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Interesting insight into governments changing legislation to break the patents of drugs, and using generic medication.
New Research Shows Anti-Coronavirus Drugs Could Be Produced for Pennies
A new study shows that several drugs that have shown promise in fighting the coronavirus could be produced cheaply and in en masse.www.mintpressnews.com
The private, for-profit pharmaceutical industry appears ill equipped to handle a global public health crisis like COVID-19. According to economist Dean Baker, systemic problems require systemic solutions. “Drugs are almost invariably cheap to manufacture. They end up being expensive because of patent and related monopolies,” he told us in December. He argues the government should buy up patents and make the drugs freely available, drastically reducing costs, also advocating for the creation of a publicly financed pharmaceutical research network, where the taxpayer pays for medical research upfront and all inventions or drugs that come out of it are in the public domain.
“I would look to replace patent monopoly supported research with direct public funding. This could be done by the same companies that do research now. The difference would be that under the system I envision they would get long-term contracts, with the condition that all findings be posted as soon as practical (so other researchers could benefit) and that all patents would be placed in the public domain so that they could be sold as generics from day one,” he explained.
With no COVID-19 vaccine even close to ready, existing drugs are humanity’s best hope against the virus. Fortunately, a number of cheap-to-produce drugs and other remedies have shown promising initial signs. However, produced and controlled by multinational pharmaceutical corporations, the exorbitant cost of many of them could provide an overwhelming barrier to the well being of the world’s population. The decision now is whether governments will choose to put profits or people first.
Its interesting what Medicins Sans Frontiers have to say about GAVI.
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another "model" citizen.Bright lad:
Perth man admits breaching quarantine to see girlfriend
Perth concreter Jonathan David, 35, could become the first Australian to be jailed for ignoring self-isolation.
Perth man Jonathan David admits breaching coronavirus quarantine to see girlfriend
Tim Clarke
The West Australian
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Jonathan David will find out tomorrow whether he will become the first Australian to be jailed for ignoring self-isolation. Credit: Facebook, Unknown
A Perth concreter has admitted twice breaching state-enforced coronavirus quarantine to travel by train to visit his girlfriend — and will find out tomorrow whether he will become the first Australian to be jailed for ignoring self-isolation.
Jonathan David, 35, today pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to comply with a direction – that direction being that he had to stay inside the Travelodge hotel in the Perth CBD after travelling to WA from Victoria on March 27.
Perth Magistrate’s Court heard today that David had initially been given permission to see out his mandatory 14-day quarantine at his girlfriend’s address in Armadale.
But two days into that stint, the couple had fallen out, and David had to move out.
After consultation with authorities, David was placed in a room at the hotel, where he was supposed to stay, without leaving, until April 9.
Jonathan David today pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to comply with a direction Credit: WA Police
But after already having been seen out of his room five times by staff, when police went to check on him at 7.30am on April 4, he was nowhere to be seen.
When he turned up 45 minutes later, he told officers he had left for “personal reasons”.
After being charged and summonsed, he was told by police again to stay inside, or else. But the very next day, when police again went to check in, David was again absent.
He did not arrive back at the hotel until 4.19am — when he told police he had taken the train to see his girlfriend. His sojourns were all caught on the hotel CCTV cameras.
Police prosecutors said that use of public transport was an aggravating factor in offences which were “selfish in the extreme” — and called for an immediate jail term for David, for breaching conditions which were in place to “save lives”.
His lawyer Gregory Chin said David’s job as a grain silo builder had been impacted by the Covid-19 crisis — and his girlfriend had now been evicted from her address, along with her two children, because of David’s actions.
He also claimed David had left the hotel the first time to buy food, as he was only being given breakfast there. And Mr Chin said a fine, community service or a suspended jail term should be considered before an immediate jail term.
“I am not here to make light of the offending – it was foolish, reckless and poor decision making. And while it is serious, it is not a serious example of this type of offending,” Mr Chin said.
Magistrate Elaine Campione said she needed some time to make her decision, and will sentence David at 9am on Wednesday morning.
Good thing his face was blurred out in the elevatorBright lad:
Perth man admits breaching quarantine to see girlfriend
Perth concreter Jonathan David, 35, could become the first Australian to be jailed for ignoring self-isolation.
Perth man Jonathan David admits breaching coronavirus quarantine to see girlfriend
Tim Clarke
The West Australian
Tuesday, 14 April 2020
Jonathan David will find out tomorrow whether he will become the first Australian to be jailed for ignoring self-isolation. Credit: Facebook, Unknown
A Perth concreter has admitted twice breaching state-enforced coronavirus quarantine to travel by train to visit his girlfriend — and will find out tomorrow whether he will become the first Australian to be jailed for ignoring self-isolation.
Jonathan David, 35, today pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to comply with a direction – that direction being that he had to stay inside the Travelodge hotel in the Perth CBD after travelling to WA from Victoria on March 27.
Perth Magistrate’s Court heard today that David had initially been given permission to see out his mandatory 14-day quarantine at his girlfriend’s address in Armadale.
But two days into that stint, the couple had fallen out, and David had to move out.
After consultation with authorities, David was placed in a room at the hotel, where he was supposed to stay, without leaving, until April 9.
Jonathan David today pleaded guilty to two charges of failing to comply with a direction Credit: WA Police
But after already having been seen out of his room five times by staff, when police went to check on him at 7.30am on April 4, he was nowhere to be seen.
When he turned up 45 minutes later, he told officers he had left for “personal reasons”.
After being charged and summonsed, he was told by police again to stay inside, or else. But the very next day, when police again went to check in, David was again absent.
He did not arrive back at the hotel until 4.19am — when he told police he had taken the train to see his girlfriend. His sojourns were all caught on the hotel CCTV cameras.
Police prosecutors said that use of public transport was an aggravating factor in offences which were “selfish in the extreme” — and called for an immediate jail term for David, for breaching conditions which were in place to “save lives”.
His lawyer Gregory Chin said David’s job as a grain silo builder had been impacted by the Covid-19 crisis — and his girlfriend had now been evicted from her address, along with her two children, because of David’s actions.
He also claimed David had left the hotel the first time to buy food, as he was only being given breakfast there. And Mr Chin said a fine, community service or a suspended jail term should be considered before an immediate jail term.
“I am not here to make light of the offending – it was foolish, reckless and poor decision making. And while it is serious, it is not a serious example of this type of offending,” Mr Chin said.
Magistrate Elaine Campione said she needed some time to make her decision, and will sentence David at 9am on Wednesday morning.
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Where did I say that or imply it? I just found it interesting.
