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I thought the vaccine was going to be free anyway?

• wffurr 6y ago
  Someone is going to pay. It may not be you at the point of the needle, but somebody will. Governments will pay a lot to get their economies going again. That burden will in turn fall on taxpayers one way or another; whether it's directly via taxes or budget cuts or indirectly via inflation or debt service.
  • Unklejoe 6y ago
    Yes, I realize that. My comment was in response to the criticism of these companies being funded by tax dollars while being granted a patent. The implication being that we're paying (as taxpayers) but getting nothing in return since we would have to pay for the vaccine anyway. My response is that we're getting the vaccine for free in return. That said, I'm not sure that it's actually going to be free. That's just what I heard. I should point that out - I don't want to propagate bad info.
    • reegnz 6y ago
      What you get in return is somebody (the government) took the risk of a blind faith payment to have a university develop a vaccine. That's what you paid for, not for production, not for distribution, not for anything else. You didn't pay taxes for a free vaccine, because you don't pay remotely enough taxes for that to be viable at all. Unless every country on earth takes their fair share of blind-faith financing a single company.