Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: San Mateo YR | Judge: Tej Gedela
Advantages
Rez
Resolved: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.
Adv. 1 is the pandemic
tens of thousands of deaths taken from emerging variants that are caused from global vaccine inequality
Princewill 8/3 - (Princewill, N. (2021, August 3). Nimi Princewill is a Nigerian digital journalist famed for exposing government corruption and holding public officials to account. Prior to joining CNN in 2021, Nimi worked as a reporter at Peoples Gazette -- a Nigeria-based digital media notable for truth and courage. Delta variant has spiked Covid-19 deaths in Africa by 80 in one month, WHO says. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/03/africa/delta-variant-covid-africa-intl/index.html) a^c
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN)Coronavirus deaths
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each week," he said.
which only gaslights variants
Hassan et al. 8/16 (Hassan, F., Yamey, G., and Abbasi, K. (2021). {Fatima Hassan is a human rights lawyer and activist who has conducted public interest litigation, education, training, and legal reform on behalf of people with HIV/AIDS in South Africa for over a decade through her work with the AIDS Law Project and its primary client, the Treatment Action Campaign. She has litigated against the South African government, private employers, and pharmaceutical companies}, {Gavin Mark Yamey is an English-American physician and vaccine researcher. He is the director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health at Duke University and a professor of the practice of global health and public policy}, {Kamran Abbasi is a physician, visiting professor at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College, London, executive editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM), journalist, cricket writer and broadcaster, who contributed to the expansion of international editions of the BMJ and has argued that medicine cannot exist in a political void} . Profiteering from vaccine inequity: A crime against humanity? BMJ, 374, n2027. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2027) a^c
Companies and rich nations are
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vaccine through his employer (Duke University).
through creation of vaccine inequality reinforces structural violence with thousands of savable deaths
Abu-Jamal, 98 – American convict who became famous for the books he has written, especially “Live from the Death Row as well has his other commentaries that deal with social and political issues. (Mumia, “A Quiet and Deadly Violence”, Angelfire, 9/19/1998, http://www.angelfire.com/az/catchphraze/mumiaswords.html#quiet)//JL, reformatted by a^c
The deadliest form of violence is
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passes away with them. ©1998MAJ
and new strains of COVID-19 emerging leads to extinction.
Bar-Yam 16 - Yaneer Bar-Yam. 2016. Physicist and complex systems scientist, Founding President of the New England Complex Systems Institute, Ph.D., S.B., physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Transition to extinction: Pandemics in a connected world,” NECSI, 7-3-2016, https://necsi.edu/transition-to-extinction reformated by a^c
FIGURE 1 OMITTED The video (Figure 1)
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impacts cannot be contained.
Adv. 2 is the economy
economy is recovering slowly but covid is going to reverse recovery
Inman 8/10 - (Phillip Inman, Phillip Inman is economics editor of the Observer and an economics writer for the Guardian. He is the author of Managing Your Debt, a Which? essential guide; and the Guardian e-book The Financial Crisis: How Did We Get Here?, 8-10-2021, accessed on 8-22-2021, The Guardian, "Economic recovery from Covid ‘running out of steam’ – OECD", https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/10/economic-recovery-from-covid-running-out-of-steam-oecd/) a^c
The world’s major economies
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worsen,” he said.
and a global econ collapse is looming – any further delays in pandemic response will result in collapse
Goldin 20 - (Ian Goldin, Mr. Goldin is an economist, a professor at Oxford University, and the author of “The Butterfly Defect” and “Age of Discovery.”, 3-12-2020, accessed on 8-22-2021, The New York Times, "Opinion | Just How Bad Could a Coronavirus Recession Get?", https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/opinion/coronavirus-economy.html) a^c
Whether this week’s collapse
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Facebook, Twitter (@NYTopinion) and Instagram.
and that is a lead in to extinction
Auslin 09 - (Michael, Resident Scholar – American Enterprise Institute, and Desmond Lachman – Resident Fellow – American Enterprise Institute, “The Global Economy Unravels”, Forbes, 3-6, http://www.aei.org/article/100187)//reformatted by a^c
What do these trends mean
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that coalesce into a big bang.
Solvency
the current covid variants can only be combatted in the squo by vaccines
Roberts 8/2 - (Roberts, M. (2021, August 2). Michelle Roberts is a doctor and health reporter @ BBC, and has worked with 13 other unique news agencies. What are the Delta, Gamma, Beta and Alpha Covid variants? BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55659820) a^c
An outbreak of cases
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vulnerable people later in the year.
and eliminating IP protections for covid vaccines is the only way to solve for global vaccine ineq
Nature Editorial, 8/11 (Nature Editorial, publishing its most significant discoveries—findings that advance knowledge and address some of the greatest challenges that we face as a society today, 5-25-2021, accessed on 8-11-2021, Nature, "A patent waiver on COVID vaccines is right and fair", https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01242-1) a^c
Every country should have
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of the patent waiver must recognize it, too.
and vaccine inequality harms the econ that is solved by only IPP removal
Gigova et al., 21 (Radina Gigova and Jeevan Ravindran, Journalist @ CNN - Radina has a master's degree in Broadcast Journalism and Public Policy from American University in Washington, DC and has received a Diploma DELE Superior in Spanish , Digital News Intern @CNNi, 7-22-2021, accessed on 8-11-2021, CNN, "Vaccine inequality is costing tens of billions in lost output", https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/22/economy/vaccine-inequity-covid-who-economy-intl/index.html) a^c
Atlanta/London (CNN Business)Vaccine inequity
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Jeevan Ravindran wrote from London.
Other
Framing
The standard is maximizing expected well-being – Prefer
1 Actor specificity –
A – Aggregation –
B – Collectivism –
C – Bureaucrats aren’t philosophers –
2 Extinction first –
a. Wager –
b. Sequencing –
c. Repugnance –
d. Performativity –
UV
- Aff gets 1AR theory and these paradigm issues
a. They can be infinitely abusive without a check in the 1N –
b. 1AR Theory is drop the debater to deter abuse
c. No RVIs because they could collapse to it in the 2N and win on a brute force 6v3 skew
d. Use Competing interps because reasonability is forcing the judge to intervene to determine what is and what isn’t reasonable
e. 1AR theory should be the highest layer – anything else would allow them to win every round since they would have a 13v7 advantage on theory with both the 1N and 2N when we only get the 1AR and 2AR.
f. no 2NR paradigm issues or recontextualizations to 1ar theory if paradigm issues were read in the 1ac – it’s equal to reading a new case turn in the 2n – you had the chance in the 1n to answer it.
g. Education is a voter because it controls the internal link to debate existing the first place – schools don’t fund uneducational games
h. Fairness is a voter because Debate is a competition which requires competitive equity – hence why we have equal speech times.