William Tucker, at The Weekly Standard, has a good look at exactly what caused our nation’s vaccine shortage. (via Instapundit Three key words that I’ve been complaining about for quite some time: “Liability without fault.”

A company can do nothing wrong, and they can still be sued. They’re liable for damages done by their products, even if they haven’t been negligent. Now, I’m no lawyer (and if my cousin’s work-to-rest ratio is the norm, I’m very glad I’m not), so I don’t know which industries this applies to and which it doesn’t, but we’ve seen it applied to the tobacco industry. I know that they’ve at least tried to apply it to the firearms industry. While I don’t know if there have been any cases, I know that there have been attempts to apply it to the fast-food industry.

Honestly, with a legal concept like that considered standard, I don’t see why anyone would want to do business of any type in the United States at all. I realize that there very well may have been some good reason for it, but I’ve been sitting here trying to figure it out, and I’m having no luck. Maybe I just don’t have the right mindset.