Patrick McKenzie

And people in, say, the regulatory departments of pharmacies make rational decisions based on the signals that you are giving them.

And the rational decision a pharmacy makes is not, OK,

we've been quietly passed the word that the old policy is persona non grata.

But can we really trust the quiet word here?

One, because like, do we trust that this actor is not gonna change their mind in two weeks and consequence us for something we authorized today?

Just throw out the shots.

And pharmacies did not cover themselves in glory.

A lot of pharmacists did.

Some pharmacists did.

But pharmacies, like institutionally, we deliver almost all the medications for almost all the diseases routinely in America.

We cannot blow up either that position of societal trust or our business results over one drug for one disease.

And so throw out the shots and make sure we can still delivering medical care in California to

tomorrow.

I understand how that decision was made.

We should not endorse that decision.

There were individual acts of heroism by particular pharmacists who said essentially in as many words to us when we called them and said, hey, what's the procedure for getting the shot?

Okay.

An individual like the one you just described cannot formally get the shot right now.

So I would tell that individual to go to the county website, tell whatever lies are necessary to get an appointment with me.

They come in for an appointment and I will inject them rather than verifying the lies that were on the appointment card.