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But we wouldn't want to deny the five new Pfizer billionaires the rest of their liquidity event, would we? "Peter Daszak, of EcoHealth Alliance, reported in a National Academies Press publication February 12, 2016: “We need to increase public understanding of the need for medical countermeasures such as a pan-coronavirus vaccine. A key driver is the media and the economics will follow the hype. We need to use that hype to our advantage to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of the process.”

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Hmmm… What would George Stigler have thought of this? Here’s a guess:

“What Is Regulatory Capture? Regulatory capture is an economic theory that says regulatory agencies may come to be dominated by the industries or interests they are charged with regulating. The result is that an agency, charged with acting in the public interest, instead acts in ways that benefit incumbent firms in the industry it is supposed to be regulating.”

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regulatory-capture.asp

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Curious GB is one smart kitteh.

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The name Fauci, is actually a bastardization of a southern italian dialect slang word --"Fuchi"-- which loosely translated means "smells really bad....(like a rat)".

Funny how the modern usage of surnames evolved in the world during the middle ages.

People used names to describe WHO they were, and WHAT they did for a living i.e. SON (as a suffix), Mason, Carpenter, Smith etc.

Glad, Fauci is being consistent with his namesake.

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Too bad your rats comes mashed up in a can. I'm on the ground floor and my cat eats fresh ones.

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It's so cute that Eric thinks Pfizer was transparent before the first EUA.

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pfizer is serving its shareholders.

a theory is floating, unknown how large the probability of it being false may be. that some humans' t cells forget in time after either an infection or a vaccine.

for chicken pox vaccine there is some evidence, again unknown how large the probability of it being false may be, that immunity declines over time, a lot longer time than humans have seen c19.

while merck's stock price is at all time highs, coincident with a ph 3 trial success in india for a corona antiviral drug...

we need more therapy and less vaccine!

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