WTO patent and secrecy rules are a matter of death for poor countries.

The WTO treaty allows a country to issue "compulsory licenses" permitting production of life-saving medicines for use within the country. But many countries are not capable of supporting the sophisticated production needed to make RNA vaccines, so they need a more advanced country to make vaccines for them. (Often this would be India.) The treaty offers no escape hatch to allow that.

That is one of many changes called for in the TRIPES agreement (Trade-Restricting Impediments to Prodiction, Education and Science).

There is hope that the next German government will change position on this.

Meanwhile, some of Pfizer's secrets have leaked, which could be a step in teaching the rest of the world how to make equivalent vaccines.

Such information should never be secret.

Forecasting advancing climate mayhem will compel 200 million people to leave their homes (but not flee to another country) by 2050.

I expect additional millions will be compelled to flee to other countries — if they get permission to enter those countries.

Ray DeMonia of Alabama had heart trouble and needed intensive care. None was available nearby, because covidiots had filled the hospitals in his region. Doctors sent him to a hospital 200 miles away, but he died.

The article doesn't assert that he died specifically because he couldn't get an ICU bed quickly, but we know that some cardiac patients will die from such delay.

Robert Fisk on 16 Sep 2001 wrote that the invasion of Afghanistan was a trap for the US.

It turned out more or less that way, though if it is correct that the Taliban tried to surrender in December 2001 it implies that the US chose to be trapped.

The leading Republican in the California governor recall election started complaining about "fraud" even before he lost.