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kpete

(71,953 posts)
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 09:41 AM Mar 2021

Modern GOP in a nutshell.



Good time to remind everyone that Pfizer did not accept $ for vaccine development.

In July, Pfizer got a $1.95 billion deal with the government’s Operation Warp Speed, the multiagency effort to rush a vaccine to market, to deliver 100 million doses of the vaccine. The arrangement is an advance-purchase agreement, meaning that the company won’t get paid until they deliver the vaccines. Pfizer did not accept federal funding to help develop or manufacture the vaccine, unlike front-runners Moderna and AstraZeneca.

Pfizer has distanced itself from Mr. Trump and Operation Warp Speed. In an interview on Sunday, Kathrin Jansen, a senior vice president and the head of vaccine research and development at Pfizer, said, “We were never part of the Warp Speed,” adding, “we have never taken any money from the U.S. government, or from anyone.”

https://www.newsweek.com/pfizer-covid-vaccine-operation-warp-speed-trump-pence-1546024
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AverageOldGuy

(1,508 posts)
3. Interesting choice of words . . . was it intentional?
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 10:43 AM
Mar 2021

"Modern GOP in a NUTshell".

I see what you did there!!

Hugin

(32,989 posts)
4. I didn't realize the former guy was doging responsibility that early...
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 10:52 AM
Mar 2021

Even before most of the stay-at-home orders had been issued.

Eye opening.

ancianita

(35,901 posts)
6. Which totally disqualifies them from adulthood,which means their only power is take & teardown power
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 11:28 AM
Mar 2021

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
8. Oh for God's sake, we have him on tape saying he knew the virus was a threat
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 11:54 AM
Mar 2021

But at the same time he was telling the public the opposite.

How many times will we have to relitigate the same facts? The Big Lie Factory aka GOP will feed us anything and rely on our apathy and our short attention spans to rewrite history. Sad thing is, most times they win this game.

FakeNoose

(32,527 posts)
11. Yes it's lucky that Bob Woodward was doing his new book at that time
Sat Mar 13, 2021, 12:11 PM
Mar 2021

If he hadn't been taping interviews, Chump would never have said those things so candidly. I guess he forgot that Woodward is first and foremost a reporter.

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