No mention of generics and the pharma companies’ stranglehold on ADAPs. Many ARVs used now made back their R&D costs decades ago. (And that’s not even going into the question of NIH grants etc etc.)
An ecosystem of despair.
It’s about denigrating others and getting what she sees as the last word (doesn’t matter about sense or logic or the constitution or or or…).
Though a ham-fisted reign of terror that discredits or prevents the midterms doesn’t require sophistication and may thrive on political blowback.
The questions Freedom House asks to score each country make for very uneasy reading after the last 12 months - see the end of their methodology page: freedomhouse.org/reports/free...
The entire point of vaccination is to avoid hospitalisation and death.
The complacency of those who never expect to personally be affected.
The role of respect for the law in maintaining the rule of law is far too often overlooked.
Don’t think I’ve ever heard Jon Stewart nearly incandescent with rage throughout. It summarises how this is the year of the mad king without his clothes on.
Trump is acting as the world’s Brownshirt, not its policeman.
There’s a great South African ad from a decade ago that shows up the “who belongs?” point - love to see the same for the US youtu.be/cBIDkW2_FnQ?...
That’s a “no” then.
The schlep of prevention when people either do not see the risk as real or see the threat of being ill as minimal, and the ‘cost” of action seems too high. It’s the “all kids get ill but get better” mentality taking us down the dangerous RFKJnr-lit pathways to no more vaccines etc.
His racism is showing (again).
South African news reports that all passengers were from Gaza and somehow allowed to leave from Israel’s Ramon airport without their passports being stamped. How this was done without at a minimum Israeli collusion is the question, as is who would want to put the SA government in a sticky spot…
I am honestly confused why the airlines are being asked to choose what flights to reduce when the issue is ATC staffing at airports. Is there something else happening first, like the FAA working with airports to compile a real time staffing forecast provided daily to airlines? Naive question…
Though it doesn’t seem like many “White Afrikaners” are jumping at the chance - www.news24.com/citypress/ne...
Thank you for doing good journalism - bringing people’s voices to the fore when political expediency seeks to bury them. (The thread and article are both worthwhile and fascinating reads.)
At this rate in a decade there’ll be public health protocols for all flights from the U.S. to manage the spread of vaccine preventable diseases. (Assuming sanity isn’t allowed to prevail.) There are so many reasons governments usually buy or subsidise vaccines.
It was a double tap strike - a deliberate targeting of the emergency workers and journalists who rushed to rescue and record the first massacre. This is a(nother) war crime.
My bad for not reading the Wired article to the end - was peeved after reading the NYT version which does not mention the possible generic price tag at all. Many more kudos to Wired.
There’s a new Lancet preprint from Wednesday that points out the actual cost could be as low as $25 instead of +$24k (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... ). Ending the global HIV epidemic could be in our reach, if it wasn’t about company profits.
Apartheid South Africa also saw rock throwing as terrorist violence.
And of course Crosby’s original “The Columbian Exchange” from 1972. A revelation in environmental history.
Plagues and Peoples by McNeill - the book that made epi history popular. Though out dated in many ways, it still challenges the reader to consider the critical drivers of history.
There’s a lot to be said about the benefits of ethical and regulated clinical trials pre market release.
She live(d) in a major tourist hotspot which is part of greater Cape Town and priced out of the reach of almost all South Africans, a lasting legacy of South Africa’s apartheid structures. She is only a refugee from her inability to be racist without blowback in South Africa.
Revenge of the 5th
They got the wrong day -
King Henry VIII vibes (just needs three more wives).
