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To: Logain Ablar who wrote (12057)	10/3/2021 1:15:12 AM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 26744

I agree and thanks for the info. What gets me is the gazillionaires can do what they please with their money but it pisses me off that they haven't banded together to use their company resources to do more to solve diseases. About all I hear is Ellison wants to live forever and marrying younger and younger wives eventually doesn't work but the younger ones haven't learned and are following in his footsteps. It seemed that maybe Gates was using his wealth to help society get access to cheap drugs but his wife didn't approve of his "friendship" with Epstein... I have read some companies are going to or will use AI and powerful computing to start looking into this, perhaps for cancer where the payoff is huge, but you'd think someone... Anyway, I thought the insurance companies would want to fund phase three studies of low cost drugs but it dawned on me they are paid to NOT look for this by the very structure we have that pays they an allowed profit margin so their real goal is higher total bills... The ONLY way to solve all these scams is some form of single payer where "the government" ONLY pays for health care, not sickness care... remove the incentive to have very sick customers as the only way to make money. Change it completely so they make the most money if NOBODY is sick. Problem is the whole damned system is so corrupt.

To: Logain Ablar who wrote (12057)	10/3/2021 1:29:53 AM
From: Kirk ©	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Respond to of 26744

BTW, I've long complained that Trump WASTED billions of dollars with his extra $57B a year for the military that was money that SHOULD Have gone to things like FUNDING phase two and three trials of low cost drugs that prevent COVID-19 transmission. We should have been spending a ton of money to analyze the blood of people like me in Santa Clara (Silicon Valley) where it may have first shown in the US. We think I probably got it at a party in a Chinese restaurant in early Dec 2019 with about 80 people of which some routinely travel back and forth to China for their work. I then gave it to a few I came in close contact with and they spread it to others they are in contact with... but my GF's 91 year old mother at the time did not get it. We wondered why until I read about my neighbor funding a study of fluvoxamine... which may be similar to the antidepressant MaMa takes... get my drift. If we didn't have COVID-19, then we sure had one fast spreading flu with a mighty kick despite having flu shots. We have what seems like millions of government workers "working" from home that could have been assigned to tracking down these things... but our system is so broken, political, corrupt, etc... we were doomed to get what we got.

To: Logain Ablar who wrote (12057)	10/3/2021 5:25:51 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26744

This is not true. With drugs, patents are per application. If your drug is patented for migraine, but later you show that it can also help with anxiety disorder, then you get a 2nd patent starting when the new application is approved. What's more, you get a leg up b/c the safety and side effects of the drug are already known. >> Asking a pharma company to do a phase II / III trial for a drug like Ivermectin, that is off patent and is inexpensive to manufacture and distribute is problematic.