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COVID-19 vaccine boosters could mean billions for drugmakers

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By TOM MURPHY

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Billions more in profits

Probably the only reason why people are urged into booster shots.

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Ya think? Not “Could Mean”. More accurately: “Is Making”.

Brilliant journalism.

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Right... so the whole covid-19 situation has been just one massive conspiracy to funnel excessive profits to drug companies. Every government, doctor, nurse, and public health professional are all in on it. Seems legit!

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Well, duh.

Bearing in mind that forcing booster shots to make money isn't the only motive here, just one piece in the puzzle. The ultimate goal is power over us using ongoing mandatory vaccination in return for "freedoms" dangled like a carrot.

 Every government, doctor, nurse, and public health professional are all in on it. Seems legit!

You're aware that there are many thousands of medical professionals opposing this, right? They see the problems that the jabs are causing first-hand and don't want to be part of it.

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"Boosters", you say? How about "The New Normal...For Ever"??

Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that he believed “the most likely scenario is annual revaccination” against the coronavirus.

Anchor George Stephanopoulos asked, “The World Health Organization reiterated this week that now is not the time for widespread rollout of booster shots. Instead, they said wealthier nations should focus on getting first shots to countries with low vaccination rates. Your response to that?”

Bourla said, “I think the answer is to give both boosters and doses to other people. This is why we have invested so hard and pushed our scientists and engineers to work so hard to produce enough doses for all.”

Stephanopoulos said, “Moderna’s CEO said that the pandemic is on course to be over in about a year. Do you agree with that?”

Bourla said, “I agree that within a year, I think we will be able to come back to normal life. I don’t think that this means that variants will not continue coming. I don’t think that this means that we should be able to live our lives WITHOUT having vaccinations, basically..."

Summary: Sure, we can give boosters to the rich countries, cause that's where the money is. As for the "low income" part of the world, where as of right now, only 2.2% have received their first or second dose? Er...yeah, we can "do" that, too. (Just don't look at the actual numbers while we give you your third lucrative, government/insurance company-funded dose!)

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Boosters and forcing vaccinations on children under 12 (who don’t need it!) is what the drug cartels will be pushing now!

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Right... so the whole covid-19 situation has been just one massive conspiracy to funnel excessive profits to drug companies. Every government, doctor, nurse, and public health professional are all in on it. Seems legit!

This would be the opposite, because every hospitalization prevented by a cheap vaccine means a fortune lost for drug companies, antivaxxer propaganda is much more in line with increasing the profits.

Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that he believed “the most likely scenario is annual revaccination” against the coronavirus.

And he still has absolutely no data to support his conclussion, which is why it is not shared by the scientific consenssus.

It also fails to consider that boosters are a much simpler and easier to prove efficient and safe, so nobody would need to use his products to booster immunity, cheap and easy virus inactivation or recombinant protein expression are enough to do it, and nobody has to pay a cent to any company to do it since even developing countries can do it.

Boosters and forcing vaccinations on children under 12 (who don’t need it!) is what the drug cartels will be pushing now!

So, what other argument apart from unproven conspiracies do you have to prove the experts that think this is actually necessary.

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By the way, Pfizer stocks are publicly available and you can get in on it to make some cash.

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By the way, Pfizer stocks are publicly available and you can get in on it to make some cash.

if you think you are not yet enough cynical...

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We don’t need boosters when there are drugs that cure the virus. I for one won’t be taking any booster now – waste of resources

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We don’t need boosters when there are drugs that cure the virus.

Which, while we're getting closer, we aren't there yet.

Just tell me if I need the booster and when/where to line up for it.

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Just tell me if I need the booster and when/where to line up for it.

Who's gonna tell him?

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