Had a phone call yesterday offering me an appointment for my second Covid vaccine which will now happen in a week`s time. I have to say that the vaccine rollout here has been exemplary - very efficient in all respects and I am seriously grateful for the service being provided. Being `of an age` I`m encouraged too by the fact that two of our 50+ sons are having their first jabs very shortly but less encouraging is that 50+ son number three, who lives and works in the EU, might be waiting some months before he has his.
What was particularly discouraging about the EU, quite apart from the apparent shambles surrounding their rollout and the arguments about the respective merits or otherwise of the various vaccines, was the report that thousands of EU Eurocrats could be having their coronavirus jabs soon, whereas millions of people across the EU go without, thanks to the bloc`s bungled rollout.
Starting in the next week or so, 20,000 MEPs, officials and staff from the European Commission, Council and Parliament will be vaccinated at special centres set up in Belgium for their exclusive use. The report goes on to say that this comes after the EU allegedly blocked the export of the Astra-Zenica doses from Italy to Australia, saying it has a greater need for them.
What could have been a shot in the arm for showing where their real priorities lie, the EU has, perhaps predictably, shot themselves in the foot by showing a classic demonstration of primus inter pares. Why am I not surprised?
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