@quackquack said
It is morally repugnant for countries to be so entitled that they feel that they do not need to pay for a life saving products during a pandemic. If everyone wants companies to develop products like COVID vaccines, we need to ensure that they get fair returns. All countries have SOME money and it should be mandated that they either (1) us that money to pay for this life ...[text shortened]... ouldn't interfere with its own companies making a fair profit from a literally life savings product.
oh, sorry, maybe I should explain it like you're five.
the longer the bad flu goes on, the worse the bad flu gets, until the bad flu turns into worse flu. Did that penetrate your thick skull?
What you're advocating is standing in the middle of a burning building and refusing to help people stuck in a room even if eventually the building will burn you alive along with those people.
(2) develop their own vaccine
you didn't "develop your own vaccine", you used freely shared knowledge from scientists all over the world to come up with a solution to the burning building you are standing in.
"(3) acknowledge that they have priorities other than to vaccinate their people and suffer the consequences of their stated moronic priorities."
Yes, not pay the ransom demanded by greedy pharmaceutical companies acting like kidnappers without negotiating first. Like real free market economy should behave.
"The idea that some countries take without making their fair share is an abomination and United States companies should reasonably expect that their own country wouldn't interfere with its own companies making a fair profit from a literally life savings product."
not gonna bother mentioning the burning building again. It was already established you don't have the decency to save those people but it's becoming obvious you don't have the intelligence needed to realize that saving them also saves you.
Because when the virus mutates from infecting all those people in the poor countries and the vaccine becomes worthless, who do you think will get infected first? A dumbass randian fanatic who doesn't understand economics rooting for greedy corporations that don't give a fuk about him? Or the CEOs of said greedy corporations?