[robotmay]

Ignoring that the vaccines are free to the individual and therefore not at all similar to a landlord/tenant relationship, you always have the option of not taking it and dying, which is a cool loophole that gets you out of the implied contract. Life hack.

[jmnicolas]

> not taking it and dying

COVID survival rate is > 99%

[robotmay]

Yeah cool I'll pass that along to the 3 people I personally know who died from it.

1 in 100 odds isn't super great, and that's ignoring the unknown impact of long-COVID. The risk of bad vaccine side-effects is lower than the chance of death.

[swayvil]

Pfizer's reaping 33billion on vax alone this year. Three guesses where that money comes from.

[plainnoodles]

Isn't that supposed to be how capitalism funds and incentivizes R&D though? There is market demand for a Thing, if you can figure out how to make Things then the market will reward that with profit.

Honestly, for being the firm to develop a vaccine for a global pandemic, $33B in revenue sounds a little light? Apple made 83B in revenue just in Q3 alone and all they do is make phones that aren't even improving that much year-over-year.

[robotmay]

Er, so? They developed and are producing a vaccine that will save millions of lives. That's a damn sight more deserving of billions in profit than any other number of industries or corporations.

[Covzire]

Saying they're free is certainly misleading.

[Fervicus]

Makes it a bit different when not taking it also means you can't pump gas in certain countries. Austria has also announced that vaccination will become compulsory for all citizens.