{"id":690,"date":"2021-04-02T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/?p=690"},"modified":"2022-08-06T18:20:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T17:20:09","slug":"short-notices-anti-vax-and-big-pharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/2021\/04\/02\/short-notices-anti-vax-and-big-pharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Notices &#8211; Anti-Vax and Big Pharma &#8211; A Conspiracy Too Far?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further to my post <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/2021\/04\/01\/short-notices-the-true-meaning-of-pharma-christmas\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"677\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The True Meaning Of Pharma Christmas<\/a> I just thought I&#8217;d share with you a little notion that&#8217;s been on my mind for several years, in fact since I first began to mock the anti-vax fuckwits and their absurd and dangerous paranoid conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What if the anti-vaxxers were all secretly, and perhaps unknowingly, working for Big Pharma?&nbsp; After all, what better way to increase sales and profits than to sponsor a cult dedicated to refusing and banning the cheapest, safest way to prevent terrible diseases?&nbsp; The tiny profits from a vaccine dose are vastly outweighed by the huge costs of medical treatment of the disease the vaccine prevents.&nbsp; If the disease results in hospitalisation then the minimum sales of therapeutics and equipment runs into many thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of times the cost of the vaccine.&nbsp; If I were the unethical (and the aver&#8217;s all affirm the companies are entirely immoral) CEO of a pharmaceutical company intent on increasing profits, I&#8217;d be pouring money into the anti-vaxx cranks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think about it&#8230;&#8230;..  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/category\/short-notices\/page\/26\/\" target=\"_blank\">Short Notices &#8211; What They Are<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to my post The True Meaning Of Pharma Christmas I just thought I&#8217;d share with you a little notion that&#8217;s been on my mind for several years, in fact since I first began to mock the anti-vax fuckwits and their absurd and dangerous paranoid conspiracy theories. What if the anti-vaxxers were all secretly, and perhaps unknowingly, working for Big Pharma?&nbsp; After all, what better way to increase sales and profits than to sponsor a cult dedicated to refusing and banning the cheapest, safest way to prevent terrible diseases?&nbsp; The tiny profits from a vaccine dose are vastly outweighed by the huge costs of medical treatment of the disease the vaccine prevents.&nbsp; If the disease results in hospitalisation then the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/2021\/04\/02\/short-notices-anti-vax-and-big-pharma\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-science","category-short-notices"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.control-g.co.uk\/plaintales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}