It's the circle of life.
Big Pharma buys everybody in sight ( campaign donations, education grants, media show sponsorships, job promises for govmnt regulators etc)
In turn, Big Pharma receives protection, legislation, media narratives that helps them push whatever product they want to sell at the expense of the public
Big Pharma makes billions from the sale of product, which helps them buy everybody in sight.
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Want to end covid histeria? Simple. Force Big Pharma to sell vaccines at cost. No profiting from public emergencies. Within a week, vaccines will no longer be needed and in fact we'll magically be informed they are not that great and there is no point is producing them.