I believe Joe's relationship with MF was a little

I believe Joe's relationship with MF was a little stronger influence. However you are right, he was not the Big Kahuna like he is now.

That being said, I don't think keeping the results of the peptide secret is going to help them. I believe if you have a working peptide, at least in labs, it needs to be shouted out loud. That would put pressure on the community to say why we don't matter, or to pony up with some coin our way. If you said we have a "complete" working potential vaccine, big pharma will be interested, BARDA could be interested, etc. Joe would probably get so many inquiries he would have to hire more staff. However back to mother earth here, I believe the results, if excellent, will help the stock price. From what is being stated in the news about other vaccines and their issues, I believe we will be a wanted commodity which would drive up the price and give a better offering potential to NGIO.

Disclaimer: Of course, all of this is my opinion and you should not make any investment decisions based on my opinion. I have not received any non-public information.