OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

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  1. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    23 January 1923 – "insulin belongs to the world"
    On 23 January 1923, Banting, Collip and Best were awarded U.S. patents on insulin and the method used to make it. They all sold these patents to the University of Toronto for $1 each. Banting famously said, “Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world.” He wanted everyone who needed it to have access to it.

    https://www.diabetes.org.uk/researc... discovered by Sir,purified by James B Collip.
     
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    Phatguysrule Well-Known Member

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    The people who are best at what they do typically love doing it.

    Incentives are currently most aligned with keeping people just healthy enough to take prescriptions as long as possible, while spending as much as possible on those prescriptions.

    With taxpayer funded "free" at point of use healthcare the incentives would align best with keeping people as healthy as possible for as long as possible.

    Many of the world's biggest breakthroughs have been made by taxpayer funded research.
     
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    Salk declined to patent polio vaccine. The Curies declined to patent polonium and radium.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    To add to your point: the reason that drug companies require large profits is that the upfront cost to develop a drug is very high, and the failure rate is very high.

    It's a very risky business venture. So the rewards have to be great in order to incentivize companies and investors to do it.

    That doesn't apply to the scientists themselves, who can be adequately incentivized the same way most employees are - salary and benefits, promotions, a bit of storage closet sex at the office xmas party...

    barfo
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    YOU RANG FAMS?
     
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    That lawn does look spectacular, FAMS.
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    All 5 of my vacs were from Moderna.
     
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    Idaho state legislators have introduced a bill to ban Covid vaccine. From we aren't against vaccines, just mandated to we are against anyone getting vaccines.
     
    crandc, Feb 17, 2023
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    Moderna's 2022 Windfall a 'Scandalous' Result of Pandemic Profiteering, Campaigners Say

    One advocate said Moderna's windfall was a "direct result of the company’s refusal to share vaccine technology with the Global South, even when it was clear that global shortages would be deadly."

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/moderna-windfall-pandemic-profiteering
     
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    Conspiracy theorist
     
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