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German company CureVac has received a rather strange offer from the current White House.
On March 3, CureVac's CEO was invited to the White House, for a meeting with President Trump, Vice Pence and several members of the Coronavirus Task Force. Asked for when a vaccine could be ready, he estimated that a potential candidate could be ready within a few months. Apparently, that triggered the members of the meeting so much, that they've now offered to buy the company, at whatever price.
One condition though: production would be exclusively for the United States.
The move is not exactly one to gain popularity, and follows on the heels of the President's worrying statement that "a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe".
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Monday March 16 2020, @12:03AM (16 children)
Now, on the other hand, if the CEO later testifies in court under oath that he was offered a huge suitcase full of money to move his operations to the US inside of 24 hours, well, I'm more inclined to believe that.
(Score: 0, Troll) by fustakrakich on Monday March 16 2020, @12:39AM (6 children)
I thought people would have learned by now that sworn "testimony" without some evidence is bullshit
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2020, @02:42AM (2 children)
Troll
I thought people would have learned by now that those kinds of statements would surely trigger sensitive democrats.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday March 16 2020, @06:49PM (1 child)
Or, perhaps people understand that testifying to something you observed IS evidence despite your many, many, claims otherwise.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2020, @08:53PM
Well, they are wrong. Witness testimony is proven to be unreliable. Especially from people with heavy biases. They were just trying to keep their jobs. Minions trash talking the boss. They are liars! That is why your little circus went nowhere. It was the designated distraction away from Party corruption. Worked like a charm! Now they hold the country hostage with their *Either us or Trump* campaign.
Real whistleblowers are willing to make sacrifices, theirs jobs, their lives. These people are just cowards angry about losing the election.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 16 2020, @04:43AM (1 child)
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Monday March 16 2020, @06:18AM
Depends on the witness. Not everybody is treated the same.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2020, @10:18PM
:-) More down mods! Carnival! Democrats on parade!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by quietus on Monday March 16 2020, @10:27AM (1 child)
That CEO, an American by the name of Daniel Menichella, suddenly left the firm on March 11. He was immediately replaced by one of the company's founders, Ingmar Hoerr.
One can only hypothesize that this was the trigger for the Welt investigation.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 16 2020, @01:11PM
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday March 16 2020, @02:27PM (6 children)
In that event, the Trumpers will say:
* It's Fake News
* It's a plot by the evil Libruls
* Obama caused this!
* We need to investigate Hillary's emails!
* . . . and Benghazi!
* . . . and Whitewater!
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday March 16 2020, @05:26PM (3 children)
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday March 16 2020, @06:51PM (2 children)
If, hypothetically, there were some hypothetical effort to attempt to either
A) privately profit from a monopoly on a cure/treatment
B) favor a particular nation getting the cure/treatment
then,
I think that is definitely something worth caring about. People don't consider how they would like it if the she was on the other foot.
If some tyrannical dictatorial evil repressive and (omg!) socialist regime, say Sweden or Denmark, were to try to monopolize a cure/treatment, then people in the US would be mildly upset, I believe.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday March 17 2020, @09:54AM (1 child)
It puts the cart before the horse to start speculating on what fanatical "Trumpers" will or won't do in a scenario when you don't have much in the way of evidence to support that the scenario happened, and are speculating on something that even if it happened and you cared, is defined to be trivially true (after all, anyone who didn't continue to support Trump under such a circumstance would certainly not be a Trumper!).
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday March 17 2020, @01:47PM
I used the word IF to separate issues and focus on whether this is worth caring about if it were to happen; rather than debate about whether or not it is happening.
Now if it is worth caring about, and if there is evidence it has happened, such as the German government confirming it, then that definitely makes it worth caring about.
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday March 16 2020, @05:53PM
Boy, they sure didn't mind anonymous sources when they were about Clinton, did they!
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday March 16 2020, @06:51PM
The German Health Ministerr has now confirmed the story [politico.eu]
That won't stop any of the FAKE NEWS claims but there ya go.