The way I understand it, every single new infection is a tiny little lottery ticket for the virus to mutate. I don't particularly care about Moderna's profits. I want the vaccine to be as widely available as possible to anyone who wants it at a price (free) they are willing to pay.

If Moderna makes a few bucks along the way, that's great. If Modern a can't survive without massive profits, I am OK if they go away as well.

> I want the vaccine to be as widely available as possible to anyone who wants it at a price (free) they are willing to pay.

Then why don't you advocate for the US to buy those doses and send then around the world. Why don't you start a fund that buys vaccines and sends them around the world?

You want it all at zero cost to yourself. Now you can understand why Moderna doesn't want to be footing the bill for the entire world.

What do you think will happen during the next pandemic if the companies who managed to come up with a vaccine go bankrupt from this one?

These companies didn't get the funding to make the vaccine from previous inventions, but from government funding, so this seems to be an unreasonable argument.

I agree. Paying them to invent the vaccine was a good idea. Paying them to mass produce and deliver the vaccine is a waste of money.

Please stop posting flamewar comments to HN. Personal attacks especially.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

My comment never made a personal attack, but I do see how the snide way I criticized the parent poster's position could be inflammatory. I rephrased my response to be less inflammatory.