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Toby Rogers's avatar

By the way this is the standard playbook for toxic polluters -- they just never conduct a test if there is any chance that the data will show harms. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N5MDIQ0/

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Geoff Friesen's avatar

Thanks for your great work on this issue, Toby. As a Finance Professor, a father, a concerned citizen, I believe there cannot be reward without risk. In Finance, there is also rarely any risk without reward. And in Finance, if there is no risk there can be no reward. By freeing them from any legal liability under the EUA, the pharmaceutical companies have been granted a lucrative risk-free "call option" on the future cashflows of these vaccines, and all future variants of these vaccines. The shareholders of these firms reap all of the upside profit and bear none of the risk. This is un-capitalist, un-American, unethical and unconscionable. My letter to the committee: "If you insist that the pharmaceutical companies must be free from all risk, then please at least have the moral and ethical fortitude to demand that all profits be returned to the risk-bearers (which in this case is the children (US citizens) receiving the shots and their tax-paying families). Better yet, remove the liability shield and go back to Finance 101: there is never reward without risk. This cannot be any different. If they don't want to bear the risk, then get them out of the business and get them away from me and my family."

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