I only wrote in this most recent post what I’ve written in several prior posts—all of which you derided. Be nice if you could make up your mind.
Oh, & since you are so sure Obama is “right”, let me ask you this. Did he say, ‘We are ramping our production up to full capacity, and as soon as we safely can we will share out anti-Ebola serum with Africa’?
Because the above is what a person who cares would say & do. Not so a sociopath. A sociopath does not care. Therefore he does not do everything possible to help in an epidemic. So long as he is safe, He Does Not Care.
The company released 3 vials of serum. It’s been said to take about 6 weeks to produce 2 liters of product - which is further refined down to an unknown quantity. For all we know that refined quantity is the 3 vials. Or maybe it’s 10 vials. Funding and pending trial parameters would have dictated what quantity the company had “on-hand” to continue research.
The viral protein growth, extraction and refining process is proprietary property of private individuals. It doesn’t belong to the USA or to Obama. . Obama can’t say “we” are ramping up production because “we” don’t own the product or process.
We don’t march the Army into privately held companies and seize intellectual property and/or product without compensation - yet. That may be a hard concept to grasp in communist, socialist or dictatorial countries, but that’s how the world turns in the USA (except when it comes to our ranchers, farmers and small miners).
When the anti-viral is released, it will be under ‘emergency study’ conditions. That means tracking every patient for long-term effects. Caution will rule the day and while caution may cost more lives in the short-term it may save millions of lives in the longterm. Even the shelf price is impossible to fix at this point. And, who pays the tab? The US? The world? the inventing company?
Researchers in America work on cures for several diseases that primarily affect Africa. They don’t need to do that. There’s no ebola in the USA. Scientists could concentrate on things that affect Americans, but these scientists chose to try to help people outside of the USA.
We should be celebrating American ingenuity, celebrating that, once again, freedom and free thought - and capitalism - has led to private individuals undertaking independent research. And if it is a cure, a complete gamechanger for an entire continent peopled with primarily one ethnicity.
Instead, America is being trashed (and by definition those very researchers) as racist, elitist and greedy. Why is that? Science is not instant-coffee on demand and neither is America.