> I do not care one single iota about who was first or paid most. This is 100% guaranteed method to get shitty vaccine development and production in the future

> I do not care one single iota about who was first or paid most. This is 100% guaranteed method to get shitty vaccine development and production in the future. Money is the ultimate incentive - instead of haggling down they should have measured the cost of damages caused by delayed vaccination and tried to outbid. This idiotic notion that we should prevent pharma companies from profiting on this is exactly why nobody wants to do vaccine development in the first place.