A fascinating interview with Robert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer. I really liked going through this interview word by word and looking to see if he expresses ANY CONFIDENCE AT ALL in MRNA technology. He does not. Everybody knows at this point that the vaccines have been a total disaster and have not worked. But the CEOs have been going along saying "great success, great success!"
Look at this answer to the question about MRNA and look how many times he says "they" He is completely ready to jump ship on MRNA. "I didn't want to do it, "they" convinced me. "they, they, they" It's unbelievable!
QUESTION: And I read that because I want to get a little into the weeds here and the mRNA technology. When you and your colleagues were trying to decide which route to go down, the traditional vaccine route or the mRNA route, you write that it was, quote, "most counterintuitive to go the mRNA route," and yet you went that route. Explain why.
DR. BOURLA:" It was counterintuitive because Pfizer was mustering on the table, had very good experience and expertise with multiple technologies that could give a vaccine, and the Novartis that some of the vaccines are, we were very good in doing that. Protein vaccines, we were very good in doing that and plus many other technologies.
mRNA was a technology, but we had less experience, only two years working on this, and actually, mRNA was a technology that never delivered a single product until that day, not vaccine, not any other medicine. So it was very counterintuitive, and I was surprised when they suggested to me that this is the way to go, and I questioned it. And I asked them to justify how can you say something like that, but they came, and they were very, very convinced that this is the right way to go.
They felt that the two years of work on mRNA since 2018 together with BioNTech to develop the flu vaccine made them believe that the technology is mature and we are at the cusp of delivering a product.
So they convinced me. I followed my instinct that they know what they are saying. They are very good, and we made this very difficult decision at that time."
TRANSLATION: THEY DON'T WORK
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At the end of the interview, comes another question from the internet- asked thru the interviewer. Again, THE CEO OF PFIZER says this:
Q: This question comes also from Washington, D.C., from Marc Barbiere. He asks the question, "How will Pfizer adapt the mRNA technology to enhance preparedness for future threats?"
DR. BOURLA: "I think we should make sure that we adapt all technologies, and we are advancing many technologies. It's not clear that a future threat will be best handled with an mRNA technology or with a new type of technology that will be required and that will be way more tailored to this new threat.
So this is why I said before that what we need to do is to maintain our flexibility by maintaining a thriving life sciences ecosystem, and that's it's allows private. And we should not have any apprehension against the private sector when we understand that it was essential to save, let's say, the world right now.
But mRNA, I don't know if it will be for the next pandemic, but I know that it is a technology that has dramatic future. It's not panacea. It's not going to be the solution for every disease in the world, but we are just scratching the surface."
TRANSLATION: THEY DON'T WORK.
I’ll post some fantastic pics from my last week soon- stay tuned!
I don’t know if I even posted this video before -I shot it a year ago. Martha was riveted to this scene from the original Prince of Egypt. But I really don’t think she appreciated the dog being thrown overboard.
I just stumbled across this - I think it was some story that referenced Valiant Pharmaceuticals- and I said well, “Stuart Varney is a big fan of one of their products…”
I remember on the first take, I was rushing at the end and the way it turned out, made me laugh, so I just kept it in.
I showed it to Stuart later and he got to kick out of it
Thank you for reminding me. I wanted to talk about our post-show hangout in Memphis and here it is:
“Seneca”
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are.
We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger; Letters from a Stoic
“Epictetus”
“The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.”
— Epictetus
This is one of my favorite quotes.
I’ve always said that if you ‘walk like a Predator’, you never need be afraid. Because predators don’t attack predators.
In a bad neighborhood or bad part of town, if you walk and act like you know what you are doing, people leave you alone.
This also works in interpersonal relationships. If you are confident, people rarely question you, and you tend to go farther in life.
Even if the confidence is a ‘facade’, only you need to know that you have doubts.
“It ‘bears’ further”
Explanation…
I apologize for the quick ‘Bear’ post, but I was at Powell Ranger Station Idaho with an iffy signal.
For those of you whom were fans of the ‘Late Great Paul Harvey’;
Here is ‘The rest of the story’.
My lovely bride and I were on a 4+ hour Scoot ride through the Lolo pass of the Bitterroot mountains.
At or near the 5,233 ft summit of the pass is the Montana/Idaho border. We decided to turn around at ‘Powell’ Idaho, in 12 miles, as indicated by a mileage marker.
There is no ‘Powell Idaho’, there’s the ‘Powell Ranger station’, which has adjacent to it the ‘Powell Lodge’.
There is a lodge/Restaurant and it has surrounding log cabins. The area also has a ‘rustic’ convenience store gas station.
We stopped to stretch, I pumped fuel while @The_CINC went inside to grab a couple of cold drinks.
Once I finished fueling the Scoot, I found a shady spot to park it in, and I went inside the store.
The word ‘Store’ is a gracious description. ...
