So when it comes to paying corporations to develop the vaccine there is plenty of public money available. But when it comes to the actual workers who deliver the vaccine they want it for free. Meanwhile, there are people out there who need incomes. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/thousands-of-volunteers-with-no-medical-background-could-be-trained-to-deliver-coronavirus-vaccine-b72014.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3rPmvz6S4_Ibl-tyCNZIBvS8yPwYDEtBOQxsGkCJULK81-1JIiVpx4tO8#Echobox=1605605160

I would suggest that those people who want a UBI turn their attention to the vast amount of work in the U.K. that goes unremunerated. In a practice that, as this shows, is often endorsed by Government.

The delivery of vaccines are the very kind of activity that generate wealth in our economy. We would be mistaken to allow the neoliberal narrative that workers are obsolete or a drain on the economy to persist.

Another way of looking at this programme is that it excludes those who cannot afford to offer their labour for free. So they won’t benefit from other aspects of this work, such as the training that will be given and the connections and communities they’ll build.

This work should be paid and should be paid well. But then if the government started offering well paid good quality employment... where will Pret find cheap baristas?