BEZOS TO AMERICA: DROP DEAD
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Our not-so-benevolent Master
Amazon waits for Biden inauguration before offering COVID help
Amazon offered to help the Biden administration on Wednesday, shortly after President Joe Biden was sworn into office, with efforts to distribute the coronavirus vaccine, a proposal that the tech giant had not submitted to the Trump administration in the month since the vaccine was approved for public use.
“As you begin your work leading the country out of COVID-19 crisis, Amazon stands ready to assist you in reaching your goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans in the first 100 days of your administration,” Dave Clark, Amazon’s senior vice president of world-wide operations, wrote in a letter to Biden, according to Axios.
“We are prepared to leverage our operations, information technology, and communications capabilities and expertise to assist your administration’s vaccination efforts. Our scale allows us to make a meaningful impact immediately in the fight against COVID-19, and we stand ready to assist you in this effort,” said Clark.
Clark also requested that Amazon’s 800,000 employees — who he characterized as “essential workers” — should be prioritized for vaccination.
Assuming that Amazon expects its assistance in distributing vaccines will save lives, its decision to delay offering its services while Trump was in office was a deliberate balancing of its hatred of Trump and the lives of citizens, and hate won out. The company could have made this offer months ago, and had its delivery systems coordinated with others and ready to go when the first vaccine was approved last November. How may lives were lost because Bezos and his company hate Trump so much?
A cynic might point out that no one has profited more from COVID-19 and the resulting lockdowns than Amazon, so anything that extends the pandemic can only benefit the company’s bottom line. So there’s that.
Suppression of speech, profiteering, and denying desperate old people medicine for political reasons: Bezos is not a good man.
