See this post.
Gedankenexperiment.
If Big Pharm was making a gazillion dollars off vaccines, and all of a sudden, a drug was "discovered" that folks thought might make the vaccines unnecessary, wouldn't Big Pharm cash in on the newly "discovered" drug, making a gazillion dollars on that drug?
Not if the newly "discovered" drug had been around for decades and Big Phama's newly "discovered" drug's patent expired -- in this case, back in 1996 -- .
So, regardless if the newly "discovered' drug works or not, just the fact that perhaps a majority of Americans think it might, wouldn't Big Pharma do what it could to plant stories and fund research to "take out" that newly "discovered" drug.
From Australia, undated, though it appears to have been published in 2004.
Merck's Ivermectin patent expired in 1996.
From a reader, thank you very much.
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I Just Love Texas
Grapevine, where we used to live, and now live in a town that borders Grapevine to the north, Euless, will always feel like our home. Grapevine never runs out of reasons to hold a parade. And now another one.
Remember "that lady that went into space with Jeff Bezos"? Wally Funk.
She's a resident of Grapevine.
Hey, let's have a parade! From local news station:
The Wally Funk Day Parade and Celebration gets going at noon Saturday down Main Street in Grapevine. [September 8, 2021]
Mayor Tate expects a large crowd of people who are excited to see Funk and hear her story in-person.
Mayor Tate has been mayor of Grapevine, it is believed, for the past 156 years. I don't think elections are held any more. He has been given the keys to the mayor's office and has the only set. LOL.
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The Literary Page
Wow, there are just not enough hours in the day!
My book today, maybe this week: Manet By Himself, edited by Juliet Wilson-Bareau, c. 1991, 1995, and 2004, now a "cheap" Barnes and Noble production. I don't want to removed all the price stickers, so I do not know the original price, but my hardcover in perfect condition was $3.00. LOL. $3.00. Easily, a $25 book, not available at Amazon, but I see a third-party seller lists it for $85 plus a bit for shipping.
If you want my copy, let me know. $50, firm. LOL.
Claude Monet, active over a period of some sixty-five years.
Edouard Manet, a brief career, 1860 - 1883, and refused to "repeat himself," something Monet did often.
At sixteen years of age, a one-year voyage to Rio de Janeiro and back. The letters he wrote his parents at this time, are the basis of the first chapter, 1848 - 1849. And then a huge break in letter-writing, until 1858, when he requests "student-status" in the Print Room of the Bibliothèque Impériale.
The, the "siege of Paris," the winter of 1870 - 1871. From wiki:
The siege of Paris took place from 19 September 1870 to 28 January 1871 and ended in the consequent capture of the city by Prussian forces, culminating in France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the establishment of both the German Empire and the Paris Commune.
