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thoughtportal · 1 year
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price gouging medication that was paid for by tax payers
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There's a lot of competition for the title of "Most On-The-Nose Symbol of Late Stage Capitalism," but I think there's a strong case for awarding the crown to "Vaccine Apartheid" – the decision to deny covid vaccines to billions of poor people in the Global South.
Here's how that went down: countries in the poor world were arm-twisted into signing the WTO agreement on pain of being shut out of global trade (these former colonies had all been forcibly converted to export crop economies that relied on rich-world countries for seed and Big Ag tech, so opting out of trade wasn't an option).
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damiangnarly · 1 year
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Do you have the courage to find out why so many people have now "Died Suddenly"?
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memoriae-lectoris · 7 months
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Language was often tortured to disguise the racial nature of hazardous experimentation. In the best patrician tradition of his times, Thomas Jefferson was not only a country squire and leading politician but also a scientist. Eager to make his mark, Jefferson embarked on enthusiastic adventures in vaccination by gambling with the lives of his slaves. He wished to establish that Edward Jenner’s new technique of vaccination was superior to the technique of inoculation (or, as it came to be called a century later, variolation). Inoculation consisted of inserting or injecting infected material from a sick person directly into a well one to induce immunity. Vaccination, in this era, referred to the process of injecting cowpox to provide immunity to smallpox, as Jenner first described in 1796.
Jefferson obtained some cowpox vaccine indirectly from Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse of Boston, but it was known to be of dubious potency: the vaccine had failed to protect the subjects of an earlier trial. Jefferson spent that summer vaccinating two hundred of his family’s and his neighbors’ slaves. Only after they escaped illness did Jefferson inject his white family at Monticello. The vaccinated persons remained well and the unvaccinated ones fell ill, but this did not convince Jefferson’s scientific peers, so Jefferson had a vaccinated slave injected with live smallpox material. When this slave remained well, Jefferson wrote his daughter Martha to proceed in order to “place our families and neighbors in perfect security.”
As a seasoned politician, Jefferson knew that his experiments on slaves would be criticized and that they seemed at variance with his sympathetic statements about blacks, so he slyly used language to deflect possible criticism, referring to conducting experiments “on some of my own family,” without clarifying that the “family” in question consisted of slaves owned by himself and his son.
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kim-they-them · 1 month
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I want to talk about how interconnected the genocide of the Palestinian people and the ongoing covid pandemic are.
Just as the 1918 flu pandemic desensitized the world to mass death and disability leading into WWII, the ongoing covid pandemic has also desensitized the world today leading into the genocide of Palestinian people.
The genocide of the Palestinian people is a mass disabling event, and it is compounded by imposed starvation and the mass spread of diseases, including covid. Israel is actively depriving Palestinians of food, clean water, and covid vaccines through occupation and blockade.
Just as Israel imposes apartheid on Palestinians, the US imposes medical apartheid on all marginalized groups of people. Indigenous and Black communities are especially disproportionately affected by covid.
Also taking place in majority Black communities are the establishment of cop cities. Atlanta, GA and Baltimore, MD are just two examples of the nation-wide cop city role out. These cop cities will be used for further militarization of US police officers and an intensification of the Deadly Exchange. The Deadly Exchange is a training and exchange program between the IOF and US police officers. This will only amplify discriminatory and apartheid practices already existing in US policing.
Atlanta, GA just narrowly escaped a face covering and mask ban, as the state of Georgia is criminalizing protests against the Atlanta Cop City. Georgia is prosecuting cop city protestors with RICO charges right now.
In Washington DC, another majority Black community, fascist “anti-crime” bills are being rammed through by Mayor Bowser. The Secure DC Omnibus Amendment Act was just advanced by the DC City Council. While the bill contains a large list of horrifying measures, I want to point out the ban of face coverings, which does extend to masks and respirators.
With the unwinding of all federal and state covid policies and prevention measures, we have very few tools left to protect ourselves as individuals from repeated covid infections. Criminalization of masks and respirators will make Black, disabled, and marginalized DC residents even more at risk of disability or death from covid.
It is so important that we understand how the ongoing covid pandemic and genocide of the Palestinian people are connected. As a community we must take both of these mass disability and death events seriously. Please wear a high quality mask (a KN-95 or N-95), and check out your local mask bloc for access to masks and covid tests to incorporate into your praxis and activism for Palestine, the DRC, Sudan, Tigray, and so on.
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workersolidarity · 2 months
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FIVE RICHEST BILLIONAIRES DOUBLE THEIR WEALTH SINCE 2020 WHILE 5 BILLION ARE MADE POORER
Oxfam International, a British-founded International Charitable organization based in Nairobi, Kenya, says the world's richest people have managed to double their wealth since 2020, as 5 billion people are made poorer as a result of a "decade of division."
Oxfam made the claims in a press release on its recently published report released Monday, January 15th on inequality and global corporate power called "Inequality Inc."
According to Oxfam, the world's richest people have more than doubled their wealth from $405 billion to $869 billion since 2020, a rate equivelent to $14 million per hour, while approximately 5 billion people have been made poorer in the same time period.
"If current trends continue," the statement says, "the world will have its first trillionaire within a decade but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years."
Oxfam looks to the Davos gathering of the world's largest corporations, pointing to the valuations of the top ten largest companies, together worth more than $10.2 trillion.
“We’re witnessing the beginnings of a decade of division, with billions of people shouldering the economic shockwaves of pandemic, inflation and war, while billionaires’ fortunes boom. This inequality is no accident; the billionaire class is ensuring corporations deliver more wealth to them at the expense of everyone else,” Oxfam's International interim Executive Director Amitabh Behar is quoted as saying.
“Runaway corporate and monopoly power is an inequality-generating machine: through squeezing workers, dodging tax, privatizing the state, and spurring climate breakdown, corporations are funneling endless wealth to their ultra-rich owners. But they’re also funneling power, undermining our democracies and our rights. No corporation or individual should have this much power over our economies and our lives —to be clear, nobody should have a billion dollars”.
According to Oxfam, Billionaires increased their wealth by $3.3 trillion since 2020, a growth rate three times faster than inflation.
Oxfam adds that, despite representing just 21% of the global population, the countries of the Global North own 69% of global wealth, with Global North countries home to 74% of global billionaire wealth.
Further, the top 1% own 43% of all global financial assets, with billionaires owning 48% of wealth in the Middle East, 50% in Asia, and 47% in Europe.
In addition to overall wealth, 148 of the world's largest corporations raked in $1.8 trillion in total net profits, a 52% increase over the period from 2018-2021.
Corporate windfalls increased to nearly $700 billion, with the report finding that for every $100 in profits made by the top 96 major corporations between July 2022 and June 2023, $82 was paid out to wealthy shareholders.
Oxfam International interim Executive Director Amitabh Behar says that “Monopolies harm innovation and crush workers and smaller businesses. The world hasn’t forgotten how pharma monopolies deprived millions of people of COVID-19 vaccines, creating a racist vaccine apartheid, while minting a new club of billionaires."
The Oxfam press release goes on to point our that people are working harder and for longer, often for poverty wages in unsafe jobs, adding that the wages of nearly 800 million people have not kept up with inflation, losing $1.5 trillion in value over the last two years, the equivalent of nearly a month's lost wages for each individual worker.
Oxfam also found that, of the 1'600 largest companies, less than 0.4% of them are publicly committed to paying employees a living wage.
Oxfam shows how a "war on taxation" by large corporations has pushed the effective tax rates on corporations to fall by a third in recent decades, while relentless privitization of public services like education and water services have expanded massively.
“We have the evidence. We know the history. Public power can rein in runaway corporate power and inequality —shaping the market to be fairer and free from billionaire control. Governments must intervene to break up monopolies, empower workers, tax these massive corporate profits and, crucially, invest in a new era of public goods and services,” said Behar.
“Every corporation has a responsibility to act but very few are. Governments must step up. There is action that lawmakers can learn from, from US anti-monopoly government enforcers suing Amazon in a landmark case, to the European Commission wanting Google to break up its online advertising business, and Africa’s historic fight to reshape international tax rules.”
Oxfam offers three notes on how governments can rectify the situation, including the following:
🔹 Revitalizing the state. A dynamic and effective state is the best bulwark against extreme corporate power. Governments should ensure universal provision of healthcare and education, and explore publicly-delivered goods and public options in sectors from energy to transportation.
🔹 Reining in corporate power, including by breaking up monopolies and democratizing patent rules. This also means legislating for living wages, capping CEO pay, and new taxes on the super-rich and corporations, including permanent wealth and excess profit taxes. Oxfam estimates that a wealth tax on the world’s millionaires and billionaires could generate $1.8 trillion a year.
🔹 Reinventing business. Competitive and profitable businesses don’t have to be shackled by shareholder greed. Democratically-owned businesses better equalize the proceeds of business. If just 10 percent of US businesses were employee-owned, this could double the wealth share of the poorest half of the US population, including doubling the average wealth of Black households.
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The public paid for "Moderna's" vaccine, and now we're going to pay again (and again and again)
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Moderna is quadrupling the cost of covid vaccines, from $26/dose to $110–130. Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel calls the price hike “consistent with the value” of the mRNA vaccines. Moderna’s manufacturing costs are $2.85/dose, for a 4,460% markup on every dose:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/moderna-may-match-pfizers-400-price-hike-on-covid-vaccines-report-says/
If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/24/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity
Now, obviously the manufacturing costs are only part of the cost of making a vaccine: there’s also all the high-risk capital that goes into doing the basic research. Whenever a pharma company like Moderna hikes its prices, we’re reminded that the rewards are commensurate with these risks.
But the story of the Moderna vaccine isn’t one of a company taking huge gambles with shareholder dollars. It’s the story of the US government giving billions and billions of dollars to a private firm, which will now charge the US government — and the American people — a 4,460% markup on the resulting medicine.
Writing for The American Prospect, Lily Meyersohn reminds us of the Moderna vaccine’s origin story: the NIH spent $1.4B developing the underlying technology and then the US government bought $8b worth of vaccines at $16/dose, giving Moderna a guaranteed 460% margin on each jab:
https://prospect.org/health/2023-01-23-moderna-covid-vaccine-price-hike-bernie-sanders/
Moderna clearly does not feel that the billions it received in public funds came with any obligation to serve the public interest. The company falsified its patent applications, omitting the NIH scientists who co-developed the vaccine, claiming sole ownership:
https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/01/06/nih-moderna-mrna-covid-vaccine-patent/
As Meyersohn writes, this omission allows Moderna to block the NIH from licensing the vaccine to foreign manufacturers — including vaccine manufacturers in the global south, home to many powerhouse producers of vaccines:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/24/waivers-for-me-not-for-thee/#vaccine-apartheid
Moderna claims to have capitulated to the NIH on the patent question, but it’s a lie — even as they were publicly announcing they would drop their bid to exclude NIH scientists from their patent application, they quietly filed for a continuance that would let them renew their exclusive claim later, when the heat has died down:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/17/us/moderna-patent-nih.html
This maneuver, combined with Astrazeneca reneging on its promise to open its vaccine — a move engineered by Bill Gates — has deprived billions of the world’s poorest people of access to vaccines. Many of these people were previously blocked from accessing AIDS drugs when the Gates Foundation teamed up to block WTO vaccine waivers:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/13/public-interest-pharma/#gates-foundation
These immunucompromised, unvaccinated people are at increased risk of contracting covid, and when they do, they are sick for longer, creating more opportunities for viral mutation and new, more virulent variants.
That was where we stood before Moderna announced its 400% vaccine price-hike. Now, millions of Americans will also be blocked from accessing vaccines, opening the door for rampant, repeated infections, more mutations, and more variants. As Alex Lawson of Social Security Works told Meyersohn, at that price, the US will not be able to achieve herd immunity.
What will Moderna do with the billions it reaps through price-gouging? It won’t be research. To date, the company has spent >20% of its covid windfall profits on stock buybacks and dividends, manipulating its stock price, with more to come:
https://www.levernews.com/how-big-pharma-actually-spends-its-massive-profits/
It’s not an outlier. Big Pharma is a machine for commercializing publicly funded research and then laundering the profits with financial engineering. The largest pharma companies each spend more on stock buybacks than research:
https://www.levernews.com/how-big-pharma-actually-spends-its-massive-profits/
Moderna didn’t have a single successful product for its first decade of operation: it is only a going concern because it got billions in free public research and billions more in public commitments to buy its products at a huge markup.
It wasn’t always this way. Until the 1990s, pharma companies that commercialized public research were bound to license terms that required “reasonable pricing.” NIH inventions were subject to non-exclusive licensing terms, ensuring a competitive market.
The NIH could act to stem Moderna’s profiteering. Moderna’s vaccine (like virtually all mRNA vaccines) uses NIH patent 10,960,070 — though Moderna doesn’t license the ‘070 patent. The NIH could use the threat of a patent infringement suit to force Moderna to put pandemic resilience and access to vaccines over financial engineering and executive bonuses.
When it comes to patent enforcement to protect the public interest, the USG has a long history of channeling King Log, letting companies price-gouge with products built on public research.
https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-021-03535-x/d41586-021-03535-x.pdf
The states are stepping in where the feds have failed to act, spinning up their own pharma production capacity to create a “public option” for medicine — think of California’s move to produce insulin and other meds:
https://prospect.org/health/its-time-for-public-pharma/
Or Massachusetts’s MassBiologics, the “only non-profit, FDA-licensed manufacturer of vaccines” in the USA, which sells its generic tetanus and diptheria vaccines nationwide:
https://www.umassmed.edu/massbiologics/
The US has a long way to go when it comes to using public production to offer competitive discipline to private pharma. Sweden nationalized its pharma in 1970. Cuba got there in 1960, and is a pharma powerhouse:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/28/somos-cuba/#omishambles
Meyersohn closes her excellent article with a warning and a promise: though public covid vaccines are a long way away, new vaccines for RSV and even cancer are in the pipeline, and without “substantial intervention,” Moderna will be a “harbinger…of crises of inequitable access to come.”
[Image ID: Moderna headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. On the left side of the entry, a Jacobin with a guillotine gets ready to decapitate an aristocrat. On the right side of the frame, a cigar-chomping, top-hat wearing ogrish figure makes ready to yank a gilded dollar-sign lever while holding an MRNA molecule disdainfully aloft]
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hero-israel · 4 months
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do you think there will ever be some kind of realization or reckoning from the liberals/leftists about israel? whether it's admitting they were wrong about the settler colonialism narrative or realizing anti zionism was a mask for anti jewish? i am trying to stay hopeful that one day people will "see the light" but even normies are pushing insane theories and anti jewish rhetoric. i wonder if this is a reality that we just have to live with (that majority of leftists are bloodthirsty and indifferent to jewish suffering) i have already seen people rightfully say they feel politically homeless and alienated from the left (both jewish and non jewish) because of its stance on israel.
the left is suppose to historically stand with the oppressed, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. is there anything we can do to help people wake up or just accept fate? i find it difficult to have even mundane discussions about israel or try to fact check something. it always goes back to the same lies: jews are white, israel is a settler colony that doesn't deserve to exist, palestinians can do no wrong.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." --George Carlin
The thing about zombie lies is that they are pretty much impossible to get rid of. I do not believe large-scale re-education is possible for any group, liberal / leftist or otherwise. That's just not how people work. Our minds, our societies, are organized around recognizing patterns and fitting those patterns into our earliest instilled beliefs - regardless of whether the patterns are real or the beliefs are correct. A newspaper column will not do it. Getting leftists to recognize that Israel is not a colonial apartheid state will be akin to getting MAGA boomers to recognize that vaccines don't kill you and there's no child cannibalism ring. It can be done, but it's hard and slow and really requires cult deprogramming tactics. Do you want to take on that challenge? How much of your life are you willing to devote to it?
What I feel is realistic - for your average person to ask for, and to hope your average liberal / leftist can give - is just to ask for consideration, for an equal space to speak. To ask them to reconsider their priors and weigh the possibility that they might be wrong - that the less immediate personal history and stake they have in this context, the more likely they are to be wrong. It is an ask based on intellectual openness and epistemic humility. Some people respond very badly to it, but it is still worthwhile, on a small scale, face-to-face. The opposition's frenzied rush to shout us down and deplatform us really gives the game away - if what we were saying was so dumb and obviously false it wouldn't be threatening to them, they'd actually want us to say it more and be exposed.
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dzifah · 3 months
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This is one of the most painful periods, a trauma inducing attack but for the knowledge of the Awakening.
We have barely come out of a great Plandemic lie - safe and effective vaccines for a created disease. 
To see Black Africans support an ongoing brutal colony, the very type that the Nkrumah's Azikiwe's, Lumuba's Osman Daar, Kenyatta's etc fought against and were sacrificed and or died so we could enjoy this semblance of independence.
Israel was complicit in that Hamas Attack and they killed their own people and blamed it on Hamas
Apartheid Israel is home to the most rapist and most pedophiles per capita, yes you heard right.
There is a loophole that allows such disgusting and despicable people to go escape from the US to Israel to occupy Palestinian homes by force.
These mainly Europeans people who are not real Ancient Israelites  have fed poisonous chemicals to Black African women to mutilate their wombs.
Even the good Jewish people including some Israeli soldiers have come out to condemn Israel and called for a return of the lands to Palestine people.
How else can we educate our own people  mostly educate Black African Christians.
We have said it is worse than them Apartheid South Africa, they are responsible for the ongoing Genocide in Congo, they are responsible the artificial real estate/housing crisis. 
Even ex President Jimmy Carter warned that they control the American government and most officials feel threatened.
Only Black Africans have withstood them as they are afraid of us and have cunningly aligned themselves to our struggles to leech from us.
I can only warn that it is coming inevitably and the powers that be are more frightened and trying hard and their best is to postpone it but it is happening 
Our Ascended Ancestors, the Orishas, The Tronwo, Arunsis, the referred to as gods some of them the whiteman refers to as Aliens are pissed to the core and around to collect.
Every tool has been given humanity to discern and people were sent to advise about the journey within and some were killed.
It's a choice to Ascend or Descend
It's always a choice as it is neither a coup nor a revolution on going in Black Africa but the Awakening.
As #ichangetheworld I VodounVi Dzifah
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Here’s How FREE SPEECH Was Just Killed In America
Posted on March 14, 2024 by State of the Nation
Submitted by Revisionist Historians for World Peace SOTN Exclusive
It was clear to this Alt Media platform, in the days immediately following the false flag 10/7 terror operation carried out by Benjamin Netanyahu’s Zio-Nazi regime, that that purposefully staged event would be used to shut down all opposition to the Zionist State of Israel globally, if possible.
Of course, the Apartheid State of Israel has many obvious reasons to terminate all criticism of its horrific Gaza genocide and multi-decade Palestinian Holocaust.  Therefore, in light of the explosion of truth about the Khazarian Cabal, Khazarian Mafia and Khazarian Klan plastered across the Internet today, it’s no wonder this multi-century international crime syndicate got very nervous in the service.
KEY POINT: Who is really pulling the strings at the very top of the global power structure?
Once it became evident that the COVID-19 biowar was launched by the Zio-Anglo-American Axis, which takes orders from the Khazarian Cabal, Israel knew it was just a matter of time that the Covid ‘vaccine’ genocide was traced back to them.  After all, who else has the overwhelming power and influence worldwide to carry out such a depopulation scheme–IN BROAD DAYLIGHT–and then effectively cover it up?!
Which brings us to the First Amendment.
In the aftermath of so many fierce protests worldwide supporting the slaughtered Palestinian people, the murderous and thieving Zionists knew they had to frame each and every one of them as anti-semitic events.  They simply had no other way to quickly diminish the efficacy of those protests which threatened their long-planned genocide in Gaza (and West Bank), as well as the outright theft of the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian people.
The United States, even today, is seeing many protests in support of the terribly oppressed Palestinians as they are now methodically mass murdered by the IDF via starvation, denial of emergency medical services and extreme deprivations from homelessness.
So, what does the treasonous U.S. ZOG do about it?
It starts out by pushing state governments to pass patently unconstitutional laws which will call all forms of so-called ‘anti-semitism’—hate crimes.  And guess who decides what anti-semitism is?!  As follows:
FREE SPEECH WARNING! South Dakota Governor Noem Signs Historic Bill to Combat Antisemitism into Law
According to the preceding bill, the following international guidance will now be adhered to when assessing whether acts of anti-semitism constitute hate crimes.
First adopted in 2005 by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism states that “antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews,” and includes a list of illustrative examples ranging from Holocaust denial to the rejection of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination.
Which means that seriously questioning the legitimacy of the official fake narrative about “The Holocaust”, which allegedly occurred during World War II as an entirely fabricated fiction by the utterly satanic Zionist Movement, is now considered anti-semitic in South Dakota … and soon to be followed by other states.
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thoughtportal · 1 year
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Cuba and the COVID-19 vaccine
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venerablehoney · 1 year
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are there any vaccines or public health policies in other countries that you'd like to see adopted in the US? (besides universal healthcare xD)
I'll be honest, I could and have written whole papers on this topic haha but I'd like to see students receiving stipends for rent and food, like in Germany. I would also love to see better green spaces usage and safer walking routes like in Japan. Also, more grocery stores and fresh food stands within walking distance to avoid food apartheids. I'd also like to see a complete change in the way private insurance companies are run i.e. no longer running on a fee-for-service model, reinvest in primary care and more continuity in care
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wumblr · 1 year
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well well well well well well well well well well... look who's back to beg for midterm votes now that i have no mailing address. i don't care at all anymore but it sure would help to have 2.3m fewer people dead of covid and other directly and indirectly related causes. that would affect midterms. that's almost a larger number of people than felons disenfranchised by the justice system. almost. you want my vote? now? better start doing necromancy then bitch because you're not getting it from me. certainly not after what happened to the mask mandate. bluewave?? all i see's a piss puddle, useless do nothing ass cunts
you know the government had practically nothing to do with vaccine development and administration, right? it was NGOs. dolly parton singlehandedly did more than the entire global structure of bureaucracy. it really is too bad that she had to go up against bill gates, who wanted windows operating system profits SO BADLY that it was worth apartheid to him. once upon a time, the world's most viciously greedy little boy attempted to murder five billion people for money...
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memoriae-lectoris · 11 months
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Another type of research with children, experimental vaccines, has gained national notoriety. Today, highly publicized theories link vaccination to everything from autism to sudden death, and even parents who adhere to the vaccination schedules often do so uneasily. Although vaccine skeptics come in every color, recent revelations have sown a deeper-seated uneasiness among African Americans.
Between 1987 and 1991, U.S. researchers administered as much as five hundred times the approved dosage of the experimental Edmonton-Zagreb (EZ) measles vaccine to African American and Hispanic babies in black neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The parents of these children did not know mammoth overdoses were being administered nor that the vaccine was experimental. They also did not know that the vaccine had earlier been given to two thousand Haitian children in Cité Soleil, the most desperately impoverished area of Port-au-Prince, with disastrous results. EZ-vaccinated children, all poor, began to sicken and die by the hundreds there and throughout countries in the Third World, including Senegal, Mexico, and Guinea-Bissau.
Horrified by the disastrously high death rates, World Health Organization officials abandoned their plans to administer 250 million EZ doses throughout developing countries. But after these experimental deaths, the vaccine was administered to black and Hispanic Los Angeles children. Such outrages have prompted African American groups to condemn vaccination. Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, Nation of Islam minister of health, recommended “a moratorium on immunizations for all African-American members of the Muslim faith.”
However, shunning vaccines is itself dangerous. The vaccine debate encapsulates more than a scientific disagreement; it also reflects the lingering iatrophobia from the exploitative abuse of African American children. This abuse has had a chilling effect on lifesaving research because parents are withholding their permission from positive as well as abusive research. History has shown them how difficult it is to distinguish between the two.
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kim-they-them · 1 month
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I want to talk about how interconnected the genocide of the Palestinian people and the ongoing covid pandemic are.
Just as the 1918 flu pandemic desensitized the world to mass death and disability leading into WWII, the ongoing covid pandemic has also desensitized the world today leading into the genocide of Palestinian people.
The genocide of the Palestinian people is a mass disabling event, and it is compounded by imposed starvation and the mass spread of diseases, including covid. Israel is actively depriving Palestinians of food, clean water, medicine, fuel, electricity, and covid vaccines through occupation and blockade.
Just as Israel imposes apartheid on Palestinians, the US imposes medical apartheid on all marginalized groups of people. Indigenous and Black communities are especially disproportionately affected by covid.
Also taking place in majority Black communities are the establishment of Cop Cities. Atlanta, GA and Baltimore, MD are just two examples of the nation-wide cop city roll out. These cop cities will be used for further militarization of US police officers and an intensification of the Deadly Exchange. The Deadly Exchange is a training and exchange program between the Israeli Defense Forces and US police officers. This will only amplify discriminatory and apartheid practices already existing in US policing.
Atlanta, GA just narrowly escaped a face covering and mask ban, as the state of Georgia is criminalizing protests against the Atlanta Cop City. Georgia is prosecuting cop city protestors with RICO charges right now, and they have started raiding protestors’ homes.
In Washington DC, another majority Black community, fascist “anti-crime” bills are being rammed through by Mayor Bowser. The Secure DC Omnibus Amendment Act was just advanced by the DC City Council unanimously. While the bill contains a large list of horrifying measures, I want to point out the ban of face coverings, which does extend to masks and respirators.
With the unwinding of all federal and state covid policies and prevention measures, we have very few tools left to protect ourselves as individuals from repeated covid infections. Criminalization of masks and respirators will make Black, disabled, and marginalized DC residents even more at risk of disability or death from covid.
It is so important that we understand how the ongoing covid pandemic and genocide of the Palestinian people are connected. As a community we must take both of these mass disability and death events seriously. Please wear a high quality mask (a KN-95 or N-95), and check out your local mask bloc for access to masks and covid tests. Incorporate covid safety into your praxis and activism for Palestine, the DRC, Sudan, Tigray, and so on. We are in World War III; we must build and act in community now
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