WEBVTT - Bad TRIPS 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.760 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA f Daily with 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:19.400 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording live once again from 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.440 the Brooklyn Cilarium. Folks, you know I come to you 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:31.560 on this Tuesday so completely and totally outdone by not 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.840 only this country, UM, but the world as we are 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:43.080 once again grappling with a new variant um Omnicron. Now. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:47.520 I talked about this a little bit yesterday, but after 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:54.360 some research and you know, thankfully uh tweets from from Kyle, 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.400 thank you so much for sending me um clips and 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:03.240 information about trips which I'm going to be talking to 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.720 you all about today. And no, I'm not talking about 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.760 trips that we would all like to take in terms 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:13.039 of vacation, but I'm talking about trade related aspects of 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:19.920 intellectual property rights trips and why that is important and 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:24.120 why we all need to be paying attention not to 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.240 the world's reaction to omnicron in terms of their bullshit 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:34.240 politically motivated bands that they are doing on several globally 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:41.720 South nations African nations in particular, even given the fact 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:47.160 that we know that travel bands don't fucking work. They 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:53.400 don't actually stop coronavirus from happening from spreading that. In fact, 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:57.200 what we know that actually does work is masks and 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.880 quarantine and oh yes, that thing called that nations, which 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:05.720 I will get to in a moment, But yesterday was 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.679 the day that the United States had said, had made 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:13.960 their announcement late last week that on Monday they were 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.680 going to be issuing their travel ban for seven African nations, 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:23.000 including South Africa, where the omnicron variant was discovered. And 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.320 many of these nations, if not all of them, are 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:32.560 absolutely taken aback by the economic punishment now that their 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.840 countries are going to be receiving for doing nothing other 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:41.640 than complying with the world and being transparent and having 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:46.440 this open level of sharing with the world's doctors and 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:51.080 scientists right to understand how these new variants come to be, 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.840 how they are working, and why and if they are 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.359 a threat. And then you have the World Health Organization 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.840 that comes out and decides is this a variant of concern? 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.919 Is it one of interest? And they have determined, right 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.040 with the little information that we've had since its discovery 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:11.880 on November twenty second, that omnicron is in fact a 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.200 variant of concern. Now why is that, well, because it 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:19.960 has over thirty different mutations. Right now, we will not 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:24.440 know for several weeks most like it probably more on 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.800 the lines of a month or a couple of months 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:31.320 exactly how people in the real world are reacting to omnicron. 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:36.680 From initial anecdotal studies that are being tested on some 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.280 that have contracted that variant, they are saying that symptoms 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.040 are mild, that it is tiredness, it is headaches, and 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:48.480 that hospitalizations to this point in South Africa has not skyrocketed. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.680 It has stayed pretty level. However, around the United States 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.000 as well as around the globe, what we are seeing 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.839 as we are approaching the holiday season is in fact 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:03.200 the opposite, that hospital rates are increasing, that the spread 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:07.920 is increasing, back to numbers that we hadn't seen since 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:12.880 before the summer. Now, I want to get to trips 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:19.080 now and why this is something that I realize once again, 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.760 all of the world's problems. This is what I am 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.520 beginning to understand and really, and when I say beginning 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.719 to understand, I'm not saying that I was at once 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:35.120 naive that decisions were made by nation states because of goodness, right, 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.560 because of morality, because of a shared sense of values, no, 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:44.920 that is actually never the reason whatsoever. However, I did 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:51.120 think and clearly wrongfully so that when we were faced 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:55.040 with a global health pandemic, which now we have been 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:59.920 in for roughly nineteen months, right, give or take, depends 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.719 on if you want to say two years from when 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:07.600 Donald Trump found out, which would be you know, mid December, 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.040 would give us two years because he was alerted to 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:15.039 COVID nineteen in December of twenty nineteen. We the public 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:20.599 were not made aware of the coronavirus until roughly February 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:25.520 of twenty nineteen, and then we had our first initial 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:33.320 shutdown right in March of twenty twenty. And so if 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.680 you look at around that time, it has been nineteen 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:41.200 months that the world has been grappling on a variety 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:46.080 of ways. Right. You have seen in intensive shutdowns, you 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.920 have seen now once again Austria is in a shutdown. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:54.560 Japan has just recently closed its borders to all international travelers, 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.560 and you're going to see what I believe will be 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.000 a domino effect of that happening around the world. But again, 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.440 you know what we have known and what we are 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.800 learning as we continue to learn this virus as it 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:15.200 continues to mutate is why is it mutating? Because there 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:20.760 is enough virus that is continuing to float around our air, 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.400 and because there is so much virus that there is 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.560 going to be mutations and it's going to figure out 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:32.719 its way around our tactics that where you're using to 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:37.680 keep people safe. But there's another reason why these variants 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.680 are popping up and why particularly they're popping up in 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:46.480 lower income countries, and it's because of trips trade related 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:51.240 aspects of intellectual property rights. Now, I want to read 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:57.320 this to you. In October of twenty twenty, India and 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:02.479 South Africa, with support at that time of sixty two 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:09.840 World Trade Organization members, proposed a TRIPS Agreement waiver that 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:16.440 would allow them to be able to develop right their 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:21.400 own vaccines. Because what has happened is that we are 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:28.040 developing vaccines to COVID nineteen based on new technology right, 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:35.360 innovative technology like the mRNA vaccine right and other technology 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.040 that was used with fisser and maderna, and then you 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:41.440 have other technology that was used with the J and 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:46.400 J one dose. The reality is is that the companies, 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:50.640 the pharmaceutical companies right, those that I just named that 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:56.239 created the initial round of vaccines, and now boosters have 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:01.000 made billions upon billions of dollars. Who are their biggest 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:05.440 clients right now, well, high wealth nations who have money 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.960 like the United States, like the UK, like Switzerland, like 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:13.679 other folks, to be able to do what to buy 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.000 up a certain amount of vaccine because they have the 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.520 resources to do that. On top of which we also 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:23.120 remember in the initial rounds you needed to have special 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:27.760 refrigerators you needed to have which meant what access to 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.720 energy sources in order to be able to store the 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:35.720 medication for it to them be used. Well, a waiver 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:41.360 of trips would allow for these pharmaceutical companies or require 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:47.160 them rather to share their intellectual property right all of 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:53.440 the machinations around these vaccines with lower income countries, who 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:57.840 could then, with the tools and infrastructure that they have, 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:02.080 be able to manufacture their own vaccines. Because here's the thing. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.679 In order to eradicate COVID, which we are now all understanding, 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.680 is never going to go away, right, It's never going 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:14.360 to happen. And here's the reason why. Because you would 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:21.680 need nine billion shots, nine billion shots right to happen 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:25.320 around the world in order for that to happen. So 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:29.800 none of these companies that I mentioned, the Madernas, the fisers, right, 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:35.920 Johnson and Johnson have the ability to manufacture that much 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:41.839 right that many doses. And so you would think that 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:45.080 in the height of a global health pandemic when we 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.600 now have a second variant, one that is being said 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.320 to be a lot more contagious right than delta. And 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.560 remember it only took but a handful of weeks for 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:02.960 Delta to become the dominant strain the original og COVID nineteen. 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:07.000 So given all of what we have learned right the 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:11.720 hard way, with four million deaths or more I'm sorry, 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.080 there are more than four million deaths worldwide that have 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:19.800 happened through COVID nineteen, you would think that protecting the 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:24.440 intellectual property rights of said companies that have already made 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:31.680 fucking billions off of a pandemic would be in a 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:39.679 space where you would have their headquartered countries the UK, Switzerland, Germany, 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.600 Japan and others that would say we need to have 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:48.920 a waiver four trips so that these lower income nations 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.720 can actually be able to vaccinate their people. Put one 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.240 shot in the arms of the people that need to 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.640 get it. Because here's the thing. While the Biden administration 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.120 wants to come out and get patted on the back 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:08.400 for helping right and providing more vaccines internationally than any 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:14.240 other country. The other countries are not being admonished right 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:17.040 for dragging their fucking feet. Because here's the thing, and 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.120 this is what I tweeted yesterday in a series of 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:22.479 tweets that I put out because I'm just so fucking disgusted. 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:28.040 I'm disgusted with capitalism, I'm fucking disgusted with inequality, because 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.439 it is going to be the death of us all right, 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.800 so that a few can buy their jets and can 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:38.760 take their fucking vacation trips to outer space, right, it 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.640 will be the death of us all because it is 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.760 greed and the desire for shareholders and CEOs to be 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.640 able to make an obscene amount of fucking money that 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.640 they will never be able to spend in their goddamn lifetimes, 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:58.800 to protect, to protect the intellectual property of these vaccines 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:04.480 at whose expense the expense of millions of people around 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.959 the globe who do not have access, who are waiting 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:13.080 for the benevolence of these wealthier nations to do the 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.200 right thing when they're not being coerced into doing the 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.079 right thing. And what do we know to be true 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.000 is that no one does anything because they actually want 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.400 to or because it's morally just. They only do so 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.319 when they are compelled to or when they are shamed 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:34.160 into doing so. So here we have, right now, as 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.320 the G seven sat down and decided what it was 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.840 that they were going to do as an international community 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:44.000 in order to eradicate COVID nineteen, and they have done 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.360 none of those things except give us a bunch of 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:50.040 bullshit lip service and do a bunch of photo ops. Right, 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:58.400 the omnoicron variant happened because high wealth nations who were 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:03.719 too busy colonizing and fucking extracting from the global south, right, 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:08.439 they rush to do that shit right and leave them 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:13.240 politically stranded, economically stranded after they get what's good for them, 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.840 and then don't turn around and actually, for the betterment 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:23.520 of the fucking globe, make sure that we have vaccine equity. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.200 Make sure that all of these nations, every single one 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.600 of them that needs access to vaccines, can begin to 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.480 develop their own with their own manufacturers, their own scientists, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.400 because they have all of the credible information right that 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.880 they need in order to move forward on their own. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.680 But you see that would take billions and billions of 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:50.720 dollars away from the Madernas and the visors. Right, So 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.079 this is what I want to read to you. That 0:13:54.520 --> 0:14:03.040 was stated by the global the Council of Global Union. Right, 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:10.880 this was reported on the pr Newswire yesterday and this 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.520 is what it's said. The Council of the Council of 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:20.000 Global Union CGU, representing over two hundred million workers, has 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:24.400 urged the UK, Switzerland, Germany and the EU Commission to 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:30.160 stop blocking efforts to waive vaccine patents. The largest council 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:34.400 of global Unions believe action must and can be taken 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:39.520 this week to urgently enable vaccine production in the Global South. 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.720 I'll go on the demand from unions for a World 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:48.320 Trade Organization waiver on intellectual property rights for COVID vaccines 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:54.120 comes as the new omnicron variant emerges from countries which 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.880 have been denied the right to produce their own vaccines. 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:03.160 So again we are banning economically crippling nations in the 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:08.320 Global South as punishment, as if they have created this 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.560 new variant and are just spreading it around the world, 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:16.120 when it is fact In fact, the high wealth nations 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.760 who allowed this to fucking happen because of their fucking 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:25.440 greed right and the fact that they do not want 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:30.080 to provide the intellectual property and the patents necessary right 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.720 for these countries to be able to have a fighting 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:40.560 fucking chance. They would rather wipe out millions more so 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.880 long as they can continue making money, So let me 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:50.640 go on. It also comes amidst renewed momentum and urgency 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.880 from world leaders, with President Biden and European Parliament the 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:59.600 only EU institution elected by citizens reiterating their calls for 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:03.360 intellect actually property waivers of vaccines. But I want to 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:07.200 tell you this that while President Biden has come out 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.520 in support of this waiver, he has not put the 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.320 full force of the United States behind it. He has 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.120 not offered any type of fucking threats. He has not 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.320 offered any type of oh, you know what we're going 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:22.080 to start doing. We're going to impose more tariffs, We're 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.160 going to do X, Y and Z. Because until the 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.920 rest of the world fucking stands up and recognizes that 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:30.760 until we are all safe, none of us is safe 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:36.160 from multiple variants variant mutating on top of themselves, that 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.640 we need to get this fucking done. But he hasn't 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.600 done that right because much in the same way that 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.560 the United States always wants to do. They want to 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.240 be able to fucking have their cake and eat it too. 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.600 Look at us, Oh, we're for equality, We're for a justice, 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.880 but only in fucking name only, because we will put 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.440 no action and no teeth behind anything. Sound fucking familiar, 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.480 because that's the same way that this administration is going 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:05.840 about dealing with the insurrection, dealing with protecting our voting rights, 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:10.800 dealing with protecting women's rights, right, the same fucking tepid bullshit, 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.720 except in this case. In this case, it isn't just 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.080 the United States and Americans that are going to suffer. 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:21.320 It is the entire fucking globe. We love to believe 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.679 that what happens right across the pond, what happens in 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.240 the Global South, isn't going to come to the United States. 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.600 That's the way that we've always dealt with the world, 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:41.719 except COVID changed everything. Right. Except during COVID and since 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.119 right the discovery of it, what we've realized is that 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:51.560 the world's borders are bullshit. They were made on paper, 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.200 and they exist only on paper. Because you cannot ban 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.359 a fucking virus. You can't bullshit your way out of 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.280 dealing with it. Either you either face it head on 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:06.159 and follow the goddamn science to do so, or you 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.800 continue to fuck the world. And in this particular instance, 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.359 this week, what we are seeing is a choice to 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.440 continue to fuck the world and tell us, tell us 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.199 with a straight face that you're doing the best that 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:21.200 you can, when you know, good goddamn well you are 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:25.800 doing anything. But I am so tired of coddling this administration. 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.719 I'm so tired of hearing how hard their job is. 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.320 Then don't fucking sign up for it if you can't 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:35.720 hack it. The reality is we are doing the bare 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.920 fucking minimum and have been doing the bare fucking minimum 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.440 because we would rather write in one in one respect 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:47.160 right in the United States, but around the world, every 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:53.320 wealthy nation is basically in no small words, And I'm 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.919 not a person to mince them. Just a bunch of 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:02.440 hookers for corporations. Right, they throw you some money, you 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.199 pretend to kurt tail how much they make, or to 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.040 give them little slaps on the risks. It's all a 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:12.280 performative show for the public, so that the public doesn't 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.640 get outraged realizing that they're the ones that are truly 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:19.359 the pawns. Right, But it's corporations that are really running 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:22.760 the globe, not just this country, that it's capitalism that 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.280 is the absolute driver. We want to point fingers at 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:29.560 other nations and say, oh, well, they're authoritarian or they're dictators, 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.680 right when it's really corporations that are running the shots. 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:37.640 Biden this week, right yesterday, having a meeting with all 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:40.800 of the top CEOs to do what exactly another fucking 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.560 photo op, another way for them to tell us that, oh, 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.560 we have supply chain issues, when there isn't a supply 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:51.040 chain issue. There's actually a fucking you know, good job issue, 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.879 which is that people would rather sit the fuck home 0:19:54.240 --> 0:20:00.040 than continue continue to receive indentured servitude wages and no 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:04.560 fucking health benefits and no security. But they want to 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.280 talk to us about the hundreds of thousands of people 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:09.760 that they hired for this holiday season. But they're not 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:11.560 going to talk to you about the fact that those 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:13.399 people will be out of a job by the end 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.520 of the second quarter, by the end of the first quarter. Right. 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:20.960 They don't want to talk to you about that. Everything, 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.119 everything that is being done is just a bunch of 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:28.520 smoke and mirrors, and it is exhausting to follow because 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:30.360 at the end of the day, what does it come 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:35.800 back to? Fucking greed. Let me continue with this statement 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.359 that was made by the Chair of the Council of 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:43.879 Global Unions and the General Secretary of Public Services International, 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:50.600 Stephen Cotton, said this, I speak directly to the heads 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:55.120 of the state for the UK, Germany and Switzerland when 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:59.680 I say this, your decisions are putting millions of lives 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:04.360 and livelihoods at risk. The world is watching you as 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:07.160 panic and anxiety spread at the rise of a new 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:11.440 variant that may have been prevented if you had acted sooner. 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:16.680 The waiver can be agreed this week. You must act 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:20.639 now or forever, hold the preventable deaths of millions more 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:27.680 on your conscience. But once again we are appealing assuming 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:33.000 that these people have a conscience. They don't. They don't. 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:35.960 It's why I continually bring up the Wu Tang song. 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:40.680 Cash rules everything around me because they don't. And I'm 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:44.119 going to get into a conversation that we could have 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:47.960 seen this coming, not necessarily a global health pandemic, but 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:52.240 exactly where greed was gonna lead us right with my 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:57.280 dad's favorite movie nineteen eighty seven, Classic Wall Street, which 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:00.560 I will get into next. But let me give you 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:05.639 this final quote from Rosa Pavanelli, the General Secretary of 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:11.600 Public Services International. She said this, a handful of leaders 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:16.000 are putting the interests of the pharma lobby ahead of 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:21.359 the frontline workers they once applauded. This is an insult 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:26.320 to their sacrifice. If the leaders of the UK, Switzerland 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:30.120 and EU nations want to break the cycle of lockdowns 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:34.560 and travel blocks, then they must immediately stop blocking the 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:39.119 trips waiver proposal so no barriers stand in the way 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:45.720 of expanding vaccine production and quashing new variants. And I 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:52.399 want to say this that the initial waiver right once 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:57.480 again was asked for, was proposed by India and South 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:02.840 Africa in October of twenty twenty. That was before the 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:13.240 delta variant. That was but right, if we think about it, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:18.600 eight months into this pandemic, when we were all wondering 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:21.399 if and when we were going to get a vaccine, 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:24.960 they were asking that for those that were currently working 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:30.199 the big pharma companies that were currently working rushing to 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:33.960 get a vaccine that they would be included and wouldn't 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:38.320 be left behind, Because I don't know, right, in a 0:23:38.480 --> 0:23:44.600 global economy, in a world again where borders and boundaries 0:23:44.800 --> 0:23:49.480 are made up on paper and based on politics and 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:56.640 racism and capitalism alone, that you think that just vaccinating 0:23:56.920 --> 0:24:01.760 the high wealth whiter nations was going to somehow prevent 0:24:01.920 --> 0:24:10.120 you your nation from getting another variant, from being forced 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:17.640 into another lockdown, from having to reinstitute COVID nineteen protocols 0:24:17.800 --> 0:24:19.800 when you decided to do away with them, because in 0:24:20.080 --> 0:24:23.960 everybody's rushed back to normal, they didn't think about, you know, 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:28.520 what the repercussions could be, because the economy, because money, 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:34.240 you know. I almost wish that we had a time 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:37.600 machine just so we could see where we would be 0:24:37.720 --> 0:24:41.879 right now if every political official had been put to 0:24:41.920 --> 0:24:45.119 the side, and instead of seeing them on the televisions, 0:24:45.160 --> 0:24:48.880 instead of following their steps, that it had been the 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:53.960 world's doctors and the world's scientists that we had all 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:58.760 decided to follow and listen to where COVID nineteen would 0:24:58.760 --> 0:25:02.119 be now, because we will have COVID and we will 0:25:02.600 --> 0:25:04.639 for as long as the rest of us are fucking 0:25:04.680 --> 0:25:12.480 living because we decided to follow politicians and bullshit politics 0:25:12.880 --> 0:25:21.639 rather than science. This was also written on the news wire. 0:25:23.280 --> 0:25:28.200 Since the initial proposal in October of twenty twenty, over 0:25:28.280 --> 0:25:36.400 four million people have died from COVID nineteen worldwide. Those 0:25:36.440 --> 0:25:42.120 are four million deaths that may have been prevented if 0:25:42.160 --> 0:25:47.040 when the waiver was proposed in October of twenty twenty, 0:25:47.040 --> 0:25:52.160 that the UK, Switzerland and other EU nations didn't decide 0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:57.520 to block it for their own economic well being. Four 0:25:57.880 --> 0:26:01.840 million fucking people and guess what, no one's going to jail, 0:26:02.200 --> 0:26:05.520 not in this fucking country, not anywhere around the world. 0:26:06.359 --> 0:26:09.240 And it's their greed that has those bodies in the 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:18.920 fucking ground. This sickness that I feel these days. The 0:26:18.960 --> 0:26:23.480 more that you continue to pay attention, the more that 0:26:23.640 --> 0:26:28.080 I turn and listen to various news stories and reports, 0:26:28.080 --> 0:26:33.320 because I tell you that when I take vacation, I 0:26:33.359 --> 0:26:36.479 really do tap all the way the fuck out. And 0:26:36.560 --> 0:26:40.200 it's because I have to exist and marinate in this space, 0:26:40.320 --> 0:26:43.560 because I don't have the ability to turn off. Because 0:26:43.840 --> 0:26:46.560 you know, twenty seminey years ago, when I decided to 0:26:46.640 --> 0:26:49.719 go into politics and policy was because I wanted to 0:26:49.760 --> 0:26:51.879 feel like I could be a part of change. I 0:26:51.960 --> 0:26:54.440 wanted to be a part of feeling like I had 0:26:54.480 --> 0:26:58.040 a voice in making this country better. And now I 0:26:58.119 --> 0:27:05.359 want to do anything. But which brings me to the 0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:10.679 movie Wall Street. So for those of you unfamiliar with 0:27:10.760 --> 0:27:15.760 Wall Street, it is a nineteen eighty seven film that 0:27:15.920 --> 0:27:22.920 was directed by Oliver Stone, starring Michael Douglas as the 0:27:23.000 --> 0:27:33.520 famed villain Gordon Gecko, Martin Sheen, among others, Charlie Sheen, 0:27:33.680 --> 0:27:37.080 Martin Sheen, Daryl Hannah. I mean, it was the who's 0:27:37.160 --> 0:27:42.000 who of white celebrities in the eighties that were in 0:27:42.040 --> 0:27:48.199 this film. And there are so many quotes that I 0:27:48.320 --> 0:27:53.399 pulled out when I started to think about how every 0:27:53.400 --> 0:27:57.679 single problem that we are facing in this country and 0:27:57.800 --> 0:28:01.840 facing around the world stems from greed and racism. It's 0:28:01.880 --> 0:28:06.360 those two things coupled together that when you look at 0:28:06.480 --> 0:28:12.120 our problem, whether it be climate change, whether it be COVID, 0:28:12.640 --> 0:28:16.200 whether it be the insurrection and the rise of fascism, 0:28:16.320 --> 0:28:18.880 not just in this country but around the globe, it 0:28:18.920 --> 0:28:27.680 all comes back to money and racism and cruelty. So 0:28:28.080 --> 0:28:32.119 in the nineteen eighty seven film, one of the most 0:28:32.280 --> 0:28:39.440 famed lines by Gordon Gecko is greed is good. But 0:28:39.560 --> 0:28:43.000 here is the entire quote and not just the piece 0:28:43.000 --> 0:28:46.720 of it, and then I want to dig into it. 0:28:48.520 --> 0:28:54.320 Gordon Gecko, played by Michael Douglas, says this. The point is, 0:28:54.920 --> 0:28:58.760 ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for a lack of a 0:28:58.800 --> 0:29:07.400 better word, is good. Greed is right, Greed works, Greed clarifies, 0:29:10.600 --> 0:29:15.680 cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. 0:29:16.680 --> 0:29:20.560 Greed in all of its forms, Greed for life, for money, 0:29:20.880 --> 0:29:28.680 for love, knowledge is marked upward and is the surge 0:29:29.200 --> 0:29:36.600 for mankind. Greed, ladies and gentlemen, is good. That is 0:29:36.640 --> 0:29:39.360 out of the mouth of Gordon Gecko. But frankly, it 0:29:39.360 --> 0:29:42.360 could have come out of the mouth of Donald Trump, right, 0:29:42.400 --> 0:29:45.880 It could have come out of the mouth of Jack 0:29:45.920 --> 0:29:48.200 Dorsey who just left Twitter, could have come out of 0:29:48.240 --> 0:29:55.800 the mouth of you know, Zuckerberg. Because at the core 0:29:57.240 --> 0:29:59.320 of this nineteen eighty seven's film, and you have to 0:29:59.360 --> 0:30:01.960 think about out in nineteen eighty seven, right, you have 0:30:02.040 --> 0:30:05.720 to think about, you know, the rise of the white yuppies. 0:30:05.800 --> 0:30:08.880 You got to think about, you know, the rise on 0:30:09.000 --> 0:30:13.880