Re:Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuit...
by lmm on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:38AM
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Stateless people are (generally) difficult for governments to impose on but have little governmental support. I'd say it tends to be a negative on net, though I guess that depends on your views on government in general.
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Re:Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuit...
by walterbell on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:54AM
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Perhaps they need the right lawyers or agents.
Re:Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuit...
by lmm on Saturday December 18, 2021 @01:15AM
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What could a lawyer or agent do? Being stateless means you don't have the rights or the obligations of citizenship, more or less by definition.
Re:Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuit...
by walterbell on Saturday December 18, 2021 @01:23AM
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Then there's no need for Pharma company lawyers to be concerned about liability. Yet they are?
> where those applying for doses, mainly NGOs, can't bear legal risks, deliveries from that stockpile can only be made if vaccine-makers accept liability.
Re:Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuit...
by lmm on Saturday December 18, 2021 @01:34AM
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If you injure another person you're liable for corresponding damages, that's not a function of citizenship.
Nations are willing to assume liability for vaccine side effects suffered by their citizens (which is something that requires resources beyond what an individual could put up - consider the possibility of e.g. becoming paralysed and requiring life-long round-the-clock care). The problem that stateless people have (in this context) is that they don't have a nation-like organisation that will do that for them.