@toxtethOgradyUSA
At no point has safety been compromised
You simply cannot say this with any authority, so please stop talking bollocks GreenPlum
Of course it has been bloody rushed! Talk to anybody involved off the record and they would admit that in a hearbeat.
This is the bollocks. You haven't spoken to anyone "on" or "off" the record who is claiming this at all. You are simply demonstrating your ignorance of the world. Of course there are financial benefits to companies landing vaccines. This is the way companies work - they do think to make profits. You may not have noticed this, but the world is capitalist. It does not operate on charitable effort. It is about making money. Why would you think, therefore, that pharma companies shouldn't be about profit?
They would also be complete idiots to compromise safety or effectiveness, or to in any way operate in a less than scrupulous manner - because if anything goes wrong with something they produce, whether knowingly or not, you can guarantee that the company will be hit by so many court cases and sanctions that they will cease to exist within months. Yes, they may be huge multi-nationals with incomes that rival that of some countries - but this is a world wide pandemic, and screw with the world and you can guarantee that the world can bring any multii-national to its knees.
The reason why other vaccines have taken time to develop are two fold. Initially, and still to some small extent, we needed the science to be able to do it, and do it in the safest way possible. Scientific advancement in just the last 20 years outstrips all of that in the previous 50 or so years. That advancement in the previous 50 years outstrips centuries of scientific advancement. And it hasn't finished advancing yet. It will get better and faster - but by all previous standards, what we have now, with, for once, a world that actually has a common goal, is the platinum standard of scientific development to find that effective vaccine.
The second reason why is can be done much faster is very simple - money. Billions have been thrown at the development of this vaccine, and that is simply something that has never happened before. Take HIV as a comparison - in comparison the amount invested in a vaccine for HIV in total and over more than a decade is significantly less than has been invested in a coronavirus vaccine in the last six months! Why? Because HIV has suffered from being the "gay disease" or "the African disease" and since "we" aren't gay or African, it isn't a priority.
Compare Ebola - which now does have a vaccine. It is a terrible disease and a real killer virus. But it affects few people and they are all African, not even most of Africa. How much money was invested in developing a vaccine. You couldn't, quite literally couldn't, find anyone who wanted to invest in it. It wasn't worth anything to anyone except a bunch of poor Africans who couldn't afford it anyway. But they very minute that a handful of Europeans / Americans contracted it, and there was widespread hysteria bout how "we" might be in danger from it (which was simply never even remotely possible) and two decades of research was suddenly off the back boiler and it took months to land a vaccine.
Perversely, that very research into an Ebola vaccine has underpinned one of the coronovirus vaccine strategies, and provided a headstart for developers.
You are peddling fake news and disinformation, and you need to stop.