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>> Most significant, no reason to get too incensed by this article. Your opinion is appreciate but I disagree heartily. This article does not strike me at all
by tanseydavid 4y ago
>> Most significant, no reason to get too incensed by this article.
Your opinion is appreciate but I disagree heartily.
This article does not strike me at all as clickbait, and it completely worthy of "getting incensed" in my view.
The way you describe the Oxfam "claim" while correct, is a strawman argument. Why, because they were already managing to capture $20 - $30 a dose.
- MuffinFlavored 4y ago> "getting incensed" in my view. Why do you feel the need that Pfizer deserves to not make a profit/why do you have an issue with the amount of profit Pfizer aims/wants to make/why do you feel your opinion on the subject matters/why do you feel qualified to "pick a bone" with how much profit Pfizer wants to make/why is it worth getting upset about/what control over the situation do you have that makes it worth your time/thought/resources?
- GekkePrutser 4y agoAlso, we won't really conquer covid until everyone has built up immunity and the countries with the lowest vaccination rates are the ones that can't afford this kind of markup. This is still a problem that affects us all. Not saying that it would be less bad if it didn't affect us, but I mean that a hard-fought vaccine for a niche illness could have to be expensive to amortize development costs. Covid is not that. Ps and like @Beltalowda says a lot of their R&D was publicly funded. And they got a huge boost by bringing their thus far experimental RNA vaccine tech into the mainstream.