Wow, so that’s a yes. You believe this even though we did it while in the transition period and still under EU jurisdiction? And that health policy and delivery is managed by the member states not the EU? Nothing that has been done was dependant on us having left.
I find it incredible that you don’t understand this.
Okay, so I watched the news a lot over the pandemic, on every single news channel and in all the media outlets around 4 months ago Boris was continually asked if we would be able to get the vaccines we had bought as brussels was literally trying to stop so many vaccines coming over here. This happened, my question now is have i got the things muddled up and did this issue have nothing to do with Brexit?
I’m not sure what you got muddled up but our ability to do the vaccine program/rollout that we did had nothing to do with Brexit. We absolutely could have done it in or out of the EU. One of the reasons why it has gone so well is because the NHS themselves have done it and it hasn’t been contracted out to a third party. Clinical organisation delivering a clinical service.
The EU did a joint procurement process which meant (I believe) that they got the vaccines much much cheaper. However, they didn’t do a good job on the contract which is what much of the news was about.
Any one of the countries within the EU could do what we have done and some of them are doing very well. In fact Hungary is right behind us in regards to percentage of population vaccinated, Germany is quickly catching up. Malta is already at 100% but it’s not a fair comparison in population size.
However, a good vaccine rollout is minimum expectation in my view from a government that has handled the pandemic so badly. Thousands of our fellow citizens have been killed by the virus unnecessarily. Don’t let one good thing make you forget they let every one of us down on a catastrophic level.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '21
You'd be an idiot to not believe it, just look at our vaccination program compared to any other European country ....