Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%

I live in South Carolina as well, and I can confirm (I think you meant 2021 not 2020?). Most people in my city have been going about life as usual since ~ May if this year. Almost nobody wears masks. Everything is open. And guess what? We’re all good!

The sky isn’t falling. Hospitals aren’t being overrun. Life is good, and I can remember the last time I worried or had anxiety about Covid.

There seems to be a group of people who still believe we can ‘beat’ Covid. That somehow we make it go away, with endless restrictions. In reality, it is here to stay, and we will have to live with it for the rest of our lives.

Florida is essentially back to normal. Cashiers in most of the large grocery chains and ~50% of restaurant workers still wear masks, hit and miss in most other stores. Most people who come to the house don't wear them, for example, have had a contractor, electrician and cleaning crew at the house in the last week. Electrician wore a mask, no one else did. People are vaccinated who wanted it (I am), and optimally a booster will be freely available soon. Schools ended the mask requirement at least in my county a couple weeks ago.

Some businesses require their employees to all be vaccinated. Governor appears to be fighting against that, would not be surprised if those same businesses just don't hire unvaccinated people going forward and the situation is resolved via attrition.

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Pfizer also made Celebrex, the anti-inflammatory that they knew caused health issues but they buried them and claimed it was safe.

We are living in an upside down world now. All of a sudden the drug companies are the "good" guys. Since when did the drug companies suddenly become the heroes?

https://corporatewatch.org/pfizer-six-scandals-to-remember/

1986: Pfizer had to withdraw an artificial heart valve from the market after defects led to it being implicated in over 300 deaths. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) withdrew its approval for the product in 1986 and Pfizer agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation after multiple lawsuits were brought against it.

2003: Pfizer has long been condemned for profiteering from AIDS drugs. In 2003 for example, it walked away from a licencing deal for its Rescriptor drug that would have made it cheaper for poorer countries.

2011: Pfizer was forced to pay compensation to families of children killed in the controversial Trovan drug trial. During the worst meningitis epidemic seen in Africa, in 1996, Pfizer ran a trial in Nigeria their new drug Trovan. Five of the 100 children who took Trovan died and it caused liver damage, while it caused lifelong disabilities in those who survived. But another group of 100 children were given the conventional “gold standard” meningitis antibiotic as a “control” group for comparison. Six of them also tragically died because, the families said, Pfizer had given them less than the recommended level of the conventional antibiotic in order to make Trovan look more effective.

2012: Pfizer had to pay around $1billion to settle lawsuits claiming its Prempro drug caused breast cancer. Prempro was used in hormone replacement therapy, usually for women going through the menopause. The settlements came after six years of trials and hardship for the women affected.

2013: Pfizer paid out $273 million to settle over 2,000 cases in the US that accused its smoking treatment drug Chantix of provoking suicidal and homicidal thoughts, self harm and severe psychological disorders. Pfizer was also accused of improperly excluding patients with a history of depression or other mental disturbances from trials for the drug. Later, in 2017, a coroner in Australia ruled that the drug had contributed to a man’s suicide. The man’s mother campaigned to change the label on the drug.

2020: Pfizer reached an agreement with thousands of customers of its depo-testosterone drug in 2018 after they sued it for increasing the likelihood of numerous issues, including heart attacks.

I appreciate you explaining that.. allow me to explain something to you.

The parent statement was not literal, making your expansion meaningless and honestly a little stunning.