Funny Picture Thread

[Almighty1]

Huh - how is that funny?

Drug companies do not cure diseases but treat them. Their research finds better treatments e.g. for cancer.

As a result of many drugs or immunisations, so diseases have been virtually eradicated but none have ever been 100% eliminated.

The above is just fake news garbage - usual boring attacks on big drug companies daying they have a vested financial interest in not curing diseases.

Whether something is funny or not depends on the individual reading it. No different than people finding things that happen to other people as funny as it depends on the perspective similar to people finding how people got killed in cartoons as funny. Atleast it is nothing like the modified image of the favorite holiday candy where in Florida, USA - it's listed as Meth earlier in this thread, some people might read it and it could have a bad influence.

It basically goes back to the first day of medical school... a cured patient is a loss customer. Pfizer is marketing that they are celebrating 175 years and claims to basically have been involved in polio and small pox as seen at Vaccines | Pfizer | Pfizer, which are the only 2 diseases to ever been cured except with polio, they were not the developer but the contract manufacturer for one of the two developed remedies similar to TSMC makes NVIDIA video chips. For the other developed remedy, Eli Lilly was the biggest mass marker producer. Both remedies were donated to the public. As for Small Pox, this was more of a global effort and the company involved was Parke-Davis which was late 1970s or 1980 that later got bought by Warner-Lambert which was then bought by Pfizer in 2000 so in other words, it happened 20 years before it was even part of Pfizer and not during the time after they were part of Pfizer. It's similar to if Microsoft for example claiming they sold toilet paper when that was actually what happened at Nokia before they got into making mobile phones before they were even owned by Microsoft. Drug companies are interested in providing treatments that will have repeating old customers and new customers. They have no interest to provide a cure for anything as shareholders care about the long term profits and the bottom line, not something that will only sell once to each individual of the population. So instead of shouting fake news, it didn't say not one single disease but killed many people which would have actually been a statement that said something bad about the company. So there is nothing inaccurate about it as there is nothing from Pfizer that was researched and developed by Pfizer that cured a disease yet as the closest they got was contract manufacturing and that's only for 1 of the 2 things they claimed as mentioned above. It could be that their treatments are so good that it kept everyone alive that a cure is not needed since if the treatment allows one to live to 100 from 35 with a regular normal everyday life, it would not matter if it was not a cure. Always good to look at things from different perspectives and being open minded. And ofcourse they survived 175 years which is something to celebrate as many companies would have been long gone. Not to mention, if there were real cures for anything, would we still need hospitals, medical professionals as they would all be gone too as all those depend on both old and new customers. Look what happened to the film photography industry when digital photography came out. Even mobile phones if it is fast and might be 8 years old, you may think you can use it forever but all it takes is a minimum OS version required for a app and you will have to buy a new one in order to use the app.

 

[Almighty1]

If they ever find a drug to cure cancer reliably, they won't hide it. On the contrary it will become viral on the Internet.

That depends on who finds the drug and does the actual development and not the manufacturing as it could be donated to the public. Will it happen is a different issue because it's similar to the car manufacturer Tucker. The big three basically killed it because they have the resources. This is a better article to tell you why it will not happen as Drug Discovery and Development:

Opinion | It's Official! Curing Patients Is Bad for Business

Milton Packer describes the end result of profit-dominated drug development

www.medpagetoday.com

As far as cures are concerned, there is no saying it will never happen as it could be 5 years from now, 100 years from now or 200 years from now, basically anytime from now to ∞.

Even if it does not cure, look at Magic Johnson for example who has HIV/AIDS, he is still alive 33 years later from the treatment which obviously works to keep him alive but it's still not a cure but as long as what's available that can keep him alive, that is what matters.

 

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Should I be getting drunk before interpreting these posts?

 

[Bree]

Should I be getting drunk before interpreting these posts?

No, but it would help if you've seen the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy at least once, with a topping of Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 

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Based on you not being familiar with John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt either, acquainting yourself with the 20th century may help though

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Based on you not being familiar with John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt either, acquainting yourself with the 20th century may help though

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Is he related to Smokie's Alice?

 

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