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I'm perplexing to me, as well. Europeans didn't approve the vaccine but they also have strict lockdowns. Do politicians actively WANT lockdowns? Is that what
by mancerayder 6y ago
I'm perplexing to me, as well. Europeans didn't approve the vaccine but they also have strict lockdowns. Do politicians actively WANT lockdowns? Is that what people want? Aren't people desperate to be free again? They took forever to approve the U.S. vaccines, they also refused to negotiate beforehand, and were sticklers on cost. Now the U.S., Israel and the UK have run laps around the EU in preparedness.
When I was growing up we Europeans saw movies about the USSR, we heard news stories about Soviet citizens needing approvals to travel in their own countries, we saw checkpoints and checking of ID, and we patted ourselves on the back because we're Free. So - what happened?
- orwin 6y agoIt is because they did not submit approval request. The EU is really bureaucratic, more than any governing body, it is a huge flaw, but in reality it make it easy to dismiss claim that a decision is political. If it not a decision made by the council, it is not political.
- akmarinov 6y agoThe biggest issue was that the EU exported about half of the vaccines manufactured in the EU. Had it done as the UK and the US and hoarded them for themselves, banning vaccine exports - the EU would’ve been way better off.