Coronavirus 3 - Al Pacino's turn to mumble

[roar]

Beyond garbage. It's painful to read. <snip – please don’t engage in personal attacks on other posters. Thanks, David for BBMods.>

[doriswilgus]

I’m surprised no one here has mentioned the elephant in the room,the Federal government’s shambolic roll out of the vaccine.They promised what,4 million jabs by the end of March,and delivered only about one sixth of that in reality.

And now they’re having huge problems with the AstraZeneca vaccine.It was safe apparently,now they’re telling us that it shouldn’t be used on anyone under 50,and those people should get the Pfizer vaccine instead,which is already in short supply.

Why did the government put all its eggs in the AstraZeneca basket?Was it a cost saving measure,purely because it was a cheaper vaccine?If so then that’s pretty shameful.Why didn’t they buy up alternatives like Moderna and Johnson and Johnson,which only requires one jab?Apparently they’ve ordered tens of millions of doses and of another vaccine,Novamax.But that’s still in the testing stages and may be a year away from delivery.

As I said,it’s a pretty shambolic rollout of the vaccine,and questions need to be asked about how the government handled this whole fiasco.They’ve. clearly over promised and under delivered,in contrast to other countries like the US,which have done exactly the opposite.

[5 from the wing on debut]

If you can't see the elephant you are either in a very large room, or you have blocked WPT's posts as well as mine, as he has mentioned the elephant on approximately 2,375 occasions.

[doriswilgus]

Yes,attack the poster but don’t address what they’wrote. <snip – please don’t engage in personal attacks on other posters. Thanks, David for BBMods.>

[stui magpie]

<snip – please don’t engage in personal attacks on other posters. Thanks, David for BBMods.>

It's not hard to find some of the answers to your rhetorical questions.

Some of the reasons why we would have gone with the AstraZeneca are clearly supply chain issues. Unlike the Pfizer it doesn't need to be stored in intense cold which in a country as large as Australia makes distribution a lot easier, and also because we could manufacture it here at CSL under licence so we wouldn't have to rely on shipments from Europe. The Pfizer one is different and we don't have the tech to make it locally.

Yes Scottie promised so many vaccinations but that was before the EU blocked shipments to us so we didn't have anywhere near as much stock as we were supposed to have.

We have though secured another 20 Mil Pfizer shots making over 40Mil all up, to be delivered in 2021 and have 51 Mil shots of Novavax on order just waiting on TGA approval.

But clearly it's Scotties fault that the AstraZeneca vaccine potentially causes blood clots in a tiny minority and gets people panicy

Elephant in the room, FMD.

[stui magpie]

Blood clots by the numbers.

[5 from the wing on debut]

Are you allowing the facts to get in the way of a political rant?

[think positive]

BUT

what is the blood clot risk from the other vaccines?

those odds might seem good - unless your son, daughter, brother, sister, or yourself is that 1 in 800,000

[5 from the wing on debut]

The theory is that it is for the overall good.
Not great if you are the exception though.
Unfortunately, we can't just pick and choose which vaccine we want and when we want it.
Supply and demand.

[stui magpie]

[Dave The Man]

[doriswilgus]

[doriswilgus]

[stui magpie]

[Pies4shaw]

Another great big bag of doughnuts for Victoria today.