thinking about when the stock market crashed on March 12 2020 and how, by that afternoon, the Fed had injected $1.5 trillion into the banks with trillions more every day for weeks and no one blinked an eye. Anyway the US has officially been “considering” a TRIPSwaiver for 6 weeks
https://twitter.com/kvanbrempt/status/1387157229598617604
amazing how quick things move when it’s for the good of capital or the war machine and how slow they move when it’s poor, faceless foreigners dying. There won’t even be a TRIPS council meeting at the WTO to decide on a potential waiver until June. Yawn, no rush.
it took just 72hrs after the 9/11 attacks for congress to draft and pass the “war on terror” authorization we still use today. Biden has known about the TRIPS waiver proposal for over six months and is still allegedly mulling it over
Remember how quickly the WTO, pharma & US moved to sanction Nelson Mandela when he started to import unauthorized AIDS drugs. South Africa signed the law in December 1997, by February 1998 39 pharmaceutical companies had filed suit, with the full backing of the EU and Clinton WH 
Man, it’s awesome John Podesta is still around and treated like an esteemed statesman theguardian.com/uk/1999/dec/19…
Founder of the Center for American Progress!
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