Nature is now obviously promoting the pharma theory.
The two forms of immunity work differently. COVID infection may be mild or asymptomatic, but represents a threat of significant illness or death. The result of coronavirus infection generates immunity which works directly against a broad ranch of viral features and lasts 1.5 to 2 years. One of the factors involved with so called long COVID is infection causing an immune reaction to the body's own ACE receptors.
Viral immunity does have some risks, but they are fairly well understood, happen at extremely low frequency, and are most often exhibited within 15 minutes of administration which allows for precautions to be taken. The resulting immunity is specific to those parts of the virus targeted by the vaccine, but this generates very high titers which can be extremely effective in fighting infections.
Furthermore, it is important to understand that a large portion of the population has suppressed immunity and may not develop strong immunity from infection while also being at greater risk for negative outcomes. This is the population currently being urged to get vaccine boosters in order to reduce risks.
Projecting dislike for the drug industry onto this science can distort important judgements.
Instead, we as a society could save a lot of money by eating anti-parasitical drugs that don't work[1], or by getting sick, and potentially hospitalized for COVID. (Because even a brief a hospital stay won't trivially run into $XY(Z),000 billing. [2])
[1] And are, uh, also made by Big Pharma.
[2] Much of it also going to, of course, Big Pharma.
I can even see the US government being paid off by Big Pharma to implement mandates solely to leech tax/insurance money off.
But every single developed country, many with government-funded healthcare where they have no interest in throwing away money on something that doesn't work, many a higher level of democracy and high government trust, not a single one of them questioning this and skipping it? That's where the conspiracy gets too big and hard to believe.
Studies, many of which are absolutely useless, pounded out by the hundreds of thousand over the past 2 years in the name of moral good and saving lives.
Constant hypocrisy from certain protests being good for health, to football games not. From no links between lockdowns to case?death counts. Constant promotion of cloth masks, with lack of evidence, rather evidence against present.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqkG4OZmV8o - towards the end you can see a player without a mask and a player with a mask, a player with a mask over his chin as well. The NBA is 95% vaccinated and players are exerting themselves greatly whenever on the court without a mask. Go back to the bench and put on a mask.
Its also worth noting Pfizer is making a killing. Google Pfizer profits 2021. They have something like 90% growth at the moment.
I would say Big Pharma 100% has an agenda to push. They want you to take their drugs so they make money (like any company). In this case its a vaccine. They don't care if you have had covid they want the money.
However in my opinion this is not some new behavior. This is exactly how they have always acted. Look at the opioid crisis.
One more sale for Big Pharma.
That creating vaccines which require 6monthly-1yearly boosters that every must take creates a new, lucrative revenue stream for Big Phrama and a conflict of interest, even when the initial vaccines may be cheap (e.g. Immunity as a Service).
Though, I admit it had triggered a small, gamer part of me that wanted to get the completionist award for filling every slot.
The article is so impressive that it deserves a line-by-line analysis as a case study for future public relations and media literacy classes.