| | | It will protect against the entire group of COVID-19 variations out there. It's a entirely new class of vaccine. It is not like an influenza vaccine. You don't have to choose ignorance, you know. Turn off the TV, read from reliable sources.
Like other vaccines, it will not be 100% -- yet. But if "only" 95% of the people have powerful resistance, the spread will drop dramatically because that's the way it will necessarily play out.
You think pharmaceutical companies should not make any money on this? Why not? I need a car, and yet car companies are allowed to make money. Is it a crime for them to make money, but OK for Goldman Sachs to make money selling toxic securities? Or auto companies to make money when they just know we (almost) all need cars? Babies really need diapers. Should those companies not be allowed to make money?
The amount of money they will make per vaccine is shockingly low, imo. Less than thirty bucks. Big freakin' whoop. Do you have any idea how much you'd pay for a couple days in the ICU, even WITH insurance?
And the cost for the vaccine to you when it comes out? Zero.
I'm hoping this new class of vaccine will yield some gains in the next few years, like maybe a vaccine that protects against the entire class of rhinoviruses out there. Which aren't lethal, but I hate catching them. I'd pay a hundred bucks out of pocket for a five or ten year immunity to all of them. |
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