Except that they are now trying to deprive big pharma companies of their intellectual property (instead of just buying more doses) and whitewash the fact that big pharma helped get us out of the pandemic.
What shows the depth of
LIEden, et al's utter gross ignorance of the vaccines in use in the US is that they do not know that the two best, Moderna and Pfizer, are unique. Their production process is different from a traditional dead/inactivated virus vaccine (Sinovac and Sinopharm) or a virus vector vaccine (AstraZeneca and J&J). There are no production lines for mRNA vaccines "out there" sitting idle, because those are the first mRNA vaccines ever approved and put into volume production. So if
LIEden, et al, steal Moderna's and Pfizer's intellectual property (IP), it will accomplish nothing for as many months as it takes to equip a factory and train people to produce the vaccine and then certify the factory's product.
Well, actually, that IP will accomplish one thing. It will make a government-industry partnership like Operation Warp Speed impossible. Because no pharmaceuticals company in its right mind will ever trust the US Government not to screw them over.
Then there's a foreign relations question ... AstraZeneca is a British/Swedish company and their vaccine was created by Oxford University, and the creator of the vaccine Pfizer produces and distributes is BioNTech, a German company. How pleased will the UK, Sweden, and Germany be that their companies' and university's IP was stolen by the US Government?
