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2021-05-14 17:17 UTC

@Vurt_Konnegut@koyu.space Research capacity != production capacity I agree, but considering how much it cost to do research, and what Sanofi can do, I doubt they are not producing covid vaccines today by lack of machinery. And I also agree it's very important that peoples trust the vaccines, but I think other greedy companies could produce, and currently don't (at least those that are doing research on covid, and produce other vaccines in their factories).

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@Vurt_Konnegut@koyu.space 2021-05-14 18:30

@a000d4f7a91939d0e71df1646d7a48@anticapitalist.party I haven't heard of any facilities like Sanofi that want to have patents waived because they can't produce anything. I have read a lot about having patents waived doing nothing for production, because getting the machinery to produce mRNA vaccines takes 12 - 18 months. I don't fully trust that last information though. It would only give a disadvantage to those companies that put a lot of money in mRNA research, which would stop esearch in that area, as there would be less profit made. It's the same as with many companies: They need to make money. The problem is the (capitalistic/growth oriented) system that makes them put profit over what's best for human kind. If they would put less focus on profit, they would probably go out of business under the current system.

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