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Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by Unklejoe on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:09AM (#24896301)
Yes, I realize that. My comment was in response to the criticism of these companies being funded by tax dollars while being granted a patent. The implication being that we're paying (as taxpayers) but getting nothing in return since we would have to pay for the vaccine anyway.

My response is that we're getting the vaccine for free in return.

That said, I'm not sure that it's actually going to be free. That's just what I heard. I should point that out - I don't want to propagate bad info.

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Re:Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response ... by reegnz on Monday October 26, 2020 @10:40AM (#24896625)
What you get in return is somebody (the government) took the risk of a blind faith payment to have a university develop a vaccine.

That's what you paid for, not for production, not for distribution, not for anything else.

You didn't pay taxes for a free vaccine, because you don't pay remotely enough taxes for that to be viable at all. Unless every country on earth takes their fair share of blind-faith financing a single company.

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