LONDON: British lawmakers on Monday (Apr 26) called on the government to publish all communications with pharmaceutical companies to understand if private lobbying influenced its opposition to a waiver of intellectual property rules for COVID-19 vaccines.
The United States and a handful of other big countries, including the United Kingdom, have blocked negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) involving a proposal spearheaded by India and South Africa that now has the support of 100 WTO members.
The proposal would temporarily waive the intellectual property (IP) rights of pharmaceutical companies to allow developing countries to produce vaccines.
The waiver is opposed by the US Chamber of Commerce and big pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.
A cross-party group of UK lawmakers has signed a statement calling for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, ministers, and senior civil servants to publish all email, text, and WhatsApp messages exchanged with pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists.
Patient advocacy and vaccine equity organisations have also signed the statement, including Global Justice Now, Just Treatment, StopAIDS, Frontline AIDS, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines UK, Students for Global Health, and Nurses United UK.
"The UK's opposition to an intellectual property waiver on COVID-19 vaccines is utterly indefensible," said Heidi Chow, senior policy and campaigns manager at Global Justice Now, which organised the joint statement. Reuters
From the above Reuters' article it is clear what are the motive of the Americans and their pharmaceutical companies. It is purely profits and the protection of American lives. They are not allowing other companies the right to produce the vaccines. They are not allowing other countries to use Russian and Chinese vaccines.
In the meantime, while they are unable to produce enough for themselves, the rest of the world shall have to wait for their vaccines and if they can't wait, they shall die. They cannot use Russian and Chinese vaccines to save themselves.
When the Americans have finally vaccinated their own people and the Brits, only then would they offer their vaccines to the rest of the world at a price much more expensive than those of the Russians and the Chinese, to make a pile at the expense of the lives of the people of the world.
This is the American and British way of saving the world, to line their own pockets first.
The rest of the world are so lucky that Russian and Chinese vaccines, better and safer vaccines, are available to them. But this is not all. The evilness was exposed by a former Pfixer chief scientist, Mike Yeadon. According to Yeadon, the Pfizer vaccine is part of a process of eliminating the vast majority of human beings iving today. ...the first vaccine injection o, a total of 0.8% will die withing 2 weeks...those that survived will live for an average of 2 years. This ability to live will be shortened by further vacccine injections. According to Yeadon, the final goal of the vaccine is to lead to massive population reduction.
Some are critical of Yeadon's view and disagree with him. Whatever, no one really knows what is the truth and what is really going on. Just take note of the alternative views.
For further info of what Mike Yeadon said, go to https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/exclusive-former-pfizer-vp-your-government-is-lying-to-you-in-a-way-that-could-lead-to-your-death
And this is Bill Gate's view on protection of IP for vaccines and saying it is ok to wait for 10 years for poorer countries to get vaccinated. Smart poorer countries can avoid being blackmailed by the West and opt for cheaper Russian and Chinese vaccines that are available immediately.
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