Russell Brand: The pandemic created at least 40 new big pharma billionaires

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The pandemic created at least 40 new big pharma billionaires. Pharmaceutical corporations like Moderna and Pfizer made $1000 of profit every second from the COVID-19 vaccine. More than 2/3 of congress received campaign funding from pharmaceutical companies in the 2020 election.
Pfizer chairman Albert Bourla told Time Magazine in July 2020 that his company was developing a COVID vaccine for the good of humanity, not for money and of course Pfizer mase $100 billion in profit in 2022. You, the American public funded the development of that, the German public funded the BioNTech vaccine, when it came to the profits, they took the profits. When it comes to the funding, you paid for the funding...
If you have an economic system in which pharmaceutical companies benefit hugely from medical emergencies, where a military industrial complex benefits from war, where energy companies benefit from energy crisis, you are going to generate states of perpetual crisis, where the interests of ordinary people separate from the interests of the elite.

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