Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc (AUPH)

[Zeppo]

Alright, you all. A Bill Gates debate is NOT why we're here. Let me try to put this dilemma to bed. I don't admit to knowing everything about the groups to which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation contributes or controls. I do, however, know more than a little bit about Rotary...so listen up. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has gifted approximately 400 million dollars, twice in this decade, to the Rotary Foundation (the #1 rated charitable organization on the planet in 2019 according to Charity Navigator). Rotary is matching those funds to accelerate the total eradication of one of the most horrendous diseases in the history of the planet: Polio. When Rotary began this trek in 1985, there were still 350,000 new cases per year throughout the globe. When I was a child, polio also used to kill that many children per year. Sparing a lot of details, I will close stating that the total number of polio cases on the planet has been under 200 for each of the last four years. The only two countries left are Pakistan and Afghanistan, and that effort is extremely difficult. Rotary, The WHO, CDC, UNICEF, and the Gates Foundation are the five players supporting each other. Nigeria recently was certified polio free for a second time in the last fifteen years. Two hundred polio aids workers have been murdered by radical jihad because it believed the vaccine would either kill or sterilize their children. So.....let's move on.