• spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    Get fucked with a rusty rake bill, you helped stop the COVID vaccines from being patent exempt, among plenty of other awful shit, all for more money.

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      19 hours ago

      The vaccines were patent exempt, WTO adopted it officially in 2022, which the Gates Foundation endorsed shortly after Bill’s initial objection.

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        19 hours ago

        2022…I wonder how many people died to protect corporation’s profits in two years of a global pandemic.

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          18 hours ago

          The first US full non-emergency-use approved vaccine was Pfizer-BioNTech in August 2021.

          Patent laws aren’t something they implemented to stop the vaccines, its the default stance which they, including the Gates Foundation, pushed to change for the greater good.

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            You didn’t need to explain that patent laws existed before 2020.

            In May 2020, WHO, the Government of Costa Rica and other partners launched the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) to facilitate faster equitable and affordable access to COVID-19 health products for people in all countries. C-TAP, which is currently endorsed by 45 WHO Member States, was a response to the global Solidarity Call to Action. Its implementing partners include UNDP, the Medicines Patent Pool, the UN Technology Bank and Unitaid.

            https://www.who.int/initiatives/covid-19-technology-access-pool

            Medical patents do always cause death, of course. Artificial scarcity protects profits at the cost of lives. Bill Gates, and the Gates Foundation at first, opposed programs to allow poor countries to produce the vaccine themselves.