The Covid thread

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Queen Ursula VDL appears be have made a laughing stock of herself. Critizing the UK for insufficient testing of the Oxford/Zeneca vac, then demanding that the EU isnt getting enough of it. If ever we should find ourselves with a surplus, I reckon we should help out the Commonwealth first

Oxford University designed the vaccine. AstraZeneca who are responsible for manufacture and testing, is a Swedish/UK company. A large part of the testing was carried out in Brazil and South Africa. Much of the Commonwealth, such as Australia and New Zealand hasn't needed to start vaccination, as they properly closed their borders early, rather than leaving it until the last minute.

Which brings me to something that occurred to me with the likes of Australia and new zealand largely successfully kept covid out of the country but then what - this virus and its mutations is here for ever. Are they going to be locked in their country for ever whilst the rest of the world has achieved heard immunity. This virus is going to mutate and mutate possibly into something massively more deadly than now and those populations have had no exposure to the original form and therefore have no pre existing immunity - however small it may be