This story is about my conversation with Alexandra Latypova, a Soviet expat and pharmaceutical industry export.

Alexandra grew up in Soviet Ukraine and immigrated to America in the late 1990s. She got her MBA from Dartmouth College and the spent about twenty five years in pharmaceutical industry and biotech (including in the areas of drug safety and clinical trials).

Alexandra is a successful entrepreneur. Before COVID, she has founded a few startups, sold them, and retired, hoping to focus on pleasant things like painting (she is a great artist), traveling, etc.

But life planned differently, and when 2020 came, Sasha smelled the rat early on. Initially, she became alarmed by the “abnormalities” in “COVID response,” including the very strange campaign to prevent effective treatment of COVID.

Compelled to understand what was going on, Alexandra rolled up her sleeves and got to work.