Posted on 03/16/2021 5:02:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
There are some policies so clearly in the national interest that they have survived the hyperpartisanship of the presidential transition from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. An example was provided at the March 10 meeting of the World Trade Organization’s Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. This may seem like a backwater venue, but the issue in question strikes at the core of present and future technological development. Some 100 “poor” countries led by South Africa are pushing for a waiver of intellectual property (IP) protection for vaccines that combat the COVID-19 pandemic. These countries lack the capability to develop their own vaccines. They want the formulas made available for free so anyone can produce them. Supplies will thus be more readily available and perhaps cheaper, though quality and effectiveness may suffer as less capable firms jump in to copy the cutting-edge technology used to create the new vaccines.
The U.S., along with the European Union, Canada, and Japan, argued IP protections were crucial to how quickly COVID-19 vaccines were developed by the top pharmaceutical companies. Research and development are extremely expensive. Though the industry received some government help, it is still dependent on sales to recover research and production costs. The Trump administration did not want to sink funds into failed programs, it only wanted to reward success. The capitalist in the White House understood the power of incentives, and so far, at least on this issue, so does President Biden who continued to block the WTO waiver.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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If we are NOT immune after a "vaccine" .... we have NOT HAD a vaccination shot.
I believe ( without knowing what I’m talking about ) ... they are giving out stem cell research.
All the wrong people want me to get it. Biden, Fauxi, Gates, MSM. I hearby donate mine to some poor African.
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All the wrong people want me to get it. Biden, Fauxi, Gates, MSM. I hearby donate mine to some poor African.
So you're willing to forgo the benefits of Operation Warp Speed, one of the Trump presidency's greatest successes, because leftists like vaccines too? If these leftists also liked scrambled eggs would you give those up too? Sorry FRiend but that doesn't make sense to me.
You realize Trump himself got the jab, right?
Vax Supremacists!
I got the flu shot once and it made me sicker than the flu for 3-4 weeks. Wife’s been working at a nursing home for almost a decade and for 4-5 years, she brought home the flu once or twice a year and then it stopped. Guess we’ve had all strains and are immune now because we haven’t been sick in four years. No flu, no colds. She hasn’t brought covid home or if she did, we didn’t notice but it has been in the facility. Haven’t worn a mask and most people don’t here.
I’m just not all that worried about something that has a 99.8% survival rate. A rushed vaccine worries me more, especially after the side effects of the one flu shot. The cure was worse than the disease for me. Maybe some common ingredient in vaccines just have a bad effect on me. Not sure why Trump got the vaccine considering he had covid already.
I’ll stick with my immune system.
BTT
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