Originally Posted by
2StgTurbine
Most of the manufacturers are private companies. Who is going to provide the financing? When everyone gets vaccinated in a couple of years, what are these companies going to do with these facilitates once there is no more demand?
A free market is a great thing. Whoever has a viable vaccine will be printing money for decades.
This is nothing like building an airplane, which requires special tooling, costly specialized equipment, and thousands of skilled employees trained on that specific airframe.
These companies already have labs, scientists and production facilities. And it’s a global competition—a Korean, German or American company can se its vaccine literally anywhere in the world, since this virus threatens every human being in the world.
And Congress can provide a fast track with respect to any regulatory hurdles—or do you think they’d rather give another 9% of our GDP away?