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Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Daniel Bergner that questioned mandatory psychiatric treatment.
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Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Daniel Bergner that questioned mandatory psychiatric treatment.
Yves here. Aside from Bill Gates’ unsavory role in defending the right of Big Pharma to rake in profits at the expense of the public during a massive public health crisis, there is also the wee problem of determining what selling a vaccine at cost would amount to. As a client put it, pointing to a conference room chair, “What does that chair cost? I can make it cost whatever I want to.” Specifically, big companies have considerable latitude as to the costs and overheads they allocate to products and businesses (that’s one reason they regularly have to call in McKinsey, the internal pr...