There are quite some events these days, like galloping inflation in the European Union, energy prices going up and up (in the name of the good fight - or fighting climate change, whatever you want to put it while you take another blanket from the attic), food costs soaring, Italy showing the way to another Greece type event (but this time tens fold bigger), migrant crisis and some other small details.
However, the last crisis called Corona is hardly a thing of the past. Every 2-3 weeks, we can notice here another article in the media keeping the flame alive.
Like this one:
Number of daily coronavirus infections still rising; Most since April 20
or this one:
Government hopes sector-specific coronavirus rules can prevent lockdowns
or maybe this one:
Impact corona nog steeds zichtbaar in de klas (Corona impact still visible in the classroom)
So people are constantly reminded that, eventually, after a beautiful summer of inflation, lockdowns are the normal new way to go forward.
Kuipers acknowledged in a letter to parliament that there was a ‘very real’ risk of millions of people becoming infected during the autumn, but the government aimed to keep closures to a minimum.
(https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/06/government-hopes-sector-specific-coronavirus-rules-can-prevent-lockdowns/)
Millions of people! Quite dramatic, isn't it?! I mean, before Corona time we had every winter/springtime a lot of common cold infections, but we weren't so keen to close everything. Or to force masks. Or, even better, to force vaccines.
Which bring us to: Moderna CEO Laments 'Throwing 30 Million Doses In The Garbage Because Nobody Wants Them'
We have a big demand problem," Bancel told an audience at the World Economic Forum...
The issue in many countries is that people don't want vaccines.
So it's about demand. Vaccines are nothing more than a merchandise that didn't sell itself, but it needs artificially created demand, from the government. People shouldn't have a choice. (remember the Gates Bill almost screaming ?! "but YOU don't have a choice!")
The vaccines are expiring also here, in the Netherlands.
The Netherlands has over 11 million unused doses of coronavirus vaccines, according to the newspaper. At least 3.5 million shots will expire in stages from this week. The vaccines have a freezer life of only nine months.
The government spent tens of millions of euros of taxpayers' money on these 11 million redundant vaccines.
Millions of euros sounds like an understatement. We don't have a quite exact price of the big pharma business done on taxpayer's money, but even at a 3-4 euros per dose for Astra Zeneca (the cheapest), we're taking here about tens of millions of euros wasted. And still, nobody is held responsible for this big fuck-up.
This list is coming from biospace.com, and you can easily see the magnitude of the business:
The 10 best-selling COVID-19 vaccines and drugs in the first half of 2021 are:
1. Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (Comirnaty®): Worldwide sales were $19.927 billion. GlobalData Healthcare projects that Comirnaty will bring in $100 billion in sales between 2020 to 2027, with a large portion of the revenue driven by the 2021-2024 time period.
2. Moderna COVID-19 vaccine: Worldwide sales equaled $5.93 billion. U.S. Sales amounted to 58% of the pie at $3.451 billion.
3. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ casirivimab and imdevimab (REGEN-COV): Regeneron’s antibody cocktail reported $4.156 billion in global revenue and $2.853 billion in U.S. sales alone.
4. Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir (Veklury): Global sales totaled $2.285 billion for the antiviral drug. U.S. sales accounted for 54% at $1.236 billion..... check the source website for more information.
But this pales in comparison with the Pfizer order, of 1.8 billion doses, led by the very head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. Which conveniently doesn't remember text messages, or any other relevant information:
Pfizer has signed multiple contracts with the European Commission for its vaccine. The most recent reserved an additional 1.8bn doses, at a higher price than previously set, to be delivered between the end of 2021 to 2023 among the 27 EU member states.
The commission has been criticised for the high prices negotiated for the mRNA Covid vaccines, with one analysis suggesting the EU paid €31bn (£25bn) above the cost of production.
So yeah, we need to continue the crisis. There are more vaccines to be made and sold. Billions are just flowing in the right pockets. And European Union is transforming the dream of the democracy in a nightmare of kleptocracy.
Now you have a better understanding why we really need another crisis this autumn.
p.s. also helps keeping people inside their homes, when they will become unhappy about the energy prices and inflation
