Ah, so youâre still reeling about the beating you got last week ⌠Got ya 
The beating you took when you made a daft post and deleted it a second latter and were st
And youâve now taken to parroting me.
Cringe. You are as unoriginal as you are obsequious.
Ok pal
Lolz.
You said all vaccines apart from Sputnik were shit.
You said Irelandâs roll out of the vaccine was shit.
You said India were done with Covid before a devastating wave crippled the countryâs health system as thousands died on the streets.
You said Ireland had 900 patients on trolleys at one moment in time and got very irritated when I asked you to confirm what day that was. You bizarrely wanted to know where I was on that day.
I could go on but thereâs a trend emergingâŚ
The application form was the clincher though.
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Incorrect. All you can do is repeat lies because you havenât the brains or belief to put yourself in a position where you have to stand behind your idiocy.
Australia makes world-class mess of its vaccine rollout
Sydney Letter: Poor planning, shortages and âcommon senseâ plunge cities into lockdown
about 16 hours ago Updated: about 15 hours ago
Australiaâs âcultural cringeâ â an obsession with wanting to know what foreigners think of its country and culture â means it is happy, for instance, to allow its head of state to come exclusively from one English family residing at Buckingham Palace.
It also makes it a country consumed with wanting everything it does to be thought of as âgold standardâ and âworld-classâ. Many Australian politicians and bureaucrats, in trying to explain a new policy or defend a dreadful, failing one, will at some point describe it with those stock phrases.
It was no surprise to hear them rolled out again in the time of Covid. Government officials hailed the countryâs hotel quarantine system as a âworld-classâ way of containing the virus. Prime minister Scott Morrison described the state of New South Walesâs test-and-trace strategy as the âgold standardâ in Covid-19 suppression.
But hotel quarantine has sometimes helped spread the virus, with air conditioning allowing the airborne pathogen to travel from room to room. Most of New South Wales, Australiaâs most populous state, is locked down, including Sydney, the countryâs biggest city, with a population of more than five million. Melbourne and Adelaide are also in lockdown. Just 13 per cent of the country is fully vaccinated, only 30 per cent has had even one dose, and more than half of aged and disability care residents and workers are still unvaccinated.
There is nothing gold standard or world-class about these figures, which put Australia bottom of the chart for vaccinations among OECD countries.
Rollout vs âraceâ
In March, when it became obvious that Australia was struggling to secure supplies, weeks after the government had approved the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines, Morrison repeatedly said the rollout was ânot a raceâ.
Last week, he said he regretted using those words, but not before he had first gone onto Sydney radio station KIIS FM to deny he had soiled his pants in a suburban McDonaldâs in 1997. The radio hosts did not bring up the long-standing rumour, Morrison did, saying near the end of his interview, âCan I clear up one thing from ages ago?â
AstraZeneca and Pfizer are the only vaccine options in Australia, with the latter in short supply due to an initial order of just 10 million doses to cover a population of more than 25 million.
Australia failed to hedge its bets on vaccine options, putting most of its money on AstraZeneca. Public broadcaster ABC reported that Australia mishandled its negotiations with Pfizer in talks going back to June and July last year, with junior bureaucrats showing a ârude, dismissive and penny-pinchingâ approach.
Australiaâs Covid failures have not just come at the federal level, though. New South Wales state premier Gladys Berejiklian repeatedly lambasted the premiers of Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia for lockdowns and shutting their borders.
âCommon senseâ
When the Delta variant found its way into Sydney last month, Berejiklian refused to put a definition, as Victoria had done, on who should be classed an essential worker. She said people should just use their âcommon senseâ. That worked so well the entire city and surrounding regions are now in a lockdown that is likely to last well into August.
Berejiklian called on other states to send Pfizer vaccine doses to Sydney, but they refused. However, federal health minister Greg Hunt found an extra 50,000 Pfizer doses for New South Wales anyway. The Western Australia and Northern Territory governments questioned where the extra vaccines suddenly came from, but Hunt denies any favouritism had been shown to New South Wales.
Missing in the mix is Australiaâs plentiful supply of AstraZeneca. It is producing a million doses every week, with much of this being exported to Pacific island nations, Indonesia and Vietnam. But many of the doses that remain in Australia are getting close to their use-by date as people put off by the minute risk of a blood clot take what may turn out to be a bigger risk and wait for a Pfizer dose.
On Monday, Hunt said he expected Moderna and Novavax vaccines would also be available in Australia by the yearâs end, but he may find that five months is a long time in politics.
An actual gold standard that Australia is meeting at the moment is its swimmersâ performances at the Olympics. But that distraction will soon be over and people will again start to notice that Australiaâs Covid-19 response is nowhere near world-class.
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Youâve had a terrible pandemic. Someone needs to step in and take over til the end of the season.
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Whatâs he actually howling about? Iâve no idea as I havenât been following this thread.
Remember when he was saying Champions League and Premier League winning manager Jurgen Klopp was shit? Well, this is similar except there hasnât been a rebrand.
@mikehunt still thinks that Covid 19 started from a bat sneezing into someoneâs lunch in Wuhan 
Spoiler Alert: It was the CoronaVirus Lab in Wuhan
Just what he needs, the IQ Cavalry.
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I just noticed you were going off on a few tangents. Using some Jurgen Klopp example to support your conspiracy theories 
You ploughed in with an incorrect statement. I have made no claims on where/how the virus originated nor have I made any predictions on how the virus would play out. I am merely pointing out how hilariousy wrong people like @Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy got it.
Australia 
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So the vaccine works and people should be encouraged to get it?
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Yup
Just got the 2nd dose there, Iâll be able to go to the pub now in about 2 weeks time (although Iâve no interest in indoor pints or dining).
Stick that up your bollox anti-vaxers
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If you are in an at risk category.
Thatâs great news. Surely those with doubts will be encouraged to get the vaccine now with results like that and we can get the country back up and runningâŚ
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