Companies like Eli Lilly, Merck, GSK, Bristol-Meyers Squibb cause and perpetuate massive amounts of human suffering. I view them on the same level as Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Input?

  • Rx_Hawk [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    2 months ago

    By withholding medical advancements behind patents, intellectual property, and cost restrictions, while at the same time stealing brilliant scientists and researchers from their home countries by offering them wealth, we shoot the medical communities of the world in the foot.

    In late 2021, 60% of the US population was vaccinated against COVID while only 6% of the African continent was. To this day, the disparity is still ridiculous.

    https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/us-states