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apparently it's a point of national pride, possibly even a Brexit benefit as we don't have to negotiate with 27 other countries.
At what point does this badly affect them before?
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Vaccination is one area where I think the EU is doing some odd shit. Luxembourg has to take way more vaccine than needed due to some stupid group purchasing deal where we have to take a certain percentage of a buy. That means we have enough vaccine coming to do the two doses for 1.2M people... which... is twice the population. So either we're setting up refugee camps for Brexit fleeing Brits or the scheme is a bit messed up.
Also the Groupon deal means that it's actually taking longer to get the vaccine than if the country did a deal direct.
That said, perhaps too much vaccine isn't that bad a thing to have if we need topups later.
atz
My parents (my own personal bellweather of the effect of govt. comms) talked about this on the phone recently - apparently it's a point of national pride, possibly even a Brexit benefit as we don't have to negotiate with 27 other countries.
Firstly, get a grip. What a mental statistic to take national pride from. Secondly, give it a couple of weeks and compare our numbers to Germany's and I wouldn't bet on ours being the better.