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Bet you they give it to everyone for free everywhere in the world except for the USA, where they charge 600 dollars a dose and consequently we never reach herd

Bet you they give it to everyone for free everywhere in the world except for the USA, where they charge 600 dollars a dose and consequently we never reach herd immunity and have endemic Covid indefinitely.

hans1729 6y ago
800 for the dose, 300 for a list of other things on the bill, and you're required by law to get the injection today. if you can't afford it, that's prison time, where you'll get the vaccinee but also need to work for the bill, probably producing maga-caps or substituting sick/dead medical personnel. eagle screeches are we there yet?
dang 6y ago
Would you please stop posting flamebait to HN and not use the site primarily for ideological battle? We ban accounts that do those things and have already had to ask you a few times. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- fallingfrog 6y ago
  I’m genuinely surprised.. Does this comment really read as flamebait? The article is about vaccines. A vaccine has to be administered to everyone to work. But I’m very skeptical that it’s actually going to happen given the way our medical system works here. So, I predict that there’s a good chance we won’t get herd immunity. I just don’t see how that’s flamebait. It’s more, known facts and extrapolation.
  - pvg 6y ago
    known facts You can look up the moderator commentary on 'facts' and flamebait (tldr is, you can flamebait with facts) but these aren't even facts - free vaccine has been the stated official plan in the US for months.
  - dang 6y ago
    Sure it does. This may be a case of "comments in the rear view mirror are much larger than they appear", i.e. people underestimate how provocative their posts are. US healthcare differences are a classic flamewar topic and nationalistic flamewar is particularly ugly and pointless. Your comment wasn't thoughtful/substantive, it was snarky/hyperbolic. Ergo flamebait.

hans1729 6y ago

800 for the dose, 300 for a list of other things on the bill, and you're required by law to get the injection today. if you can't afford it, that's prison time, where you'll get the vaccinee but also need to work for the bill, probably producing maga-caps or substituting sick/dead medical personnel. eagle screeches are we there yet?

dang 6y ago

Would you please stop posting flamebait to HN and not use the site primarily for ideological battle? We ban accounts that do those things and have already had to ask you a few times. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

fallingfrog 6y ago
I’m genuinely surprised.. Does this comment really read as flamebait? The article is about vaccines. A vaccine has to be administered to everyone to work. But I’m very skeptical that it’s actually going to happen given the way our medical system works here. So, I predict that there’s a good chance we won’t get herd immunity. I just don’t see how that’s flamebait. It’s more, known facts and extrapolation.
- pvg 6y ago
  known facts You can look up the moderator commentary on 'facts' and flamebait (tldr is, you can flamebait with facts) but these aren't even facts - free vaccine has been the stated official plan in the US for months.
- dang 6y ago
  Sure it does. This may be a case of "comments in the rear view mirror are much larger than they appear", i.e. people underestimate how provocative their posts are. US healthcare differences are a classic flamewar topic and nationalistic flamewar is particularly ugly and pointless. Your comment wasn't thoughtful/substantive, it was snarky/hyperbolic. Ergo flamebait.