EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines from Europe

Re:EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines fr... by disabled on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:31AM (#26540511)

There is nothing wrong with being pro-EU, even rabidly so. People who are rabidly against the EU get off the hook, all the time.

Also, it is not illegal for the EU to be banning exports of this vaccine product. Plus, where did the tax subsidies come from? In this case it is from an EU member state. This is how pharmaceutical companies work; they plant themselves where the subsides are.

The biggest mistake that the EU made was that they trusted free market forces too much.

Either way, this is a good read, from the Global Commission of Post-Pandemic Policy: Why States Should Invest in Vaccine Capacity: https://globalcommissionforpostpandemicpolicy.org/states-and...

It talks about the EU vaccine situation well, too.

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Re:EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines fr... by jariel on Monday March 22, 2021 @08:50PM (#26549555)

None of this is true.

The UK screwed nobody, they just wrote a good contract independent of EU.

If the UK knew there were not going to be able to manufacture there, they would have made it elsewhere.

Nationalizing exports is a massive problem, and it may very well be illegal.

Nobody screwed the EU or Canada, they just failed to take appropriate action.

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Re:EU rebuffs UK calls to ship AstraZeneca Covid vaccines fr... by bof_ on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:39AM (#26540607)

> People who are rabidly against the EU get off the hook, all the time.

Two wrongs do not a right make.

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