One thing the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical-TSV forgot to get me the Mentor/Happy Bachelor to post on our shares base earlier when we were talking about Kyrsten Sinema, and Sam Bankman-Fried, and the criminal evidence warehouse fire, is about his suspicion about this whole "triple threat," flu/Covid/RSV. He's not saying that these aren't real, in fact quite the contrary. But on audio he's heard about the shortage of cold/cough remedies on shelves at least in New York state (and possibly elsewhere, though audio has yet to confirm that). It's enough of a shortage that Chuck Schumer has pressed for the FDA to get companies to address maybe replenishing supplies accordingly. But TSV has an idea of how this happened, and it all has to do with him listening to Business Newsradio first thing in the morning at 12:30 UTC, and that's his present source in tracking predatory and aggressive marketers coming after him and piously simplistic others once inflation and recessionary fears blow over. Here's a practice sheet of that, because a couple months ago the above audio segment talked about how Pfizer saw an increase in its stock in the equity markets, and the same with Moderna over a couple weeks ago, and the takeaway was that both companies gained from their being in the Covid vaccine/treatment market. RSV he heard started being talked about roughly a month ago, and in the backdrop was biz radio 12.30utc mentioning Glaxo Smith Kline. About that time, TSV heard GSK commercials at his catering counter job regarding RSV, and he believes GSK felt like they missed the Covid boat and they certainly vowed not to do the same with RSV. He notes that the commercials -do not- advertise any particular product, but they do say "brought to you by GSK." And then on audio with a chrono order of news reports newsradio he heard reports to the effect of "hospitals are filling up with RSV cases," but they don't substantiate as to -what- percentage of hospitals (weekly average or so) report -what- percentage of their capacity (weekly average or so) is being taken up. He suspected that a marketing segment on behalf of not just GSK leaned on this particular newsradio station to make this report, regardless of lack of real substantiation. At the same time, audio he heard of health officials, and no names for some reason for the most part, so again no substantiation, warning about the "triple threat." Rochelle Walensky made an appearance at some sort of meeting in Philadelphia, reported by Philly public radio, warning of either RSV alone or of the "triple threat." TSV -truly hopes- these officials don't have any invested interest in the companies, because of course this would point to a conflict of interest. To what degree have we the public, he wonders, vetted the officials' resumes with respect to which companies they have in their investment portfolios? So in this way, coupled with likely visual doomscrolling of the average populace that TSV himself has wisely not exposed himself to, he believes people panicked and took medicines off the shelves. Cynically he doesn't believe companies like Pfizer or Moderna or GSK mind there being this supply crisis, because when the FDA complies with Chuck Schumer and says to the companies, "please replenish supply," of course TSV believes they'll say "sure no problem." With both the coverage of the "triple threat" and the need for supply of medicines, the companies stand to gain. TSV is very curious as to how biz radio 12.30utc talks about how equity stocks fare for the health companies in coming days, because if those go up even still, they are effectively to the early 20s as tech companies were to the mid- 10s: the hysterical mood of the populace being both controlled and gained from by a given for-profit sector. So the way in which this is a practice sheet for TSV is about aggressive marketing that he has to protect himself against, and while he was just looking over the Wikipedia entry for Pfizer, he saw multiple sections with the phrase "aggressive marketing" in the title, and that stunned him to the point where he wonders whether his suspicions as above are merely coincidence. Probably not. So here's what TSV wants to say to people. Definitely be careful with viruses such as the flu and Covid and RSV. He recommends people get vaccinated with the flu and Covid, even if such vaccines do come from the the companies he's kind of cynical about. Where RSV goes, keep an ear out, he recommends, about -actual substantive information-, e.g., confirmed stats and data and number crunching, to see how big of a threat it is at any one time. We did that with Covid during the pre-vaccine pandemic, but now that we've gone -post-vaccine-, TSV observes we've almost totally sloughed off to the point where he's not hearing it on audio like he's supposed to, because he shouldn't have to plow through a dozen pages on an unreliably functioning Internet to get the answers. Once there comes an RSV vaccine, TSV recommends to rely on confirmed and substantiated info to decide to do the vaccine, instead of on fear, uncertainty and doubt.