tante4d ago

With the currently released things about Bill Gates in the Epstein files (he had sex with the women and girls Epstein provided and asked Epstein for antibiotics to secretly give to his then-wife to treat the STI he gave her) how are we feeling about the Gates Foundation funding ... anything? Why should that creep (through his foundation) get to use that kind of power to shape what scientists and NGOs can do?

(Nobody should have that power, most foundations are politically a net negative on the world but I am talking about a specific case here.)

Show threadploum4d ago

@tante : well, we didn’t wait for the Epstein files.

The Gates foundation is the one to thank for *NOT* having an opensource COVID vaccine. Oxford wanted to make it OpenSource but the Gates foundation threw enough dollars at them to make sure it doesn’t happen.

And that’s for one single reason: avoiding at all cost a case where open source could work and 3rd world coutries would be able not to depend on US tech.

That’s their whole philosophy…

Show threadmike morris4d ago

@ploum @tante
And now, to add insult to injury, here in South Africa we CANNOT access the newer gen covid vaccines because Big Pharma can't be bothered to get them approved and registered by regulators, because "it's not profitable enough"!

Let that sink in:

It's profitable. But not enough.

Show threadDaniel Temme4d ago
@ploum @tante @mikro2nd do you have more details on that? I've been trying to understand what happened here. I'm confused why flu shots get promoted so much but covid vaccines are no longer around. Presumably the big private medical aid schemes should have something to gain but I never see anything mentioned anywhere
Show threadmike morris

@dtemme
When I started asking around local pharmacies & clinics, I was told that no covid vaccines are available at all, and to "try your doctor". Mucho unaffordable!

Then I saw a news article that new vaccines are simply not being put through the registration process by the pharmaceutical co's because it is not sufficiently profitable.

I don't think the medical insurers are involved one way or another. Would make sense for them to support vax availability to reduce covid care costs.

Feb 5 at 6:45amWeb
Show threadDaniel Temme3d ago
@mikro2nd thanks! That is indeed frustrating