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Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by zpeti on Thursday March 04, 2021 @01:29PM (#26346177)
“Let’s create a centralized bureaucracy to create innovation.”

Yeah, that’s worked many times in history.

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Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by fermienrico on Thursday March 04, 2021 @04:07PM (#26348326)
Switzerland is an example of this and probably the reason they have not joined the EU. Just look at the quality of life, median salary, indices after indices, Switzerland comes ahead of EU in every measure.
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Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by ramblerman on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:35AM (#26353927)
They were already ahead before the EU though. Switzerland came out of WW2 stronger than all the other war torn countries, and could be argued even profited greatly from it.

A big part of their initial resitance to the EU would have been the banking regulations.

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Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by TheCapeGreek on Friday March 05, 2021 @12:34AM (#26353150)
Median salary is a useless metric to compare here because cost of living there is incredibly high.
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Re:EU blocks export of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines to Aust... by Isinlor on Thursday March 04, 2021 @06:43PM (#26350153)
Switzerland and USA were not destroyed in World War II.

Compare that to Poland with almost 20% population dead and 50 years of Soviet imposed communism.

More Americans died from COVID-19 than due to WWII and WWI combined.

The only big power handling the whole situation well is China.

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