The Dose 10-24-21
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 10/24/2021 - 6:48am

A column for considerate conversation of all things COVID
The COVID Cash Cow
(7.5 min)
Is Pfizer putting profits above lives? Public Citizen, a non-profit organization says that Pfizer can stop countries from speaking about contracts, block vaccine donations, unilaterally change delivery schedules & demand public assets as collateral.
https://www.citizen.org/article/pfizers-power/
1. Pfizer Reserves the Right to Silence Governments.
2. Pfizer Controls Vaccine Donations.
3. Pfizer Secured an “IP Waiver” for Itself.
4. Private Arbitrators, not Public Courts, Decide Disputes in Secret.
5. Pfizer Can Go After State Assets.
6. Pfizer Calls the Shots on Key Decisions.
It ain't over till it's over...
22 Months On, The Pandemic is far from over (5 min)
Russia is imposing a week-long shutdown. The UK is witnessing a record spike in cases. Latvia has entered a 4-week lockdown. China is reporting cases in 10 provinces
I for one will be glad when COVID isn't such a controlling factor in our life.

Comments
Amish and Uttar Pradesh
Don't necessarily 'beat' Covid, any more than the Bedouin beat the desert or Sherpas beat the Himalayas.. BUT they appear to have come through with far less damage health-wise than places claiming to follow 'the science' and Big Pharma.
In the case of the Amish, as Sharyl Atkisson reports, they simply kept working and powered through without resorting to hospitals, testing or vaccination. Presumably, some did die, but by far the most got Covid and didn't die - they ended up doing better than ever economically and now have near-universal natural immunity.
Not sure how long this will survive on YT:
India's Covid situation has been, overall, improving rapidly for months. There are considerable differences within the country from state to state, though.
For Oct. 18, India was reporting 13,500 or so new daily cases, Israel 1400 plus. India is around 15% vaccinated, Israel 85%. India new cases, around ten times greater than Israel. India population, though? *155* times that of Israel.
Although India health authorities recently removed Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin from recommended drugs for Covid treatment, states such as Goa and Uttar Pradesh that have made extensive use of IVM have had better outcomes than those such as Kerala which hav emphasized vaccines and actively discouraged IVM. Note below how Kerala has significantly more Covid deaths reported than Uttar Pradesh even though its population is only one-seventh or so of UP's...
India Economic Times reports (10/18):
Pfizer contract terms may limit ‘official’ endorsement
of competing vaccines or treatment options via “sole discretion” clauses.
"I fear that monstrous russian dictatorship going to attack the free world with bioweapons it seized in unexisting Pentagon funded humanitarian Ukrainian biolabs."
Greg Galloway 3/14/22
You have to admire people
Unlike those that just want us to die
And Grayson got it right
Yes the DHS’s Ministry of Truth is headed by a weird ridiculous person. Please don’t let that distract from the vastly more significant fact that the DHS has a Ministry of Truth.
Caitlin
Most COVID deaths and hospitalizations involve...
FOUR or more co-morbidities.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/most-covid-19-hospi...
A study estimated that nearly two-thirds of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S. could be attributed to obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and heart failure.
India is foolish to drop the successful IVM rec. I think Mexico has continued theirs. Meanwhile in the US...