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Asks: civic action

34 asks of this kind (Civic), 2007–2026; 11 (32 %) have a result, thanks or close reported in a later video. Each ask lists the opening request, up to three reminders and every reported outcome, each linked to its video and moment. "No report" means nothing inside this snapshot — not that the ask failed. Back to Asks & outcomes.

Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video). Intervals ("N days later") and relative deadlines are counted from that said-on date.

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2023 (2)

  • 2023-07-11 · John asks viewers to pressure Johnson & Johnson to drop its secondary bedaquiline patent (2023) — John · reported back
    • asked 2023-07-11: John asks viewers to use the links to contact J&J and say its attempt to evergreen the patent is reprehensible and against its credo, and to tag J&J on social media. — Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson 00:04:52
    • reminder 2023-07-11: The description says the details are still awaited and asks viewers to tell J&J they need them. — Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson video description
    • → result reported 2023-07-11: The description's update announces that the Stop TB Partnership has negotiated with J&J to make generic bedaquiline available in almost every high-TB-burden country. — Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson creator comment
    • → result reported 2023-07-14 (3 days later): Hank reads the Stop TB Partnership's statement: after lengthy negotiations, J&J licensed its Global Drug Facility to supply generic bedaquiline to most low- and middle-income countries, even where patents remain. — The Good News Video 00:02:17
    • → thanks 2023-07-18 (7 days later): John thinks this community helped lead a big step in that direction last week (week of 10 July 2023) and is overwhelmed with gratitude, but says it is one step and more are needed. — Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse 00:05:21
    • → result reported 2023-09-05 (56 days later): John reports the Stop TB Partnership has announced that in most high-tuberculosis countries generic competition will cut the price of bedaquiline by over 50%, which he calls amazing news. — I Ain't Even Here, Sergeant. I'm in Cheyenne, Wyoming. 00:00:40
    • → result reported 2023-09-12 (63 days later): John says employees speaking up was an essential part of the pressure that led Johnson & Johnson to swiftly allow generic competition for bedaquiline. — Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid 00:07:03
    • → result reported 2023-09-14 (65 days later): John reports that today South Africa's government announced it will investigate J&J's attempts to keep enforcing its secondary bedaquiline patents there and keep prices high. — Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES 00:10:40
    • → thanks 2023-09-14 (65 days later): John thanks viewers for continuing to monitor Johnson & Johnson and press it to expand bedaquiline access. — Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES 00:58:13
    • → result reported 2023-09-30 (81 days later): John reports that today J&J announced it will not enforce its secondary bedaquiline patents in any of the 143 low- and middle-income countries. — An Incredible Update 00:01:27
    • → thanks 2023-09-30 (81 days later): John thanks everyone who wrote an email, made a call, tweeted or made a meme: they made a huge difference. — An Incredible Update 00:03:10
    • → thanks 2023-12-05 (147 days later): John credits Nerdfighteria in part for Johnson & Johnson not pursuing secondary patents on bedaquiline, which helps make the new regimens cheap. — MASSIVE Tuberculosis News 00:02:55
    • → result reported 2024-01-16 (189 days later): In 2023 the community helped convince Johnson & Johnson to abandon all secondary patents on the tuberculosis drug bedaquiline, which has already lowered prices and made it more accessible where it is most needed. — The Bank of Nerdfighteria 00:03:28
    • → result reported 2024-06-18 (343 days later): John has seen the community's power in reducing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone and driving down TB drug and test prices: never underestimate Nerdfighteria. — The Tea 00:05:45
    • → result reported 2025-09-30 (2.2 years later): Hank adds activism (wording unclear) that has forced companies to lower the prices of tuberculosis tests and medications. — WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING 00:03:59
    • → result reported 2025-10-01 (2.2 years later): John recalls advocates, including many viewers, pressing Johnson & Johnson to abandon evergreening its bedaquiline patent; since it went off patent the price has fallen about 60% in two years. — Real Reasons for Hope 00:01:27
  • 2023-09-12 · John asks viewers to press Danaher and Cepheid to cut GeneXpert TB test cartridges to $5 (2023) — John · reported back
    • asked 2023-09-12: John says Danaher, a company most have never heard of, could save hundreds of thousands of lives over the next 10 years, and wants everyone to encourage it to do so. — Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid 00:00:13
    • reminder 2023-09-12: John asks viewers to spend five minutes calling or emailing via the linked contacts and to tell Danaher on social media they won't accept this injustice. — Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid 00:06:24
    • reminder 2023-09-14 (2 days later): John asks viewers inspired by the conversation to contact Danaher, tag it on social media and phone it, politely, since whoever answers is not the decision-maker. — Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES 00:37:33
    • reminder 2023-09-15 (3 days later): The description asks viewers to check out TBFighters.org to help get the TB test price down to $5. — The Worst Disease in Human History video description
    • …4 more reminders on the thread page
    • → result reported 2023-09-12: An update in the description and John's comment says that thanks to tbfighters.org and partners, Danaher agreed to make no profit on standard TB cartridges, in a deal brokered by the Global Fund, USAID and the Stop TB Partnership. — Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid creator comment
    • → result reported 2023-09-14 (2 days later): John says 1,148 people are watching; Nerdfighteria has researched a list of Danaher's investors and is contacting some of them, with more on its Discord at nerdfighteria.com. — Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES 00:41:57
    • → thanks 2023-09-14 (2 days later): John thanks viewers, including one who reached a person at Cepheid's number within two minutes, for keeping up the pressure on Danaher. — Talking Tuberculosis, GeneXpert, J&J, and more with MY HEROES 00:58:13
    • → result reported 2023-09-19 (7 days later): John reports that USAID, the Global Fund and the Stop TB Partnership announced Danaher's standard TB cartridge will fall from $10 to $7.97, at no profit in poor countries. — So, um.... GOOD NEWS?!?!?! 00:00:00
    • → result reported 2023-09-22 (10 days later): Hank tells John the last couple of weeks were a new sensation: the community affected the world so much, so quickly, that it is disorienting. — A Feeling I've Never Felt Before 00:02:25
    • → result reported 2023-09-25 (13 days later): John says he doesn't know how to change the vibe from the community lowering the price of life-saving tuberculosis tests to Pizzamas. — PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!! 00:00:07
    • → result reported 2023-09-29 (17 days later): John says his 2007 self had no idea what it was like to have kids, to live in one town for 17 years, or to be part of an online community that convinced a multinational not to profit from TB tests in poor countries. — Like Apocalyptic Horsemen 00:03:33
    • → result reported 2023-09-30 (18 days later): After a string of such victories, John stresses how wildly uncommon it is for a pharmaceutical or diagnostics company to lower prices under pressure; these are massive wins. — An Incredible Update 00:02:26
    • → result reported 2023-10-17 (35 days later): In the last year Nerdfighteria has helped make hundreds of millions of dollars of impact in the cost of TB tests and treatment. — My Next Book 00:01:27
    • → result reported 2023-11-21 (70 days later): John says the community helped encourage Danaher to lower the price of its tuberculosis tests, which will let 5 million more people be tested for TB every year. — Minus Its Charms 00:00:16
    • → result reported 2023-12-19 (98 days later): John says Danaher and Cepheid lowered the price of their standard TB test cartridge and pledged no profit on it in low- and middle-income countries, but have not lowered the price of the drug-resistant TB cartridge. — End of a Rough Year 00:02:55
    • → result reported 2024-01-16 (126 days later): TB fighters in the community pressured Danaher to lower the price of its tuberculosis tests; the effort is ongoing but has already cut the standard test's price and won a pledge not to profit from it in impoverished communities. — The Bank of Nerdfighteria 00:03:44
    • → result reported 2024-02-16 (157 days later): Hank says the community's biggest economic impact is probably pushing Danaher to lower the cost of its TB test, which took not money but time and attention. — How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter 00:02:55
    • → result reported 2024-03-26 (196 days later): John says the community recently helped pressure Danaher to lower the price of its standard TB test cartridge, letting literally millions more people a year access high-quality testing. — I Own Danaher 00:00:00
    • → result reported 2024-06-18 (280 days later): John has seen the community's power in reducing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone and driving down TB drug and test prices: never underestimate Nerdfighteria. — The Tea 00:05:45
    • → result reported 2024-09-10 (364 days later): Chest x-rays and molecular tests cheaper than ever, thanks to Nerdfighteria's hard work, let them find cases much sooner, treat effectively and offer preventive therapy. — The world will change. 00:02:55
    • → result reported 2024-09-27 (1.0 years later): John says it has been almost exactly a year since Nerdfighteria helped convince Danaher to lower its TB test prices, one of the community's most amazing accomplishments. — Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO 00:03:05
    • → result reported 2024-10-25 (1.1 years later): Hank says the community helped make standard TB cartridges 20% cheaper, which is amazing. — I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… 00:04:23
    • → result reported 2025-09-30 (2.1 years later): Hank adds activism (wording unclear) that has forced companies to lower the prices of tuberculosis tests and medications. — WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING 00:03:59

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