Trump seeks exclusive rights to any coronavirus vaccine.

[Ophiolite]

This is such a nothing burger..

I discounted the news in the OP as inadequate, incomplete, and therefore currently irrelevant. I think what was pertinent were the scarcely credible hate filled posts from one member. Those merited curt comment.

 

[Tanj]

I discounted the news in the OP as inadequate, incomplete, and therefore currently irrelevant. I think what was pertinent were the scarcely credible hate filled posts from one member. Those merited curt comment.

I'd argue they merit reporting and no comment at all, but I see your point.

 

[JackRT]

We are facing a human crisis of global proportions and people are conniving to turn a profit? What else is new.

 

[dqhall]

Unfortunately none of the accounts have given us enough of the discussion to be clear. I doubt that US officials want treatment only for the US. They might, however, want it to start in the US. We might actually be better off for it to start in a country with lax medical regulations. That would allow the process to move as quickly as possible. (I'm not saying that of Germany.)

There are numerous firms trying to invent a vaccine in several nations. The Chinese found some antivirals to use against coronavirus.

 

[Need answers]

Trump has made it clear he wants exclusive control over their results.

Where is the evidence? Did you follow the link in the OP? Its appears to about interest rates not a corona virus vaccine.

 

[jgarden]

My favorite quote from the piece:

Karl Lauterbach, a senior German politician and professor of health economics and epidemiology, said in response to the story: “The exclusive sale of a possible vaccine to the USA must be prevented by all means. Capitalism has limits.”

Uh huh. That's what you think, Karl.

This is war (you just can't face it yet). I'm glad Trump is aggressively seeking our advantage, as any American Capitalist would do! Plus, who wants a suicidal, weak-kneed EU holding the cards, any cards? The cowardly, forced shut downs of countries proves those people are toast when the hammer drops (and it will).

This is a 2020 version of what the Nazi's were promoting - might is right and our "week-kneed" neighbors don't deserve to survive!

Trump's behavior and the rhetoric of his supporters is a chilling reminder of those who were prosecuted for crimes against humanity during the Nuremberg Trials!

 

[summerville]

Where is the evidence? Did you follow the link in the OP? Its appears to about interest rates not a corona virus vaccine.

There are a number of sources.

Germany tries to halt U.S. interest in firm working on coronavirus vaccine

Coronavirus: Germany tries to stop US luring away firm ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/15/coronavirus-germany-tries-to-stop-us-luring-away-firm...
13 hours ago · Germany's Health Ministry confirmed a report in newspaper Welt am Sonntag, which said President Donald Trump had offered funds to lure the company CureVac …


Germany tries to stop Trump from luring away firm working on coronavirus vaccine

 

[Need answers]

There are a number of sources.

Germany tries to halt U.S. interest in firm working on coronavirus vaccine

Coronavirus: Germany tries to stop US luring away firm ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/15/coronavirus-germany-tries-to-stop-us-luring-away-firm...
13 hours ago · Germany's Health Ministry confirmed a report in newspaper Welt am Sonntag, which said President Donald Trump had offered funds to lure the company CureVac …


Germany tries to stop Trump from luring away firm working on coronavirus vaccine

An unnamed German government agency said Trump was trying to get a vaccine only for the US. Whats that even mean?

 

[Need answers]

Trump's behavior and the rhetoric of his supporters is a chilling reminder of those who were prosecuted for crimes against humanity during the Nuremberg Trials!

What do his supporters say? Should they be executed like the Nazi war criminals were?

 

[Speedwell]

What do his supporters say?

At least one says that taking the vaccine away from the Germans and keeping it for ourselves is the right thing to do because we are at war with the rest of the world, a den of vipers.

 

[summerville]

An unnamed German government agency said Trump was trying to get a vaccine only for the US. Whats that even mean?

You just missed it.

• Germany’s Health Ministry confirmed a report in newspaper Welt am Sonntag, which said President Donald Trump had offered funds to lure the company CureVac to the United States.
• Contacted by Reuters, a spokeswoman for the German Health Ministry said: “We confirm the report in the Welt am Sonntag.”

 

[Need answers]

At least one says that taking the vaccine away from the Germans and keeping it for ourselves is the right thing to do because we are at war with the rest of the world, a den of vipers.

I can tell you that most Republicans would not agree to that. No. If you believe that you are very misguided.

So about these Trump supporters who are like Nazi war criminals, should they be executed like the Nazi war criminals were?

 

[summerville]

At least one says that taking the vaccine away from the Germans and keeping it for ourselves is the right thing to do because we are at war with the rest of the world, a den of vipers.

No country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine.

 

[Need answers]

No country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine.

But isn't that what Germany wants to do?

 

[summerville]

But isn't that what Germany wants to do?

Oh no... not at all. Trump is a rare sort of person. He wants other countries to pay the US for the vaccine.

 

[JackRT]

No country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine.

As a global crisis any solution should be the possession of humanity.

 

[Need answers]

Oh no... not at all. Trump is a rare sort of person. He wants other countries to pay the US for the vaccine.

Germany is not going to give us the vaccine for free. No they would charge us for it. Im not seeing the difference between paying the US or paying Germany.

 

[Tanj]

Germany is not going to give us the vaccine for free.

Yes, they are..or at least at cost, so charge the US the same they charge themselves.

No they would charge us for it.

No, they wouldn't.

Im not seeing the difference between paying the US or paying Germany.

People that live in mean spirited selfish bubbles often think everyone else is like them.

We aren't.

 

[Need answers]

Yes, they are..or at least at cost, so charge the US the same they charge themselves.



No, they wouldn't.



People that live in mean spirited selfish bubbles often think everyone else is like them.

We aren't.

They are going to supply america and the world with free vaccines? How do you know? Do they give us free flu vaccines too?

 

[Goonie]

They are going to supply america and the world with free vaccines? How do you know? Do they give us free flu vaccines too?

Because it would be in their financial interests to. The sooner the world economies are back up and running the better.


The same would be true if The US develops the vaccine, but one fears Trumps short termism and 'america first' will see him hold countries to ransom.