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Is Creating One New Billionaire Worth Two Million Deaths?
Big Pharma and your government clearly think it is.
Epidemiologists told us we needed to develop effective vaccines for Covid.
They were right. Of course it was a great idea.
So governments threw a lot of tax dollars and public institutions into vaccine research until we had vaccines.
Then governments gave those vaccine patents to big Pharma.
Researchers promised to give vaccine patents to the world, and once they had them, Bill Gates told them not to, so they just didn’t.
Epidemiologists told us to get needles in arms everywhere around the world as quickly and thoroughly as possible. They told us no one is safe until everyone is safe.
Big Pharma did what big Pharma always does by encouraging scarcity to drive up prices instead.
It’s the only approach in their toolkit. When the only tool you have is a hammer…
They doubled prices for poor countries while wealthy ones bought up virtually all the supply.
Epidemiologists told us that not vaccinating everywhere was the best way to breed dangerous new variants.
