#1418 The morality test of the COVID age (Vaccine Distribution)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 22 May 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 5/22/2021
Today we take a look at the global struggle to acquire and distribute sufficient doses of vaccine in an effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. It is not going as well as one might hope.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Pandemic Immunoprivilege - In The Thick - Air Date 4-27-21
Ranna Ayyub writes for Time Magazine about the COVID-19 crisis in India and the Prime Minister’s failure to lead during this second wave.
Dean Baker, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, joined host Jamilah King on the podcast to talk about the impact this decision could have on bringing the pandemic to an end.
The international disparity in vaccine access between rich and low-income countries highlights “the irrationality of global capitalism,” says acclaimed Filipino scholar and activist Walden Bello.
Refuting the hollow arguments made by the likes of Bloomberg News against waiving the vaccine patents.
We breakdown the anti-TRIPS waiver corporate and ideological forces behind the seemingly good-hearted #VaxLive concert on May 8th.
Ch. 6: Covid Vaccines - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Air Date 5-3-21
John Oliver explains why some people don’t want to get the Covid-19 vaccine and how they might be reassured.
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Ch. 7: James Love on Bill Gates & Vaccine Politics - CounterSpin - Air Date 5-7-21
How we navigate that has to do with media’s elevation of “experts” like Bill Gates raise serious questions about why we allow billionaires to set policy on something as important as public health. We talk about that with James Love.
Ch. 9: Pandemic Immunoprivilege Part 2 - In The Thick - Air Date 4-27-21
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 10: Disney IP and copyright law - Nick From California
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on our recent bonus episode about surveillance capitalism
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:07.9 | about the global struggle to acquire and distribute sufficient doses of vaccine in an effort |
| 0:13.8 | to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 0:16.9 | It is not going as well as one might hope. |
| 0:20.3 | Clips today are from In the Thick, the Mother Jones Podcast, Democracy Now, the Majority Report, |
| 0:27.0 | the High Tations needed last week tonight with John Oliver and Counter-Spin. |
| 0:37.9 | The number of deaths in India is devastating, but it's been reported as, believe it or not, |
| 0:44.9 | a serious undercount as well. |
| 0:47.9 | So last Thursday on Democracy Now, Rana Ayub is an Indian journalist and global opinions |
| 0:54.3 | writer for the Washington Post shared this about the situation there. |
| 0:58.9 | Let's hear what you had to say. |
| 1:00.5 | It is an apocalyptic situation in India right now. |
| 1:03.2 | It's heartbreaking not just to be a citizen of this country, but it's heartbreaking to |
| 1:07.9 | be a journalist who is building witness to the events that are unfolding in India, especially |
| 1:13.9 | with the number of COVID deaths that we are witnessing and many of them in their early |
| 1:18.2 | 30s, the two friends that I lost were in their mid 30s, their families are still in their |
| 1:22.7 | ICU, yesterday 22 patients lost their lives at one go in a hospital after a tank that was |
| 1:30.7 | providing oxygen to the ventilators, lead for 30 minutes and all 22 patients lost their |
| 1:35.7 | lives in a span of an hour. |
| 1:38.0 | I mean, it's like this country is breathless on Twitter and hospitals whenever I'm going |
| 1:43.1 | to report. |
| 1:44.1 | Everybody is begging for oxygen. |
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