Didn’t you complain about Biden relaxing intellectual property laws for our more-effective vaccines? Why doesn’t that solve the problem? According to what you told us before, shouldn’t China be able to copy the best vaccine without losing face by admitting that’s what they’re doing?
Well, current events seem to have confirmed that China couldn’t keep restrictions in place indefinitely, and the fact that they even tried—together with the cost of stopping—suggest that it would’ve been a really good idea to protect their people using the best vaccine. China could presumably have just stuck it in everyone by force of law. What am I missing here?
Didn’t you complain about Biden relaxing intellectual property laws for our more-effective vaccines? Why doesn’t that solve the problem? According to what you told us before, shouldn’t China be able to copy the best vaccine without losing face by admitting that’s what they’re doing?
If we wanted to, the IP laws wouldn’t have stopped us.
Well, current events seem to have confirmed that China couldn’t keep restrictions in place indefinitely, and the fact that they even tried—together with the cost of stopping—suggest that it would’ve been a really good idea to protect their people using the best vaccine. China could presumably have just stuck it in everyone by force of law. What am I missing here?
If you ever find out, I would love to know. I haven’t heard a good explanation thus far.