Why is there so much unopposed anti vaccine sentiment on the right? Why can't pharma companies fund guys like Ben Shapiro and fellow travellers to praise the vaccine?

  • Owl [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The US already bought enough vaccines to vaccinate everyone in the country. That's the end of the pharma companies' interest. They already got the thing, regardless of whether people actually use those vaccines.

    Leaving people unvaccinated so new versions of the virus mutates and new vaccines are needed is also an up side for them, I guess. But that requires way more foresight and planning than capitalist companies actually have. That's more of a cartoon villain evil, rather than the incredibly banal evil of the real world.