Who are these people.

Who create a vaccine & patent them, in the middle of a pandemic.

They know, production isn't enough.
That we will need vaccines to get herd immunity but they will play profit.
Who are these people.

Who know that the poor live in low ventilated, crowded spaces, be in USA or Pakistan.

That the only way of survival is on daily wages of low paid work.

That vaccine first should be prioritised for them.
Who are these people who use tax money to fund vaccine development but patent it, removing any chance for generic production.

Millions have died & more have death written for them by these vaccine makers.

What's in a number?
Who are these people who back the vaccine makers to stop poorer countries from producing the astra zenecas or sinopharm or sputnik.

Why is injustice over billions so easily being inflicted and we're all busy in our lives?

Not my problem. Not my family.
As poorer countries suffer, politics, big business reigns. Amazon, Tesla rule the world & twitter goes gaga over it.

But for every tweet, thousands infected don't get a mention.

Vaccination hegemony is the worst kind of barbarism men deem a necessary evil.

Who are these people
Who are these people?

With hands full of blood of others, hearts cold with greed. As old and young die a death, ordained by health industry oligarchs & tech billionaires reaping in the golden age of online transactions.

Money made, ROI rising more with each incremental grave
My heart bleeds at the loss of income of the low wage workers, making it imp for them to stay in.

They have to work to survive. There are no safety nets in the poorer countries.

How can vaccine hegemony be something that makers endorse?

Who are these imp men who did this?
Versions of Satan, walking the Earth. Giving to philanthropy, through complex social foundations, deploying their billions of dollars to buy out, sly & scheming ngo heads.

Let's not talk impact, more a cuss word for philanthrophic $$$.
Who are these men.
Know the power they wield over policy. The knowledge that decency, morality & humanity can be booted over ROI.

That they will never have to talk individuals suffering. It's not easy not answering to calls for ration or school fee or medication.
Today I do not see humour in anything. No joy in #coinbase or doge or amazon or tesla getting bigger or richer.

The wealth is not distributed. It's personal, individual achievement & builds on a hegemonic system that rewards innovation for personal gain.

Are the founders human
What is the point of innovation & wealth creation if it ⬆️ polarisation?

Click a button. Buy this.
Oh wait, half the world's population cannot afford a phone or internet.

Name one unicorn that did good across social scales? Not even tiktok.

Innovate. Another cuss word.
Let's not innovate.
Let's just let people get a vaccine that generic. That is not on profit. That doesn't create more millions. Just wins hearts, by saving children become orphans.

The duas will create infinite wealth.
God gave us an opportunity to rise. Yet we crawl like ants.
Who are these people that create plans for the poor, who decided that vaccines will be prioritised for the richer countries, doled to the poor under a shoddy half measure.

How much richer nations have prospered on the labour of the weaker, poorer countries.

Who are these people
Founders, innovators, scientists & researchers. All part of wealth creation cycle. No part of that cycle works to include the poverty cycle.

No intertwining, just job creation at the lowest rung. Handouts, safety nets, social insurance barely sufficient.

Who are these people
What dignity do they talk about? Creating further divides, including just enough people.

A skewed system that furthers inequities. A capitalists dream. Gold mine for tech. Pandemic is not bad for every industry.

Who are these people

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My beautiful Nani (sitting on right side of bride) with all her siblings & parents

A picture of countless memories & countless stories.
Post partition Nana Abba (my maternal great grandfather) decided to leave their ancestral home in Shimla & moved to Lahore. He was given an evacuee property of Geeta Bhawan in Lahore. He should have claimed more but he decided this was enough for his family's needs
I believe so many defrauded the government on evacuee properties. Glad we stayed on the right side of history on this one.
Thank you Nana Abba.

He was a father to 9 children, 2 boys & 7 girls, my Nani, Kulsum Begum, the eldest & his most beloved.
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Was discussing office spaces in Pakistan back when I joined working.

There was a lecherous group of young men who made all women trainees feel uncomfortable.

We never complained
They were about 10/12 at most, sitting in one corner of the audit room but would make each one of us uncomfortable.

They would pass crude jokes, look you over, sleazy glances & laugh in a way that you knew it was locker room talk.

We all took it in. We never once complained.
That was 1997 to 2001 for me. The day my trainee contract ended I never stayed a day more.

We were training to lead finance teams & these men older than most us, would behave in such a way, it was unbelievable much alike how boys stood outside girls colleges.
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Arvi gosht in the making.

Lunch table talk is going to be interspersed with ugly stares (son), quiet resignation (husband) & whining (daughter)

What's not to like about a well made Arvi gosht.

Explain
Update

The son heated leftover ravioli from dinner & had some cucumbers on the side.

The little one toasted a slice, buttered it & had it with cucumber & apple.

Yeh dunya pittal di

#arvigate
Update 2.

Hubby had arvi gosht, but he also took out Shaan mixed pickle, a sure sign of compromise.
Also I saw he didn't take more than 1 arvi piece.

This is not over yet.

#arvigate
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People are strange.

They hate your guts, hate you, or maybe dislike you, tolerate you for various reasons, but apna koi kaam hota hai toh forun haazir

Nice nothings & then straight to request.

I definitely an atm for everyone's social cause
Why would they reach out if they disliked you so much? Shocked by someone in family who has avoided me like a curse mostly over years & especially this year over a curt censure I made for her loving food making & over sharing in a pandemic when millions lost jobs & livelihoods
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I've really no interest in her but anyhow
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People are weird & complex & conflicted. What worries me that they genuinely think they're nice, god fearing folks. And that any problems you've had with them are because of a particular situation not because of who they are.

#conflict #Hypocrisy
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Rules to live by & if you fail, you own that too:

1. You get into a contract you honour it
2. You use someone for your work, financial especially, you owe them.

#Hypocrisy #Thread
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