because they can't legally subject a few thousand marginal, very sick people to experimental treatment.
I doubt the thought of helping sick people even crossed their mind. "because they can make money on patents" makes a lot more sense about the root cause. 2nd cause being "because they can get away with it with little risk". Whether the patent is for something that causes more harm than good or a cure is of no matter.
Same for climate science. The important thing is to get peer approved and funding for the next study. Not make a realistic, repeatable, or useful prediction.
In Canada we did it to save face. Our hospitals lost a fortune in billings on account of cancelled surgeries and still having to pay staff to TikTok. Our insurance companies were probably loving it.
If we'd tried handling things scientifically, like Sweden, our logistics would have failed. We're a failing state and wouldn't have been able to handle a couple hundred critically ill people.
Granted the pharma companies made a fortune off of us. We bought enough doses to do Canada 10 times over. We had to throw most of it out thankfully.
I doubt the thought of helping sick people even crossed their mind. "because they can make money on patents" makes a lot more sense about the root cause. 2nd cause being "because they can get away with it with little risk". Whether the patent is for something that causes more harm than good or a cure is of no matter.
Same for climate science. The important thing is to get peer approved and funding for the next study. Not make a realistic, repeatable, or useful prediction.
In Canada we did it to save face. Our hospitals lost a fortune in billings on account of cancelled surgeries and still having to pay staff to TikTok. Our insurance companies were probably loving it.
If we'd tried handling things scientifically, like Sweden, our logistics would have failed. We're a failing state and wouldn't have been able to handle a couple hundred critically ill people.
Granted the pharma companies made a fortune off of us. We bought enough doses to do Canada 10 times over. We had to throw most of it out thankfully.