https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/infectious-diseases/fact-sheet-ebov-canada-s-experimental-vaccine-ebola.html

Notice that it is a for-profit corporation which decides what the final price of the vaccine is going to be,

AND what its availability is going to be,

whereas this SHOULD have been a straight-up strategic global-security decision, to opensource the thing, & make the license viral, like GPL, so that all derivatives also be libre…

& if private/for-profit-industry wouldn’t develop it under those terms, then buy some company & manufacture it ourselves, for sake of stopping a functional “zombie apocalypse” in the making.

When the English intentionally infected ships-of-goods with smallpox, in order to extinguish as much of the American Indian population as they could, its death-rate was MASSIVELY multiplied by the rude fact that everybody was afflicted at the same time:

no carers left!

The same logic is going to happen when a both-highly-transmissable-and-highly-lethal ebola variant breaks out.

( covid’s transmissability & lethality have been all over the place, chaotically, but anybody who remembers how covid-alpha & covid-delta had high lethality, but covid-omicron was mild & had high-transmissibility, knows,

you HAVE to identify those 2 attributes distinctly, & not ignore their effects, when assessing threat-to-our-populations!

& pretending otherwise, overly-dumbing-things-down, has cost medical-credibility, which itself costs lives, at whole-population-scale )

That privatization-of-ebola-vaccine is going to cost millions of lives, when, not if, ebola breaks-out, as all viruses do, in globalized-economies, eventually.

Warring for the wrong goal, winning the battle, in a way that costs the entire war.

Unstomachable pseudostrategy, iow.

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