GREATDRAKE: ja bych ho nechala. Majitelka auditka uz stejne na nyx nechodi, tak at se tu klidne s Drzeefem (a jeho dalsima fake ideckama) poplacavaj po zadech a navzajem se utvrzuji ve svych paranoidnich konspiracich. Aspon pak nebudou skodit v dalsich diskusich.

Gates owns investments in COVID vaccine stocks

While continuing to recommend against COVID vaccine companies releasing their patents, Gates is personally invested in at least one of the companies, BioNtech. “In September of 2019, Bill Gates spent $55 million on a pre-ipo equity investment into BioNtech, which later partnered with Pfizer to make its mRNA vax. That Gates investment is now worth over $550 million dollars,” independent journalist Jordan Schachtel tweeted in April 2021.

“In quarter four of 2020 Gates Inc. dropped another $85 million into BioNtech stock. That investment is now worth about $200 million … I am kind of fascinated by some critiques of this claiming that Bill Gates is super rich so the fact that he made $500 million is not a big deal. If it’s not a big deal, why doesn’t he advocate that vax companies he has equity in just release their patents for the good of public health?” he added.

It’s a fair question, but one with a simple answer: again, greed. Gates morphed from a ruthless technology monopolizer into a saintly, generous philanthropist in 2000 when he launched the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But cracks are continuing to emerge in his carefully constructed image. As The New Republic put it:

“COVAX presents a high-stakes demonstration of Gates’s deepest ideological commitments, not just to intellectual property rights but also to the conflation of these rights with an imaginary free market in pharmaceuticals — an industry dominated by companies whose power derives from politically constructed and politically imposed monopolies.

“Gates has been tacitly and explicitly defending the legitimacy of knowledge monopolies since his first Gerald Ford-era missives against open-source software hobbyists. He was on the side of these monopolies during the miserable depths of the 1990s’ African AIDS crisis.

“He’s still there today, defending the status quo and running effective interference for those profiting by the billions from their control of Covid-19 vaccines.”

What is perhaps most disturbing of all is, despite the immense power he yields, Gates wasn’t elected into this position. Nick Dearden, executive director of Global Justice Now, called Gates’ defense of vaccine patents “disgusting” and poignantly added, “Who appointed this billionaire head of global health? Oh yeah, he did.”