Tournament: Byram Hills | Round: 3 | Opponent: Bronx CQ | Judge: Chasia Jeffries
Inherency
Medicinal IP policy is a violent tool of the private sector, justifying distribution disparities in the name of economic benefit and future innovation to kick developing countries and marginalized communities to the curb.
Hull 21 (Gordon, Professor in the Department of Philosophy @ UNC charlotte, Director of the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, focuses on moral and political philosophy, problems that emerge at the intersection of philosophy, law, and technology in the area of intellectual property and/or privacy./ “THE NECROPOLITICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY”/APRIL 28 2021/NEWAPPS/ACCESSED 7-8-21) (https://www.newappsblog.com/2021/04/the-necropolitics-of-intellectual-propert.html) (SPHS, AL)
In my Biopolitics of Intellectual Property, I argue that IP policy has shifted from what I call a “public biopolitics” model to a neoliberal version.
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This is not a hard call, and that Pharma is dispatching armies of Malthusian lobbyists to deflect from it says everything you need to know.
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High-Income Countries have purchased more than half of the global Covid vaccine doses leaving low-income countries with not enough vaccines for their population.
Rouw et al. 21 (Anna Rouw is a data analyst on the Global Health and HIV Policy team where she provides data analysis and policy research on a wide range of global health policy topics. Adam Wexler is an Associate Director of Global Health and HIV Policy with the Global Health team at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, where he focuses on analyzing the U.S. global health budget, international donor assistance for health, U.S. bilateral health agreements, and implications of foreign aid reform on U.S. global health efforts. Dr. Jen Kates is Senior Vice President and Director of Global Health and HIV Policy at KFF, where she oversees policy analysis and research focused on the U.S. government’s role in global health and on the global and domestic HIV epidemics. Josh Michaud is an Associate Director for Global Health Policy at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, where he helps guide and oversee KFF’s research and analysis in the area of global health. /“Global COVID-19 Vaccine Access: A Snapshot of Inequality”/ March 17 2021/ Accessed: 9-23-21) (https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/global-covid-19-vaccine-access-snapshot-of-inequality/) (SPHS,SO)
Ensuring widespread global access to COVID-19 vaccines, which is necessary for preventing cases and deaths and contributing to global population immunity, is a critical challenge and one that could threaten the ability to control the pandemic.
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Still, even if such donations were to occur, their ability to fully address these disparities is in part dependent on the success of some vaccine candidates still in clinical trials or the ability to support the increased manufacturing of or production capacity for already successful vaccine products.
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Plan
Thus, the plan: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.
Only generics can help low-income countries with vaccine inequalities
Memon 20
( Shaz Memom /Monday, 23 November 2020/ “OPINION: Only a generic, not-for-profit COVID-19
Vaccine can protect the world's poorest “/ https://news.trust.org/item/20201117160928-cozr9/ )(SPHS,SO)
Today’s announcement by AstraZeneca that their Covid vaccine has up to 90 efficacy, while not requiring cold-chain storage and being provided ‘at cost’ could be a lifeline to the developing world.
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A generic vaccine may be exactly what the decision makers in Delhi need, as well as exactly what the poorest in the global south need.
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Racialization adv
IPP solidifies white supremacy in an attempt to paint the western creator as innovative and “racially inferior” groups as criminal thieves of the white masterpiece.
Vats 13 (Anjali, dissertation for doctor of phil “CREATED DIFFERENCES: RHETORICS OF RACE AND RESISTANCE IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW”/2013/UWASH/Accessed 7-8-21) (https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/23464/Vats_washington_0250E_11939.pdf?isAllowed=yandsequence=1) (SPHS, AL)
The links between intellectual property infringement and racial difference in part derive from the relationship between trademarks, copyrights, and patents and Enlightenment thought and Western colonialism
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The term “IP crime” systematically silences racial Others, using traits often associated with difference to justify the imposition of Western understandings of creation.
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Only reformatting IPP can solve — resisting racialization is key.
Vats 13 (Anjali, dissertation for doctor of phil “CREATED DIFFERENCES: RHETORICS OF RACE AND RESISTANCE IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW”/2013/UWASH/Accessed 7-8-21) (https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/23464/Vats_washington_0250E_11939.pdf?isAllowed=yandsequence=1) (SPHS, AL)
The association of infringement of intellectual properties with race occurs through the consistent articulation of trademark, patent, and copyright violations with identities and characteristics understood as linked to racial Otherness.
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In this context, the remythologization of intellectual property’s racialization is a productive process through which new understandings of the interface between the legal regime and difference evolves and dominant narratives of identity are reconstituted.
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Variants Adv
Lack of global vaccination increases the risk of more deadly variants
Stiglitz 21(Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics and University Professor at Columbia University, is a former chief economist of the World Bank (1997-2000), chair of the US President’s Council of Economic Advisers, and co-chair of the High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices. He is a member of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation and was lead author of the 1995 IPCC Climate Assessment./Sep 7,2021/ Accessd: 10-05-2021/https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/covid19-spike-in-us-reflects-misunderstanding-of-liberty-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2021-09 )(SPHS,SO)
In a pandemic, one person’s actions affect the well-being of others. And whenever there are such externalities, the well-being of society requires collective action: regulations to restrict socially harmful behavior and to promote socially beneficial behavior.
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This, too, is a no brainer. Even if the costs of global vaccination totaled tens of billions of dollars, the amount would pale in comparison to the costs of persistent COVID-19 outbreaks to lives, livelihoods, and the world economy.
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The ONLY way to stop new variants that overwhelm vaccines is to distribute drugs worldwide 2014 — empirically
Heymann and Brewer 21
(Jody Heymann, M.D., Ph.D., is a distinguished professor of public health, public policy, and medicine; founding director of the WORLD Policy Analysis Center, and served as dean of public health at UCLA from 2013-2018.Timothy Brewer, M.D., MPH, is a professor of medicine and epidemiology at UCLA, and served as program director for the International Society for Infectious Diseases, as well as in an advisory capacity to the World Health Organization./ “Fully vaccinating our nation won't end COVID — fully vaccinating the world will”/ 09/10/21/ OPINION CONTRIBUTORS/Accessed: 10-05-2021/
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/571705-fully-vaccinating-our-nation-wont-end-covid-fully-vaccinating-the-world/ )(SPHS, SO)
In most high-income nations, people are focused on their own country’s vaccination rates.
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Getting the world fully vaccinated is within our reach — but it’s up to every country, company, and individual to do their part.
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