Poland told Pfizer to stick it elsewhere. Now Pfizer’s suing for failure to pay for all the jabs . . . that Poland didn’t use. Or take. Or even allow in the country.
Pfizer’s a big company, of course, but you know we’re not talking about Celebrex or Fentanyl Citrate or Sonata here. We’re talking about The Jab. The one developed with BioNTech and contracted for by governments around the world.
As near as I can make out, it’s a breach of contract case.
But with a wrinkle.
Poland put a halt to pushing Pfizer’s COVID vaccine in April of 2022, and the people generally seem just fine with it, seeing as how they have a much, much lower rate of excess deaths now than does, say, Sweden, which pushed the vax for far longer.
But why couldn’t Poland simply stop usage of the jab?
After all, a customer shouldn’t be forced to take a medication, right?
Well, the contract was not between Pfizer and Poles individually — this is the modern, statist world, after all — or even collectively, corporately, through the state. The contract was between Pfizer and the European Union!
And elements were secret.
The Polish government, placed on the hook for the drug, was not allowed to see the whole contract.
Think of this as just one of the many ways that politicians who bash Big Pharma bent over backwards to give Big Pharma cushy, cushy deals.
But in court, how will those secret clauses play? I suspect that Pfizer’s prognosis may be negative.
Which would be a healthy outcome.
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Once again, we see that a technocratic order produces results of exactly the sort that its advocates imaginatively predicted would eventually come from an economy unsteered by some combination of regulation with direct socialism.
In this case, a large firm has used the state to grasp powers that none has had or could have in an economic order of laissez faire.
Few of those advocates of technocracy will have the strength of character to repent. The vast majority will instead once again either insist that the toads taste better than any alternative, or retreat into sullen silence.
If the contract was between Pfizer and the EU then why are Poles being targeted? What commitments were made by the Polish government? I guess that’s all in the secret clauses? One thing we can be sure of: the parties will come to an agreement since other people’s money (taxes) will be paid out to Pfizer for its useless product.