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Bill Gates, Chalkdust Loving Philanthropy Tourist, Advises Denying India the Vaccine Formula.
2021-05-03
[IndiaToday] Bill Gates has been in the headlines for several reasons since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. The tech mogul was celebrated, mocked and even scathingly criticized for his stand on the production and distribution of a vaccine candidate for the novel disease. A new comment by Gates puts him in a bad light yet again, as the tech entrepreneur suggests not to share patented vaccines with other countries.

In an interview with Sky News, Bill Gates was asked if a change in intellectual property law be helpful in the current Covid crisis? The backing thought was to share the vaccine formula and production techniques with countries other than the US so as to enable localised production.

To the surprise (and shock) of many, Gates said no.

He provided a couple of reasons for his argument. One of these was the limited vaccine factories across the world. Another was the process of transferring the technology itself, which would not be very effective without the "grants" and "expertise" that the US has, as per Gates.

Both vague, uninspiring reasons and not true to the slightest of thought. But even if you start to consider them as legit challenges, it is what Gates said in the midst that ticked off the deafest of ears.

The fact that India is a vaccine manufacturing hub is known to the world. At the start of this year, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hailed the country's vaccine production capacity as "the best asset that the world has today" in the fight against Covid-19. The backbone of this production is, anyway, a technology transfer between SII and AstraZeneca and not an individual effort to come up with a magic solution. So how Gates can point this out as a challenge is anybody's guess.
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Posted by:Dron66046

#11  Oh, and he's getting divorced.

Posted by: Clem   2021-05-03 19:57  

#10  
Posted by: Clem   2021-05-03 19:56  

#9  There is more to this than the cheesy over view: "In an interview with Sky News, Bill Gates was asked if a change in intellectual property law be helpful in the current Covid crisis? "
India, in their own self-interest, has been aggressively trying to acquire foreign intellectual property rights on the cheap. Understandably so as they are a rival to foreign Big Pharmaâ„¢ in output and, yes, there are certainly many poor Indian people that would benefit from cheaper drugs. CoVid-19 drugs and vaccines are just another skirmish in a long war.

Is Bill Gates a Big Pharmaâ„¢ shill or is he looking at his own computer IP to protect? Or do we embrace the power of 'And' ?
Posted by: magpie   2021-05-03 17:04  

#8  Like a Star Trek Next Gen episode.
One culture has the disease and the other has the cure but just doles out enough to keep themselves wealthy and the other needy. Of course Next Gen made it a drug problem because they weren't deep thinkers like the original series.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2021-05-03 10:40  

#7  ^ ☺ I only watched a little Swat Kats, Frank. These things arrived here by the 90s only.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-05-03 10:08  

#6  'Myeh... Indians are best off snake charming and rope climbing' conceit,

So you watched Jonny Quest too? :-)
Posted by: Frank G   2021-05-03 09:51  

#5  Aside from the usual 'Myeh... Indians are best off snake charming and rope climbing' conceit, I think I know what his problem is.

The modified FCRA [Foreign Contribution Regulation Act 2010] crippled subsidiaries of foundations like Gates' in India, when the government disallowed the unregulated use of money for running 'charities' and 'humanitarian' rackets. This was done seeing that the money was being brought in to empower only the narrow interest groups that were anti-India, islamist or communist leaning. From lawyers' retainers to bribes and gifts and grants buying influence for certain Leftist interests... the money was not for alleviation of poverty, education or preservation of life. It was only going into activities aiming at degrading sovereignty, encroaching on democratic rights, lobbying, influence etc.

The foundation still has its offices here and is distributing aid too but they cannot do it with the abandon they can afford in other countries. And while such people are allowed the media hype and a few nice venues to speak at, nobody entertains their overtures for being consultants in the business of India.

Until the administration here changes. The opposition are the sort who couldn't kiss enough foreign bungholes.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-05-03 09:26  

#4  ...? Is that why the Junta in Myanmar is chanting back at the rioters to "learn to code"?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-05-03 08:49  

#3  But this could decimate Microsoft's work force unless Bill plans to shift recruiting a bit to the north and east.
Posted by: Sneart Thromonter8301   2021-05-03 08:31  

#2  Bill's a population control nut. Of course he doesn't want India to have the experimental gene therapy (I refuse to call it a vaccine). Where better to start other than China which we know he won't go after.
Posted by: Warthog   2021-05-03 08:20  

#1  Bill Gates was asked if a change in intellectual property law be helpful in the current Covid crisis?

And they expected the software king to say yes?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-05-03 03:07  

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