Signed on for a Sequel

hello it's my birthday so it would be real cool if you guys followed my new tumblr over here: @aether-elemental

i’m very glad people are able to get vaccinated and it’s not americans’ fault the us government is bad and trying to block smaller countries from making their own vaccines sans patent and more people being vaccinated is a good thing etc, but i would be lying if some small part of me did not get a bit irritated with the cutesy american ‘hahaha which one did you get’ culture. i just….. cries in less than 3% of our population being vaccinated

wait what the FUCK. why can’t you make your own vaccines?

so, about 80 low-income countries (who are much harder hit than canada, let me be clear- i’m just talking about my own personal experiences here, but it’s worse in a lot of other places) have been fighting to try to waive patent rights for the COVID vaccines, which would basically mean that those countries would be allowed to produce their own versions of the mrna vaccines from companies like pfizer and moderna without a patent. a bunch of EU countries and the US, as well as britain and switzerland have been blocking them from doing that, though, because it’s a threat to profit basically. because making money is more important than saving lives i guess. again, canada isn’t the hardest hit by this, many other countries have it much worse. but countries that don’t have patents to produce the mainstream vaccines have to rely on ordering them from other countries, which is a whole shitshow