« The Scandal etc. | Main | Our Gulags »
November 01, 2005
Bird Flu
When the threat is directed at us, we can talk about overriding patents, spending money, creating vaccines. (Same thing happened back in 2001 with Anthrax. Suddenly, we got tough with Bayer over CIPRO patents.)
So it's not stupidity, it's plain old callousness that we fought Sub-Saharan African countries tooth and nail when they tried to do the same: override patents, spend money on health (instead of paying back odious debts).
We are perfectly capable of understanding the issue when it's us.
Posted by zeynep at November 1, 2005 11:06 AM