult of fiscal quarters.

It turns out that the economic model aggregated from man's most selfish impulses does not result in a society capable of handling crises navigable only through communal organization.

This myth that capitalism created the vaccine is wrong. The research/development was taxpayer funded. Public medical research is a democratic element of U.S. life that has managed to withstand post-Reagan privatization. That is what created the vaccine.

cnn.com/2020/06/22/hea…