Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

People love saying this. Like, "Let's just take over an industry and make them do whatever we want."

That act should be considered the most unconstitutional thing going. Our government shouldn't be forcing people to work for it.

Regardless, the defense production act is completely unnecessary for the vaccine. Pfizer and Moderna are manufacturing a lot of vaccine. It's our government at the Federal and state levels, that sucks. If you want to invoke some at-a-gunpoint-act, they should be turning it on themselves.

Pfizer developed a vaccine on its own, without the government involved. It ramped up manufacturing on its own. It is to its benefit to manufacturer as much of it as it can and sell the doses. There is plenty of demand out there, obviously, and they profit from creating and selling supply to meet that demand.

Yet, I keep hearing random people say "We need the defense production act." Like that is an answer to a problem that actually exists. No we don't. And obviously, when reality diverges from rhetoric. ... the executive order Biden is signing today isn't about compelling people to produce vaccines they already are. It's about them compelling companies to manufacturer all kinds of things like masks, supplies needed to administer vaccines and do testing. ... but not about vaccines themselves. This idea that Pfizer and Moderna are not trying to pump out as many vaccines as possible is just wrong.

 

Yeah. I do all that. But little hairs get all over the counter around the sink and I am finding them for days after.

 

Let's say you own a business. ... And the government comes to you with the defense production act, which in turn forces you to miss fulfillment of customer orders for which you have contracts.

If you are in favor of that kind of government coercion of private business activity. ... are you also in favor of that company being compensated for any lost profits, and the loss of customers who abandon the company as a result? And if so, who pays for that?