Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Oh Ye of Little Faith

In this illustration, a ribosome (centre) is producing a protein (red) from an mRNA template (multicoloured); the COVID-19 vaccine uses mRNA to teach our bodies to recognize and attack the virus’s protein (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images)

Is there any other enterprise on Earth viewed 

with equal measure of respect and disdain beyond 

Big Pharma whose bottom line is the goal its 

brilliant science vibrates to for happy shareholders 

drive the machine that produces life-saving drugs 

the world is so deeply attached to. Challenged to 

solve the riddle of a deadly pathogen biomedical

engineers tasked with the urgency of mounting

deaths created a miracle bringing deliverance

to a threatened world population, heralded

for their genius, blessed for their supreme

science, congratulated on their beating time

at its own game, they were enthroned as

saviours as the world responded with an

anxious uptake of a COVID-evading vaccine.

Perfidy, thy name is humanity, no longer

enamoured with the romance of deliverance

resentful of lagging production and shortfalls

state governments fume as their populations cast

blame upon their inept performance as they

cast about for a political lifeboat and soon

enters the prospect of lawsuits to punish the

arrogance of Big Pharma, this time for utterly

inexcusable drug component shortages, national

border restrictions and production complications.



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