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Europe's vaccine lunacy (bureaucracy games - Brexit looking better to UK doubters?)

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https://theweek.com/articles/972321/euro...ine-lunacy

EXCERPTS: There's a famous puzzler in popular moral philosophy known as the trolley problem. A runaway trolley is barreling down a street, aimed straight at a group of five innocent pedestrians. If nothing stops the trolley, the pedestrians will be struck and killed. You can save them, but only by pulling a lever that will divert the trolley down another street — and that street also features an innocent pedestrian. So the only way you can save the five innocent people is via an action that will definitely kill another innocent person. Is it morally right to do so?

I'm thinking about this philosophical abstraction because much of Europe is in the process of executing a new and perverse variant thereof. Starting with Denmark, and now including the three largest EU members — Germany, France, and Italy — country after country have decided to stop using the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine because of safety concerns, even as a new wave of infections begins to build across the continent. In so doing, they're diverting the trolley away from a street that may be completely empty, and onto a path that is packed with pedestrians, many of whom have still not recovered from the impact of previous trolleys.

[...] Moreover, the pace of the pandemic in Europe is about to accelerate. Cases are rising again across the continent, even as they continue to drop in the U.K. and Israel, both countries that made rapid vaccination a clear priority — and both countries where the new, more contagious and more deadly British variant is now dominant, as it increasingly is in Europe as well.

Europe is already far behind both these leading countries, as well as the U.S., in vaccinating their population, partly because of lack of supplies due to poor procurement decisions at the EU level, and partly because of vaccine hesitancy that is much more widespread in Europe than in the U.S. They need a massive boost to their effort, not additional obstacles — particularly not ones that reinforce the obstacles they already have... (MORE - details)

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It's more likely that the person doing the injections didn't remove an airbubble and it caused someone complications than the vaccine itself having issue. It would explain why there isn't a huge number of reported cases with the side effect that is suggested.

To be honest though it's all politics, countries are just acting like arses since the exit since there is no reason for them to be diplomatic anymore (They don't have to have the appearance of niceties since they aren't getting anything out of it)
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