Oxford University initially promised to create an open-source vaccine that could be reproduced by anyone with the capacity to do so.
This would allow countries on the receiving end of decades and centuries of colonialism, and its modern form perpetrated primarily by corporations, to produce their own vaccines.
Unfortunately, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which practices its own form of colonialism by manipulating the healthcare systems of entire nations, intervened,
along with others, and pushed Oxford to partner with a pharmaceutical company.
The university then signed an exclusive deal with the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, giving it sole rights without any commitment to keep vaccine prices low.
While there are many outlandish conspiracy theories about Bill Gates and vaccines, this clear, factual harm has attracted little fervor.
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