And in other news, the EU is blocking wider production of vaccines globally, so billions of people don’t even have that first option…
nytimes.com/2021/11/22/wor…
nytimes.com/2021/11/22/wor…
It’s not just the EU. A handful of other high-income countries that were lobbied by powerful pharmaceutical companies have stalled a proposal to temporarily waive global trade and intellectual property rules to expand access to lifesaving vaccines and other health care products.
Governments funding Covid-19 vaccine development with public money failed to condition these funds on affordability and sharing technology, leaving companies to decide how, when, and where they will manufacture, distribute, and price vaccines.
Companies, of course, aim to maximise profit, not production, hence the current global shortage of Covid vaccines.
Shortages help boost prices, which is great for companies’ profits, but deadly for the rest of us.
Shortages help boost prices, which is great for companies’ profits, but deadly for the rest of us.
Companies set the production levels to suit their business imperative: profit.
What humanity needs in a global pandemic, however, is not a few people getting richer but as many people as possible getting the vaccine.
What humanity needs in a global pandemic, however, is not a few people getting richer but as many people as possible getting the vaccine.
By blocking & endlessly stalling the patent waiver (#TRIPSwaiver) at the WTO, the EU, UK, and others are maintaining this artificial shortage.
They’ve been doing this FOR OVER A YEAR.
The result?
4.7 billion people around the world have not had even one jab yet.
They’ve been doing this FOR OVER A YEAR.
The result?
4.7 billion people around the world have not had even one jab yet.
Maintaining an artificial shortage of vaccines during a global pandemic to prioritise profits over human lives is an ugly EU policy that means:
1️⃣ a longer pandemic;
2️⃣ more death;
3️⃣ more time for new variants to emerge, including vaccine-resistant strains.
1️⃣ a longer pandemic;
2️⃣ more death;
3️⃣ more time for new variants to emerge, including vaccine-resistant strains.
Apparently, over 5 million deaths around the world and a global pandemic with no visible end are not enough to convince the EU, UK etc that their policy is failing.
They keep blocking wider vaccine production globally.
They keep blocking wider vaccine production globally.
If you’re in the EU and vaccinated right now, you may think that the EU’s policy of enforcing global vaccine shortage won’t affect you.
Think again…
Think again…
And some EU citizens take to the streets because they don’t want to wear a mask… 🙄
Being asked to wear a mask to protect others is a tiny thing.
Your government literally blocking wider vaccine production during a global pandemic - now THAT is the real outrage.
Being asked to wear a mask to protect others is a tiny thing.
Your government literally blocking wider vaccine production during a global pandemic - now THAT is the real outrage.
I see some pharma shills and anonymous Commission defenders are still trying to use arguments against the #TRIPSwaiver that were debunked ages ago. So, I’ll add this old thread here as a reminder that their deadly policy is indefensible…
https://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/1400352366134796295
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