Of drugs for severe illnesses and as a result of this work that i was doing on drug pricing in the United States looking at these issues, i eventually began to get more aware of the International Discussions about the u. S. Could do and what was happening in the countries in 1994, i was invited to argentina and brazil by people that have picked up my name as someone working on these issues and i really became aware for the first time the extent to which the United States and the state department and through the trade office and the whole apparatus of the Foreign Policy was putting pressure on the developing countries to extend and put in place monopolies on pharmaceutical drugs so wha a lf developing companies have excluded the pharmaceutical drugs from the patent system and you could buy drugs from argentina and others and at that point also from brazil and the u. S. Was pushing all these countries to put those in place but also going way beyond that. And i remember when i was at arge
Together for these people. Theyre the most vulnerable among us and i really think they should. And thirdly, i want to say i feel so good coming here. I feel such love. I feel there is love in this room from the family members, but also from the supervisors who are helping us to talk about it because, you know, no man is an island. Were all people and i thank you for that. Take care. Thank you. applause is there any other member of the public who has not spoken who would like to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Id like to just i know that we have another item and there are many people who have been waiting for that item as well. But i want to call back mr. Stead lander from the board of directors of University Mound. You heard the testimony. You know that the city is going to do everything we can to block you from closing this facility. That means suing you, we will do that. If that means rezoning this area, we will do that. And who knows what else, you know. But every sin
Begin with. So, if the city has to fight to make it happen, the city will fight to make it happen and i certainly will do everything i can to make it happen. And i want to thank the mayors office. I want to thank all the city agencies that have been involved. But i think that we are on alert to take action because i think that were not just fighting to keep a building, to keep a home, to keep a community open. I actually think that this fight ultimately is about who we are as a city. Its really about the soul of San Francisco, how we lost our soul as a city that were letting dozens of seniors who have given their lives and served the city be thrown out on the street like that. I dont think that San Francisco has lost its soul and we have a few days to make sure that we stop this injustice from happening. So, with that ill turn it over to you, colleague. Thank you, supervisor campos. applause and i wanted to just acknowledge that ill be there with you until hell freezes over as well to
Imagine a person at a door is your mother or your father or your brother or your sister or your uncle. Knock, knock, whos there . Equals death. Listen to your heart beat now for a couple seconds. Just listen. This is life were talking about. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Thank you, chaplain. Next speaker. applause i have an overhead, please. The other way around. First i want to thank you supervisors for having this hearing so that the community can have its say. My name is irene hilton and i am a single mother of a 94year old [speaker not understood] residing at University Mound ladies home. Im here because [speaker not understood] already spoken to the trauma thats going to happen to the seniors if theyre forced to move. I want to spend a few moments talk about the trauma for our caregivers. [speaker not understood]. We found we were unable to take care of them. As a single child, im one of those people [speaker not understood] about the trauma again we have to go through the sa