The US government reportedly is trying to buy exclusive use of a Covid-19 vaccine currently under development, intending to limit its use to Americans.

If this is accurate, it is murderous lunacy. If and when a vaccine is developed, it must be available to the whole world.

The report that the German government is countering with "financial incentives" so that the vaccine will "stay in" Germany, if true, indicates similar disrespect for that principle. Also, if offering money is the most Germany can do to prevent that scheme, it shows plutocratic legal corruption. It should not be necessary for Germany to offer money to resist that scheme. Germany should have the power to order such things.

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The US is deporting people with Covid-19, who then spread the disease to another country — and probably won't get treatment there if they have a bad case of it.

Academic studies which claimed to prove that world agriculture can't get along without Roundup were secretly funded by Monsanto.

Quarantine, including imposed self-isolation, tend to traumatize people, much as solitary confinement in prison does.

The two are quite similar. In the latter, guards forcibly keep someone away from everyone else. In the former, they compel someone to avoid everyone else.

There is another version, shunning, in which someone is compelled to avoid everyone else because they reject per. I think that traumatizes people too.

The article says that people can withstand quarantine better if they understand clearly the reasons for the quarantine system and when it will end.