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by d3ad1ysp0rk 1649 days ago
I scrolled thru the last 2 years, and honestly I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

Too much profit? Sure. I don't think the boosters are going to be what solidifies that issue for corporations though..

Some timing issue with selling? I don't see it.

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Pharma probably learnt what worked for software: turn perpetual licenses into subscriptions.

Chances are these “boosters” will become a quarterly occurrence, even when the virus pose little to no threat (to an already vaccinated person)

You mean like the flu virus? For which doctors say that we should get every year?
Yet the flu vaccine isn’t required and social pressured, and also isn’t experimental at all. So probably a huge difference right?

How many times has someone lost their job to not getting the flu vaccine?

The covid vaccines are not 'experimental' either.
Sure they are; federal, state, and private entities are absolutely running active experiments on the broad safety and efficacy of these vaccines against new variants. That makes them "experimental".

We've got enough data to reasonably assert that they're safe. That doesn't mean they aren't experimental.

Its like saying gravity is a theory. It sure is. That doesn't mean my phone won't break when I drop it.

sigh.

In which case all medicine is experimental, because it's all being studied all the time.