Ya'll know the vaccine is free in the US right? Administrators are allowed to charge to inject people but the vaccine is being paid for by federal tax dollars. So if you pay income taxes you are subsidizing the vaccine however small a fraction of the cost it would be. So not sure why one would pay for it unless to jump the line.
Would you pay for a COVID vaccine?
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Eldritch
is insensitive
No, it isn't really the same. Everyone gets the vaccine. It is more like getting a Flash Pass at 6 Flags.
littlebeast
get it while it's easy
interesting question, but i suppose it’s more along the lines of what it’s worth to you.
i expect to pay little to nothing when my order in the queue comes. no hurry.
what it’s worth to me, and what i’m willing to pay - pretty much zero. i’m totally fine with abstinence from society. am enjoying it actually. my immediate future plans include burrowing deeper into the hermit life. it comes with an AWESOME view.
i expect to pay little to nothing when my order in the queue comes. no hurry.
what it’s worth to me, and what i’m willing to pay - pretty much zero. i’m totally fine with abstinence from society. am enjoying it actually. my immediate future plans include burrowing deeper into the hermit life. it comes with an AWESOME view.
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alien
Smells more like a question of jumping the line to me.
ctwo
Merely Rhetorical
No, everyone doesn't get the vaccine, if we're talking about paying to get it now vs. waiting 6 months or more, and while waiting one might die of COVID, because many more will die from it who are not yet infected. Dying of a 6 Flags line is not really a thing of concern.
I had a rich friend that thought he should be able to pay at the ER to be treated before all the little people already there, regardless if they were bleeding out and needed immediate life saving care. His twisted ankle was more important.
Eldritch
is insensitive
:laughing Nonsense, there is no, "this guy is bleeding out from COVID, but this guy has a twisted ankle," parallel. It's a false equivalency.
Everyone is equally at risk. The distribution laws say that first responders have to be given the stuff first, because they are more at risk due to their jobs. Makes sense. The rest of the schlubs have almost no risk as long as you socialize with no one, stay in your house, and use the mask+distance protocol when doing essential tasks like getting groceries.
i.e. when it gets to be regular folks time for the shot, it is all the same. Everyone has the same risk, everyone just has to live a miserable lifestyle until they get the shot. No reason not to make a fastpass available. :dunno
ctwo
Merely Rhetorical
Everyone is equally at risk, except for those over there... Risk of what? Exposure and exposing, yes. Death, not necessarily.
Since the supply is limited, selling one to someone who does not need it has life/death consequences to the rest of society.
And if there was just one and you had to choose Bo vs someone who surely would not survive an infection, or some millionaire willing to pay thousands...
Abacinator
Unholy Blasphemies
We need as many people as humanly possible to be vaccinated for this plague to be under control. If we make it pay to play, that limits access and fucks the whole process.
That's ridiculous. Every first responder and medical professional should have been first in line for it.
afm199
Well-known member
This is Oakland. Half the populace here is like you and believes that the police are foes, the enemy, and deserve the worst.
FD and EMT's get it here.
I'd pay up to $500 to have one of the highest risk people get it and another $500 for myself--and I'm not asking for a higher priority in line for that. Medical professionals should decide where I'm at to get it. My only concern would be that I wouldn't want it to go to obscene profits for the drug companies. They should get to make a profit, but upper echelon folks in those companies shouldn't be raking it in off of this directly. I'm also concerned about how the poorer countries are going to get vaccinated. It's all grand n dandy that we here in the US can generally afford this, but this is a global issue. Seems like richer countries should subsidize poorer ones some.
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afm199
Well-known member
That's not happening. Pfizer is not making obscene profits at all. They and most of the other companies held the price down.
You do realize that they could sell it for $100 a dose, right?
I definitely want OPD to be better. They can't do that if they're dead.
KooLaid
Hippocritapotamus
Nope, I wouldn't pay. We're on day 3 (final day) of pfizer's vaccines being given out for "free" at work. Still deciding if I want to or not. Leaning more on not. I think I'll wait until it's available for my teenager before I do it if I do. Id' like to get antibody tested first though.
Caddywumpus
4N631
I already survived covid so I'm really on the fence about taking the vaccine
