So, rather than arguing over the fine print in these pandemic agreements, we first must make an obvious and fundamental decision. Is the intent of all this to live longer, more equitably, and healthily? Or is it to grow the pharmaceutical sector of wealthy countries? We cannot do both, and we are currently set up to support Pharma. It will take a lot of unraveling, and rethink on conflict-of-interest rules, to make this a public health program. It probably comes down to who makes decisions, and whether they want an egalitarian society or a more traditional feudalistic and colonialist approach. This is the real question to be addressed in Geneva.
You would not want to keep pushing cumulative doses of adjuvants into people by adding vaccines for ever less serious diseases, if the potential risks increased with the more doses you gave.
Pfizer has also paid the highest fine for healthcare fraud in history, Merck failed to provide safety data on a product that killed tens of thousands of people, and Johnson & Johnson and Purdue Pharma were implicated in stimulating the US opioid crisis that continues to kill tens of thousands of people every year.
The West African Ebola outbreak in 2014 killed less than 12,000 people - the equivalent of less than 4 days of tuberculosis.
As a respiratory virus targeting predominantly frail, elderly, immune-suppressed people, Covid tells us much about how to prepare for natural outbreaks.
"We cannot force diets and outdoor exercise on people, but we can educate people and make these more accessible. Doing this in aged care facilities during Covid would have been more effective than simply putting 'Do Not Resuscitate" labels on their charts.
The alternate approach would be to invest very large sums of money in very early detection of outbreaks and potential outbreaks, then 'locking people down' and providing a rapidly produced vaccine.
As noted earlier, locking down people will also further reduce their immune competence, making them more vulnerable to actually dying.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-healthcare-dilemma-of-our-time/
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