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5 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Devils is on the details but if it’s anything close to the India/South Africa proposal this would be ground shifting. But again, depends very much on the actual terms of the waiver
Biden announced the US would stop supporting the Saudi war in Yemen then two months later we learned they didn’t really at all, so the fine print is important here!
Note the Biden admin is not supporting THE TRIPSwaiver that’s been proposed by a new one that’s being negotiated now. So will likely look very different
But* a new one

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7 May
watch as everyone moves to coopt the patent waiver debate and make sure it’s as watered down and temporary as possible. Here we have the bleeding heart humanitarians at the Gates Foundation calling for a “narrow” intellectual property waiver whatever that means
This explains why Gates funded corporate PR front @GlblCtzn came out for the first time last night to nominally support a patent waiver. It was getting embarrassing not to. But again, **what type of patent waiver** is what’s important.
fine line between activist pressure substantively changing policy positions of those in power & those in power co-opting nominal policy stances to take the heat off and own the space around what is possible and necessary. Theres risk in coming weeks of descending into the latter
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6 May
every single time! ImageImageImageImage
“Dont get a liberal arts education, it may expose you to ideas like anti-racism or feminism or socialism or other things that make you difficult to control. Instead just learn purely technical training that makes you useful to me but doesn’t risk you getting uppity” -Charles Koch
Love it, let’s cut to the chase ImageImage
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6 May
Koch-funded mustache guy chats with Koch-funded fake hard hat guy on Koch-funded website about why canceling student debt is bad for The Working Man Image
A loathe every word of this smarmy faux populist bullshit, just hand crafted at the CATO institute and memorized by a TV actor. This worst part is works Image
Two greats passing along the baton
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5 May
one angle that’s not covered RE: “worker shortage” panic is the extent to which many of these examples are clearly informal capital strikes. It’s hard to pin down but it’s a thread reporters should pull on, business owners are notoriously high on their own libertarian ideology
Most of these restaurant and retail owners can clearly pay more if they want but they are worried about the precedent and they know if they ban together and whine to a compliant media enough and fake like people won’t get cheeseburgers politicians will pull UI and social programs
In some states it’s already achieved its goal. The extent to which the “worker shortage” is authentic rather than just cheapness is difficult to parse but we do know the same trade groups who pushed legislation like this also helped shape the media narrative on “worker shortages”
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5 May
8min story on NPR this morning about why poor countries are not vaccinated and not a single mention of patents, TRIPS or the WTO. The culprits? moral failings on the part of leaders from poor countries and a bumbling––but totally good faith!––COVAX program npr.org/2021/05/04/993…
In the past 3 months NPR has only run three (3) stories covering the effort by poor countries and health advocates to get WTO vaccine patent rules suspended. One was a brief recap, one was an aside in a bigger story, and only one from 3/24 featured an advocate, Madhavi Sunder.
On the episode Sunder was the one voice for the patent suspensions, the other two (a literal Pharma lobbyist and a popular Gates-funded TRIPSwaiver concern troll) were opposed. wbur.org/onpoint/2021/0…
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4 May
name the “others” opposed to the waiver! Someone name them, it’s always mysterious anonymous advisors nytimes.com/2021/05/03/us/…
after all the bullshit about how the global south doesn’t have “capacity”, and the TRIPS waiver is a “side show” and a “distraction” and it’s really “complex” and how the real problem is “corruption” in poor countries this is all the opposition to patent suspensions comes down to
what's noteworthy is how little Big Pharma's talking points have changed. When 39 drugmakers sued South Africa in 1998 for manufacturing unsanctioned generic AIDS drugs, they, like today, argued IP was a non sequitur and that the real issue was capacity in poor countries.
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