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Australia Buys Additional 20 Million Doses of Pfizer Vaccine
The Australian government has secured an additional 20 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine as it steers away from relying on the AstraZeneca vaccine after a rare but serious blood clotting side effect was discovered.
The announcement comes after Prime Minister Scott Morrisoncalled for an urgent press conference on Thursday night to provide new health advice to Australians aged under 50 regarding receiving the AstraZeneca jab.
The additional doses, scheduled to arrive in the fourth quarter of the year, means Australia will receive a total of 40 million Pfizer doses.
“Safety remains our top priority, as it has been throughout the pandemic, and we will continue to follow the best medical advice in protecting Australians,” Morrison wrote in a post on Facebook.
Working with or for a psychopath, however, is less fun.
The research generally agrees about 1% of the population is psychopathic. This means they fail to develop the normal range of emotions, lack empathy for others and are more disposed to antisocial and uninhibited behaviour.
Among prisoners, the percentage with psychopathic traits has been estimated at 15% to 20%. But psychopaths are also disproportionately represented in corporate culture. Among the higher echelons of large organisations, the psychopathy rate is an estimated 3.5%. Some estimates for chief executives go way higher.
Only in recent decades has the research on psychopathy started reflecting the enormity of the social and economic cost of non-criminal corporate psychopaths. My research (with Clive Boddy and Brendon Murphy) suggests corporate psychopaths cost the economy billions of dollars not only through fraud and other crimes but through the personal and organisational damage they leave behind as they climb th