Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Cancer patients struggling to die with dignity in Malawi" video.

  1. This story has some serious problems with it. 1. It claims that access to pain killers for terminal patients is a basic right provided to everyone "in the west". This statement is blatantly false. "The west" is not one homogeneous thing, it's a loose collection of different countries with European settlement and a diverse range of laws, economies and access to medical treatment. A number of states in Yankville are currently grappling with a spike in patient dumping for example. That's where the hospital has security guards bundle up a patient who can't pay, no matter how sick they are, and they literally dump them on the sidewalk outside. Many die right there were they were dumped. 2. You are doing a story about Malawi, but keep providing statistics for an entire continent comprising 56 different countries with very wide ranging cultures, economies and access to care. Trying to group the Egyptian healthcare system in with the DRC for example is utterly laughable. Doing a story in Malawi and acting as if that represents the whole of Africa is like doing a story in Georgia as if it represents the whole of Europe. 3. You're on the ground in Malawi, you're getting access to hospitals, government run institutions, you can surely ask them for their statistics for Malawi specifically. If no statistics exist for Malawi, then your statistics for africa as a whole can't possibly be accurate.
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  2. Gtfo of here you woo woo merchant. You know what they they call treatments that actually work? Medicine.
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  3. Ha. I see what you did there.
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  4. Iceland is not an independent nation, it's a Norwegian territory and enjoys the financial support that brings. Without Norway, Iceland would be poverty stricken. Africa is a diverse continent. There are vast differences between the economies of somewhere like Egypt in the north and Malawi in the east or DRC in the west. Claiming all of Africa is one thing is like looking Georgia or Ukraine and saying they represent all of Europe. The poverty stricken African countries are this way largely because of colonialism and continued exploitation by the west. Before you eye roll at colonialism I don't mean the sob stories of the past. African countries as we know them today, did not exist before colonial rule. Their borders were very different. Something European colonists did as part of their control of the region is to create the borders we see today purposefully grouping together rival tribes so the locals would be too busy fighting each other to expel the colonists. The legacy of those borders remain. It's why in recent years we've see some African nations split. We see a similar phenomena across what was the Ottoman Empire. The allied powers purposefully broke it up in such a way that they'll always fight themselves. The other issue is continued exploitation by the west. Niger for example exports roughly $5Bn USD worth of uranium, yet only sees payment for $2.9Bn USD worth. Much of Niger's uranium goes to their former colonial ruler France, who in return give them a few million euros in "aid". Same for their gold and other precious resources. That's why they've thrown France and Yankville out. DRC has a similar problem, but experiences internal military conflict between those who think being robbed blind by Yankville and the UK is a great idea, those who think those resources should benefit the people and those who think they personally should benefit from the resources. There's a whole lot of tribalism involved because you have rival tribes going back thousands of years whom have been forced into the borders of a single country. The poverty in Africa can't be addressed until either the borders are redrawn or the tribalism ceases.
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  5.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  No. Africa is a continent with 56 different countries. It is not one thing. Some of those countries are very wealthy. The countries that suffer are exclusively those exploited by the west. Particularly Yankville, the UK, France, Germany and Denmark. Our countries have found themselves in this rich position off the theft and exploitation of others.
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  6.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  What? 🤣
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  7.  @JamesSmith-qs4hx  Are you having medical emergency? Do you need an ambulance?
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  8.  @roystonrichards1556  False. Iceland is an autonomous Norwegian territory, the mainland provides financial support, supplementary policing, prison facilities when Reykjavík can't handle someone, policy discussion/consultation, immigration support, etc. Your failings, particularly in ever trusting Wikipedia, are not my problem.
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  9.  @roystonrichards1556  False
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