Biontech pioneered the mRNA technique and they were sponsored by German taxpayers; and Pfizer was promised by Operation Warpspeed that US taxpayers would purchase 100 million doses of any potential working vaccine before it was even developed, that must have felt motivating. There was no vaccines developed entirely through private funding even though the profits were entirely privatized, ie Moderna received about a billion in development aid and AstraZeneca somehow managed to pocket research out of Oxford University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioNTech tells me BioNTech was founded in 2008 based on research by Uğur Şahin, Özlem Türeci, and Christoph Huber, with a seed investment of €150 million from MIG Capital and AT Impf.
I don't know much about Germany I must admit. Is AT Impf some sort of government body? Because this looks a lot like private actors spotting a good thing well in advance.
I'm sure they took government money at some point because the government is handing out money and why not. It'd be silly to turn it down. But there are obviously millions of dollars here to develop influenza vaccines and we see the payoff was billions of dollars. The Free market could do this with no intervention - the payoffs look pretty good.
> In September 2019, BioNTech received a capital contribution of US$55 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, with the option of doubling that investment amount at a later date.
Heh, there they are.
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> ...US taxpayers would purchase 100 million doses...
Yeah but the 100 million doses purchase would have encouraged them to build infrastructure, which we already know the private sector is better at than the public sector at. Operation Warp speed wouldn't have hurt, but again they technically had the vaccine developed before Operation Warp Speed was a thing.
The only thing stopping people buying the vaccine in mid-2020 was that the government had made it illegal.
It was never this hot within millions of years and differentiating between a world ending event and one that destroys economies and societies and eventually most life on the planet is disingenuous in itself
I was ready to purchase a Rav4 this year but went with Ford instead precisely because of this. I have no reason to believe Ford won't _eventually_ follow suit but at least, for now, I don't have to pay to use the remote start.
The issue isn't Covid vs vaccine heart risks, it's that you're going to get Covid 100% after having the vaccine, so you've essentially doubled your risk. That's the issue.
It's not hard, really, given that you will need to make only $1.90 per day to automatically become declassified as poor [1]. If anything, capitalism makes this harder to do achieve [2] which probably explains why the limit is set so low.
You can `import` and `export` just like in the browser (and in TypeScript) as long as your files come with the `.mjs` extension. Cherry adds this extension by default, so I imagine it comes with the server in mind.
You can also keep the `.js` extension and configure this behavior in the `package.json` to run the same files both client- and serverside.
Some libraries still expect to run as CommonJS, but then you might find an "es" version if you poke around in their repositories.
