O/T Covid jabs

[crashbang]

So here we are sending jabs and aid to India, a country that ranks in the top ten largest economies, has the atomic bomb and a busy space exploration industry.

Somebody's priorities seem to be way off.

India vaccinated 2 million people a day.
It is also the 2nd biggest vaccine manufacturer in the world.
weird or what?

[great_fire]

The priority should be people over 80 who are the most affected by this virus.

[crashbang]

The priority should be people over 80 who are the most affected by this virus.

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They have been.

[great_fire]

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They have been.

Worldwide.

[crashbang]

Worldwide.

Europe don't agree. not worth vaccinating older ones.
glad we are out.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Europe don't agree. not worth vaccinating older ones.
glad we are out.

A double dip recession in the eurozone

[KerrAvon]

So here we are sending jabs and aid to India, a country that ranks in the top ten largest economies, has the atomic bomb and a busy space exploration industry.

Somebody's priorities seem to be way off.

The UK is not sending vaccines to India. Our production gets nowhere near meeting domestic demand and we are dependent upon imports, including significant quantities from India.

We are sending ventilators and equipment for the production of oxygen. Are you seriously arguing against that given what is happening there?

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

The UK is not sending vaccines to India. Our production gets nowhere near meeting domestic demand and we are dependent upon imports, including significant quantities from India.

We are sending ventilators and equipment for the production of oxygen. Are you seriously arguing against that given what is happening there?

No of course not.

Just pointing out that economically India has the resources to have done a better job of controlling their outbreak. Spending money in the wrong places.

Maybe the large Pakistani community here can rally round and send aid?

[KerrAvon]

Just about every country could have done a better job, Grist.

When the UK government eventually runs out of excuses and there is an inquiry into our handling of the disease, we will learn that the only reason that the NHS was not overwhelmed was because many people were simply denied treatment.

Why single out the British Pakistani community?

[great_fire]

Just about every country could have done a better job, Grist.

When the UK government eventually runs out of excuses and there is an inquiry into our handling of the disease, we will learn that the only reason that the NHS was not overwhelmed was because many people were simply denied treatment.

Why single out the British Pakistani community?

The only place in Europe that was overwhelmed was in Bergamo in Italy, and that's because they imported thousands of Chinese workers to work in the leather industry there.

I surprised you would fall for the media's lies and exaggerations.

At the very same time we were told the NHS was overwhelmed, nurses were doing TikTok dance videos in empty wards.