Regarding the COVID 19 vaccines

[Rev. Rye]

The vaccines were tested on tens of thousands of people before general inoculations began. To say that vaccine development was rushed us somewhat misleading. The paperwork was rushed, not the science.

As for profit, the pharmaceutical companies actually made far less by selling vaccines to government than they would have if they sold it retail.

For the record, if you want some insight into how vaccine development ended up going so fast, Philosophy Tube actually does some explaining in her latest video (specifically starting at the nine minute mark)



TL;DR: Turns out that a big portion of why vaccine trials take so long is because a lot of it involves waiting on funding the fucking things.

We could probably develop vaccines for a shitton of other diseases as quickly as we did COVID, but, of course, that requires funding, and that's where the limitations of capitalism come into play. The fact that those other diseases aren't currently ravaging the world like the angel of death spreading his wings on the blast and blowing in the face of Sennacherib is also a major reason. Why, yes, that does suck.