T reportedly tried to offer cash to German scientists so vaccine would be exclusive to USA

[G_j]

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-tried-to-pay-germans-scientists-for-coronavirus-cure-2020-3

President Trump reportedly tried to poach German scientists working on a cure for coronavirus and offered cash so the vaccine would be exclusive to the USA

3/15/20

President Donald Trump reportedly tried to poach German scientists working on a cure for the coronavirus so he could secure exclusive rights to a potential vaccine for the US only.

Newspaper WELT am Sonntag reported that Trump's administration had offered large sums of cash to Germany-based biotech company CureVac to secure rights for the vaccine work, "but only for the USA."

The German government is battling back, offering financial incentives to the company to remain in Germany.

Karl Lauterbach, a senior German politician and professor of epidemiology, said in response to the report: "The exclusive sale of a possible vaccine to the USA must be prevented by all means. Capitalism has limits."

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[Botany]

1. No words

[Jim__]

2. Sure. The rest of the world could die just so Trump has a new talking point. -n/t

[2naSalit]

3. He's an

ugly-demon-nightmare-evil monster-from-hell.

It's like he's the "anti-human".

[procon]

4. Profiteering off the pain and death of others is

normal for Trump. His greed knows no limits, and he will be sure he is positioned as a major investor to make a huge profits off human suffering.

[Bavorskoami]

5. There's a report today the company is staying in Germany.

Bavarian Broadcasting posted a report from a Mannheim newspaper this afternoon that the vaccine company CureVac cannot be lured to the USA. The federal government had confirmed a report that US President Trump offered the scientists a lot of money. In return, they should make the vaccine exclusively for the United States. The "Mannheimer Morgen" now reports that the company is sticking to its main location in Tübingen. The company intends that the vaccine it is developing be for the whole world and not for individual countries. Federal Minister of Economics Altmaier praised CureVac. He said it was a good decision. Germany is not for sale, Altmaier says. The offer from the United States caused the federal government to be annoyed because the company is working with the a federal agency called the Paul Ehrlich Institute.

[malaise]

6. What sort of monster wants a vaccine being developed in his own country, let alone

in another country, for HIMSELF - he is fucking mad.

[G_j]

7. it's been said

If this was a movie, no one would believe it.
More along the lines of satire like Doctor Strangelove.

[malaise]

8. Accurate

We couldn't write this script.

[meadowlander]

10. He knows he fucked up the initial response,

so the next best thing is get a vaccine only for Americans so "his numbers" stay comparatively low and then he can brag about how much better a job his administration has done.

[malaise]

12. You nailed it but that is the thinking of a depraved self absorbed

lunatic

[Duppers]

9. K & R

[Coventina]

11. What is this, 1945?

Morally bankrupt. Completely and totally on every level.