Here’s some responses:
1. WHO advice on AstraZeneca is that it’s an acceptable vaccine with risks.
The real problem has been the mixed messaging from the Feds and a lack of effective public education. E.g. all of the Federal Ministers were showed getting Pfizer. Negative public perception on AZ was shaped very early by the government itself.
2. We didn’t need to buy enough of “every” vaccine but we put ALL our eggs in the AZ basket. E.g. The UK, where the Oxford AZ vaccine was actually created still organised sufficient supplies of Pfizer (and some Moderna I believe) to mitigate the risk. We alone of developed countries planned no effective contingency.
3. If we had applied the effective mitigation strategy (as per item 2) we would have been better placed to help the region with surplus vaccine supply.
Bottom line, the government’s adopted “let’s go with AZ solely” approach scores poorly on all criteria you have raised.
And we haven’t even started talking about quarantine and the preferential treatment of 20,000 non citizens, many with Covid, coming and going as they please (let’s just put “business” as “reason for travel” shall we) while Australian citizens can’t come home.
You love your “straw men” to try and frame the topic on your terms. Unfortunately in this case the term “Utter Debacle” doesn’t even come close.
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