The Biden administration has implemented new travel restrictions in response
to the Omicron variant anyone traveling internationally to the United States.
Whether it be a foreign traveler or a United States citizen needs to have
a negative Covid test within 24 hours of the flight to the United States.
This new testing timeframe will apply to everyone regardless of nationality or
vaccination status.
The plan outlined by the White House website says.
Documentation of having recovered from Covid-19 in the past 90 days is also
accepted.
There is still a requirement for
foreign travelers arriving in the United States to be fully vaccinated.
Now, before the new rule went into effect,
all vaccinated travelers were required to test within three days of their departure.
Now, Biden also announced that the federal mask mandate requiring travelers
to wear masks and airports, on planes and other modes of public
transportation such as trains and busses, has been extended through March 18.
Now the Omicron variant,
although we don't know enough about it yet, it's still being tested.
We're still trying to figure out whether or not the current vaccines
are still effective against it, has been spreading pretty rapidly and
there are already cases of this variant here in the United States.
Now even children as young as older than two years old will have to get
tested if they're traveling to the U S.
So as long as the kid is two years old and older, he or she will have to get tested.
Now these travel restrictions, sure make a lot of sense.
But it's like putting a burden on a gushing wound.
Because the real problem here, is that we keep seeing the emergence of new variants.
And the reason why we see the emergence of new variants, is because poorer countries,
developing countries still have not had the same access to the coronavirus
vaccines that we've seen in richer countries like the United States or
EU countries.
So, just to give you more details on that,
big pharma does not wanna waive the vaccine patents.
They do not want to make it readily available to everyone,
even though we needed to be readily available to everyone in order to finally
effectively combat coronavirus.
But big pharma is looking out for their profits.
And so in the first week of the Omicron variant,
which sparked global fears of a new wave of infections.
A small handful of investors and executives with Pfizer and Moderna,
currently the main makers of Covid 19 vaccines.
Saw over $10 billion in new wealth, with the Moderna's CEO alone,
adding over $800 million to his personal fortune.
So that's why they refuse to waive the vaccine patent, by the way with
the help of EU countries, which is absolutely hideous and disgusting.
And it turns out even with all those fears,
that people have in regard to the new variant,
investors are like to checking this means that the pandemic is gonna be extended.
This means that Pfizer and Moderna get to make more money,
based on data compiled by Global Justice.
Now, just 8 top Pfizer and Moderna shareholders added a combined $10.30,
I'm sorry, $10.31 billion dollars to their fortunes last week after
stock prices soared in response to the emergence of the new variant.
>> So I understand how this vicious cycle for
the planet is a great virtuous cycle of profit for the drug companies.
So they protect their profit margins by not giving a cheaper version to
the rest of the world that they could afford.
And so, they're gonna have to pay through the nose and they can't pay that much.
And so there's not a lot of people are gonna get vaccinated the rest of
the world.
Then more variants will break out, and they'll have to come up with new booster
shots for the new variants, starting a whole another cycle of profit for them.
That is why the stock market rationally reacted the way that it did,
owe their plan to get millions of people killed by denying them the vaccine and
causing more variants worked.
Now we're gonna need their vaccine even more.
They're gonna be able to charge us more.
So give them another $10 billion just for each shareholders,
let alone everyone else.
Now there was, but we're fair, were fair,
some people were like, hey, you know, that's CEO of Moderna,
Stephanie Bancel, cashed out some of our- >> Stephanie Bancel.
>> Stephanie Bancel sorry, cashed out some of their, stock options this week.
You see that, no, the cash out was of 3.19 million dollars.
So you might think, well it's $3 million was a lot of money.
No, they made 800 million dollars that week.
Is it a guy or a girl by the way?
>> It's a guy.
So he made $800 million.
So casting 3 million's just chump change.
That's what he would find in his couch in one week, by the way,
he made 800 million in one week.
And so overall he now has $6,876,528,
630 in just the stock that he owns okay.
And so now is he going to be able to
spend that in his lifetime?
No, there's no humanly way to spend that much money.
But he thinks, More people died all across the world.
Yes, I got another $800 million.
And now I will feel that my genitalia slightly larger than fighters
are Johnson and Johnson CEO.
Okay, so I feel I have moved up in the Forbes 400 list.
I am now number 127.
I feel so good.
How many millions died.
Who cares, who cares and who cares?
>> And look, Moderna has profited more.
The vaccine has been a game changer, more for Moderna compared to Pfizer, because
Pfizer has had other big name drugs that have been incredibly lucrative for Pfizer.
For Moderna the coronavirus vaccine has been a complete game changer.
And so as a result they don't wanna do away with or lift the vaccine patents,
which would of course threaten their future profits,
even though they've made a tremendous amount of profits already.
And as team burly from the Global justice now group says,
pharmaceutical companies knew that grotesque levels of vaccine
inequality would create prime conditions for new variants to emerge.
They let Covid-19 spread unabated in low and middle income countries.
And now the same pharma execs and
shareholders are making a killing from a crisis they helped to create.
It's utterly obscene which is why pharmaceutical companies should be
nationalized.
This should be considered, I mean this is a public health issue.
This shouldn't be something where profit motive is a huge part of the equation.
And it has been from the very beginning, real quick drink.
And I wanted to share.
On May 5th of this year, Joe Biden said that he is in favor of lifting the vaccine
patents right, to allow for developing countries to manufacture their own.
Now he said that he's in favor of doing it, but he hasn't really pushed for it.
EU countries refuse
to do it right.
EU countries do not believe that the vaccine patent should be lifted, and
that's been a disaster.
And by the time we hit May 6th so
a day after Biden said that he endorses lifting the patents,
we had globally speaking 3,408,814 COVID deaths worldwide.
That number has now gone up to 5,254,624 deaths, okay.
So just to give you the difference there,
since Biden has announced that we should lift the vaccine patents,
1,845,810 people worldwide have died from coronavirus.
>> So understand, Biden said we should lift the waivers.
But they didn't, they didn't, so they denied the vaccine to the whole world.
What Biden said it's just marketing, it didn't mean a word of it.
He never put any pressure on anyone to lift the waivers etc, or to do the waiver.
Okay so, guys 1.8 million people died across the world, so
that our drug company executives could make more money.
>> That's right?
>> So now I actually don't agree with we should nationalize them.
But what I do think is,
there's no question that they use government money and
government scientists to help them develop those vaccines.
Now the government represents all of us, the taxpayers, did we get those profits?
No it's, so weird.
And the only thing that explains it, is bribery.
So they say now government you should use your money and give it to me.
And then when I develop a vaccine, I have no responsibility to you or
to any other government or to any humanity at all.
Okay, I'm gonna make the money, and then I'm not gonna share it with the world,
and I'm gonna let millions of people die, okay?
And then you don't get to say anything about it, why?
Cuz I gave more money to American politicians than any other industry,
and that's a fact.
>> Yeah. >> So these drug companies use our money,
use our resources, and then look I don't begrudge them making profits guys.
I actually do believe in the profit motive, okay.
But they've already made billions upon, billions upon,
billions and they actually by the way we'll make more billions,
if they sell to the rest of the world, they just won't make as many billions.
If they sell it at the lower prices instead of the higher prices.
And they're saying for the extra billions of dollars, that they don't need it all.
And they already got massive profits.
It was already an excellent thing for them,
that the government helped them develop these vaccines.
But they say no because of our rapacious greed,
look at these these CEOs by the way, they could have been worldwide heroes.
They developed the vaccine, companies developed a vaccine in conjunction with
the US government, and could have saved millions of lives.
But they chose instead to be worldwide villains.
Look they're gonna look back at history, and they're not gonna
be able to believe that we allowed millions, millions of people to die.
So that drug companies could make slightly larger profits.
>> Now I disagree.
Not only will they believe it, I think things will continue to devolve,
because the profit motive reign supreme in the United States worldwide.
That is the model I think.
Look when it comes to life saving vaccines, when it comes to pharmaceutical
drugs that people need to survive, there shouldn't be a profit motive.
But there will continue to be, and as long as there is we're gonna run into
the same problem over and over and over again.