If the COVID-19 vaccines have been a disappointment from a public health standpoint in stopping the continuing spread of new variants of the disease, why is Big Pharma as well as its government allies in the FDA, CDC, and NIH still pushing them?
As Deep Throat whispered to Bob Woodward during the Watergate scandal (“Follow the money”), so, too, the American public should be demanding the same of its political leaders: Follow the COVID money to determine why we continue to spend a fortune on something that seems to have only a relatively limited benefit.
But our elected officials are embarrassingly quiet on answering the basic question of who exactly is benefiting from the constant rounds of shots being foisted on or recommended to the American public?
Maybe the silence comes from the fact that the pharmaceutical industry
spends more on lobbying than any other industry group. In 2020 big
pharma spent over $300 million lobbying officeholders and government
officials. It clearly pays off. The research to develop the COVID-19
vaccines was nearly all funded by taxpayers. The distribution of the
vaccines, once developed, was further funded nearly entirely by
taxpayers. The record-keeping and reporting on the vaccines is also at
the expense of taxpayers, and the new repurposed Pfizer drug Paxlovid,
used to treat COVID, has been paid for by taxpayers. .....
This isn’t speculation, it’s big money. Consider: Pfizer expects $32 billion in COVID vaccine sales in 2022. Moderna is forecasting $19 billion in COVID sales with the vaccine being its only current commercial product. Moderna had never produced a vaccine before it developed its COVID shots. Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna are reported to be making $1,000 in profit every second of every business day"
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