Bill Gates and vaccines

I think Russell Brand is behind the times

Biden asked for a patent waiver on vaccines.

Mark Suzman, CEO at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, announced Thursday that the foundation is supportive of temporarily lifting coronavirus vaccine patent protections.

“No barriers should stand in the way of equitable access to vaccines, including intellectual property, which is why we are supportive of a narrow waiver during the pandemic,” he wrote in a statement, which was an about-face for the world’s largest private foundation.

www.devex.com/news/gates-foundation-reverses-course-on-covid-19-vaccine-patents-99810

Thank you for that information Maisie

MaizieD, thank you for that article. I have never really understood the conspiracy theories involving Bill Gates. To me it seems he has made his ka-billions and is now involved in many charitable schemes. Why would he want to harm the world's population, and why do so many want to bring him down?

And as for patent protection, I think at heart he is a capitalist, so therefore standing up for patents makes sense in his eyes. Glad that he agrees with temporarily lifting, but not sure if he has any involvement in the actual decision.

I wonder who has contributed more to humanity, Bill Gates or Russel Brand, it's a tricky one.

That Russell Brand? Flipping heck yep a tricky one

MaizieD, thank you for that article. I have never really understood the conspiracy theories involving Bill Gates. To me it seems he has made his ka-billions and is now involved in many charitable schemes. Why would he want to harm the world's population, and why do so many want to bring him down?
My thoughts too MaizieD

Bill Gates was cautious about lifting patents on COVID for very good reason. When there are patents the company holding the patents will exercise control over their manufacture to make sure that the other people making the vaccine are making it properly, storing it safely and making sure that every vaccination is safe to use and effective.

Once you lift a patent, any Tom, Dick or Hari, who has a factory that says it can make a vaccine can do so, without any supervsion from the patentee, no quality checks. You are taking the risk that errors and sloppiness in producing these products could result in vaccines that are dangerous to the recipient or unable to protect them, so that someone thinks they have had the jab, which they have, but they are not protected.

A disinclination to lift patents has more to do with protecting recipients - and protecting Bill Gates from futher conspiracy accusations should patients receiving the unpatented jab become ill and die or catch COVID.