Quote Originally Posted by Francewhite View Post
The UK as a full member of the EU could have also gone it's own way. Hungary & Slovakia are members and have chosen their own routes and are going with the Russian Sputnik vaccine. The ability for the the UK to go it's own way is nothing to do with non membership of the EU but the usual self serving crap about Brexit was used to suggest it was.
And just bear in mind, "going with the Sputnik vaccine" means they are ordering, not that supplies are available, which also means they won't be able to vaccinate until April/May, by which time roughly 70% of the UK adult population (or about 40 million adults) will have ALREADY had at least their first jab, meaning they are 80% less likely to develop serious illness or require hospital treatment than those who remain unvaccinated.

The EU process, the small-minded petty leadership who spouted quasi-science regarding the Astra-Zeneca vaccine based on absolutely nothing but hysterical hatred of the UK, and the nightmare it and they have inflicted on the separate nations who still remain in the "club", will kill tens of thousands across Europe who could have been protected by now, if the little Hitlers in Brussels, Paris and Berlin hadn't been so myopically focussed on "teaching the UK a lesson" for having the temerity to leave.