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Pfizer CEO Says People Who Spread Covid Vaccine Misinformation Are ‘Criminals'

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SEC Charges Pfizer with FCPA Violations - https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2012-2012-152htm

Pfizer to Pay $2.3 Billion for Fraudulent Marketing - https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...

Pfizer settles foreign bribery case with U.S. government - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pfizer-settlement-idUSBRE...

Pfizer accused of holding Brazil ‘to ransom’ over vaccine contract demands - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/10/p...

Pfizer Receives Inquiry From SEC Bribery Units - https://www.wsj.com/articles/pfizer-receives-inquiry-from-se...

Criminalizing speech is always an urge of the elites and establishment. Is it criminal to talk about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study? Are blacks correct to not trust the government? The study only ended in 1972 because of a leak to the press. Should we criminalize these leaks that spread "misinformation" on government funded studies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

In February if you had said "these vaccines will wane over time and won't prevent infection and transmission" it would have been labeled misinformation.

I agree, this guy is indeed a criminal.

> Bourla said Tuesday that life for many people can go "back to normal" once many of the unvaccinated get vaccinated.

"The only thing that stands between the new way of life and the current way of life is, frankly, hesitancy to vaccinations," he said.

Imagine still believing this after what's happened in Singapore, Denmark, Israel, on college campuses in the US, etc ....

Same guy in Aug 2021: "Every time that a variant appears in the world, our scientists are getting their hands around it. And they are researching to see if this variant can escape the protection of our vaccine. We haven't identified any yet, but we believe that it is likely that one day, one of them will emerge.". Somewhat confused here, I thought mentioning "variant" and "vaccine" in the same sentence is criminal antivaxxer conspiracy theory misinformation?

The world needs a cheat sheet at https://pfizer.com/covid with a handful of bullet points for correct speak and a handful for criminal misinformation. Even better, also an anonymous form to submit the names, addresses and workplaces of those who fail to internalize the distinction.

I know you’re being sarcastic but it’s not funny when these are the kind of policies those in power are actually enforcing.

I'm not even sarcastic, just dark. I am at a loss at what is the space of not-criminal discourse about covid vaccines. This seems an attempt to make covid vaccines a taboo topic, in which only pre-canned proclamations are permitted, preferably uttered only by people dressed in white labcoats with seven letters after their names. Let's drop the pretenses and give us the plebes the damn list of what we are allowed to say.

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