They were probably tricked into sending them via a scam email.
âGood afternoon sirs, this is the vaccination facility in Limerick, Ireland. We are low on stocks at our facility. Please send us half a million doses most immediately to the Limerick Vaccination Centre, Lagos, Nigeriaâ.
Thatâs been the prerogative of Ireland and the EU unfortunately. The right wing capitalists in America were open to it, oddly enough. I agree of course that the IP should have been shared.
In any event, I donât think this is so much the main issue at this stage. It will be capacity to fire out shots and people accepting them that will be the biggest barriers to vaccination in poorer countries from here on in.
In addition, you can probably expect that take up across developing countries will be a lot lower than Europe. Which in turn is a lot lower than Ireland.
Itâs amazing that two years into this you have stuff like this still. What does he not get about limiting onward transmission being important? Saying no child has died in Ireland is also disingenuous, that doesnât mean that no child could die, or that itâs no threat to children. Itâs fairly dispiriting to see stuff like this that shows such a failure to grasp basics at this stage.
How many children die from flu each year, yet itâs seen as very important they get the flu vaccine. Itâs one thing that is a major contradiction in the vaccination policy so far, and I know itâs been limited by vaccine authorisations.
The narrative of the right wing capitalists is âwe shouldnât care about Africa not getting vaccines because they wonât want them anyway.â
Seems a bit racist to me.
In the same breath they say âwe shouldnât have boosters here because Africa needs them.â
Seems to me thatâs a bit like, oh, a red herring of lying propaganda to mask their real aim of letting Covid rip on unvaccinated or not vaccinated enough populations everywhere, just for the hell of it.
If the likes of David Quinn actually wanted to save lives theyâd be calling for IP to be shared and vaccines to be produced throughout the world.
But they donât give one single fuck about saving lives.