Why do liberals want to give Big Pharma more money? They have bitched about Big Pharma making too much money (now they want a 3rd Covid vaccine?

[FoghornLeghorn99]

The Pharma companies are making billions off of Covid.

I had my two Moderna vaccines. My insurance company paid $40 per shot. Now the government is pushing a 3rd shot.

The government gave millions to Big Pharma to produce the vaccine. They left used to hate corporate welfare.

Why is the left now in the pockets of the Pharma companies which they once hated?

[RolandCuthbert]

No one wants a booster shot. I mean, you are beyond help at this point.

We have to have boosters, because people unvaccinated. . .

So follow the actual science okay. . .

1. You refuse to mask up. . . giving the virus the opportunity to spread.

2. People get sick. . . hospitalizations go up. . . and people die. So we have to get a vaccine.

3. You refuse to take the vaccine. So the virus is allowed to spread and mutate. Understand. . . you know. . . the science. . . a virus is a lifeform. It is trying to live. It will mutate to make itself resistant to vaccines.

4. Virus mutates successfully many times, so eventually you will need a booster for further inoculation against it. And to be honest, we will need more than just one booster shot.

You could have avoided all vaccines. . . by wearing a fucking mask in the first place.

But you blame so-called "liberals".

Holy quicksand, batman.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/U0vU19w__bM

[FoghornLeghorn99]

The science is not settled.

[RolandCuthbert]

In the land reality. . . fact. . . science, objectivity, it is.

In the insane world. . of course. We don't know if this started by a giant Jewish space laser or not.

But y'all get back to us when you decide

[FoghornLeghorn99]

Angry Black Man Alert!!!

[RolandCuthbert]

It is easy to post a racist stereotype. But it is hard to refute simple logic and fact. Keep trying.

[iBeowulf]

Strip away everything and they just want to be told what to do, hopefully, in exchange for kickbacks. This isn't about issues, but values.

[KimmyKimmy]

*You print a bunch of money out of thin air
*You give it to big pharma
*They give you half of the money back in campaign donations
*Inflation goes through the roof, and the middle class and poor get hurt

What's not to like?

[KimmyKimmy]

Thanks for the MHO

[TrueConfection]

Good question. It was less than 2 years ago that the libs said they would refuse the vaccine and RESIST! RESIST! RESIST!

[iBeowulf]

*resists freedom (freedom is death to the weak)

[TrueConfection]

*less than 1 year

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[iBeowulf]

We have a Selective Service immune, Affirmative Action enabled (not for much longer), female voting majority and anthropologically speaking, matriarchal societies are necessarily primitive. This is the precursor to a neccessary culling of the HERd en masse.

[TrueConfection]

@iBeowulf You cut and paste this everywhere. I warned you... Instablock!

[Avicenna]

Once you start giving them money and hiring their friends and family, anyone, and I do mean anyone, is beloved by the Democrats.
They’ve always liked corporate welfare (cough, Solyndra) for their allies.

[Soteris]

You know, me as a liberal am completely fine with releasing the patent for the vaccine so it can be mass produced by every country that has the capacity. Not sure the capitalists on the right would be very happy with such a socialist action though.

[FoghornLeghorn99]

Shouldn't companies who use the patent share in the costs that were incurred developing the vaccines?

[Soteris]

So... you "want to give big pharma more money?" Also the vaccines were pretty much funded by various governments around the world already so the companies themselves did not spend that much of their own money for the development.

And besides, what role has private profit during a world wide crisis?

[Anonymous]

Liberals in power are very corrupt and own stock and may deal with the pharmaceutical companies. liberals not in power are just useful idiots who cheer on what the TV people tell them.

[weeee]

I love Americans. Oppose public healthcare then complain about being exploited by the private sector.

[FoghornLeghorn99]

It's the left who hates Big Pharma.

Now the want to give them another couple billion dollars by mandating a 3rd Covid shot.

[888theGreat]

Liberals say one thing and do the opposite. They only say they hate Corporations , but in secret they kiss up to them. Taking money and making promises if reelected.

[NaultD]

It's kinda like we have been pushing for a nationalized healthcare including pharmaceuticals.

[FoghornLeghorn99]

National healthcare leads to rationing.

It also leads to less innovation in technology ad new drug therapies

[NaultD]

These drug companies don't have R&D budgets. Every drug research has been funded by the American tax payers. So in a sence the American people are the executive producers of creating these companies.

Interms of rationing you only get out of it from how much you put in like an investment. If people die less from avoidable deaths you have a stronger work force and more tax payer and more money then the cost of single payer healthcare.

[FoghornLeghorn99]

"All drug research is federally funded"?

[NaultD]

Yes it's in the publics intrest to discover new treatments. So they are publicly funded.

[FoghornLeghorn99]

At what cost?

[joeldalton]

Because they get their sCiENcE from a man on the TV.

[OddBeMe]

Vaccines should be free. So not sure who you paid money too

[FoghornLeghorn99]

Nothing is free.

All those Seniors... Medicare paid for their vaccines.

Those on Medicaid... Medicaid pays.

Those who have private insurance like Blue Cross, the private insurance pays.

All those drive through injection sites were funded through federal tax dollars.

Free?

Seriously?

What gave you that foolish idea?

[OddBeMe]

The govt. CVS when I went in for both shots. All says free. I’m sure the govt is paying moderna and Pfizer tho. But why are you against the free market?

[FoghornLeghorn99]

I'm not against the "free market".

However "free market" does not mean zero cost.

When people get annual flu, DTap and other vaccines, their form of insurance pays the cost.

[OddBeMe]

Sure, but we’re in a fcking pandemic. That’s why vaccines are free. As they should be.

[FoghornLeghorn99]

They are not free.

Quit watching MSNBC. Or TYT.

[OddBeMe]

Where are they not free?

[FoghornLeghorn99]

Do you not comprehend the concept of insurance?

[OddBeMe]

None of the vaccine dispensaries demand insurance cards. Sorry if you were too stupid to realize.

[FoghornLeghorn99]

@OddBeMe Sorry if you are too stupid that your name goes into a database. Try getting a "free shot" twice.

You seem stupid.

Some entity pays for each shot dispensed.

Why is that so difficult to comprehend?

[tartaarsaus]

Consumer surplus in the trillions

[FoghornLeghorn99]

Define consumer surplus.