My friend asked me this tonight and I was wondering what yall think
No. There’s no such thing a a free vaccine in America, immediately sus.
Walgreens, at least where I live (upstate/central NY) . No insurance or anything. As I type this the gravity of my privilege is sinking in.
See, in that thread about trump and imperialism, I could get behind the argument of ‘the interests of capital entirely dictate the outcome’, but here there are facts of biology that are outside of the control of capital. Most of the ruling class would love for everyone to be fully immunized immediately, but if some issue comes up about the effectiveness or side effects of the vaccine, they may decide that the second best option is to cover up the flaws so that they can tell people to go back to normal.
The interests of capital have no incentive to make a bad vaccine.
They not only want it for themselves, but they want things to return back to status quo even more.
Telling people the vaccine is safe and effective even when it isn’t will get people returning to their old working/spending/line-go-up-making habits though, which is good for short-term profit which is the only thing the interests of capital care about
My conspiracy minded brain thinks that, instead of like a fake vaccine, we’ll just end up seeing quite a few “almost to the market promising” vaccines intended as an investment signal, but don’t make it to market for whatever reason.
I think we’ll eventually get a good one though, but before that it’ll just be a bunch of misleading press releases that make some ghouls richer.
Glad to see this actually becoming popular here. A few weeks ago the common sentiment was overwhelmingly antivax, I got downvoted hard for calling that out.
You act like there has never been a dangerous corner cutting product that entered the market. I recall a fucking Boeing airplane nose diving at random recently by some jank ass code. Sure they want to make profit, but they also want to do it whilst cutting as many corners as they can get away with. I’m not antivax at all, but I’m not going to inject myself with a vaccine that’s rushed out of the door. If you wanna do that and beta test, go right ahead. I’ll socially distance and wear a mask in the meantime until it’s properly proven to have no nasty side effects.
I’m not convinced it won’t be government sponsored saline water, to be honest. I’ve read enough William Blum to not put anything passed the US government’s desire to manufacture consent anymore. 👀👀👀👀
Yeah, the long term negative effects of covid are probably scarier than the long term negative effects of the vaccine, if there even are any
On the other hand, I may want to let someone else prove me right before I do it 👀
