If you want to feel like you're losing your mind.

Highlights:

A vaccine program will also be expensive, even though recipients are told they will get vaccinated for free. One thing I’ve learned in life is that “free” is rarely a good price for anything. Especially something of great value, like protection from a deadly disease.

I propose a citizen-led program with three basic objectives:

  1. Entice a broad array of social influencers to help drive vaccination rates
  2. Raise $50 billion to subsidize vaccinations
  3. Provide various businesses with certainty

My proposal is neither conservative or liberal — or it can be portrayed as both.

By establishing one price for the vaccine — free — we artificially constrain ourselves to that price and exclude other pricing models able to deliver better results for society.

HOLY FUCK HOW DO YOU GET THIS MANY BRAINWORMS

  • hottakesrus [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    When I have a new idea and want to test it, I’ll often call a specific family member and run it by him. Paraphrasing John F. Kennedy from a very different context, I do this “not because it is easy, but because it is hard.” In many respects, especially politically, this family member and I couldn’t be more different. I’m well to the left, he self-describes as “to the right of Genghis Kahn.” For me, he is the very definition of a hard sell.

    Don't worry y'all. He's a leftist.

    • hottakesrus [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      So I asked him if he’d be willing to pay $10,000 to move up in line for a Covid-19 vaccination. He responded that he’d pay $100,000. His reasoning? He’d done well in the stock market this year and would be happy to both move up and help. He’d spent a career in uniform defending America against military threats. Defending Americans against a deadly disease didn’t seem much different. He could afford it and he’d do it.

      • kilternkafuffle [any]
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        4 years ago

        The Genghis Khan to Aaron Sorkin spectrum. You know, delivering glorious victory to your people vs. masturbating about how you'd deliver glorious victory if only the dumb-dumbs would listen to your galaxy-brain ideas.

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      self describes as "to the right of Genghis Khan."

      Ok, I can see what's wrong with this guy and his family.