☕️ GOLDEN GEESE ☙ Tuesday, December 19, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Pfizer just bought the Golden Goose; another vaccine conspiracy theory just became conspiracy fact; and San Fransisco's brand-new, woke Office of Reparations faces an unfortunate setback.

Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! It’s now less than a week till Christmas. Hopefully your stockings have been hung by the chimney with care and, in New York City, hopefully the rodents of unusual size are settling down for a nice winter’s rest. While I and the rest of the Childers clan are bopping around for our last full day of holiday travel, I have a quick pre-written roundup here to help get you by. Hang in there; I’ll be back in two days!

To Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, are you the Golden Goose, the eggs, or the farmer? Let’s find out! Today’s mini-roundup includes: the latest vaccine conspiracy theory to become conspiracy fact (but don’t hold your breath for any apologies); Pfizer’s astounding acquisition of a high-tech turbo-cancer drugmaker, and its implications; and the tragic collision between woke San Fransisco’s Office of Reparations and its failing budget.

🗞💬 WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY 💬🗞

💉 Now they tell us! Chalk up yet another one for the problematic conspiracy theorists and the hated misinformers. FactCheck.Org ran a belated story last week with this headline:

The word “generally” is doing a whole lot of work in that headline. FactCheck described the terrifying shedding phenomenon — the barest mention of which used to get you thrown straight into Facebook jail — as now being just the most natural, most common-sense thing in the world:

“When a pathogen replicates in the body, it can be shed in respiratory secretions or in stool. We call that shedding,” Benjamin Lopman, professor of epidemiology and environmental health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, told us in an email. “In some instances, it is possible for shed (vaccine viruses) to be transmitted to other persons. However, since (vaccine viruses) are safe, this generally does not present a problem,” he said, referring to live attenuated vaccines.

Transmission of shed influenza vaccine viruses from vaccinated to unvaccinated people has been documented, according to the agency, “but has not been reported to be associated with serious illness,” the CDC explained.

In a 2006 clinical study among 197 children, ages 9 months to 3 years, who received a vaccine or placebo, 80% of the vaccine recipients shed at least one vaccine strain, and one transmission was documented.

(FYI,) the CDC recommends that everyone in a household with an immunocompromised person take particular care to wash their hands after changing the diaper of an infant who received rotavirus vaccine.

Generally! Generally shedding does not present a problem. This is an airtight conclusion based on the totally precise and not circumstantial fact that serious shedding illness has “not been reported” to the CDC. There you go, that’s Science, science with a capital-S. So sHuT uP! And FactCheck only asked its experts about shedding related to old-fashioned attenuated-virus vaccines, so for those of you wondering about mRNA shedding, FactCheck’s reporter got temporary amnesia or snow blindness or something and failed to mention those in the article at all.

So … the shedding issue has now reached Stage Four. Here is the template for the Five Stages of Woke Grief (spoiler: all five stages are different types of denial). Here’s how woke, virtue-signaling minds slowly process information contradicting what they’ve been told to believe about some uncomfortable and undeniable “thing,” like vaccine shedding or vaccine-induced myocarditis:

1. The thing doesn’t happen. There’s no evidence! It’s just a conspiracy theory.

2. It might’ve happened once or twice, but it’s anecdotal, and correlation isn’t causation.

3. Okay, maybe it happens sometimes, but it’s super-rare and basically doesn’t happen.

4. It’s not rare. It’s normal. Scientists always said it happens and it’s nothing to worry about.

5. So it happens a lot. It’s good that it’s happening!

Like I said, woke grief over shedding has zoomed past Stage Four and is racing down the slopes toward Stage Five. There’s only one stage to go, and then we can find out why shedding is actually good for us. It’s probably because you get vaccinated without having to get pricked by a needle, plus your insurance company won’t even pay a dime. Free vaccines! Wheeee! I can’t wait to find out.

Hey, now at least, when the doctor asks whether I want my flu/RSV/shingles/orneryness vaccine, I can just say thanks, I got shed on at the office and I’m good. My antibodies are all charged up!

💉 Last week the pharmaceutical industry trade press ran a huge, hair-raising story largely ignored by corporate media. BioProcess International ran it on Thursday headlined, “Done and Dusted: Pfizer completes $43bn Seagen deal.”

Seagen (stock ticker SGEN) owns 25 FDA-approved high-tech cancer drugs — especially aggressive, treatment-resistant types of cancer. The deal was first announced back in March, but has been awaiting regulatory approval. Here’s how Bloomberg then described Seagen:

Seagen is a leader in developing a type of medicine called antibody-drug conjugates, or ADCs. These precision medicines deliver cancer-killing drugs so potent they might otherwise be too toxic to use. The delivery mechanism uses antibodies to deposit a strong concentration of drug directly at a tumor site, which may increase efficacy with fewer side effects. Seagen’s portfolio will double Pfizer’s pipeline of early-stage experimental cancer therapies, the company said.

ADC’s combine two existing technologies: monoclonal antibodies and chemotherapy. In summary, a little bit of toxic chemotherapy is sprinkled into an antibody that mostly targets cancer cells. Once the antibody reaches the cancer, in a mechanism that is not entirely clear to me it smashes the poison pellet against the cancer cell’s wall, the cell eats the poison, and then dies.

Because ADC antibodies are designed for cancer cells, they mostly avoid poisoning people’s healthy cells. Because of this targeted approach, ADCs reportedly have fewer and less severe side effects and can risk using stronger poison compared to traditional chemotherapy.

No pun intended, cancer is a growth market. You might even call it the new gold rush. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla did. In a call with financial reporters, Bourla literally described buying Seagen as “buying the goose that lays the golden eggs:”

“We think this really changes dramatically the oncology presence of Pfizer and makes it one of a kind,” Bourla said on a call with analysts. “We aren’t acquiring the golden eggs, we are buying the goose that lays the golden eggs.”

Seagen is the goose, cancer is the golden eggs, and we have to eat the eggs.

Ominously, Businesswire quoted Bourla explaining that, for some reason, Pfizer expects a THIRD of us to get cancer. (I tried, but could find no official source supporting his figures.):

“Cancer remains a leading cause of death, and one in three people in the U.S. will receive a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime. With one of the largest investments in Pfizer’s history, we are going all in on cancer with the goal of delivering breakthroughs that drastically improve the lives of people with cancer,” said Dr. Albert Bourla, Pfizer Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “We believe Oncology will be a significant growth driver for Pfizer.”

That mind-blowing number (33%) is also coincidentally half of the number people who got the shot (67%). Just saying.

There were several remarkable features of Pfizers’ acquisition of Seagen:

1. Pfizer paid an astounding $43 billion for the cancer drugmaker — over 98% of what Elon Musk paid for Twitter ($44 billion).

2. Actually, Pfizer paid more than $43 billion, maybe a lot more. To “resolve” the FTC’s concerns with the deal, Pfizer also agreed to donate all future U.S. royalties from its cancer drug Bavencio (avelumab) to the American Association for Cancer Research. (Somebody should check who the FTC just made rich over at the AACR.)

3. It was the largest pharma acquisition of any kind since 2020.

4. Seagen was only valued at $14 billion, at most. Pfizer paid more than three times Seagen’s closing price per share, not including the other deal elements.

5. As I mentioned, Seagen’s drugs are designed to treat resistant turbo cancers.

Below you’ll see Seagen’s young (former) CEO, William Canestaro, now an involuntary billionaire. Various articles reported Canestaro opposed selling to Pfizer, which could explain the outrageously high sale price. (I couldn’t find a source explaining why Canestaro opposed selling.)

Before it vanishes into the Internet’s circular file, the National Cancer Institute’s web page still says that, before 2020, cancer rates were steady and mortality was *steadily decreasing.* Don’t let them gaslight you into thinking they’ve been on the rise for decades.

Before 2020, new cancer rates were stable, not growing, and were decreasing for many types of cancer including lung cancer, brain cancer, and non-Hodgkin lymphomas:

Meanwhile, mortality was steadily falling:

For some unexplained reason, the NCI last updated its cancer statistics on September 25th, 2020 — right before the jab campaigns started — and has not updated them since. One wonders on what the NCI’s statistics office’s budget has been spent for the last three+ years.

A really lucrative business model occurred to me while I was writing this up. Purely hypothetically, you could sell a defective — but liability-free — product to two-thirds of Americans, which would create some horrible problem for about a third of them. Then you could make a bunch of fabulously expensive, fully-patented, unimaginably-profitable high-tech products to deal with the very problems that the first product created. (And you’d really start making money when sold your patented solutions to the rest of the world who also bought your first defective product.)

Of course, you would have to be downright evil to go for a business model like that, but hey.

🔥 The woke world cried itself to sleep last week when the San Fransisco Examiner ran a hangdog story headlined, “SF reparations plan dealt blow by budget cuts.”

It was a blow all right. San Fransisco Mayor London Breed released her streamlined 2024 budget this month, and in light of a projected major deficit in 2024 tax revenues, the Mayor had to put the City’s budget on a diet. About $75 million worth of diet. It wasn’t easy, difficult decisions had to be made, and some people won’t get any snacks.

One of the saddest cuts was to San Francisco’s first-ever Office of Reparations. Two million dollars had been earmarked for the program, which had finally passed after years of activism by certain people. Certain people, that is, who want a license to legally steal other citizens’ property.

The new Office of Reparations suffered from not really having any kind of recognizable plan. It didn’t have a business plan or even really know how much money it needed, except of course that it was going to be very expensive. Office Supervisor Shamann Walton originally demanded $50 million dollars to create the Office of Reparations. Later he reluctantly reduced his request to only $10 million. Then he compromised some more and ultimately agreed to only $2 million.

It was a very flexible plan. And, you have to start somewhere.

But then reality rudely interrupted all of Shamann’s plans, or pre-plans, or ideas about how to get started pre-planning. San Fransisco’s budget disaster reflected a collision between two ideological trains. The controlled demolition of downtown has hollowed out the city’s tax revenues, leaving no money for reparations ideas.

In other words, the reparations train jumped the track and crashed right into the controlled-demolition-of-downtown train racing the other way.The political bodies are still laying all over the tracks.

Have a terrific Tuesday! C&C will roundup some more great stuff for you tomorrow and then I’ll be back in the saddle on Thursday morning. See you then!

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