Originally Posted by FL 4Motion

Totally agree, but the govt wants to get their money’s worth, trump and Biden later, both admins gave billions to esp phizer and that purchased a metric shitton of vaccines, mandatory/or de facto mandatory was an easy way to get their monies worth.

Also, remember the road to hell is paved with good intentions. The vaccine mandates/speedy rollout was done with the good intentions of ending the pandemic. Realistically, the number of serious (at least short term) side effects has been low/acceptable.

The real problem is we treated Covid pandemic like it was Ebola, in which case, we’d all be glad to get a vaccine as effective as the Covid shots even if it turned your left testicle blue bc Ebola has a 50-90% mortality rate.

When Covid first hit, we didn’t know if this was the flu or Ebola mortality wise, it took about 3 months to get a decent scientific handle on it. By then, the money had already been given by trump admin to phizer et al and the admin didn’t want to claw it back bc pulblic outcry would have been insane, remember we’re talking summer of 2020 here.