the escalation of vaccine boasting

[j712adrian]

AIBU to suspect we are seeing a gradually escalating vaccine boasting war between drug companies encouraged by the need for votes and to sell newspapers?

The main driver is money - the companies want to see their share price improve; and as soon as one announced you can bet the others came under pressure from their shareholders and board members to announce what they had.

The government (certainly the uk one at least) actually saw it as a pain in the arse as everyone took the vaccine announcements as “oh great it’ll be over soon”; hence the repeated messaging about how we need to be cautious about the news.

The media are spouting any old shit to get views, as usual.