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Part Two: The Ballad of Bill Gates

Behind the Bastards

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Gates Foundation - The Coved 19 Act Accelerator

In april of 20 20, with the entire country locked the fuck down and the virus just beginning to bite, bill gates launched the coved 19 act accelerator. This program was geared towards organizing the research, development, manufacture and distribution of treatments and vaxcines. Like everything tha gates foundation funds, this was a public private partnership based around using charity to entice corporations to do the right thing by making it profitable. But unlike most of those, the accelerator was, from the start, focused on respecting the exclusive intellectual property claims of whoever won the vaccine race. From a right up and new republic. Its explicit arguments that intellectual property rights won't present problems for meeting global demand or

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