As a Baby Boomer (now age 65) it has taken me a while to get over the culture brainwashing that ONE) Doctors care more about their patients than government directives AND TWO) There might be a few bad apples in government but the majority cares about citizen wellbeing.
Frankly now, I have doubts that has ever been true. It is
one of the reasons I posted on July 5, “People’s
Lives are Irrelevant to Big Pharma & Govt. Science.” Our
Doctors are slaves to Medical Boards and Medical Boards (and way too many
individual doctors) are slaves to Big Pharma. AND ESPCIALLY IN THE 21st
CENTURY (but I am guessing much-much earlier), the government
elected and the government bureaucracy are more dedicated to ideological
agendas than the well-being and safety of their constituents.
So I am pleased I ran into a Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. post on American Thinker that
tracks with my line of thinking entitled, “Follow
the COVID Money.”
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Follow the COVID Money
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July 7, 2022
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.
If the vaccinations are proving to be ineffective in
stopping the march of the disease, are they really worth what the federal
government is paying the pharmaceutical industry to manufacture, distribute,
and administer them? Is the public being played for suckers by a cabal of
industry giants and their friends in the medical bureaucracies?
Just consider a few facts. The pharmaceutical industry is
said to spend $5.2
billion annually on television advertising aimed primarily at
the consumer. It poured another $9.53
billion into digital advertising aimed at consumers and
industry in 2020.
This total of nearly $15 billion spent by Big Pharma on
advertising is more than twice what is spent on new cancer
drug research. In fact, nine out of 10 of the largest pharmaceutical companies
in America spend more on advertising than on research and
development.
But there is more. The U.S. government is pushing
COVID-19 jabs harder than the companies would ever likely
choose to do on their own. This might be the reason: Almost half
of the funding that supports the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration comes from the very industries it is mandated to oversee.
CDC funding is similar. But it also receives large grants
for COVID research from the Bloomberg Family Foundation and the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation.
By contrast, money given by the private sector to the NIH is
mostly hidden from the public. More troubling is the fact that
the NIH allows its publicly-employed researchers to receive royalty
payments from government-funded activities that result in private
company income. Present and former NIH researchers received annual royalty
payments averaging $9,700 in addition to their
taxpayer-funded, biweekly paychecks. Some have been reported to receive as much
as $150,000 in annual royalty rewards!
With the government pouring huge amounts of money on the
pharmaceutical houses to develop an anti-COVID vaccine, no wonder information
about all of the early
treatment protocols developed by private-sector doctors
working on their own was suppressed by the CDC and shunned by the FDA. Even
more depressing was the fact that the media went along with this suppression of
free speech and information. Social media companies, for their part, routinely
banned and deplatformed any physician speaking contrary to the federal government’s
accepted bureaucratic narrative. Why? Do you think the big social media
companies might also have profited from the direct-to-consumer advertising of
the government-funded products in the same way as traditional media? Do you
know a lot of cases where the hand that feeds it is bitten?
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.
Big pharmacy chains are also participating in this
government largess as well. The big chains earn “…roughly
$40 per shot” from the
federal government. Since the government provides the pharmacy
chains with the vaccines and Paxlovid for free, almost
all their charge for administering the shots or dispensing the drug
is profit.
There have been at least nine
new billionaires created in the vaccine world as a result of
COVID-19. No one has counted the new millionaires in COVID-19’s wake. Is
there any wonder that the Pfizer CEO would offer the thought that an annual
COVID-19 vaccine booster is almost a certainty? And so would
his annual multiple million-dollar bonuses for bringing in this kind of
business.
But we can reverse all this. A congressional investigation
must be launched to shine light on what this crony capitalism is doing to
American taxpayers and their health system. Get in touch with your
senators and demand that they authorize an investigation of how COVID-19 money
has been spent by both the Trump and the Biden administrations.
We need to put some sanity back into how our medical
resources are being spent.
© American Thinker 2022.
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