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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by skybrian on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:23AM (#28129939)
I agree that they shouldn’t charge that much, but it’s definitely worth that much, and probably a lot more.

Maybe they should have done a charity auction of a few doses at the beginning to billionaires to show what it’s really worth, for the marketing value of “you’re getting a medicine worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for free.” Maybe that would convince the anti-vaxers?

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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year by input_sh on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:02PM (#28130498)
I agree on the worth part. I could afford to spend hundreds of euros to go to a nearby country and get an EU-approved vaccine months ago. Overall I estimate those hundreds of euros got me vaccinated about six months earlier than I would be in my own country.

During that time months ago one of our politicians came out and said that thousands of my fellow citizens that did the same were "wasting money on something that only costs €10", but that means nothing when you can't get to that something that only costs €10.

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