Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Let’s not start getting too complacent Andy and Ram. Hopefully our Government will have done a good job of sourcing sufficient vaccines and, IF they have then they’ll deserve the credit...but we’re still the country in Europe with the highest number of cases and deaths and BJ is still the PM who, less than thirty six hours after announcing that all schools were safe, had to announce that they would all be closing as part of an urgently needed national lockdown.

The way I see it we’re reliant much more on a combination of the NHS and local government to ‘get millions of Brits vaccinated’ but hopefully the Government’s procurement skills will greatly outweigh their management and communication efforts.

I’d also love to see an end to this ‘competitive’ aspect. I don’t care if a ninety year old lady from the UK was the first to be jabbed three weeks ago...I’d just like to see a ‘joined up’ World effort to vaccinate as many people as possible across the entire planet.
You're twisting things a bit there RA, by no means am I getting complacent and I don't have the greatest faith that we will be getting 2 million vaccinations completed every week, for some time. What I was saying was that if we were still tied to the EU and their common vaccination policy, then we would have zero chance of rolling out the vaccination programme in large numbers in the short term, no matter who the government was. I'm not claiming for one second that the job is done, in fact I'm a little dismayed that I've seen no evidence of any mass vaccination centres manned by service personnel as of yet.

As for the joined up effort to support a global vaccination programme, don't you think that the Oxford vaccine will achieve this for the third world countries, whereas the Pfizer vaccine developed by your very clever German and Turkish scientists has been developed solely for use in rich western countries?