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Because it’s possible to justify the risk with saving lives.

Because creating mutations and prolonged pandemics are more profitable.

[jdavis703]

The government looses money from pandemics, so there’s no profit motive for FDA regulators to prolong the pandemic. There’s both direct costs of coronavirus response, and then there’s indirect costs (lower tax revenue from empty downtowns, less travel, more workers on taking from disability insurance instead of paying in to it, etc).

[newsclues]

Pharma companies are making profits and there is a revolving door between regulators and industry, so your dismissal of profit motive is a joke.