Fact: The idea that money motivates pharmas to come up with vaccines are false. Pharmaceuticals make more money from drugs to treat diseases. Vaccinations are not money-makers. Case in point: the drug Sovaldi for Hepatitis C in the US, just one drug, raked in over 10 billion compared to 24 billion in takings of total global sales for vaccinations. If making money was the objective, pharmaceuticals should just stop making vaccines and concentrate on treatment drugs.
Fact: The world didn't shut for SARS, MERS or Ebola because these diseases were not as easily transmittable as COVID.