Are we being played by the Medical Industrial Complex?

[Geronimo]

'The healthcare sector has outperformed the broader market since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, though only moderately. The S&P 500 is down 1.2% since the invasion, while the S&P 500 Healthcare index is up 0.8%.'

https://www.barrons.com/articles/rus...on-51646837824

I thought the pandemic damaged supply chains

What possible good is outperforming the broader market if your stocks takes a bear dive right along with it? Everything about the ukraine war has been bad in every way for big pharma. Therefore, either big pharma was not in control of Washington, or Washington was not in control of the Ukraine war, or most likely both of those things are not true.

and the ukraine war definitely has aggravated our supply chain problems even if we aren't going to share that publicly you can see some of it in our FDA filings.

[Berzerker]

Big pharma owns Congress on matters of drugs, the military industrial complex owns Congress on matters of war. The thread is about the former, that is the context.

[giblets]

The cost of vaccines is probably a drop in the bucket compared to what they charge for everything else.