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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: w0z who wrote (10754)	12/26/2020 12:06:14 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26800

I spent some time this AM reading the daily delivered, newsPAPER with some articles about how the developing countries will suffer even wider income disparity and troubles that go with it as the wealthy countries can afford the $20 per shot. If the public were to become fully aware of Ivermectin, why would they need expensive (and unproven) vaccinations? My guess is they need to keep the shots cold and injected quickly makes them much more expensive than that per dose but we get it for free and someone (taxpayers and insurance companies) pay for the labor and materials to get it into our arms. Pfizer did $12B in revenue last quarter 330m people in US x $20/dose x 2 doses is $13.2B So that averaged over a year would add about 30% to their annual revenue (I'm not sure if that accounts for the Mylan/Upjohn/Viatris spinoff) IF Ivermectin works as well as indicated, what is preventing Gates and other wealthy foundations from buying the drug and distributing it to the poor countries? Perhaps we'll see it in poorer countries getting Ivermectin and not getting sick while the case, hospitalization and death rates soar in the US after the Christmas holiday surge. If that happens won't we be upset at not getting the more cost effective and safer treatment sooner? BTW, I "zoomed" with a COVID-19 survivor yesterday (my niece) and her "caretaker" as she "recovered" in her older sister's apartment fully healthy after a few days of a bad flu to get past the testing and quarantine time to return to her parents for the college xmas holiday. My other niece, taking precautions using masks indoors except when eating and then being in separate rooms, did not get it, tests negative and is waiting for the prescribed time to pass before she can eat at the table in my brother's home without a mask. They are all at my brother's house now, where he and his wife have many comorbidity issues, so they are being careful while they wait for the final days to pass for my older niece to be safely past the spreading time. You can see where people in packed quarters in poor areas of the Silicon Valley and other major cities get it at a higher rate... it is hard to social distance when you are in tight quarters with an infected person. The only thing that angers me is too many want to blame it on racism rather than certain groups are poor because of behavior... eat the wrong food, invest in cigarettes and alcohol rather than fruits, lean meat and veggies... etc. Anyway, soap box mode off.