02-27-2023, 01:13 AM
There is a bizarre aspect to the pandemic, it made some people very very rich, because they were ready to act in the absence of actions by states. They had known about and heeded the warnings, reaping huge sums of money from sovereign states for the solution in the process.
One of the very early "canaries" that politicians ignored has become a Moderna billionaire!
Then politicians managed the pandemic based on economic costs, sacrificing lives to limit economic damage.
Yet if politicians had heeded the warning, and the issue was addressed by funding basic science, it would have been the sovereign states reaping the financial reward rather than managing the cost!
Who should we be jailing, some poor science schmuck who alerted the world of the virus, or the politicians who knew a pandemic was coming and did nothing costing us all billions of dollars and millions of lives?
One of the very early "canaries" that politicians ignored has become a Moderna billionaire!
Then politicians managed the pandemic based on economic costs, sacrificing lives to limit economic damage.
Yet if politicians had heeded the warning, and the issue was addressed by funding basic science, it would have been the sovereign states reaping the financial reward rather than managing the cost!
Who should we be jailing, some poor science schmuck who alerted the world of the virus, or the politicians who knew a pandemic was coming and did nothing costing us all billions of dollars and millions of lives?
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"