hellinkilla
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- Comment on Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations 1 week ago:
When Oxford was about to liberate its covid vaccine recipe to enable local production in the global south, bill gates swooped in to talk them down. One of his arguments that ultimately won the day is that global south people are too stupid and irresponsible to be in charge of important medicine like that.
This photo is staged to reinforced that kind of stereotype.
- Comment on Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations 1 week ago:
I commend your web search skills!
With that info we can post a better photo taken within moments of the above:
Which shows medications being stored in a normal way in boxes which are neatly stacked and organized on shelves.
The med salad colander thing still completely inexplicable. It doesn’t play any role in the workflow according to the photos I saw. It is a chaotic and dangerous way of storing medication. I hypothesize it is staged for the benefit of the photographer, likely with some art direction from her.
- Comment on Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations 1 week ago:
I know it’s just a third party photo on a summary article but the photographer “Barbara Debout/AFP/Getty Images” is seriously fucked in the head. The idea that anyone would ever break up a bunch of blister packs of random medications and put them in a colander like some sort of chronic disease salad is insane. For context, we see the dark skin and bold printed clothing. Is there any explanation for this which isn’t wildly racist?
There’s a perfect non-racist image included in the actual paper:
