Hello Alex, Stéphane, Pascal and Albert,

I hope you are doing well and feeling generous because I am about to ask you to do something big.  You and your companies have done an amazing job at quickly developing the Covid-19 vaccine formulas. But now there are variants and not enough vaccine to go around because it takes so long for just a few companies to mass-manufacture billions of doses.  We must stop more variants from forming by getting everyone in even the poorest countries vaccinated.  In order to rapidly accomplish such a huge feat I am asking you to please share your vaccine formulas with countries around the world for free.

I know what you’re thinking: “This is our vaccine.  We developed it, we made it and we absolutely have the right to make a profit off of our hard work. There’s no reason to give it away for free.” Sharing sounds absolutely crazy to you, I know, but please hear me out. 

You are thinking of profits because that is how you are used to thinking.  But, in the midst of a pandemic with 3 new variants on the scene, now is not the time to be gambling with Mother Nature.  She really could wipe us, meaning the human species, off the face of the earth with this virus.  Seriously.  If we can’t get out enough supply to quickly immunize huge numbers of people, we all may find ourselves longing for the days when there were only three variants and not 5 or 10 or 20+.  I’ve read that the flu alone has 144 variations, so it’s not impossible for the coronavirus, which is much deadlier than the flu, to mutate to the point where it’s out of our control.

I know billions of dollars are at stake, but do you really want to gamble with Mother Nature when the survival of the human race is on the line?  You can’t spend money if you’re dead.  And even if you holed up in one of your well-stocked luxury bunkers while the virus took out the rest of us, where’s the fun in that compared to all the pleasures at your disposal right now, above ground? 

If it’s still hard to imagine giving away your formula secrets in order to potentially save billions of people, try thinking of it this way: What will you lose that you currently have if you give away your formula for free?

If you share the formula for free, you will not lose the things that already bring you comfort and pleasure like your house, food, clothing, and means of transportation.  You will not lose the love and affection of people who genuinely care about you more than they care about the money you make. You will not lose your freedom or your life.  You hold the power to save billions of lives and it will cost you nothing that you already have. 

Yes, I am asking you to sacrifice future billions, but your current income is enough to sustain the lifestyle you presently enjoy.  I know, I know, you always want more!  Money is a drug.  The more you make, the more you want, but, man that’s not healthy when future dollar signs blind you to the very real possibility of your extinction! If you share the vaccine formula, you will definitely not lose your life.  If you hoard the formulas, there’s a chance that you and everyone else will!

So many people around the world have sacrificed so much more to make the world a better place.  They’ve given up their lives, their freedom, and their comfortable way of living for worthy causes that they truly believed in.  The four of you can agree to massively contribute to a worthy cause, the saving of the human race, and it will cost you nothing that you already have!

Gentlemen, please share the precious knowledge that you hold with the world.  Sharing, generosity, cooperation and collaboration: these are the human qualities that will ensure our continued survival.  Competition, hoarding, secrecy, and greed will not.