re: Pfizer earned $3.5 billion on COVID vaccine in first quarter

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That and you can't sue them.

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This is the result of a law passed in the 1980's. Has nothing to do with Covid despite what conspiracy theorists say.

In the 70's the anti-vaxxers started claiming that the DPT vaccine was causing brain damage and begun a series of nonsense lawsuits. As a result of this litigation, the price of the vaccine skyrocketed and couldn't even be obtained in many cases. Pharma companies began saying "frick this were done with vaccines, it's not worth our time anymore."

In the 80's Congress passed the law to give them protection from frivolous lawsuits.

In 1990 a comprehensive study was done on the issue of brain damage. As expected, it had absolutely nothing to do with the vaccine but could be pinned down on childhood epilepsy.

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So you can never sue a pharma?

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Not directly for vaccine injury, generally speaking. In most scenarios you have to file a claim with a vaccine injury compensation program and can sometimes be compensated via an indirect route. And even then the burden of proof is high, as you can usually only be compensated for poorly manufactured vaccines (ie mistakes in the production line) and not side effects/consequences of the normal vaccine formulation.

When you take a vaccine you are accepting a baseline level of risk and we protect manufacturers from people who attempt to renig on the deal

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I'm sorry you're mentally challenged and can't process basic, simple English.

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Or maybe you are just mad.

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And, yes, Pfizer did piggyback off this patent when they partnered with BioNTech. However, Pfizer offered logistics, manufacturing and other expertise BioNTech couldn't have done alone.

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They also received substantial financial support from the German government, whatever they mean by substantial.

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There’s nothing nefarious about it just because it’s a government.

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Correct, but to say they took no government funding is splitting hairs.

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Again, this entire thread really just comes off as “big pharma bad” *grunt*

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Why we are only talking about the one entity that went for profits, not the other suppliers. nttawt

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Or maybe you are just mad.

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Sometimes, regrettably, I lose my patience with the mentally challenged. But if anyone came into this thread angry, it was you, and reliably based on your inability to read and ignorance.

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Sometimes, regrettably, I lose my patience with the mentally challenged. But if anyone came into this thread angry, it was you, and reliably based on your inability to read and ignorance.

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Lets try a little exercise in context, shall we?

Take the following statement"
"Lets eat Grandma!"
Imagine that being said by a child on his way to the dinner table.
Now imagine it being said by Jeffrey Dahmer on his way to the basement.

You are a known, snarky-assed little lefty, and Thine is a known borderline psychotic right wing truther/prepper type. When you snap back at him with the comment you made, it comes off as a smart-assed attempt at a mic drop. Maybe you didn't mean it that way, but your intent adds nothing to the context of what you originally wrote.

Your reputation on here has nothing to do with my ability to comprehend written phrases. No different than me chirping my usual screed on a more liberal board.

If you are mad about that, its nothing I can help you with.

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Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine earned the company $3.5 billion in the first three months of this year,

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Capitalism works.

sighs.

Let me try it this way. You had 3 replies to your post. All of them clearly took it as a shot at capitalism, not at anti-capitalists as you claim. In fact, when Thine attempted to defend his statement, you replied with a rather ironic justification considering what you wrote above.

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What you do is ascribed sinister motives to things you disagree with and nothing but positive motives to those things you agree with.

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So maybe you're just an a-hole.... an angry a-hole.

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You had 3 replies to your post. All of them clearly took it as a shot at capitalism, not at anti-capitalists as you claim.

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That isn’t true. One said I missed the mark and the indictment was more at corporatism, the other was thine with his usual bs defense and then your unique confusion.

Basically, two of the responses understood my post. Only you missed the mark...by a country mile.