Vaccination mediatic blitz

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padib said:

curl-6 said:

Less customers overall, yes. But instead of just getting to immunise each customer, which is quite cheap, you'd get to sell them antibiotics, anti-virals, and some medications in perpetuity. 

With the number of cases so far being so low, and selling vaccines for all children, it would seem like they are making much more money vaccinating than not at least while the number of cases is low. Not to argue that preventive medicine is bad (far from it), but from a business perspective it's lucrative as can be.

About this I just wanted to say how pleased I was with the civility of people in this thread on both sides. Carry on.

If case numbers remained low, that would be true, yes. But if vaccination rates fall below the threshold of herd immunity, case numbers won't be low, they'll skyrocket. Huge numbers of people would be needing courses of antibiotics, anti-virals, analgesics, antipyretics, etc. It would be a pharmaceutical goldmine.