re: #189 Targetpractice

Compensated how? Let’s start with just the payments proposed so far. $150 for total vaccination (2 shots) already means the federal government would be shelling out tens of billions of dollars, assuming we make every person vaccinated eligible rather than those who get their shots after such a bill were signed into law. And don’t forget that to get herd immunity you’ll need to vaccinate kids as well, so you can’t cut the cost of that bill by suggesting the money only go to adults.

So let’s use the Mayo Clinic’s estimate of what percentage of the US pop. (331 million) would need to be vaccinated in order to reach herd immunity (94%), which means the bill comes out to roughly $47 billion (with a “b”) to vaccinate 311 million Americans. And that’s not including all the other fun things in federal spending bills, such as the costs of figuring out who’s eligible, cutting checks, mailing checks, etc. So we’ll be conservative and round it off to $50 billion.

Now, let’s say that of that 311 million, we’ll continue to be conservative and say only 2% will deal with long-term complications from being vaccinated with vaccines covered by emergency authorizations. That still comes out to over 6 million Americans who may spend the rest of their lives dealing with the consequences.

Just how much compensation you figure on giving those people to make up for rushing to herd immunity?

You talk like $50 billion is a lot of money to the feds, which it isn’t. You sound like an anti-vaccer. Have there been any vaccines producing long term deleterious effects in 2% of recipients not based on anti-vaccer bullshit?