> I still don’t understand why EU did not consider the Chinese and Russian vaccines. Politics, that's pretty much it. For months now people have been indoctri

> I still don’t understand why EU did not consider the Chinese and Russian vaccines. Politics, that's pretty much it. For months now people have been indoctrinated that nothing good could ever come out of China or Russia. A lot of that facilitated by misleading headlines about how their vaccines were supposedly "rushed" and somehow disregarding approval processes, as if that wasn't happening pretty much everywhere. A narrative that solely rests on embezzling the fact that there is no global authority on pharma approval, every country sets up their own rules. Throw in some really sensationalized and misleading headlines about how they supposedly force people to be guinea pigs for their vaccines, and both of these vaccines have become so toxic, publicity wise, that even considering them would be a political death sentence in many Western countries.