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Re:Refugees lack Covid shots because drugmakers fear lawsuit... by walterbell on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:54AM (#29590996)
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 (#29602184)
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 (#29602214)
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 (#29602267)
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.