Yes, land should be owned by private people to do with as they please. If I want to pave over Yellowstone and put up a strip mall by god that's my right as an American, provided I've got enough money.
I didn’t say anything like that, just since what the founding fathers would’ve wanted came up I figured I’d point out that they probably would’ve wanted you to be able to go into the woods whether there was a government or not.
Their federal funding should be revoked and they should be audited every year by the SEC, for HR violations, and be a hotspot for any investigations based on whistleblower reports to various agencies imo.
They want to make a trillion dollars off a vaccine that was bought and paid for many times over by the federal government. They had been trying to find other treatments for years in other avenues with no success. They don’t seem to be bringing much new innovation either, just milking this one treatment with minor tweaks between one strain and the next.
Yeah, the information in the article is basically meaningless. It doesn’t matter how much the government gave Moderna if there’s no mention of the total development costs (which I have been unable to find the actual numbers for).
The article also confirms that the claim is wrong, but they take a super roundabout way of getting there. The claim was that $2.5b was the total cost of development, the truth is that the $2.5b was for both development and to purchase vaccines
Pretty much every drug developed in the US has some amount of government spending behind it, but that certainly doesn’t mean that the government pays for all of it or that the pharma companies don’t deserve to make a profit on their products.
From what I recall reading a year or two ago, funding was pretty much 1:1 with their development costs for mRNA research over the past decade. And even if it is not 1:1, it is a hell of a lot different then the government only throwing them the $80 million or so it costs to get through trials. The $2.5 billion was not part of the purchase agreements with the US government. That agreement gave the US government the right to purchase vaccines at $16 per dose which was not too different from the EU’s price of $19 per dose.
Yes, most drugs being developed have some government funding. Moderna’s vaccine is different because it was overwhelmingly funded by the government. Pfizer charged similar rates for their vaccine but refused government funding for it. Any drug that receives government funding should be severely limited on the profit they can make on it especially if it was largely paid for by the government.
Mine was… A couple of hundred in AUD? And managed to get it at 31 too. Knew I never ever wanted kids, had a letter from my psych and the doctor asked me a few questions and said “Yeah, I get it…”
Snip snip, some pain for about 5 days and all done. Don’t regret it one bit.
edit: Mine is technically reversible but from what I read the chances of that being successful drops each yeah.
Fair enough, that makes sense. I would have done the same. In our case, we wanted a kid (after 10 years of child-free marriage) and then my wife got an IUD, which should last until menopause, which is starting, so we should be in the clear.
Good to hear! Yeah they’re fairly liberal with giving vasectomies here, plus most are ‘microsurgery’ ones which are technically* reversible. I’ve heard trying to get women’s steralisation is SIGNIFICANTLY harder though unfortunately and a lot is “Oh, well you might want kids later!”
She wasn’t sterilized. An IUD isn’t sterilization, it’s long-term contraception. If we really wanted another kid, she could have it removed, which is relatively easy and painless (it involves pulling a string essentially). Her gynecologist suggested it after our daughter was born and she followed what her gynecologist suggested. It seems to have worked out. I don’t remember why it was suggested, but it was more than just ‘you won’t get pregnant again.’ I think something to do with regulating her period? I’d have to ask her and it’s kind of a weird thing to bring up out of the blue.
she voluntarily spent time with the likes of Ron Johnson and Ted Cruz rather than her grandchildren, for decades… So question is, how terrible are her grandchildren?
See, even the Senate can’t function without basic regulations. Just because we used to have freedom and decorum for generations, what makes people think an entire society should continue to be free of restriction and regulation? If individuals operate outside the established norms of a community, legislation is adopted to codify those norms.
The Senate was nonfunctional because someone wore shorts? I’m no ancap but I don’t think that this fixed a problem, nonetheless the problem with the Senate.
Yeah that was like 30 years overdue. She’s not an “icon for women in politics”, she’s an obstructionist sack of shit whose stubbornness left her own constituents with nothing to hope for other than her death.
I hope air traffic controllers stay home and we remember it’s the dumbass Republican’s fault. Stop negotiating with terrorists it’s NEVER enough. Like a crazy ex
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