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Malaria (fedia.io)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (3 children)

He fucking did! Why the downvotes? He personally lobbied governments to make sure nobody released the patents to allow cheap vaccinations in developing countries

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Gates got a bunch of defenders for some reason

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

some people like to join the winning team. It makes them feel like winnners themselves.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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[–] Anticorp 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It couldn't possibly have anything to do with his work in the eradication of polio and malaria, his efforts to provide clean drinking water to impoverished areas, and his program to create renewable cheap electricity for impoverished rural areas? Seems like that probably has a lot more to do with people's perspective of him than the fact that trumpy bois don't like him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I guess it doesn't fit the good billionaire narrative

[–] Anticorp 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Citation needed.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Civil society organizations active in poorer nations, including Doctors Without Borders, expressed discomfort with the notion that Western-dominated groups, staffed by elite teams of experts, would be helping guide life-and-death decisions affecting people in poorer nations. Those tensions only increased when the Gates Foundation opposed efforts to waive intellectual property rights, a move that critics saw as protecting the interests of pharmaceutical giants over people living poorer nations

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969

[–] Anticorp 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yikes. Do you know what justification was given?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

i remember hearing, that their argument was, that a strong profit-incentive would motive the manufacturer to increase production as well as quality. I also remember that the debate around that topic was drowned out by some weirder theories. E.g. during that time q-anon was on the rise, and some people argued, that the gates foundation was using covid to implant microchips into people or something like that

source: my memory from a couple years back

[–] Anticorp 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks. Sounds like the same ol "free market" argument then.

[–] SporeAdic 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A not insignificant line of reasoning (though probably less important to people in power than the profit incentive) was also to keep the secrets of making the vaccine from bring revealed to other countries, which would apparently erode the USA's pharmaceutical research advantage. An interesting article about this from the former director of NIST is here but I don't necessarily agree with the reasoning.