The makers of Tryngolza™, Keytruda®, Taltz®, Niktimvo™, PiaSky®, Pombiliti™, Velsipity®, Cobenfy™, Exxua™, Xdemvy®, and other pharmaceutical cocktails are concerned that brainwormed nutcase Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F Kennedy Jr could make serious dent in their free rein to advertise their on Fox News and other TV content mills, even if his crusade against their insufferable commercials falls short of a full ban, the Wall Street Journal reports.
TV ad data aggregator iSpot estimate says prescription drug brands accounted for 30.7 percent of ad minutes across evening broadcasts on ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and NBC last year through December 15th, the industry spending literally hundreds of billions on hawking their cures for ailments people don't even know existed. Abbvie's Skyrizi® – whose side effects include upper respiratory infections, headache, joint pain, stomach (abdominal) pain, injection site reactions, low red blood cells (anemia), fever, back pain, urinary tract infection, and rash – accounted for $400 million in spending on linear TV spots in the US alone. And well it is pretty much the US alone as, save for New Zealand, America is the only developed country where pharmaceutical companies are permitted to advertise on TV. They have to make do through other means elsewhere.
The bottom line is that convicted felon President-Elect Trump's return to power and handing the keys to the nation's public health system to Bobby Brainworms is mostly very bad and very embarrassing, especially when it comes to his hostility to legitimately beneficial vaccines and water fluoridation. But you'd also be hard-pressed to find an educated critical thinker who doesn't come away from a cable news commercial break at least suspecting that maybe, just maybe, these companies are working backward, that "pseudobulbar disorder" might have kind of not existed before Neudexta™ was cooked up in their kitchens. That maybe it would be nice to not have to suffer through B-roll of a hip, young woman drinking mimosas with her friends in an urban rustic patio brunch spot while the voiceover says how she's liberated from chronic explosive diarrhea.
Putting those fuckers on notice does help with the otherwise bitter pill of the second Trump reich.