Commentary I was shocked the other day as I walked down the sidewalks of the business district in Washington, D.C., and I saw posters plastered at bus stops and on other walls that showed a man lying on a stretcher with the big bold caption: “Patents Kill.” The group sponsoring the ads is a public advocacy group called “Vaccinate Our World.” The posters have also gone viral on the internet. I went to the website and discovered that these folks believe that if the drug and vaccine companies would simply give their vaccines and formulas away for free or suspend their patent rights on the medical products they have invented, then millions and perhaps tens of millions of people in poor nations in Africa and Asia would be saved from COVID. And how is this for an outrageous slur? “Murderna” is what the group calls one of the major producers …