[ExI] how does it work?

[John Grigg]

In the Philippines, the original government official assigned to decide on
the best vaccine for the money and buy it, was investigated when he was not
making any progress. It turned out he was waiting for a vaccine maker to
treat him with the appropriate respect and pay a huge bribe! But long
before the common people here began to be vaccinated, a few thousand
vaccine doses were stealthily obtained and given out to the super-rich and
the leading politicians. God forbid any of them get sick...

John

On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 10:17 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Sent:* Friday, January 29, 2021 6:04 PM
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> *Cc:* William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* [ExI] how does it work?
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> Are the people making the vaccine getting rich?  Are they getting any
> price they ask for?  Is there a possible monopoly here?  If they are
> getting so rich, why can't they open new labs to meet the demand and get
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> Just asking 'What's the holdup?'   bill w
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> A person who knows things clued me exactly on that Billw.  Turns out the
> supply was not really the most limiting factor in many cases.  The
> bottleneck was in getting enough qualified people to watch the recipients
> for allergic reactions.  That turned out to be a bigger challenge than
> expected, because not just anybody can do that.  The recipients need to be
> kept apart as they wait for half an hour or so, and that takes a lotta
> floor under a roof, which costs money.  It takes a lotta people to watch
> them and people cost money.
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