I agree. Absolutely no way Duffy was hired with a view for Linda to hand over the CEO job to him any time soon. Linda owns millions of options, she's not going to let some inexperienced guy guide how NWBO plays out when she has long experience in biotech and in corporate deal-making in general if she has any chance of making millions of dollars depending on the results. Linda is more than a decade younger than Les and from everything I've heard, they are both fully healthy and working very long hours.
They are not just playing games with the 'interesting' remark. As you wrote, there is nothing that could qualify as seriously interesting now except TLD. I'm sure that the statement and nuance of the ASM PR and the fact that it was issued as the pps was collapsing indicate that it was issued this far out from the date of the ASM and included 'interesting' for the sake of pushing back against the severe weakness of the shares. Experienced investors understand this very well, which is exactly why they bid the shares up so much. And that underscores that they know how strongly they would be attacked and maybe even sued if the 'interesting' turns out to have been BS which means anything less than TLD.
At this point I have 2 concerns: 1. I don't think they know for sure what the TLD will be, so it might be less steller than I hope and 2. No matter how good it is, if we are still in heavy pandemic at the time when the TLD is released, at that point the world economy will be collapsing and/or the markets are not done crashing. In that case, even excellent data might not be good enough to let us hold on to pps gains we get from the TLD announcement. If that gains don't hold well then the market might end up shrugging off the results. Certain interests will continue to sell the logic that if the market isn't rewarding NWBO, that proves that the data doesn't mean anything at all.
I don't know but I think it may be that we could end up with very small gains until actual RA approval is obtained months or even a year later. Longs have been waiting so long anticipating great TLD and a great market reaction to them. It will really suck if we don't get the level of positive reaction we expect. But this seems to be a real possibility due to the pandemic and what that will do for world economies and markets. Some longs will no doubt give up and sell in disappointment in this case. I may be wrong to think that this is a very definite possibility but I'm afraid it is. If Coronovirus is in strong swing around the world 2 months from now, it's quite possible that the markets will be deep in the toilet then. If the data is good but the markets and world economy are still in heavy fall, we definitely could need to wait for more months to see the eventual strong gains we will deserve. IMO longs need to be prepared for this as a possibility because it is definitely a risk, maybe even a certainty if the market keeps crashing.
No sense worrying too much this far out but longs should realize that this could play out in way that continues to frustrated even as we get get strong confirmation that this is going to work out as well as we have been hoping.
