Yesterday I was enjoying a remote lunch with the colleagues I used to eat with every day before the pandemic. We were chatting about this and that: the weather, students, return to school, and of course, vaccines. Which one will your parents get? Did you have a reaction to the second dose? How effective is P or M or J against the various variants? What company is closest to having the next approved vaccine?
"A year ago who would have thought we would be so interested and well-versed in big pharma?" I laughed. "I doubt I could have named a single company!"
"Maybe the one that was responsible for the opioid crisis?" Liz suggested.
"Probably," I said, thinking. "Who was that again?"
Err...
As well-read and knowledgeable as the three of us are (clearly evidenced by our awesome 9 out of 11 on the NY Times weekly news quiz-- equal or better than 88% of other readers!), we all drew a blank.
I guess there's only so much room for misfortune in any brain, or three.
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