Commentary: Pfizer's Execs Thank You for Their Christmas Bonuses
By Jim Thompson | 3:45 PM on December 21, 2022
Watch any TV programming and you’ll eventually see a drug advertisement. In any 30-second commercial, whatever drug is being hawked, the drug manufacturer will present a happy story for half a minute. The actors will smile, and be cured by the end of the commercial. If you watched with the sound off, that’s what you would see. The voiceover always tells a different story. We hear of multiple potential side effects. It’s always a dozen or more, ranging from rashes, hallucination, impotence swelling of appendages, enlarged heart, paralysis – and oh yeah, death. It always ends with the potential of death. The last caveat: “Your results may vary.”
And, at some point, you will see an ad pushing you to get the new and improved COVID vaccine. The booster for the booster for… What you won’t hear or see in any COVID commercial, is any admonition or mention of side effects. No warnings of any kind. Well, that is not entirely true. They might warn you of a “winter of death” if you don’t get your booster. Why? Because each of the companies that make the COVID vaccines are immune. Not immune from COVID vaccine side effects like heart attacks for 12-year-olds or death for healthy adults, they are immune from suit. They are collectively insulated from criminal prosecution and civil penalties. No one on Planet Earth can sue Pfizer for COVID vaccine side effects and win. Any suit will be dismissed. It’s like sovereign immunity but for a drug manufacturer, not a sovereign nation.
Not only are the drug makers immune from liability for potentially killing people, clawback, criminal prosecution, or civil suit, but the contracts that each of them “negotiated” with governments also gives them full patent rights even though governments funded a lot of the cost of development. And the contract(s) terms have, for the most part, remained hidden behind redactions. Pfizer did not take government money upfront but it got significant early orders of the drug that totaled almost two billion dollars. Nonetheless, contracts with HHS/Army were heavily redacted. Page two of the Pfizer contract:
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