Here’s my blunt take. It’s early where I am, so pls forgive the lack of diplomacy. Each person must take it as their personal mission to awaken X others on a regular basis. They won’t thank you for it. If you’re working, you’ll probably get fired. If you’re not, you’ll probably be socially isolated. Mysterious things will happen that will unnerve you & it'll certainly cost you money. High probability that some if not all of your family will fear you’ve lost your mind. Problem is, almost no one is willing to do any of these things, let alone for years without relent. And that’s why I’m a lot less optimistic than I was when I began.

I no longer believe there’s much chance to prevent huge & likely extremely dangerous changes. Call it no chance.

There’s still a chance that some of us will emerge as free people. The window to accomplish that is closing. A tiny handful of people working in a remote “corner of the internet” is strictly limited in terms of numbers of people reached. In fact, one of the disappointing realisations was, when crossing borders in & out of U.K. , several European countries & several in the Americas, that I was of no interest at all. I’d worried that I might be apprehended, if for no other reason than to intimidate me. Nada. That suggested to me that they don’t regard me as a threat.

Back when I started, I was all but certain that the very act of speaking out would draw attention, some assessment & that I’d speedily be joined by other, retired or newly resigned peers.

What actually happened was that, 25 months since making my first public comment that something is wrong here, we’re being mislead deliberately, the sum total of other, former pharma execs speaking out is zero.

There is a handful of us from across the Biopharma commercial continuum (a couple from clinical development, more precisely clinical operations, one from manufacturing, one from regulatory CM&C / supply chain, a couple from the patent & intelligence end & just me covering discovery research, non-clinical pharmacology, ADME & toxicology). Other than the regulatory & supply chain expert, no one who was a career insider in ANY capacity is speaking out, as far as I can tell, anywhere in the world. It’s just me. It’s pathetic. My former first boss in industry, Dr Adrian Payne, is involved in legal & FOIA “harassment”, writing relentlessly to a number of official bodies. It’s not campaigning, though. My longest time coworker, 20 years, had the decency to agree to meet & review the evidence that this whole event is built on lies. He agreed it was & that he couldn’t dismiss any of the core assertions. He said he wouldn’t be campaigning.

Where are all the people, mid-50s & up, with a 30 year career & earnings under their belts, outraged & unable to restrain themselves? I thought I knew some of my former colleagues. I now accept that I really didn’t. I’d made assumptions about a number of people & I’ve been wrong in all but one case. The assumption was they too would appreciate that the risks of NOT speaking out are much worse than going public. Some kind of courage.

I’ve been a high-trust person all my life, even in the face of occasional bad faith from the odd unexpected quarter. I’d often get incredulity in response to my level of trust. My lifelong experience is that most people are good people & it doesn’t cross their mind to cheat you, steal from you, misuse information merely to harm you etc Sure, there are psychopathic people around. I’ve had some as very senior executives, C-suite & board of Directors level colleagues & contacts. So this is an example of a high trust act that didn’t accomplish anything like what I’d expected or hoped. The damnable thing is that I don’t understand why I’ve not been joined. Or, what it would take to prompt them to action. If my health was as robust as it was a decade or so, I’m pretty sure I’d have lived on a huge coast for considerable chunks of time, going City to City.

Apologies for over long answer! Mike