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I cannot recall another example in my lifetime of a global populous all agreeing to purchase a pharmaceutical company's medical product - not just once, but 2-3

I cannot recall another example in my lifetime of a global populous all agreeing to purchase a pharmaceutical company's medical product - not just once, but 2-3x per person - in under two years' time. The implications of this phenomenon on Pfizer's business model are enormous. Pfizer & others would be foolish to not pay close attention to this and figure out a way to exploit it for further gains.

yonaguska 5y ago
On the flip side, we're also going to witness a very large portion of the population that rejects most all pharmaceutical treatments due to lack of trust. Anyone that has had any vaccine injury, even if minor. Reproductive issues are in a weird classification as being "minor" in that they aren't life threatening, but they certainly are major for young women that are planning on having children. Another group that will have their trust shattered are the people that got vaxxed and boosted, and still caught covid in a very bad way. And finally, the group that has been turned off by the haphazard communication (at best) and downright creepy coercion to get vaccinated. My trust in the system has been thoroughly shattered, I've gone from looking down at anti-vaxxers with disdain from before the pandemic- to now being labelled as part of that crowd because I am anti mandates. The whole timing of that terminology in and of itself is interesting as well- but that's probably going too deep down the rabbit hole.
xadhominemx 5y ago
> I cannot recall another example in my lifetime of a global populous all agreeing to purchase a pharmaceutical company's medical product - not just once, but 2-3x per person - in under two years' time. Well this is the first major global pandemic in a century, so that would stand to reason, no? Most of the world received the polio vaccine within a few years of its discovery btw
- Vecr 5y ago
  The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines was far faster than Salk's polio vaccine. It was not used in lower income countries for quite a while, really until OPV came along to really get going. The vaccine was made by multiple manufacturers in the US, including what is now Pfizer.
pessimizer 5y ago
Pfizer probably got an extra $50 for you this particular year, in addition to the hundreds or thousands of dollars it gets from you every year. If you want to attack drug pricing, drug patents and pharma profits, the time to do that is every year, not just special ones. The big question for this vaccine is why we rewarded this fully taxpayer-funded development and testing with a patent monopoly.

yonaguska 5y ago

On the flip side, we're also going to witness a very large portion of the population that rejects most all pharmaceutical treatments due to lack of trust. Anyone that has had any vaccine injury, even if minor. Reproductive issues are in a weird classification as being "minor" in that they aren't life threatening, but they certainly are major for young women that are planning on having children. Another group that will have their trust shattered are the people that got vaxxed and boosted, and still caught covid in a very bad way. And finally, the group that has been turned off by the haphazard communication (at best) and downright creepy coercion to get vaccinated. My trust in the system has been thoroughly shattered, I've gone from looking down at anti-vaxxers with disdain from before the pandemic- to now being labelled as part of that crowd because I am anti mandates. The whole timing of that terminology in and of itself is interesting as well- but that's probably going too deep down the rabbit hole.

xadhominemx 5y ago

> I cannot recall another example in my lifetime of a global populous all agreeing to purchase a pharmaceutical company's medical product - not just once, but 2-3x per person - in under two years' time. Well this is the first major global pandemic in a century, so that would stand to reason, no? Most of the world received the polio vaccine within a few years of its discovery btw

Vecr 5y ago
The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines was far faster than Salk's polio vaccine. It was not used in lower income countries for quite a while, really until OPV came along to really get going. The vaccine was made by multiple manufacturers in the US, including what is now Pfizer.

pessimizer 5y ago

Pfizer probably got an extra $50 for you this particular year, in addition to the hundreds or thousands of dollars it gets from you every year. If you want to attack drug pricing, drug patents and pharma profits, the time to do that is every year, not just special ones. The big question for this vaccine is why we rewarded this fully taxpayer-funded development and testing with a patent monopoly.