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

I guess it doesn't fit the good billionaire narrative

[+] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 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

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[–] [email protected] 0 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

[–] [email protected] 0 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 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] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He was on the right side of the mask debate, right wingers were shitting on him, and the internet knows no nuance so he's the good guy and if you criticize him that means you like trump.