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Originally Posted by tweeked
Except Australia and New Zealand!!!!!
If we are altruistic, we needed the vaccine least, and so even being rich we are missing out, waiting till last........
But in reality we are here due to inept government at all levels, and a population willing for someone else to get vaccinated so that we will be ok. Until there is an outbreak near me, then we stampede for the vaccine and complain we have to wait!
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All jokes aside, when the PM said it wasn't "a race" at the beginning, I got it. That was when everyone was at an even playing field. But not everyone played ball, more "severe" variants are now emerging, so it is now a bit of a race unfortunately.
We need to, and should, prioritise ourselves for the vaccine now, but what sits a bit uncomfortably is that we are actively opposing the "free" manufacturing of the vaccines to countries that can't access it. I get it that those who invented it should be rewarded, but how many more billions does it take before we realise, oh crap we need to get everyone else done too or else we'll be forever playing catch up on new variants.
So this goes back to the "lessons", we have a world body telling us what needs to be done from past learnings, but we are very selective with what we want to listen to.