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The vaccine screw-up wasn't even the only... interesting part of the European pandemic response. For example, there was a very public push by the EU itself as a
by makomk 6y ago
The vaccine screw-up wasn't even the only... interesting part of the European pandemic response. For example, there was a very public push by the EU itself as an institution for member states to reopen travel in order to save the critically important summer vacation season that was just quietly forgotten about by the media after it turned out to be a terrible idea. Complete with a certain amount of pressure on the UK government to try and get them to go along with it too. The vaccine problems were just too visible and undeniable to ignore.
- tinus_hn 6y agoThat sounds pretty logical but it isn’t. Without travel it would have been a slower motion train wreck. Still a train wreck, but now with even more economic destruction.
- heavenlyblue 6y ago> Complete with a certain amount of pressure on the UK government to try and get them to go along with it too. And it took all the way to December to implement testing at the borders for the UK government while they were obviously allowing their citizens to take advantage of those travel policies.