No wonder the US, Bill Gates and other assorted neolib freemarket fuckwits were so against patent waivers and developing countries researching their own vaccines.

I hope these people end their lives in absolute pain and suffering, pathetically gasping for the last dregs of life in a lonely hospital room with only their failing heartbeat as company. Money won’t save you from terror and fear.

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4 points

It’s like the USA wants to implode

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13 points

Had a couple folk go all:wojak-nooo: “Pfizerino would never make the vaccine cost money, that would be them heckin’ baddies and they’re our science friends!” on me for saying this was gonna happen last year

I am living with the curse of foresight here

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7 points

I love getting lumped in with the antivax weirdos simply for pointing out that Pfizer is a for profit company, and that for profit companies don’t leave money on the table.

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Uh, so, lemme get this straight, y’all have to pay for covid boosters? Or is this just the government who has to pay more now?

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Where does the government get the money from? Besides the US that just prints more

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MMT go burrrrr

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So right now the government pays for it, if your insurance doesn’t cover it. This winter the government is supposed to stop paying for it.

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…why??? Just…let the government keep paying. They can get much better prices than having to pay for this individually. I’m guessing so can insurance but I don’t know how that works.

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The core of the neoliberal ideology is that the government exists to enforce property rights. Everything else is superfluous to that, and done only because the people might rise up and kill them otherwise. But, if you use the media to gradually undermine all the "please don’t kill us’ policies, you can get away with gradually walking them back

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14 points

Jail. Straight to jail.

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8 points

straight to hanging upside-down from a street lamp and getting pelted with rocks

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