re: Most vaccinated country in the world is having a surge in COVID cases

As a general premise I am not "anti-vax". Even though I haven't received it and have no plans to I'm completely fine with my 70 year old parents' decision to get the vaccine. Hell, I'm fine with anyone's decision to get it. And for the most part I think it will be "safe".

But don't we also have to consider that the world has never seen such a tremendous demand for a vaccine/medicine to be developed so quickly? With such a tremendous demand comes a tremendous incentive to supply that demand in return for tremendous profit. Pharmaceutical companies are not altruistic. They are businesses and ALL of them wanted to get into the "business of covid" ASAP. Being first (or among the first) was every bit as important as being "right". Especially in light of the fact most governments granted indemnity to the pharmaceutical companies as an incentive to get out a vaccine ASAP.

Point being, while I don't think pharmaceutical companies were reckless or negligent in their development of the vaccines, I'm not naïve enough to disregard the fact that the unprecedented demand for such a product created just as strong of an incentive to be first as it was to be "right". While being first is ALWAYS an incentive for pharmaceutical companies, it probably never ran as close to the incentive to be "right" until this vaccine