Bayer Drug Sells AIDS to Asia
In this morning’s NY Times, we learn that Bayer Drug sold possibly HIV-infected blood clotting factor to Asian countries, even after it knew that there was a possibility of infecting people with the drug. Take a look here.
I’m not surprised,. but I’m still aghast. I wish I had more time to process this here, but there’s two things going on. First, there’s a form of good-old-fashioned racism, especially regarding Asians and disease. Take a look at another article on the topic. But there’s also a similar sense that expendable people — like gays — are permitted to get AIDS or even have it given to them. Someone at Bayer decided that Asians were expendable.
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