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    Juan Gris Man in the café 1912   • COVID19 Immunity Lasts For At Least 8 Months – Australian Researchers (RT) • Fauci Admits To Lying About Herd
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle Christmas Day 2020]

    #67284
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “One In Four Greek Companies Say They May Have Shut Down For Good (K.)”

    Can’t stop, won’t stop until all small assets have been transferred to the billionaire insiders. …Just like the 1929 transfer, the 1870 transfer, the 1840 transfer…

    When the harvesting of live human beings is complete and an appropriate number have been removed, we can open up and start over. Resistance is futile. Submit or die.

    They tell you they’re doing it. They write it down in papers and books. It’s not my fault if you don’t believe what they themselves write, sign, publish, and distribute.

    “William Barr said there is “no need” to appoint a special counsel”

    However Roger Stone says he has found a need to investigate Bill Barr, as part of a few dozen $25M lawsuits involving DoJ malfeasance and suppression of evidence.

    Should be wonderfully entertaining, which is his way. Besides whatever they were planning with him last time didn’t go off, so he’ll get a second run at it.

    “Google Could Face Trillions In Fines In Texas Antitrust Suit (Pol.)”

    But you can’t sue the Federal Government. Google is 99% CIA. The minute they’re destroyed, the rest of us can sleep at last.

    But that’s going to take a while. Probably a distributed internet providing, which is beginning to come on now. World-wide Pirate Bay for every click.

    But that’s all the Sound and the Fury. Signifying nothing. Here’s something more important:

    Being driven out of their house by a crooked, rapacious, mindless state seeking for taxes like the unblinking eye of Sauron,

    “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.” Like 2:7

    Neato! Now why did Luke mention this? What possible relevance has this to any when they don’t mention his childhood, youth, or training? What does a Roman-era “stable” with a “manger” look like?

    Almay
    https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2FC6F4RJ%2Finterior-of-ancient-byre-with-manger-made-from-stones-in-the-bories-C6F4RJ.jpg&sp=1608899348Tdfc032b6589e108f9d0373d51fcf4978f0178682a7f69bf08950a6143763b2e7

    So a bare stone room with a bare stone box in it. You know: just like a tomb with a coffin, a sepulcher. And they wrapped him in a white cloth and laid him in the stone box. First act. That is, this child was born to die, born from a woman, wrapped in a winding sheet, and put in a tiny coffin.

    Just one of the many foreshadowings, many magics to come, to play out over the years, before, as the song says,

    “O Saviour, tear the veils asunder” “God and man are reconciled.”

    What does that mean? That Christ’s act, that Christ is still alive and in the throneroom of God re-opened the doorway from earth to heaven, and unlike the fall of man until that day, we can re-access heaven and goodness should we choose to walk through.

    But that’s our choice to look to heaven, to become heavenly and pure, and bring ourselves to “Christ Consciousness” and thus not only ourselves but our world to a higher level, leaving behind the crooked, false, sinful, shameful things we read and discuss all day. For we see them, yes. What’s the solution? How do WE leave just selfishness, fear, and abuse behind? How do we get love, generosity, wisdom INSIDE ourselves? Certain nothing out here is causing us to. Well you are part of humanity, and in connection with your kinsman redeemer, who lives yet, in a timeless place.

    Choose it if you wish. I can’t make you.

    #67285
    ByronBishop
    Participant

    The recent article on stocking rates for cattle in re-purposed subdivisions made me think of the chatter that surrounds any discussion of the theories of Thomas Malthus, the cleric who predicted in 1798 that Britain would soon run out of food if population growth was not checked. He was absolutely correct, and had the advances in agriculture not occurred Britain would indeed have known great food insecurity.

    Malthus was writing in the 1790’s, when agricultural practices in Britain were hobbled by lack of scientific knowledge and by lack of good and efficient machinery. Both of these were remedied in the next 20 years, and good thing too, because the Napoleonic sea blockades of Britain would have caused considerable hardship. There were several significant advances in those years: improved livestock breeding by gentleman farmers produced much better sheep, cattle and poultry breeds. Improved agricultural implements (all blacksmith made) made tilling the soil much more efficient. And the great surge in scientific knowledge developed by gentleman scientists enabled agronomists to make much better decisions.

    The biggest problem for farmers was their inability to control weeds. Because the tillage implements were so crude, the fallow year (keeping the soil bare, and harrowing often) became very important. And much of the time the rotation was a fallow year followed by a grain crop followed by several years of pasturing. In very short succession farmers learned of improved ploughs and harrows, improved horse breeds for stronger draught, the invention of the seed drill (which could efficiently plant small seed in rows) and the adoption of improved crop rotations from Flanders. Adopting turnips as a field crop was incredibly important as it provided a cheap feed source for overwintering cattle, especially dairy cattle. Turnips and grain could be planted in rows and then the soil between the rows could be cultivated with a horse-hoe, dramatically reducing the weed burden in the crop year and in subsequent years. Another feature of the new rotation was a legume crop although they did not know about fixing nitrogen.

    Knowledge of soil science was sparse, and largely empirical. There was still great debate over the role of soil – was it merely a substrate to provide support to the roots? or to deliver moisture? or nutrients? Some knew that soil needed to be improved with sand, lime and organic material, although they did not know the ideal proportions. Some knew that manure was invaluable, and I have seen instructions for constructing composting pits from the late 1810’s.

    All of these advances enabled Britain to feed it’s growing urban population and Malthus was mocked (again).

    Advances in steel-making in the 1850’s was a huge game-changer. The smelting of iron was well-known but it naturally came with a high proportion of carbon, and at over 4% the carbon formed graphite pockets in the iron which made it very weak. The carbon could be made into strands of slag by repeated heating and hammering the iron (hence, wrought iron) or the carbon could be burned away by the process know as puddling, which required skilled and dangerous work by craftsmen and could produce steel in batches of 1,000 pounds or so. The invention of the Bessemer process in the early 1850’s changed everything. Air was fed into the bottom of a great pear-shaped refractory vessel of molten iron and the carbon burned off, yielding tons and tons of mild steel per batch ready to be worked, cast, or improved with alloy minerals. Alloy steel was well-known at a workbench-technology level but now alloy steel could be made in industrial quantities. The blast furnace was soon developed, which was even more efficient.

    The effect of cheap steel on agricultural machinery was immediate. Tillage machinery had been made of wood with iron wearing parts. Now it could all be steel – strong and light. Moldboard ploughs changed the agricultural world. And the good cheap steel enabled iron ships, high pressure steam boilers, rolled train rails. The invention of horse-drawn cutting machines and combines, along with railways and ships, meant that the grain fields of France, Syria, eastern Europe and the American mid-west could feed the world! Malthus be damned!

    New developments kept piling up: artificial nitrogen fertiliser, chemical weed control, advances in irrigation, deep-well sources of irrigation water, improved plant and animal varieties, industrial-scale meat production, and now totally artificial food. In all of this there are two principal themes:

    One: since the development of grain agriculture in Mesopotamia and China the surplus food available to a society meant that non-producing sectors of society could be supported: merchants, priests, soldiers, and rulers; and the general population could and would increase in numbers although with a less-healthy lifestyle;

    and two: the non-producing sectors always made sure that the farmers were left with just enough to survive, and no more. Taxes, tithes, monopolies and looting troops made sure of that.

    And now here we are entering a new decade and we are seriously discussing the carrying capacity of re-purposed subdivisions. All of the advances that made Malthus’ name a joke have stalled. Fossil aquifers are running dry, weeds and pests are evading the chemical herbicides and pesticides, and climate change is making the planting of each crop more of a crapshoot. The elites are draining even more from the productive classes of our societies. And as Thomas Malthus suggested 200 years ago, we will face either population reduction through famine and disease or we will face a dramatically lower standard of living. That latter might mean 5 families living in what used to be a McMansion, with no central heating or cooling, no public utilities, and a diet of mostly pulses and coarse grains. Meat may come from feral cats and dogs, and pigeons from what used to be the park before the homeless encamped there. This dark future need not be permanent – once expectations and the population have both been reduced – people will find a way to be happy with their lot, and to live in much less dense circumstances. It’s just getting there that will be the hardship.

    Life has been so much worse for so many. Imagine being in the way of the aforementioned Napoleon’s army on its way to Moscow, or worse, being in the way of the desperate remnant on its way back. A crowded life in Cincinnati would look good to those peasants on that great Eurasian plain.

    #67286
    Topcat
    Participant

    The Bones of Waterloo

    https://medium.com/study-of-history/the-bones-of-waterloo-a3beb35254a3

    Digging up battlefield bones for their phosphorus

    Sweet

    #67287
    Topcat
    Participant

    The Haber-Bosch process also helped mock Malthus.

    The Big Three nutrients NPK

    Haber allowed the production of agricultural nitrogen (N) from fossil fuels

    Haber also helped develop chemical warfare agents for the WWI German trench nightmare.

    In the 1920’s, he was instrumental in developing Zyklon B

    So he burned the candle at both ends.

    #67288
    Topcat
    Participant

    The second member of the Big Three (P)

    Peak phosphorus (P)

    It is scheduled to arrive at 2030

    Manure is the best small scale solution to recycle the Big (P)

    Recycling (P) in sewage is not cost effective yet on industrial scales.

    No more cheap phosphorus for you!

    It all ends up inaccessible in the oceans in large scale farming.

    #67289
    Topcat
    Participant

    From Forbes on running out of resources:
    “… The world will never run out of phosphorus or potassium; there’s huge amounts out there in the oceans, and in fact that’s where the runoff from our phosphate rock and potash-based fertilizers go.

    But when those supplies run out, the process of recovering phosphate from agricultural waste, runoff, and sewage will be so expensive that many forms of agriculture that depend on cheap NPK fertilizers will suffer.

    Let’s not even get started on the step change in cost that mining it from the ocean would entail.”

    #67290
    Topcat
    Participant

    From 2011

    Peak Potassium: The Next Resource War

    “..a potassium shortage will be much more serious than an oil shortage. We can develop substitute strategies for energy, but potassium is a part of our bodies, and part of the plant tissues that feed our bodies. The next time some moron tells you that we needn’t worry about running out of our natural resources because we humans are infinitely clever and can find a substitute for anything, ask him how he will maintain the electrolytic balance in the tissues of his body (essentially, the sodium/potassium balance) without potassium. Without this mineral, we die.”

    #67291
    zerosum
    Participant

    Today is a day of reflection.
    Today I want to express my thanks to all the TAE community.
    Not having TAE would leave me in the dark of the gigantic forces that are shaping my tomorrows.
    This community contributes in time and research to flesh out the scraps of knowledge that we find under the bountiful banquets of the elites.
    The gathering of that knowledge does not translate into action by us, the economic slaves, that would change the trajectory of those gigantic forces that the enablers are controlling.
    Being made aware of the conditions of life of other people around the world does not change our local conditions.

    We are but a small part of the spectrum of life.
    Life arose and evolved from the original conditions of the universe being populated by hydrogen atoms,
    We are but one in a long line of LUCA (the Last Universal Common Ancestor)
    Our activities are but a small contribution that helps to improve the continuation of life.
    Long after humans are gone, life will still be filling the universe.

    I wish “Peace to all.”

    #67292
    Dr. D
    Participant

    In continuing spirit of Christmas, Salon gushes with with joys of Pottersville over Bedford Falls.

    “All Hail Pottersville!
    The “bad” town in “It’s a Wonderful Life” jumps and jives 24/7 with hot bars and cool chicks — while “wholesome” Bedford Falls is a claustrophobic sno
    oze.”
    https://www.salon.com/2001/12/22/pottersville/

    Being rich, entitled intellectual from U.C. Berkeley, proudly living in the filth-ridden streets of San Francisco, medieval diseases and all, where drug overdoses kill 5x more people than Covid, he waxes poetic on the merits of violence, extortion, and prostitution. …Clearly having never lived in any such places and so privileged, he’s never met or spent time with any such people. In his words, they just “add color” to an otherwise boring, terrible world.

    He joyfully concludes that we need not pine, for Pottersville won! We all live in Pottersville now!

    In reality, living in Pottersville he would find no jobs, low pay, extortion, mugging, beatings, sexual assaults, rapes, incest, drug use and abuse, bleak, dark and endless days unable to hope or improve one’s self since given a crooked, company-town system, one cannot get ahead. You’ll “own nothing and you’ll be…” violent. Hungry. Suicidal.

    …Just like all of America from Elizabethtown to Sacramento. With dead, cold bodies being found each Christmas in a ruined, collapsing house. Ask me how I know.

    But fellows at the top of such system like founders and editors of Salon wouldn’t know this, having never met any of these people, but finding their desperate violent lives charming, wonderful…so long as they are at a very VERY great distance. So long as HE runs the casino as the paid suck-up of Governor Potter, and THEY are stuck with the watered down drinks and crooked bouncers, tossing them in prison on hilarious, novelic trumped-up charges Alexandre Dumas would shudder at.

    Because his life is so boring and meaningless, rich and in the suburbs, he can only dream of something happening to relieve the boredom. The desperate ennui of rich, pointless existence. Where exciting things only happen to others because when Daddy’s here, you can never fail.

    I say we air-drop him into a trailer park in Charleston W. Virginia, Christmas day, with the hilarity of no money, no clothes, and no friends, a bottle of Rye he loves so dearly. …It’d do him good to meet the natives he wishes the joys and wonders of Pottersville to.

    Newsflash: if you were in Pottersville, you’d dream of having a job, stability, a decent house, even if you had to go to church and the PTA to get it. If only he could find out. But Daddy. Daddy bucks, Daddy government.

    #67293
    Noirette
    Participant

    On the Medical-International-Complex (MIC II?): Fauci, vaccines, etc.

    Twitter, a-hem, this caught my eye, WHO’s change in the definition of herd immunity.

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    Laboratory Escapes and “Self-fulfilling prophecy” Epidemics.

    by M. Furmanski

    This paper presents an historical review of outbreaks of PPPs or similarly transmissible pathogens that occurred from presumably well-funded and supervised nationally supported laboratories.

    PPPs = Potentially Pandemic Pathogens.

    14 pp. 2014. First ex. is from 1966 (smallpox ..), and the last concerns Foot and Mouth disease, 2007. Good read / refresher.

    https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Escaped-Viruses-final-2-17-14-copy.pdf

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    Violation Tracker on Pfizer.

    <i>Penalty total since 2000:  $4,712,210,359</i>

    I knew they lost many cases paid compensation etc. but this sum is staggering. These are games of astonishing gains – billions – with some losses …

    https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/pfizer

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    Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to all!

    #67294
    John Day
    Participant

    https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/12/friends-and-family-jenny-and-i-are.html
    Jenny and I are fortunate to have had a pretty normal and busy year, despite all of the changes this year. We have been well, and Jenny’s big spinal surgery in July went well. Jenny is fully recovered and working daily at her school.

    Holly (not Tommy), Amber, and Amber’s husband, Philip all had COVID. They all took antivirals, and they are all doing well. We have all been taking 5000 units per day of vitamin-D this year. We hope that you also have, and still are.

    Your own immune system is the miracle drug for this weird virus. Low vitamin-D weakens your immune system. Low and extremely low vitamin-D levels are the norm in our modern world, since people live and travel “indoors”, and do not get hours of daily sun on their skins. There is good medical analysis that up to 87% of COVID deaths are directly linked to low vitamin-D.

    People have a trained reflex; “don’t take too much!” I’ll tell you my experience and also a recent study that looked at getting vitamin-D levels up to normal quickly. The observational study used 60,000 units of vitamin D3 per day for 2-3 weeks. More than half of the participants got a mid-normal blood level by 2 weeks, but about a quarter of them still had a blood level below the target range of 50 or more, at the end of 3 weeks. Nobody had a higher than normal level. Normal is 30-100, and the target range here was 50-100.

    60,000 Units per day is a big number, but it is 1.25 mg of vitamin-D, which sounds much smaller.

    My experience is that people don’t absorb all of a big dose, and absorb multiple smaller doses better.

    People who take two pills of 5000 units per day (the largest dose our stores here sell) will usually get up into the low normal range in 2-3 months, but not always. It is ok to catch up missed doses when you remember.

    I have given away over $500 of vitamin-D 5000 units this year. Another 200 bottles of 100 pills should come in today or tomorrow, for $670. It will also be given to patients, coworkers, friends, neighbors and family. I gave a bottle to a beggar I see on my bike ride, instead of the usual dollar bill, and a school crossing guard who waves at me. I explained the benefits and urged them to take it daily. They said they were on Friday when I saw them again. Jenny got $120 worth of Vitamin D at Costco and gave it to all of her coworkers when they had an outbreak at school last month. I treated three of her coworkers (including a husband with cancer) without seeing them in clinic.

    Ivermectin is the core antiviral treatment that works very well at all stages of COVID, including prevention.

    Vitamin-D should be taken as a baseline, and it should be added if someone who gets sick is not already taking it.

    Zinc has long been known to disrupt corona viral reproduction.

    Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance website keeps up with this, as do I at http://www.johndayblog.com, though I keep up with a lot of other things, too. We have entered a time of rapid and disorienting societal transformation

    It is important, in my professional opinion, not to expose yourself to the risks of vaccines, which have not been through extended testing.

    Coronavirus vaccines have a specific problem called “Pathogenic Priming”, which means that when the vaccine works to produce antibodies, it also works to prime a fatal response for the host animal or person, when exposed to the coronavirus. This became apparent after SARS in the early 2000s. They tried repeatedly to make coronavirus vaccines, but too many lab animals always died. They never developed any coronavirus vaccine safe enough for human trials.

    There are no animal trials this time, for any of the COVID-19 vaccines.

    Wait to see how this works out for people. Take 5000 units per day of vitamin D.

    Share the I-Mask-Plus treatment protocol from the COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance with your doctor. https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/EVMS_Critical_Care_COVID-19_Protocol.pdf

    Print it up and take it with you or mail it.

    Ivermectin, zinc and doxycycline treatment packs are being sold in India, where they are using a LOT of them, to good effect.

    Some of you who live nearby have gotten an orange tree seedling we grew and some Vitamin-D for Christmas.

    #67295
    Noirette
    Participant

    Fauci admitted he lied – many others have used the same ridiculous story. E.g. saying they stated masks were not helpful / necessary (following WHO advice) and then later admitting they ‘lied’ – so as to keep the small stock available for hospital personnel. (Macron for ex.)

    So blatant lies are excusable because somehow some motive to manipulate ppl is positive if the lies are somehow later revealed as to be ‘for the common good.’

    This amounts to accepting low-level abuser aka con-man moves on a large scale. (“Honey I lied to you for your own good, that man would have kidnapped Kristy” – “Darling, my sweet, I couldn’t tell you the truth at the time, you might have gone off the rails, now the problem is solved”..)

    Of course for a pol. or public figure to admit they lied is terrible, it is an inexcusable violation. They do it because they have no other choice. They didn’t lie at the time, they believed what they said (Fauci on immunity, Macron on masks) but they have to follow those who control them, who change the messages / principles rapidly. So they prefer to say they were not ‘sincere’ at the time and had ‘hidden motives’, confessing to, hopefull,y a minor sin, to avoid acknowledging they are pressured, or controlled, or haven’t a clue what is going on, etc. To keep their positions! Fauci of course knows all, but even he has to ‘review’ and correct what he says.

    #67296
    John Day
    Participant

    Political Jesus, by Pepe Escobar is quite good
    https://www.unz.com/pescobar/political-jesus/
    Now imagine the scene – worthy of a Scorsese epic: an outsider, itinerant preacher from Galilee, arriving in the mean streets with his posse, all speaking in weird accents, with the crowds shouting he may be the Messiah.

    And then, the ultimate set piece: he enters the Temple, by himself, and overthrows the tables of the moneylenders. What did he really want?

    That’s Political Jesus 1 and 2.

    1. To graphically stress the end of the old order – Temple included – and the coming of the “new kingdom”.

    2. To express – politically – the growing popular revolt against the ruling elite.

    And by a simple twist of fate, that’s when he sealed his destiny.

    Blowback was instantaneous. The Jewish priests had to be placated. They feared Roman retaliation. And then Caiaphas saw his opening, telling them – according to the Gospel by John – “it is better for one man to die for the people”.

    And that’s how Jesus the Outsider was used as only a pawn in their game to maintain order in Jerusalem.

    He was now free to enter History as a larger than life Martyr, Savior, and Myth.

    #67297
    WES
    Participant

    Per John Day’s recommendation, I have been taking 5,000 units of vitamin D each day for most of 2020. (Up here in the cold great north they only let us have 1,000 sized pills.) (Also vitamin C.)

    However, I will now make one small adjustment starting today. I will start taking 2,000 units (2 pills) in the morning and then 3,000 units (3 pills) in the evening before going to bed, to spread out the vitamin D better.

    I also do 10 minutes of light therapy each night because I suffer from dry skin. This has been one of the best discoveries I have ever made because now my skin doesn’t break out into red rashes all over my body. Unfortunately, it took me 64 years to figure this out! None of my doctors ever suggested this to me.

    One very pleasant side effect of this light therapy is I no longer crave sunshine during the winter months.

    #67298
    WES
    Participant

    ByronBishop:

    Thanks for posting about the downstream effects of being able to make steel.

    I had never really seen it put that way.

    I do know, for example, the Vikings used to get their meagre iron supplies from peat boggs. Surprisingly their iron also had a little bit of nickel in it so their iron was less prone to rust. I think the average Viking family was lucky to have accumulated about a pound or two of iron for ship nails, tools, etc. For more info look up peat bogg iron.

    When the vikings came to Newfoundland, they settled in the very far north of the island which is very strange since southern Newfoundland is so much nicer. I suspect they might have been looking for peat bogg iron, like back home, to make nails to repair their ships.

    #67299
    WES
    Participant

    John Day:

    Your comment about “Political Jesus” in many ways resembles the experience President Trump, an outsider, has suffered at the hands of corrupt Washington DC politicians.

    He has exposed the corruption in Washington by congress (turning over the tables so to speak.)

    To punish him, he has been robbed of re-election (a political death sentence) through election fraud by the corrupt Washington DC politicians.

    The Republicans have nicely played the role of Judas.

    #67300
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks WES, I’m getting a “Christ Complex”!

    John-of-Nazareth

    #67301
    John Day
    Participant

    https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/12/what-jesus-would-do.html

    Michael Hudson again:
    The Ten Commandments were about debt

    ​ ​ People tend to think of the Commandment ‘do not covet your neighbour’s wife’ in purely sexual terms but actually, the economist says it refers specifically to creditors who would force the wives and daughters of debtors into sex slavery as collateral for unpaid debt.
    “This goes all the way back to Sumer in the third millennium,” he said.
    ​ ​Similarly, the Commandment ‘thou shalt not steal’ refers to usury and exploitation by threat for debts owing.
    
The economist says Jesus was crucified for his views on debt. Crucifixion being a punishment reserved especially for political dissidents.
    
​ ​”To understand the crucifixion of Jesus is to understand it was his punishment for his economic views,” says Professor Hudson. “He was a threat to the creditors.”
    
​ ​Jesus Christ was a socialist activist for the continuity of regular debt jubilees that were considered essential to the wellbeing of ancient economies.
    https://michael-hudson.com/2017/12/he-died-for-our-debt-not-our-sins/

    ​This is pretty bizarre. Hang in there until the parts about Lady Lynn Rothschild, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. ​
    There is probably enough to hold your attention from there.
    The Dangerous Alliance of Rothschild and the Vatican of Francis by F. William Engdahl
    https://journal-neo.org/2020/12/22/the-dangerous-alliance-of-rothschild-and-the-vatican-of-francis/

    #67302
    John Day
    Participant

    Oh, thanks to Geppetto for that Rothschild, Pope, Epstein, Maxwell article.
    These people all seem to know each other.

    #67303
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Some unexpected criticism of Pfizer, from the dean of the University of Miami’s business school:

    Pfizer’s vaccine maximizes profit, not the greater good

    Pfizer’s vaccine strategy was designed from the outset to maximize shareholder profit, not the greater good…

    Pfizer set out to be first across the finish line and reap a public relations bonanza. That’s why it pursued an mRNA vaccine, which can be developed and manufactured much faster than traditional vaccines.

    But Pfizer’s vaccine has to be stored at minus 70 degrees Celsius to retain its efficacy. Developing countries do not have and cannot afford such a cold chain. That means Pfizer is off the hook to provide low- or no-cost doses to billions of people in poorer nations. The Moderna vaccine, also an mRNA vaccine, was designed to require normal vaccine refrigeration at around minus 20 degrees Celsius .

    Note, also, that Pfizer declined U.S. government subsidies to fund its vaccine development. This preserved Pfizer’s negotiating independence, avoided bureaucratic delays and helped Pfizer get to the finish line first. Taking no subsidies enabled Pfizer to deflect any government pressure to make its vaccine available at lower cost…

    Meanwhile, Britain’s AstraZeneca[/Oxford] has developed an equally effective COVID-19 vaccine that requires normal refrigeration and can therefore use existing vaccine supply chains that extend to rural areas. The AstraZeneca vaccine is being sold at $2 per dose versus $20 per dose (that is, $40 per person) for Pfizer’s. AstraZeneca has pledged not to profit from COVID-19 vaccine sales and to waive patent protections. Pfizer has done neither.

    Pfizer’s strategy is simple. Be first to market and make a boatload of money by “skimming the cream,” supplying vaccines to those willing to pay.

    https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2020/12/23/pfizers-vaccine-maximizes-profit-not-the-greater-good-column/

    #67304
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    John Day: “I’m getting a “Christ Complex”! John-of-Nazareth”

    With all the Vitamin D that you are spreading around, I think you are more like Johnny Appleseed.
    Johnny Capsule D?

    #67305
    HerrWerner
    Participant

    @Doc Robinson
    I always thought Vitamin-D would be a good name for a rap artist. He could flow about the evils of processed foods and spread the word to young impressionable minds about nutrition and inequity of food deserts, and how to take care of your microbiome.

    I asked my GP about the MATH+ treatment in case I or the FrauWerner come down with covid. He turned it down, was not open to ivermectin. I found his reply disconcerting. His practice got assimilated by large regional system and he may not have much wiggle room outside the conventional corporate approach. Sticking to my Vitamin-D for now and worrying a bit. I’ve been helpless in the jaws of the Medical Establishment just one time myself, and prefer to stay out of it especially since it’s cranked up to 11 this year.

    #67306
    ₿oogaloo
    Participant

    I don’t know what to write these days. I have nothing to say — it is enough for me to browse the comments and watch what happens as everything plays out in this crazy world. Merry Christmas to all TAE readers.

    #67307
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    I don’t know what to write these days. I have nothing to say — it is enough for me to browse the comments and watch what happens as everything plays out in this crazy world.

    Yeah, me too; I can relate…
    The last few days S. Korea and Thailand seem to be having major covid problems…this after seemingly having everything under control…maybe there is no such thing as control when it comes to viruses…
    Best to you and everybody else, for the coming new year…

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