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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Australia and NZ are in a rather different position to us, but frankly, they cannot assume they are out of the wood. Most of their populations are exposed to the full force of the pandemic and not to take early advantage of a vaccine that could avoid major problems in the future is negligent.
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There are not unlimited vaccines OB - someone has to lose out. Indeed, if they went all in on AstraZeneca they’d have to booster their way past Delta anyway.
If we use the JCVI logic of not vaccinating
our own children then vaccinating countries that are broadly open with very few cases is poor utilisation of a vaccine in limited supply.
However it’s the one straw you can clutch to in order to criticise a country that has delivered a textbook, and dare I say not reliant on
British exceptionalism, response to a SARS outbreak, kept huge swathes of their economy open and delivered an excellent public health response.