#I watch that dumpster fire to wildfire with popcorn and smores

[witchofthesouls]

Multiple things going on:

Twitter is a strange platform of social media because there’s a huge amount of celebrities, politicians, corporations, organizations, authors, creators, reporters, and so on. So that old saying, A little bird told me.... Well, the little twittering bird will spread real fast since all those accounts can only condense a message down to X amount of characters. Twitter has become an amalgamation of 3 AM thoughts, personal stories and improv, and breaking news media.

Combine it with the Blue Check of Authenticity, which Twitter touts it as a Tried and True method of solid proof that the account is truly what the person/corporation says it is, now you have a verified major pharmaceutical company, one of the Big Three (Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, and Eli Lilly) to keep a tight, iron-clad fist around insulin, to declare that the live-saving drug is now free.

And because that “verified” social media business account had to be obviously  given the permission by the higher-ups to green light the tweet, stockholders will not like that news statement. At all. (Is it true? The account has been verified! Is Eli Lilly trying to backtrack?!)

No seriously. People don’t rant about Big Pharma for nothing, especially over insulin since the patent was literal sold for $1 by its creators: Dr. Frederick Banting, Dr. Charles Herbert Best, Dr. James Bertram Collip, and Dr. John Macleod. All of them would be rolling in their graves because they wanted insulin to available to everyone without barriers.

A lot of news headlines and research centers had focused on the tremendous price hikes on insulin and the sheer impact it had. Anyone interested, Mayo Clinic Proceedings The High Cost of Insulin in the United States: An Urgent Call to Action (2020) is a good jumping point to get into it, especially with all the references you can publicly access without a paywall (another separate issue).

Because healthcare is a very profit-driven business in the US, stockholders will assume they won’t get the dividends of yesteryear and/or freak out there’s no future profit out of it (which is very much bullshit, it’s just going to turn into a different strategy, more like long-term stability) and sell their shares to invest in other profit-breaking avenues.

Hence, the continuation of the Blue Check of Chaos Twitter Saga:

Viva la resistance.