np - painful pervasiveness of the for-profit paradigm

[Raphael Saltwood]

(Not sure where Pynchon would stand on this, but GR does seem to contain an objection to the Red Cross charging for coffee & donuts during the Battle of the Bulge.)

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/02/finland-vaccine-covid-patent-ip

A) open source vaccine, neat idea - not just idea but ready to go - from Finnish scientist developed & ready in May 2020

B) however, even Finland has closed down its public vaccine development bureau in 2002, & for some weird reason last year couldn’t find $55m budget to test the open source product - yet will pay closed source companies multi $billions

C) The technical description of vaccine production in the article is better than most of the other oversimplifications that I’ve seen (not that it offends my non-existent expertise less, just that it was clear, concise & a pleasure to read)

D) it was a nasal spray - so is there an intrinsic reason why all the big pharma choose to administer much more invasive my?

E) mind you, I’m still grateful for the ones I got!