[lit-ideas] Re: Protect the patents!
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 14:57:45 -0500
It would be nice if you're right, Phil. But this is predicted the way
Katrina was predicted. Nobody can predict whether it will be a category 2
or a category 5, or even if it will be this year, but it will get here at
some point, and we're helpless. There will be no place that's safe. The
economic damage won't be primarily from the deaths either. It will be from
stopping imports and other such isolation efforts in a futile attempt to
stop the spread of the virus once it starts. Economic impact will be
global and can be massive. The Black Death wiped out half of Europe.
Pandemics happen periodically. It'll get here, even if not this year, and
our big brains will have failed us again. Did anybody see the History
Channel show in The Plague?
> [Original Message]
> From: Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 11/3/2005 1:53:59 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Protect the patents!
>
> Andreas Ramos wrote:
>
> "At some point in time? When this pandemic starts, there will not be any
> time to spare."
>
>
> If the treatment depends on the nature of the mutation of the virus, and
the
> mutation has not yet occured, isn't all this talk about Tamiflu a bit
> alarmist? Sure Roche is happy to sell the stuff now but why should they
> invest alot of money into producing huge stocks of a drug that is easily
> made but may not work? If the mutation happens and if Tamiflu is
effective,
> they can easily produce lots of the drug.
>
> Personally, I think all this talk of a pandemic is Chicken Little
nonsense.
> I remember the hysteria that hit Toronto during the SARS 'epidemic'.*
> Listening to the media, one would have thought that people were dropping
> like flies on the street. I get the same sense with the current
predictions
> of a pandemic.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Phil Enns
> Toronto, ON
>
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