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This happened when Hostess went out of business and people were selling a box of Twinkies for $20. I don't recall anyone shutting down the sellers that were gouging the public and no one was thrown in jail over it?
Is there any documentation of this rumor? No one has even posted a link from the German newspaper! I'm no Trump supporter, either.
Well, whadda ya know? I found this over on NPR: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-and-us...-OSfxHekrNTB94 "The prominent German media outlet reported, citing unnamed sources, that US President Donald Trump was offering large sums of money to German scientists working on a vaccine. He wanted to secure exclusive rights to their work, the newspaper reported. . . CureVac declined to comment to Die Welt. The company is based in the southwestern German city of Tübingen and works with the Paul Ehrlich Institute, linked with the German Health Ministry. It also has sites in Frankfurt and the US city of Boston. . . On Sunday, however, the head of CureVac's biggest investor said that an exclusive contract with the US was out of the question."
So, we don't really know if this happened or not, and if it did, the company is not going along with it.
ETA: I was writing this post as ditchoc posted.
So offering a bribe doesn’t matter if the person you’re bribing has the ethics to refuse it?
What are you talking about? Aspirin is dirt cheap. Thanks to capitalism, I don't need to shop around, that's the point. There is absolutely no good reason for a hospital to charge anything over a few bucks for a single aspirin. Packaging costs? It is not rocket science. Why should it cost more to package 1 single aspirin vs an entire bottle of them?
I understand the single aspirin is going to cost more per unit, but what they typically charge is far and above the cost of an entire bottle. That's called price gouging, but I don't see anyone trying to shut down hospitals over it. Instead, the government does everything they can to support this level of price gouging. Why does the government get to pick winners and losers? That's not how free market capitalism works.
This goes back to my original response to you:
"But you need to understand how a hospital works. The cost of running a hospital is distributed across all its services. Some services are available at a discount, while others are available at a premium. If you were to purchase Aspirin at the hospital pharmacy, it wouldn't be $10/pill and it would be readily available."
You simply have no idea how a hospital works and, as a result, you are unable to grasp a very simple concept. You can keep refusing to learn, but it doesn't change the facts. Hospitals are not price gouging Aspirin and you would understand why if you tried to learn something for a minute.
Again, this has nothing to do with the OP. Stop trying to go offtopic.
What is one to think of rumors that Corona is the result of an accident at a Wuhan lab specialized on biological warfare?
According to this guy, a university in North Carolina and Fort Dietrich are also involved in that mess:
This happened when Hostess went out of business and people were selling a box of Twinkies for $20. I don't recall anyone shutting down the sellers that were gouging the public and no one was thrown in jail over it?
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