What Next?31 Jan 2021 09:03
I'm sure all of us have been transfixed by the utter collapse of the EU 29 days after the UK left. Its response to the vaccine meyhem as it suddenly realised it had screwed up so blamed the UK instead. The mess it made of its contract, the riots in Holland and potential for civil unresst throughtout the EU. The bullying threat of stopping the UK receiving 3.5m Pfizer jabs. One German scientist clains that those jabs could save 15000 lives in the EU. No doubt he forgot to mention the 15000 lives that would be lost in the UK not receiving those jabs? Wars have been fought for less. Then the utter shambles of invoking section 16 for a hard border in order to stop the UK receiving any EU vaccines and actually trying to grab UK produced vaccine ahead of the UK. The EU have behaved far worse than Trump a figure they supposedly despised yet an example they now follow. All this over a vaccine, which in itself is a scatter gun approach to keeping the virus at bay.
What next though for therapeutics? When you think about it therapeutics are a more targeted approach to fighting the virus. They are used only on people who have the virus and are most at risk of death etc. WHat will happen when Governments suddenly find they have a tool to treat the worst effects in about 80% of cases? A treatment which removes most of the fear of catching the virus etc. Hopefully it should help restore normality along with vaccines. We all sit here holding that golden ticket and knowing that governments can fall if they screw this up. What will happen when one government makes the first order here? WIll there be another bunfight like vaccines?
So what next?