Horrifying tale of how a public, open-source vaccine was ready in Finland nine months ago but got nowhere because Big Pharma was interested only in a patented vaccine it could make big private profits from jacobinmag.com/2021/02/finlan…
As the pandemic shows, governments heavily invest public money in research exploited by Big Pharma to patent drugs it then fleeces governments to buy. Those same governments indemnify Big Pharma against any liabilities. ‘Profits are private, risks are socialized’
The mad mantra of proft-driven medicine is: ‘Stopping a disease in its tracks is bad business.’ Corporate drug-makers are incentivised to avoid preventive and prophylactic medicine – and, of course, cures – so that they can keep raking in profits from the chronically ill
A profit-driven, patent system means most of the world's drugs factories currently lie idle, blocked from vaccine production by the US and EU. ‘The rich countries end up shooting themselves in the foot as the virus is allowed to keep spreading and mutating over most of the globe’
I recently explored how Big Pharma's profit-driven interest in keeping the public dependent on drugs has resulted in the stifling of research into the apparently powerful protective role of Vitamin D – the sunlight hormone jonathan-cook.net/blog/2021-02-2…
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