i thought, this is really my and as you mentioned, albert bourla was a new ceo and right in early 2020, he to give a speech in greece and by the time he landed in greece the conference had closed because of covid. and i think you can all remember where you were as things were locking down. i sure do. i was in new york city and when albert flew back, he wrote on a little piece of that we still have in the office that he was going to do three things take of our 85,000 employees around the world because employee wellness became a very big deal during the pandemic too that we would ensure the steady stream of medicine around the world. if you remember you couldn't buy a car or get a refrigerator, but the medical supply i think you agree mostly up pretty well all timer's cancer, all the terrible diseases didn't take a break during the pandemic and three, we would make a vaccine in months. and this is where i thought, oh, no, it's a pandemic. and my boss has his mind because this is a 12 year had been a 12 year exercise that were going to do in eight months. albert did something i've never s

president obama's trip after his inauguration was to pfizer's kalamazoo to manufacturing plant, pfizer albert bourla introduced, salih to president biden by let me introduce salih in my administration she is the secretary of state and i thought that was a great a great way of introducing you. salih thank you sowe have simon. he is, the author of foreign bodies, pandemics, vaccines and the health of nations, which investigates the tangled and complex history of pandemics and vaccines from. smallpox in london to plague in india. simon schama explores stories throughout 18th and 19th centuries, including impact of microbiologist valdemar half kind, who created the world's first production of vaccines and was brought down in an act of shocking injustice. our second author is simon sebag. montefiore. his of his title is in the world of family history of humanity. historian simon sebag montefiore chronicles great dynasties across human histories from the caesars to the kennedys is looking lincoln grand themes of war, migration plague, religion and technology. he brings together a diverse cast of rulers, c

who so much as put their hand up and asked a question and yet even now with pfizer in court, ceo albert bourlaasting of 95% effectiveness for his company's product is still out there. officially unchallenged. no apologies for false claims and with endless testimony from the likes of joe biden on down, still chanting the safe and effective nonsense . we know now effective nonsense. we know now that when big pharma found itself with lakes of unsold product in the face of what they called hesitancy, biden's white house told big tech to silence any questioning of the jabs and google and facebook and others obuged. google and facebook and others obliged . and we know this. we obliged. and we know this. we can say this now without fear of contradiction . those who stood contradiction. those who stood and continued to stand in the face of all that raise a glass to you and with you and wish you good cheer to those of you who called out in the face of more propaganda the war in ukraine. another raised glass. it was about saving democracy. we were told it was nothing to do with nato expansion . we were