Pandemic and the parsing of profit: a personal take on qui bono

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My pandemic (so far — it’s an ongoing phenomenon) has been relatively benign. I’ve been vaccinated three times, twice with Pfizer, once with Moderna, and had no ill effects, not so much as a sniffle. I caught COVID once, about six months after the third vaccination, and although I think the majority of my symptoms were associated with a prior sinus infection, it was in the midst of…