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blame the GREAT SCARE CAMPAIGN done on AstraZeneca. It is the main vaccine used in the UK, a country that many wish to compare our vaccine rollout and rates with. There is plenty of that for everyone but people have been scared off because there is a one in two million chance of getting a blood clot. It was the best choice to go with as we do have the capability to manufacture it ourselves. For the other type , Pfizer and Moderna it would take a couple of years to create that capacity here. And had we gone down that expensive and time consuming path, it may well have been found that it was Pfizer that caused issues not AstraZeneca. Nobody knew which vaccine would have issues and which wouldn’t this time last year when contracts were being signed.
and someone mentioned the bloated useless public service. Having had dealings with some state health public servants and also having lived in Canberra for a while, you understate their ability to achieve very little over a very long time yet think they are gods gift. Reality and the public service are two mutually exclusive sets. This is particularly acute in a Canberra where you now have senior public servants who are third and fourth generation public servants. They have often had both parents who were public servants, totally immune to the economic cycles. Guaranteed pay every fortnight, until fairly recently, defined benefit pension on retirement. Impossible to sack unless they kill someone. They know the system , and how to play it..
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