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Source: Salon
Bill Gates Says No to Sharing Vaccine Formulas With Global Poor
The sham concept of "intellectual property" (actually the leftover of medieval monopoly grants) is the only reason this not-very-talented coder is a multi-billionaire in the first place
By Jon Queally | 29 Apr 21
Bill Gates (Getty/Jack Taylor)
Directly asked during an interview with Sky News if he thought it "would be helpful" to have vaccine recipes be shared, Gates quickly answered: "No."
Asked to explain why not, Gates — whose massive fortune as founder of Microsoft relies largely on intellectual property laws that turned his software innovations into tens of billions of dollars in personal wealth — said: "Well, there's only so many vaccine factories in the world and people are very serious about the safety of vaccines. And so moving something that had never been done — moving a vaccine, say, from a [Johnson & Johnson] factory into a factory in India — it's novel — it's only because of our grants and expertise that that can happen at all."
The reference is to the Serum factory in India, the largest such institute in the country, which has contracts with AstraZeneca to manufacture their COVID-19 vaccine, known internationally as Covishield.
The thing that's holding "things back" in terms of the global vaccine rollout, continued Gates, "is not intellectual property. It's not like there's some idle vaccine factory, with regulatory approval, that makes magically safe vaccines. You know, you've got to do the trial on these things. Every manufacturing process needs to be looked at in a very careful way."
Critical advocates for robust and immediate change to intellectual property protections at the World Trade Organization when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccines, however, issued scathing indictments of Gates' defense of the status quo.
Gates speaks as if all the lives being lost in India are inevitable but eventually the West will help when in reality the US & UK are holding their feet on the neck of developing states by refusing to break TRIPS protections. It's disgusting.
— Tara Van Ho (Dr) (@TaraVanHo) April 25, 2021
https://t.co/sNdFanmIKH
Nick Dearden, executive director of Global Justice Now, one of the lead partner groups in an international coalition calling for WTO patent waivers at a crucial meeting of the world body next month, characterized Gates' remarks — and the ideological framework behind them — as "disgusting."
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The Covid "pandemic" is the cover story the media presents:
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Are we seeing self-disseminating injections where the injected are "shedding?" This paper seems to suggest this is what is going on and the CDC is aware of this. This World Economic Forum Director says "there will be another [viral] crisis which will be faster and the exponential growth rate will be much steeper." Why are these "experts" always so vague and ominous? This guy from Schwab's WEF outfit further states the economic and social implications will be worse." What is he basing this future prediction on? Injections self-disseminating (shedders and super spreaders?) possibly?
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