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Re:Bill Gates says vaccine formulas shouldn't be shared with... by MikeUt on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @04:31AM (#26967073)
Contrary to what the title implies, those vaccines aren't 'shared' with the developed world either. They're kept by the pharma companies, and the developed world has to pay for doses, despite having funded over 97% of the vaccine development cost with taxes [1,2]. Yet these articles are implicitly asking us to feel guilty for.. what? Allowing the patent cartel to bribe our politicians and extort us?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/15/oxfordastraz...

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.08.21255103v...

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Re:Bill Gates says vaccine formulas shouldn't be shared with... by WalterGR on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:56AM (#26967928)
Yet these articles are implicitly asking us to feel guilty for.. what?

Sorry to be obtuse, but what's the answer to this question? What should I feel guilty for?

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Re:Bill Gates says vaccine formulas shouldn't be shared with... by MikeUt on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:26AM (#26968140)
That 'we', the developed world, aren't sharing vaccine formulas with the developing world. But that guilt trip only works if you accept that the private citizens of the developed world, and the pharmaceutical companies trying to wring every last dollar and euro out of us, are part of the same 'we', instead of two fundamentally opposed groups.
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Re:Bill Gates says vaccine formulas shouldn't be shared with... by pbak on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @05:23AM (#26967416)
Well, we _are_ living in democracies, aren't we ?
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Re:Bill Gates says vaccine formulas shouldn't be shared with... by airhead969 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:00AM (#26967952)
The US was ostensibly a representative republic, not a democracy, but it's actually an oligarchy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

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Re:Bill Gates says vaccine formulas shouldn't be shared with... by pbak on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @08:21AM (#26968500)
I forgot to add /sarcasm
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Re:Bill Gates says vaccine formulas shouldn't be shared with... by MikeUt on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:35AM (#26967824)
Empirically, no: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
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