[HarryHirsch]

There is an epidemic going on, and personnel have better things to do than optimizing a buffer to play nice with your thermocycler.

Any time there is a monopoly, prices have nothing to do with the cost of production and everything with what the market is going to bear, and no one but the monopolist benefits. And then the monopolist comes and wants to suborn the power monopoly of the government to sustain its profits. Come again, why should the European Union put the financial wellbeing of Roche above the health of Dutch citizens? We used to have antitrust, but nowadays even right-to-repair is controversial.

[the-dude]

I wasn't saying that at all. I was just wondering about 'how hard can it be?'.

It just needs to be analysed once. And there is a ton of researchers available who are not medical personnel.

But if you want to argue : this whole Roche saga conveniently diverts the attention away from the lack of action of our government.

[prostheticvamp]

If I am not mistaken, gas chromatography gives you composition, not proportions. That’s not a minor hurdle in this discussion.