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As far as pharmaceuticals are concerned, they certainly command a lot of clout, and if you
look at the amount of money spent annually in the United States, or at least as far as
the United States is concerned, on pharmaceutical, the numbers are staggering.
I mean we drug ourselves up to a ridiculous level, and I really think that a lot of it
is unnecessary, the majority. Granted, I mean, it’s a huge of the part
of the budget of the gross domestic product. I think it’s 15 or 16 percent of everything
that is spent in America, for example, in United States I should say, is spent on the,
the medical industry, hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, but I just don’t
think in this situation what people are saying about, you know like there is some sort of
“conspiracy” by pharmaceutical companies to make a killing, to make a lot of money
out of this, I just don’t think that exists. I think there’s been past cases of pandemics,
serious, they’ve been serious enough to warrant investing in this type of research
today. This is true, but to address your first point,
like I said, I do think that the word “conspiracy” and “total invention” is going above and
beyond what, what people like myself might believe. And what I want to clarify and say
is that it’s clear that they have, these pharmaceuticals have a vested interest. In
the same way media has a vested interest in controversy. So, when you see things like
interviews with Presidents or politicians they are always asking the questions to fuel
fire, and doing things to gather attention of people that could in some way fatten their
pockets, and in terms of the last pandemic, pandemic, the one that comes to mind is 1918.
That was a horrendous killer. People were talking about the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
When you consider that with the World War. However, if we look at the leaps and bounds
that we made in medicine from then, it’s also as staggering as the numbers of people
that died then. I recently read an account of a man’s experience in a hospital, this
was I think after World War II or just before. So, another decade or two, after 1918, and
the conditions were horrendous, open air surgery, doctors wearing business suits, medical students
coming in and prodding people, entire communal rooms like we see today in travel hostels.
I think that things are a lot more calmed down now, and I think that shows in the fact
that as far as I know there has never been a comparable
pandemic to what they are predicting could be happening this year, this time around.
Certainly never in my life.