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With the end of coronavirus in sight, capitalism says it is business as usual with a vengeance
I had my second jab today and one of the people on duty told me I might need a booster later in the year. As it’s unlikely this would be taken out of current stocks (the shelf life of the vaccines seems to be about 6 months), maybe a programme of manufacturing lucrative repeat jabs is already becoming reality.
The light at the end of the tunnel is not for every country
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/12/covid-pandemic-still-growing-exponentially-who-says
The global coronavirus pandemic is still growing exponentially, the World Health Organization said on Monday, as it reported 4.4m cases in the last week, the seventh straight week of rising numbers.
WHO’s director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said “confusion, complacency and inconsistency in public health measures” were prolonging the pandemic. He said it might be months before the global situation was brought under control, and only then with concerted measures.
India has overtaken Brazil as the nation with the second-highest number of infections worldwide. The country, which has a population of 1.4 billion, has administered about 105m vaccine doses.
66 global health, development, and humanitarian groups urged Biden to establish a global vaccine manufacturing program to end the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and prepare for future ones.
https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/Manufacturing-letter-to-Biden.pdf
i’m not optimistic
A scientific paper claiming current smokers are 23% less likely to be diagnosed with Covid-19 compared to non-smokers has been retracted by a medical journal, after it was discovered some of the paper’s authors had financial links to the tobacco industry.
They are like Donald Trump medical doctors who said that he was in good health or the doctor who signed JFK autopsy
What could have been but wasn’t
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/coronavirus-future-fiction/
Maybe it is not too late to learn from
For me, this short story had echoes of Pieter Lawrence’s ‘Last Conflict’
Total global spending on COVID-19 vaccines is projected to reach $157 billion by 2025
Now we know why they are protecting their patents so strongly.
While many in developed countries protest lockdowns and restrictions and mask-wearing citing their fictitious civil rights violations, in other countries the government rules are life and death matters and draconian imposition of state-control.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/2/mounting-desperation-in-cambodia-amid-covid-lockdown
And, needless to say, they will close to be last in line for the vaccine long after those young and healthy and least at risk demonstrators have had their jabs.
If they want to be seen on the streets, then let it be to demand the end of patents which is killing patients.
With and without masks we are not free. We are going to have real freedom in a post-capitalist society without wage slavery
A guaranteed revenue
“Based on what we’ve seen, we believe that a durable demand for our Covid-19 vaccine – similar to that of the flu vaccines – is a likely outcome,” said chief executive Albert Bourla.
Peoples think that capitalism is like charity organization, it is a system of profits. Like flu we are going to be vaccinated every year When are we going to learn ? We have too many false illusions in our minds
I must be blind looking for Covid CORONAVIRUS thread. lol Just seen this…
Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine patents to boost supply https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57004302
From Sky.news.com
The head of the World Health Organization says the US backing of a proposed waiver of intellectual property rights for COVID vaccines is a “monumental moment” in the fight against the virus.A new distressing development in Indian cases, of Mucormycosis, arising from overdosing with steroids.
The debate on the origins of Covid-19 continues and it cannot be accused of being conspiracist theorists
https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-scientists-call-for-covid-19-origin-probe/a-57528583
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