The long and short of it is: we need vaccinations. Loads of them. So that good, English people of a post-Brexit and not-at-all-European-whatsoever nature can enjoy the protection that it bestows upon us, both as individuals and more importantly, nationally. In a British way.

And now the Europeans want to screw it up. They want to restrict the amount of vaccines which are to be ‘exported’ from the EU, where both the AstraZeneca and Pfizer are made. Although the AZ one is manufactured all over the place, Pfizer’s one is made mainly in Belgium. Where production has been reduced as they expand their manufacturing plant. The ultimate supply chain irony.

The other issue is that although Ursula van der Whotsit and all those other Euro big wigs have made big promises about how many they intend to vaccinate, they haven’t even got around to approving the AZ vaccine for use yet. Oh, so its ok to test it on those poor Brits then, wait for any adverse reactions and then jump on board after its proven safe, not allowing it to be used themselves, but still moaning about not having enough. Euro-tossers.

So there is a minor discrepancy between the UK and Europe in terms of vaccinations.

Germany has vaccinated 14 people. France 212, Italy 17 and the rest don’t really matter. England has vaccinated 6.5million. I don’t see that as a ‘discrepancy’ as such, they’re just a bit slower over there. And if you don’t approve vaccines that will indeed limit the pace a bit. So basically, they’re a bunch of slackers and blaming us for hogging all the supplies. Which we may be but with very good justification.

Part of which is that we’re losing more people to the virus than any other country. Almost than every other country. Today we passed the 100,000 mark. Holeeee sheeeet.

The other part is that we’re much more important.

Yet it remains an interesting question: why did both Pfizer and AZeneca make promises for delivery that they can’t actually meet? Didn’t they know that making 300 million of anything is a logistical challenge? And that’s just what Europe ordered for phase 1.

I’m sure if we google it online we can all find the recipe for the vaccine and inject ourselves with a turkey baster. How hard can it be?

Happy Tuesday (ish)

A xxxx