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Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by AnotherGoodName on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:47PM (#26345486)
The one good thing here is that Australia doesn't have any COVID outside of quarantine facilities. Europe is in far more need than Australia so it's probably for the best. I say this as an Australian citizen.

It would be nice if the EU got their house in order though so that they didn't have to steal vaccines to keep people alive.

Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by pgeorgi on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:57PM (#26345655)
Hard to keep people alive when you have vaccine producers that don't deliver on their contracts yet ship out the very same stuff to other customers.

Not that you'd need it, as apparently Australia will be able to produce its own AZ vaccine by end of March, but ask AZ to ship batches made in the UK or US to Australia and see how well that goes: at least the EU is allowing exports as long as it's not singularly expected to bear the impact of production issues.

Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by 0xy on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:52PM (#26347289)
Australia's economy, and in particular Victoria's, was shattered by the longest and strictest lockdown globally.

It's nice if you got to keep your job, but many businesses and lives were destroyed. Especially blue collar businesses. The government offered the businesses that it literally forced out of business essentially zero compensation.

Are we supposed to be perpetually in and out of lockdowns for years until the rest of the world is vaccinated?

Economic downturn is directly linked to adverse health outcomes, not just including suicide but things like deferred treatments, depression and otherwise.

Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by 0xfaded on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:57PM (#26345649)
Think of the de-risking achieved by vaccinating the people working in the quarantine hotels.

Those 2500 vaccines would provide much higher value in Australia than saving face for some of the most incompetent politicians on the planet.