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Hmph. That would require there to be innovation to hurt.
Even if there were, so what? Let innovation be hurt. People are dying as it is.
Seriously. Why should we care about innovation if it only produces solutions for the wealthy?
They're innovating how to make the smallest, least significant tweaks to their chemical formulas to extend patents another 20 years.