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Rikard's avatar

They are doing this to get raw empirical data, so that they can improve the product and the science down the line.

Virtually every medication was developed that way, initially: the poor, the stupid, the disposessed, prisoners and such were and remain the go-to guinea pigs.

And since it is impolitic and impolite to use KZ-prisoners in this day and age, capitalist corporations instead use Africa, India and parts of Asia.

Of course, you could set up programmes in Western nations for this, but the political fallout would be too great, especially now post-Covid.

The initial text quoted reminded me of all the old programmes in Africa, where Western food capitalists would donate to UN groups various products for children, such as powdered milk - products that didn't meet the standards set up in Western nations to protect consumers.

Then too media wrote texts glorifying this benevolence. Until other actual journalists went there and looked, and spoke to locals and local doctors and authorities and found that children died from malnourishment, when mothers didn't breastfeed but gave the infants formula instead.

Today, media is fully captured and so no journalist and no journal will dig into it.

Also, Ivermectin plus netting reduces Malaria-cases by some 25%.

And, Sweden used to have a problem with a domestic less lethal variant of Malaria up until the 19th century, in the region of Bleking and the south of Småland. By draining marshlands, the problem was gone in the 1910s. Today, Generation Greta want to restore those marshlands, and wants to complete ban draining.

Further, could it be that there's an idea to introduce to African populations vaccines that will combine to reduce fertility and increase mortality?

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Vaccinations have always been about improving your chances of avoiding serious illness caused by pathogens. They kept me from getting a lot of bad diseases that surrounded me for almost five years in my formative years as I lived in third world (showing my age) countries with poor public health conditions when my father, a US federal employee, was assigned overseas. Play your odds however you see them but base your sights on data.

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