{"id":3210,"date":"2021-05-10T20:17:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T00:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2021-05-10T22:07:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T02:07:38","slug":"wont-somebody-think-of-the-shareholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=3210","title":{"rendered":"Won&#8217;t Somebody Think Of The Shareholders?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/vaccinepatentpig\/vaccinepatentpig.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/vaccinepatentpig\/vaccinepatentpig650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"1065\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>No doubt that day last week will go down as &#8220;Black Wednesday&#8221;<\/strong> for all the death&#8217;n&#8217;misery profiteers out there: the day the US Trade Representative&#8217;s office announced its support for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/05\/05\/us-backs-covid-vaccine-intellectual-property-waivers-to-expand-access-to-shots-worldwide.html\" target=\"_blank\">waiver of patent protection<\/a> for COVID19 vaccines developed by Pfizer, Biontech, Novavax, and Moderna \u2014 and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNBCnow\/status\/1390023742194061312\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street crapped its pants.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNBCnow\/status\/1390023742194061312\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0px none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/vaccinepatentpig\/cnbc-vaccine-shares-plunge-tweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a>After week after week after week of hell raised about places like India, where they&#8217;re dying like flies and can&#8217;t get enough vaccine because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberationnews.org\/vaccine-apartheid-u-s-puts-world-at-risk-for-big-pharma-profits\/\" target=\"_blank\">American corporations, true to form, are hoarding the supply and the IP protection<\/a> \u2014 the US Trade Rep has decided that waiving patent protection on vaccines during a worldwide pandemic might be a pretty good idea after all&#8230; and this hasn&#8217;t stopped Wall Street from doing the voodoo that it do so well \u2014 setting shares of all four of those companies dropping like a rock on Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>Buddy, can you paradigm?<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/vaccinepatentpig\/vaccinepatentpig.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.1mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt that day last week will go down as &#8220;Black Wednesday&#8221; for all the death&#8217;n&#8217;misery profiteers out there: the day the US Trade Representative&#8217;s office announced its support for a waiver of patent protection for COVID19 vaccines developed by Pfizer, Biontech, Novavax, and Moderna \u2014 and Wall Street crapped its pants. After week after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037,44,20],"tags":[349,1161,1163,1158,1160,1162,1159,1164],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-globalization","category-health-care","tag-wall-street","tag-biontech","tag-ip","tag-moderna","tag-novavax","tag-patents","tag-pfizer","tag-ustr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}