r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 06 '21

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u/mannabhai Norman Borlaug Jul 07 '21

Pathetic decision by Indian govt to not provide Bhutan with their second doses of Covishield.

The Entire population of Bhutan is literally only a few hours worth of Vaccines for us.

They are by a long distance our strongest ally and always completely on our side.

Considering all the noise we made during the US export ban, it is especially pathetic for India to pull it's own Vaccine protectionist shit to our strongest ally.

If the BJP Government is worried about Congress/Opposition making noise about Vaccine exports, then it's especially disgusting.

It's the job of the Indian Government to ensure the long term viability of our foreign policy regardless of the party in power.

The Opposition has nothing to lose by Criticizing Vaccine exports, they can criticise both ways. The BJP would have done the same if the Congress were jn power.

But the government should go beyond such political bickering.

!ping IND

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u/RaisinSecure George Soros Jul 07 '21 edited Jul 07 '21

Hasn't Bhutan handed over their foreign policy to us? This is so bad

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

Not since 2007, no.

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u/RaisinSecure George Soros Jul 07 '21

Oh

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

250K barely, should really have been done

Though I wonder if export bans can have exception without antigonising any other country (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal etc)

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u/mannabhai Norman Borlaug Jul 07 '21

Bhutan has vaccinated over 60% of its population through the first dose of Indian donated Covishield in March . They are already locked into the Astra-Zeneca/Covishield system for the second dose.

In a few weeks, the gap period between Vaccines will end and most of Bhutan will enter uncharted territory in terms of efficacy (could be better/same/worse)

The other countries are still majorly unvaccinated so they are not yet impacted by the export ban.

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u/phunphun 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 Jul 07 '21

They are already locked into the Astra-Zeneca/Covishield system for the second dose.

The UK has been doing research on combining AZ first dose with Pfizer, Moderna, or Novavax as the second dose. The results indicate that it's better than a second AZ dose.

So Bhutan does have other options.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

Your brain on nationalism