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With UK bagging 450 million vaccine doses — enough to jab population 6 times over — striking stats in this Times story
— Britain has donated just 11.5m jabs since pledging 100m in June
— 34 / 54 African countries jabbed <10%
— 90% of Africa unprotected
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@smdiehl What if you believe that vaccines work, but getting vaccinated while you are healthy and relatively young is unethical while other people can't just because they were born in the wrong place. Would that constitute you as undesirable? Asking for a friend.
@BennettTomlin I would also suggest a more imminent solution would be to release millions of unused vaccines to people that really need them. That would be IMO, a fight worth fighting. Arguing with people over their bad choices knowing the outcome beforehand, is just virtue signaling.
@BennettTomlin Mutations don't only occur in US or other developed countries if I am not mistaken. The uptake in poor countries is slow not by choice, while the most vulnerable there are completely unprotected and I don't see the same urgency about them.
@BennettTomlin Sir, if vaccine uptake increases the risk of mutation, then advocating the vaccination of people with minimal risk of severe disease, while high-risk individuals cannot get the vaccine in poorer countries, wouldn't be highly unethical?
@ProfColinDavis Cases and hospitalizations should be correlated. Can't be otherwise and doesn't mean anything. What matters is how many cases get to hospitalize now for x number of new cases and how many before.