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AlexEsq's avatar

PLEASE try to publish this as an Op-Ed in a newspaper.

This point of view NEEDS to be published beyond our small circle on PITT.

Thank-you for writing this.

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Jonah's avatar

Maybe the world has always been turning upside down, but 2020 was certainly an inflection point.

I recall my Democrat friends arguing about the evils of Pharmaceutical companies and their greed. And me, the Republican with free market idealism. "Look, there's a great deal of cost in R&I and they need to earn those dollars back, because imagine the amount of hours spent pursuing drugs that don't work. The high price is to earn a profit on the investment, or else there's no medicines!" Back and forth we argued.

Then Covid.

Then Remdesivir being pushed and cheap, long-trusted medicines (IVM and HCQ) being demonized.

Then mandatory vaccines sped through by Trump and forced on us by Biden.

Not to mention the push to propagandize children into sterilizing themselves with hormones and surgery to find relief from the identity confusion that is the challenge of every adolescent.

And I say to those friends "Gosh, I am sorry. I never realized just how greedy and fascistic the Pharmaceutical industry is. This is way out of control, and we need some safeguards."

Those same friends now say: "Shut up, you filthy unvaccinated slime! You didn't get shots and boosters! Heil Pfizer!"

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