> Things change when tens or hundreds of millions of lives are on the line.

Is it Ok when it’s just tens of thousands, thousands, hundreds? At which number it becomes acceptable to abuse patents to sell overpriced medicines for the sick?

The system needs improvements. The pandemic is temporal. The injustice have been there for many years.

I’m purposely not drawing an exact line. Nonetheless, when potentially hundreds of millions of lives are at stake globally, it’s safe to say we’ve crossed over into IP as a public good land.

> Does it? I don’t know. Should it? In the case of a global pandemic, it should not, IMO. That includes making any vaccines or treatments widely available at or near cost, possibly with government subsidies. Things change when tens or hundreds of millions of lives are on the line.

>> Does it? I don’t know. Should it? In the case of a global pandemic, it should not, IMO.

Did you include a not when you meant to not include it?

Ooh, yes. Thank you.