Source: Buyidao
Written by Li Xiaofeidao Hu Yidao
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 20 said that as of the 7 days ending December 18, 70% of confirmed cases in the United States were infected with the Omickron mutant strain.
American infectious disease expert Fauci said that judging from the rate of double the number of infection cases, Omickron will become the dominant strain in the United States. It is still unclear how much impact it will bring to the United States.
A week ago, the cumulative number of deaths from new crown in the United States exceeded 800,000, exceeding the number of deaths in Civil War . Biden said this was a "tragic milestone", and lawmakers observed a minute of silence for the victims in front of the steps of the Capitol.
What else do these politicians do besides silence?
will make "national disaster money".
According to US media, dozens of congressmen have used the COVID-19 pandemic to conceal and manipulate insider transactions, including the stocks of pharmaceutical companies related to vaccines and testing reagents.
Other countries are busy saving people when fighting the epidemic, while the United States is busy making money when fighting the epidemic.
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"Ms. Scenery", US House Speaker Pelosi recently refuted a report from the "Business Insider" website.
The report said that 49 U.S. congressmen failed to submit reports on asset transactions in a timely manner and were suspected of violating the rules.
report believes that while the United States is fighting the epidemic, economic turmoil, and Congress launching a trillion-dollar rescue plan, these lawmakers concealed the trading information of pharmaceutical stocks, technology stocks, or military-industrial enterprises, and were suspected of using the turmoil to buy short selling and selling shorts. Inside transactions are to make "national crisis money."
, and Pelosi argued that the United States is a "free market economy country" and members of Congress can participate in stock market trading.
Pelosi must be so refuted, because her husband is also caught in the stock trading storm of Google parent company Oracle .
One of the 49 people is Rep. Tom Malinovsky, a Democratic Congressman of New Jersey.
This person is an anti-China vanguard. He just made a fuss about American athletes not participating in the Winter Olympics . Because his butt was too unclear, he became the most important target of attack on the Republican . In order to elect re-election, he began to use China's human rights issues to constantly hype and build momentum, becoming one of the main driving forces for Congress to interfere in issues such as Hong Kong, Xinjiang and the Winter Olympics in China.
AP disclosed that since the beginning of 2020, the man has bought or sold $1 million in shares of medical and technology companies related to the fight against the epidemic, which is just part of his $3.2 million stock trading during the COVID-19 pandemic. He did not disclose the above transactions as required.
American media said that when the market is turbulent and millions of people lose their jobs, Malinowski buys stocks at a low price and waits for the market to recover slowly before selling. When some companies seek financial assistance from the government due to difficulties in the epidemic, they will participate in short selling of these companies.
In March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic hit the US market, Malinovsky bought stocks worth $190,000 to $625,000.
Some medical companies he invests in are developing methods to test or treat the new coronavirus. Malinowski bought stock in TFF last June when the company was developing an antibody therapy, and the company's stock value almost doubled.
In November, Malinovsky sold his secretly held shares of the pharmaceutical company Merck . Subsequently, the company announced that it would stop developing the new crown vaccine , and its stock plummeted.
American public opinion believes that congressmen's participation in short selling is a "crazy" behavior. In the face of the epidemic, short selling will further aggravate market turmoil and destroy market entities. However, Malinovsky did not care. In 2021 alone, he shorted the stocks of at least 6 companies.
Malinovsky explained, "This is part of the stock market investment in our capitalist system. I think there is nothing wrong with Americans participating in such normal investment activities."
made "national crisis wealth", and Malinovsky was not the first, nor the last.
North Carolina Republican Senator and former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Burr and his wife sold $600,000 to $1.7 million in stocks through more than 30 transactions before the U.S. Department of Health released warnings about the new crown pandemic, and secretly notified some of his "financial owners" to be prepared.
Senate Health Commission member Truville's stock trading during the pandemic was between $899,000 and $3.56 million, including shares in the health care company he regulated.
U.S. media found that members of Congress are connected with capital interests in the healthcare field, and the water is very deep.
In 2014, about 30% of senators and 20% of Representatives held assets of biomedical and healthcare companies, or specialized fund assets established to invest in these industries. The most common investments in the House of Representatives are Pfizer , Johnson , Merck and Abbott . In the Senate, investors favor Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Merck.
In 2020, the investments related to companies in the medical and health sector by members of Congress reached US$68 million, exceeding the total of stocks in the military and construction industries.
For example, Republican Rep. Christopher Collins, a member of the Congressional Energy and Commerce Committee, created a company with partners to produce parts for a standard diagnostic test published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He also owns a stake in the company with a valuation of between $5 million and $25 million.
Collins has co-sponsored a bill to repeal the medical equipment tax to help two companies he invested heavily.
He also proposed to promote the Food and Drug Administration to relax requirements for pharmaceutical company to track safety and effectiveness after the product is launched. This clause will help many pharmaceutical companies, including a biotech company, with Collins being the largest single shareholder. Collins' two children also own shares in the company.
And Rep. Scott Peters, a Democrat in California, had summoned 78 members of Congress to oppose a bill called the "Innovation Act" to protect pharmaceutical companies from expensive patent legal challenges.
Peters's San Diego biomedical company nominated him as "elected official of the year" for two consecutive years. His wife actively bought stocks in several pharmaceutical and biomedical companies before and after her husband protested against patent law.
It is worth noting that although the " Securities Law " restricts the stock trading behavior of lawmakers, no one of the above lawmakers has been truly held accountable for this law.
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How dire is the epidemic in the United States as lawmakers make a fortune.
The question of how many people died in the United States due to the new coronavirus has become a mystery. Many American experts believe that the actual death toll may be higher than 800,000.
What should we do to curb the fierce epidemic in the United States? Biden seems to have no good idea, but he still has those two tricks: calling on Americans to get vaccinated and continue to take other preventive measures such as wearing masks.
Although the United States was one of the first countries to implement large-scale vaccination, the vaccination rate has so far lagged behind other industrialized countries.
In terms of absolute value, the United States, with a population of 330 million, is the most severely affected country in the world, with more deaths than any other country.
However, in recent days, in order to celebrate Christmas and New Year, various family gatherings and friends gatherings may be held one after another, which also brings "good opportunity" to the spread of the virus. The rapid spread of Omickron around the world has led to a surge in the epidemic, which has forced many countries to restart control measures.
Although delta is still the main strain of confirmed infections, preliminary research data show that Omickron appears to have a worrying ability to resist vaccine efficacy and high transmission.
In the United States, about 70% of people receive at least one dose of the vaccine, and the rate of completing two doses of the vaccine is 61%. But there are still 50 million people who should be vaccinated yet. Since the vaccination began, the vaccination rate among older Americans has been higher than that of younger people, with the former completing the vaccination rate as high as 85%.
According to statistics from relevant American institutions, the elderly account for the majority of the deceased, and one out of every 100 people over 65 years old dies from the new crown, accounting for 75% of the deaths in the United States. It is equivalent to 600,000 of the 800,000 dead are elderly.
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professor at Fudan University Shen Yi explained to "Bu Yidao" that these U.S. lawmakers who made "national disasters" were not held accountable by the Securities Act, which means that the law is fundamentally serving these people. The "freedom" that Pelosi called is essentially the freedom of property and the freedom of capital to maximize its interests.
Shen Yi believes that the so-called American democracy leads to integrity is a myth created. The ability to make money without hesitation to use the fight against the epidemic means that these politicians are doing business in human life. By enjoying the advantages of low human rights, they plunder wealth around the world, which is the wealth code of these people.
Professor of the School of Diplomacy Li Haidong believes that this shows that these members of the parliament have no beliefs, ideas and pursuits. They stay in that position. The core purpose is to maintain power and use power to make a fortune. For members of Congress, 49 people are not a decimal. Li Haidong believes that these people can use any loopholes to do illegal things for power and wealth. Because ordinary people do not understand a lot of internal information, there is no insider trading, and lawmakers have a special reporting mechanism to truly understand the international and domestic information of the United States. After mastering this information, what they did was not to remind the people and the country, but to use this information to increase wealth for themselves, their families and the interest groups behind them.
This reflects the morality, human rights, democracy, and actual greed nature of these members. Although there are also people among the members of the parliament who truly serve the United States, many other people's moral and professional legal ethics have become problems, which has made these people do whatever they want in Congress and hollowed out the United States, once again indicating that the current political system in the United States has reached the point of "diging out the swamp". Pelosi's speech made the people's demand for clean and honest Washington that they wanted to achieve was once again denied. This is the sadness of the United States. If the United States cannot solve the problem gradually and visiblely, the people will become more dissatisfied, and more extreme figures will appear in American society.
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