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Seriously, he was there to give the business to that pharma rep. You love to see it.
reasonably priced and accessible
Democrats favorite words right there. Literally nothing can ever be free ever, not even vaccines for an ongoing pandemic. It's required that someone always has to make a buck.
I have access to healthcare like I have access to a goddamn Lamborghini
you have 5 minutes to call your CEO and come back with a better price.
:xibe-check:
They have the executives there, they could have murdered them. Truly a Dengist approach instead.
Bill "The Good One" Gates made sure the innovation was protected with a heroic phone call a year or so back :so-true:
I know many libs who will act shocked and outraged about this without for a moment reflecting that this is the world they want and fight for
NO :BibleThump: thats crony capitalism. Real capitalism hasnt been tried yet.
Consistent with the value as a vaccine that's decreasingly effective due to vaccine-resistant variants? Isn't the XBB.1 variant almost entirely unaffected by even the bivalent booster?
I'm trying to think of a way to describe this without sounding anti-vax.
It feels like the pharmaceutical companies responsible for the vaccines here have mostly stopped developing and are banking in on some culture war shit so they're not particularly interested in developing up to date vaccinations for current strains
I am fully vaxxed and where my mask everywhere by the way. This isn't couched COVID denial
The promise of mRNA in 2020 was that they’d be able to release variant specific boosters in highly compressed timelines (a month I seem to recall)
By the time the bivalent booster came out BA.4 and 5 were minority strains. I got the shot and smoked by covid 2 weeks later when immunity was supposedly at its highest. Still it’s better than nothing.
It’s disturbing that people are foregoing their boosters and the associated benefit even though “vaxxed and relaxed” is our official covid response policy. And now even those are less efficacious than we once thought and are being foregone by people because two shots meant “fully vaccinated”
It’s telling that the majority of covid deaths in the US now are “fully vaccinated” individuals. What does that mean? 2 shots?
Fully vaccinated should mean you're keeping up with your boosters, not just the first two. But I have no idea what it means statistically, that's a good point
Thank you Bill Gates for continuing to drive innovation in health.
It is consistent with its value*!
*That Moderna didn't create and doesn't deserve
So you admit it?
The value of commodities in a commodity producing society has an objective basis in the labor time socially necessary to produce them?
Interesting.
:marx-goth:
:stalin-gun-1: :stalin-gun-2:
Didn't only ~12% of people even get the bivalent boosters? When the price to the individual is zero?
Having to pay over $100 for the thing is gonna get those numbers down, down, down
I have now heard from multiple people (not chuds) both with and without health conditions that doctors have been telling people not to get the newest booster.
I see "consistent with the value" when discussing increasing the price of a life-saving vaccine, and I get so fucking angry. Death to every single pharma CEO.
If we have the wall at the bottom of a long drop we can consolidate our walls.
Just another reason for him to win a one-way trip all expenses paid to the wall.
Firing squad. Actually that’s too good for him, he gets lethal injection but only the most painful chemicals we can find to inject. I want this man to die a very slow and very very painful death.
oh wow, if only someone had invented a solution for critical industries and infrastructure that are too important to be privately held. :marx-hi:
The idea that anyone can see a medical insurance CEO and not feel contempt and disgust for them is insane to me. These people aren't people they're murderous villains attempting to profit off our deaths.
Sort of the joke of the industry is that Modern wouldn't have designed the vaccine if C-levels didn't think they could spike the price. The institutions of medical R&D are entirely beholden to the investment sector.
These people are ultimately just cogs within the machine of the industry. They're vampires who have clawed their way up to the top of the pyramid, but they are still just agents of an even more insidious higher rung of wealth-hording elites. I wouldn't mind seeing a few of them get the :gui-better: to discourage the next generation of pestilence profiteers. But at the end of the day, they're just following orders.
