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Vaccine Monopolies Breed Variants
- Protecting corporate process rights blocked global vaccine production and encouraged variants like Omicron.
- Withholding know‑how from nations like South Africa virtually guaranteed dangerous mutations returning to rich countries.
Freedom Does Not Include Harming Others
- The 'personal freedom' argument against vaccines is a distorted concept used to justify harming others.
- Chomsky stresses there's no freedom to choose actions that endanger public health.
Neoliberalism Atomized Society
- Four decades of neoliberalism atomized people, undermined collective defense, and elevated corporate power.
- Policies deliberately weakened unions and public institutions to shift decisions into unaccountable private hands.