No profit on pandemic

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COVID-19 spreads like wildfire. Solutions must travel even faster. No one is safe until everyone has access to safe and effective treatments and vaccines.
We all have the right to a cure.
Sign this European citizens’ initiative, and ensure that the European Commission does everything in its power to make anti-pandemic vaccines and treatments a global public good, freely accessible to everyone.
Our demands?
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HEALTH FOR ALL
We all have a right to health. In a pandemic, research and technologies should be shared broadly, fast, across the globe. A private company shouldn’t have the power to decide who has access to treatments or vaccines and at what price. Patents provide one single company with the monopoly control over essential pharmaceutical products. This limits their availability and increases their cost to those who need them.
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TRANSPARENCY NOW!
Data on production costs, public contributions and the effectiveness and safety of vaccines and medicines should be public. Contracts between public authorities and pharmaceutical companies must be made public.
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PUBLIC MONEY, PUBLIC CONTROL
Taxpayers paid for the research and development of vaccines and treatments. What has been paid for by the people should remain in people’s hands. We cannot allow big pharmaceutical companies to privatize crucial health technologies that have been developed with public resources.
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NO PROFIT ON PANDEMIC
Big pharmaceutical companies should not profit from this pandemic at the expense of people’s health. A collective threat requires solidarity, not private profiteering. Public funds should always come with guarantees on availability and affordability. Big Pharma shouldn’t be allowed to plunder social security systems.

DJ
Politics and big pharma shake hands...a rich elite has shares in big pharma and is interested in getting even richer...even if this pandemic goes on for years...
The present "solution" is the transfer of zillions of tax payers money to a few Big Pharma companies...Not stopping the virus...
If we want to get out of this crisis we have to get politics working for public interests not politics only for the rich...

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Dutch Josh Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Adviser Group Joined: May 01 2013 Location: Arnhem-Netherla Status: Offline Points: 95797	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dutch Josh Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: No profit on pandemic Posted: May 14 2021 at 7:45am
	[url]https://noprofitonpandemic.eu/[/url] or https://noprofitonpandemic.eu/ ; COVID-19 spreads like wildfire. Solutions must travel even faster. No one is safe until everyone has access to safe and effective treatments and vaccines. We all have the right to a cure. Sign this European citizens’ initiative, and ensure that the European Commission does everything in its power to make anti-pandemic vaccines and treatments a global public good, freely accessible to everyone. Our demands? 1 HEALTH FOR ALL We all have a right to health. In a pandemic, research and technologies should be shared broadly, fast, across the globe. A private company shouldn’t have the power to decide who has access to treatments or vaccines and at what price. Patents provide one single company with the monopoly control over essential pharmaceutical products. This limits their availability and increases their cost to those who need them. 2 TRANSPARENCY NOW! Data on production costs, public contributions and the effectiveness and safety of vaccines and medicines should be public. Contracts between public authorities and pharmaceutical companies must be made public. 3 PUBLIC MONEY, PUBLIC CONTROL Taxpayers paid for the research and development of vaccines and treatments. What has been paid for by the people should remain in people’s hands. We cannot allow big pharmaceutical companies to privatize crucial health technologies that have been developed with public resources. 4 NO PROFIT ON PANDEMIC Big pharmaceutical companies should not profit from this pandemic at the expense of people’s health. A collective threat requires solidarity, not private profiteering. Public funds should always come with guarantees on availability and affordability. Big Pharma shouldn’t be allowed to plunder social security systems. DJ Politics and big pharma shake hands...a rich elite has shares in big pharma and is interested in getting even richer...even if this pandemic goes on for years... The present "solution" is the transfer of zillions of tax payers money to a few Big Pharma companies...Not stopping the virus... If we want to get out of this crisis we have to get politics working for public interests not politics only for the rich...
	We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. ~Albert Einstein

Dutch Josh Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Adviser Group Joined: May 01 2013 Location: Arnhem-Netherla Status: Offline Points: 95797	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dutch Josh Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: July 28 2021 at 1:52am
	[url]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/12/uks-richest-households-saw-wealth-grow-by-70000-during-covid-crisis.html[/url] or https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/12/uks-richest-households-saw-wealth-grow-by-70000-during-covid-crisis.html ; LONDON — The coronavirus pandemic has further widened the U.K.’s wealth gap, with the richest 10% of households seeing an average gain of £51,238 ($70,977) during the crisis, according to a new report. The U.K.‘s poorest households, meanwhile, saw their wealth grow by just £99 on average between February 2020 and May 2021, according to estimates by the Resolution Foundation think tank. In a report published on Monday, the Resolution Foundation estimated that the U.K.’s total household wealth had grown by £900 billion over the past year, representing a 6% increase on pre-pandemic levels. The authors of the report, Resolution Foundation senior economist Jack Leslie and researcher Krishan Shah, said “the Covid-19 pandemic is the first UK recession in at least 70 years in which wealth has increased.” They said two factors had driven this jump in total wealth. Firstly, people were able to save more and pay down debt due to the U.K.’s lockdown forcing them to stay at home and spend less. And secondly, the value of assets, like housing, had grown over the past year. For example, the report found that U.K. house prices had climbed 8% since the start of the pandemic. Both of these factors, the authors said, were particularly applicable to the country’s richest households. By comparison, the poorest households were more likely to see savings decrease and were less likely to pay off debt, particularly in the case of those who lost their jobs, were put on the U.K. government’s job retention scheme, known as furlough, or had their pay cut during the pandemic. Leslie and Shah said this “bifurcation in the behavior of households … will have longer-term impacts on financial resilience and well-being.” They said that the wealth gap between the richest and even the median household grew by £40,000 during the pandemic. The report’s findings were calculated by using modelling data, results from Resolution Foundation’s own survey and a separate survey from the U.K.’s Office for National Statistics, which looked at household wealth and assets. DJ To understand Bojo&Co, NL-rutte, republicans, bolsonaro....there is profit in pandemics...DISGUSTING !!!
	We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. ~Albert Einstein