The public paid for “Moderna’s” vaccine, and now we’re going to pay again (and again and again)

Herd immunity is incompatible with shareholder capitalism.

Moderna headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. On the left side of the entry, a Jacobin with a guillotine gets ready to decapitate an aristocrat. On the right side of the frame, a cigar-chomping, top-hat wearing ogrish figure makes ready to yank a gilded dollar-sign lever while holding an MRNA molecule disdainfully aloft

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