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Originally Posted by Matsu
Here’s some stuff we won’t use ourselves. Thanks for being our greatest neighbours.
That 12 months ago the Trudeau gang failed to interpret the likely protectionist reactions of nations everywhere, is pretty short sighted... I mean seriously, who thought any politician was going to ship vaccines across a border until their own needs were addressed? Particularly the US, who’d given ample evidence over the last 4 years - and longer - that they aren’t exactly the most reliable ally. Granted, some times there’s no choice - Canada may have lacked the production capacity, but it probably would have been advisable to immediately set about building the capacity and securing licensing arrangements that would allow domestic production under licence or outright IP theft should deals not be negotiable. Considering the billions mobilized on CERB, a significant portion of which was carelessly misdirected, some early and aggressive funding towards medical manufacturing facilities, perhaps partnered with some of Canada's rather large generic drug enterprises, would have had us in position to home brew vaccines?
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Everyone here messed up. You can thank the previous Harper governments for defunding vaccination manufacturers in the country for the lack of availability. Getting production rights would have been pointless, we have nowhere to make it, and it will be two years before we can again. Did the liberals mess up? Sure, but let’s face it, they made mistakes from the beginning. Not closing the boarders to international travel soon enough, choosing to go partner with Chinese vaccines makers (who let’s face it, were never going to give it to us for ongoing political reasons), and when that failed they stalled on signing deals with the American and European companies. Okay, actually the last bit was a result of the cons and NDP for not allowing the Libericals to use emergency powers to sign the deals, forcing weeks of needless debate on the issue in parliament. But hey, it’s all simply black and white right?
The generic dug makers are not setup to make vaccines by the way, totally different manufacturing is required. It would take them over a year to switch, and cause other drug shortages in the process.
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Originally Posted by Kickaha
We will have multiple vaccines, because people are goddamned idiots.
At no time is any vaccine a 'cure'.
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Bingo