Yeah, and most of them root for Pfizer because "private for profit company == science"...

I run in some fairly lefty circles and I can safely state I've never heard of anyone (of ANY political leaning) "root for Pfizer" edit: except their actual paid PR people.

And anybody who holds significant shares of their stock.

No, the folks I know are more likely to sell stock they don't like than cheer for it against their own principles. That's assuming they buy individual stocks, which most people don't.

Those people don't hold an amount that's significant, though.

Thus we're a long way from the "most of them" I was replying to. Unless you're claiming that a majority of people hold a significant amount of Pfizer stock, I don't think we're disagreeing here?

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads.

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