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To: President Joseph Biden
Release COVID-19 Vaccines to India & developing Nations!
Temporarily suspend the intellectual property ban, preventing India from making it's own generic coronavirus vaccine; allow vaccine surpluses from states who have excess to be shipped to developing nations to aid in vaccinating their poor residents.
Why is this important?
COVID-19 is not a virus that can be constrained to one country's borders. We cannot ignore the growing humanitarian crisis in India as well as other developing countries. Allowing COVID-19 to spread and mutate could potentially make current vaccines ineffective in protecting Americans and the rest of the Western world. But more importantly, allowing COVID-19 to kill indiscriminately without any attempt to render aid is an abject moral failure of all decent human beings. President Biden is a man of faith. A man who understands that moving through this life with an eye to doing good means more than earning profit. While ensuring America turns the corner of our own COVID-19 crisis is a good thing, that good is undone if it comes at the cost of lives when we have enough and to spare. Our responsibility as human beings is to each other. If we, as a nations are preventing aid to come to other people, we have a moral duty to cease our actions and ensure that aid goes out to those who need it too. America, through Joe Biden's leadership, is now leading the world in vaccinating it's population and reducing COVID's spread. President Biden, we are asking you as our nation's leader and as the titular Leader of the Free World, to act on this crisis in India, Africa and abroad. Suspend the IP ban, release raw materials and send surplus vaccines and supplies to help during this crisis. Thank you