# Kodak to make pharmaceuticals **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [July 29, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodak-to-make-pharmaceuticals/916680 "2020-07-29T05:12:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodak-to-make-pharmaceuticals/916680/21 "2020-07-29T21:26:23Z")
So, my take. Trump has all this hydroxycloroqine. He wants to sell it to the yokels because his family has money in it. Kodak is moribund but to the yokels it’s an AMERICAN BY GOD company & they’ll be thrilled to fight the China virus with Trump’s wonder drug. So all he wants is the name ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodak-to-make-pharmaceuticals/916680/22 "2020-07-29T23:27:35Z")
Many, many years ago I worked a summer internship at Eastman Chemical. This was a couple years before it was spun off from Kodak. The Eastman plant did make some chemicals used in photography but there were so many more non-photography related product lines that their chemicals were a part of. The plastic used to make many soda bottles and celluose acetate (filter tow) for cigarette filters were a couple of their product lines. Presumably the Rochester Kodak plant had a diversified product line as well. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodak-to-make-pharmaceuticals/916680/23 "2020-07-29T23:32:24Z")
I came here to say the same thing. Makes total sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodak-to-make-pharmaceuticals/916680/24 "2020-07-30T01:42:26Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Would this be considered a developing story? One that’s worth putting into print? Or should we just let it slide? You be bad, so bad…😏 ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodak-to-make-pharmaceuticals/916680/25 "2020-07-30T02:01:23Z")
Take a look at the stock price and trading volume. They’ve been drifting along at around 100,000 shares trading per day, last Thursday it was 80,840 shares, on Friday 74,893, then on Monday before the big announcement is released 1,645,719 shares got bought by somebody. You wonder if they knew something? Nah, couldn’t be; that would be insider trading and an SEC violation. Probably just a coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodak-to-make-pharmaceuticals/916680/26 "2020-07-30T02:06:46Z")
I don’t see why everyone’s being so negative. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodak-to-make-pharmaceuticals/916680/27 "2020-07-30T02:09:02Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > > > I shutter to think how many puns this thread will accumulate. > > Depends on how much exposure the thread gets It’s all there in black and white. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodak-to-make-pharmaceuticals/916680/28 "2020-07-30T02:53:14Z")
I don’t see why you give an f - just stop it! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodak-to-make-pharmaceuticals/916680/29 "2020-07-30T03:57:39Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > . . . then on Monday before the big announcement is released 1,645,719 shares got bought by somebody. . . . We get the picture. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodak-to-make-pharmaceuticals/916680/30 "2020-07-30T04:02:02Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > > [@Bill\_Door](#): > > > > . . . then on Monday before the big announcement is released 1,645,719 shares got bought by somebody. . . . > > We get the picture Are you having a moment? ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodak-to-make-pharmaceuticals/916680/31 "2020-08-04T21:51:02Z")
The SEC routinely investigates unusual trading activity across all stocks. Their systems kick-out unusual patterns and then those individual trades get investigated. It is common place. It is very difficult for people to get away with insider trading on a grand scale these days. ---
**Author:** ![Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@Bacon\_Cheeseburger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bacon_Cheeseburger)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodak-to-make-pharmaceuticals/916680/32 "2020-08-04T22:06:03Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > I don’t see why you give an f - just stop it! not to nitpick… “I don’t see why you give a F\*, stop it” would have been better. I was surprised Kodak still existed too. “Westinghouse” is another zombie corp. Various spin offs, i think there is a Westinghouse related nuclear power company. But if you buy a Westinghouse TV its probably just someone slapping the label on the product. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodak-to-make-pharmaceuticals/916680/33 "2020-08-05T13:44:18Z")
Pull the other one, it’s got bells on it. Investing in individual stocks as a retail investor is like playing poker with a person who’s got a deck of marked cards, but don’t worry, they’ve promised not to look at them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kodak-to-make-pharmaceuticals/916680.md?page=1)