Cactus Jack wrote:Maddog wrote:He said: “While the UK’s vaccine programme got off to a good start, it has slowed markedly in recent weeks.
“Human behaviour is powerfully shaped by perceptions of risk. It would be understandable if people in the UK, wrongly, felt that the risk had receded because of the way in which some ministers have spoken in ways that suggest the pandemic is over.
“This seems to have been less of a problem in Spain.”
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/spain-co ... ed-1127933
Just as I thought. It's not a shortage of vaccines, it's a shortage of willing participants..
Countries have cultures. Brits are slightly less likely to do what they are told, than an Irishman or a Spaniard, but more likely to than an American.
It's why we have low vaccination rates and so many vaccines that we are starting to destroy them, because they are expiring.
What utter crap.
First the idea that the Irish are noted for being compliant is laughable - tell the British Army from 1973 to 1998 how compliant they are.
Second all the factors that are leading to shortages in the supermarkets are affecting the distribution of vaccines too - which should be obvious even to an American from an uneducated shithole state.
Third young people in Britain aren't showing any reluctance to get the vaccine, some in Northern Ireland are travelling into the Republic to get the jab.
Johnson's early efforts to grab every dose going only served to give him headlines for a few days and committed him to a deliver schedule for the Pfizer and Moderna jabs - the AZ isn't suitable for younger people - that has left the UK in a vulnerable position.
The Irish just behave like responsible adults, not spoiled brats throwing a tantrum because they can't get their own way.
You should post a story about their being a shortage of vaccines in the UK. It would be cool.