Johnson & Johnson is openly planning to murder 6 million people over the next four years (good post by well-meaning liberal John Green)

Its actually fucking gnarly as hell that somehow J&J hasn't be more harshly published for all the heinous shit they've done over the years to people, especially babies. They legit had asbestos in their baby powder and continued to sell it after acknowledging that and sold it to third world countries anyways that hadn't banned the talc powder yet.

They fucking put cyanide in their asprin as well. There is a handful of other shit but it blows me away that they're still talked about like a good brand. Fuck J&J

The truly bleak way to look at this is to just ponder how many people have died over the entirety of the original patent.

Being able to patent medicine is fucking criminal in and of itself end of story.

Edit: Looks like the original patent for bedaquiline was from 2011. Using the same math but rounding down leaves it at like 11 million deaths.

How many fucking private holocausts have these companies created?

Who would've thought that the company that knew and hid info about asbestos in their baby powders for decades so they could dominate the market unimpeded could be so monstrous.

Fuck Johnson & Johnson

And fuck John "[Anne Frank] just died of illness like most people" Green too

Scientists estimate this will lead to 6 million more people dying of tuberculosis over the next four years

That's literally an entire Holocaust. It's not like I'm surprised but god damn the only difference between the 20th century fascists and modern western countries is that we have the thinnest veneer of deniability between us and the murders.

jesus fucking christ, imagine being a state that allows people to die of tuberculosis for the sake of capitalism in the year of our lord 2023. what's the fucking point of living in the most advanced "civilization" to ever exist on earth if they dumb fucking capitalists are allowed to let people die of goddamn tuberculosis regardless.

"capitalism is the best system we got!"

We all know liberals love to :vote: but they also really love letter writing campaigns. It's like voting but they can do it any time they need to. Please sir, I beseech you to listen to your conscience instead of your wallet for once. That's all it takes in these rare moments when evil is triumphing over good.

I would contest that this is a good post. But it's as close to one as you will get from John Green, so the bad publicity for J&J is nice to see.

I know I am bad for feeling it but it is hilarious to em that as soon as one of them gets sick and has to interact with thr medical system here in the US they are radicalized.

I work with TB on a daily basis. TB is heavily tied to material conditions. I have seen enough signs that I think it's going to blow up in the US in the coming decades. We are gutting public health and instead subsidizing companies like this to find better drugs. This will end up causing it to be something exclusively benefiting the rich, and not treating TB like the socially spread disease it is.

copium j&j is not a evil monolith

i think the best option would be to spread fake news like what happened on twitter with that other pharma corp.

alternately smuggle the generics into the "banned" countries. India doesn't appear to be in the list so that might work.

This makes me hate working in the pharmaceutical industry. On the one hand, I do believe that the science myself and my colleagues produce is tight and can and will save lives. On the other is shit like this which squanders the potential of scientific contributions to humanity. I'm not one of these tech bros who thinks we're going to magically science and math our way out of every problem by joining hands with industry and making profits. I just want to use my abilities in science to help people. Why can't I do that?

Update: apparently they’ve decided to let the patent die