tl;dw: Johnson and Johnson is using a legal loophole to extend a patent on a life-saving drug, preventing generics from being made. Scientists estimate this will lead to 6 million more people dying of tuberculosis over the next four years, because they cannot afford the high-priced name-brand drug.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      1 年前

      True 6mil was just Jewish victims, and even 11mil leaves out the millions killed in the "holocaust of bullets" carried out by the German Army on the eastern front..

      • rubpoll [she/her]
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        1 年前

        If you include Russian casualties on the front, it's closer to 40 million deliberately slaughtered people.

        • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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          1 年前

          wojak-nooo: "But that's IMPOSSIBLE!!! 40 million in 12 years!? But internet told me fascism is wholesome chungus and the Soviets were the bad guys for killing nazis!"

          • Dr_Gabriel_Aby [none/use name]
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            1 年前

            In the Soviet Union, if you enabled and helped the Nazis kill 50 million people, you got in trouble and sent to prison! Anne Applebaum told me all about it.