Originally Posted by Chris

An unfortunate combination of German cultural nationalism (we won’t have that, it’s Not Made Here), a population already prone to anti-vax, tinfoil hat stupidity, and crassly expressed, institutional outrage that the Brits dared make a flying success out of their vaccine programme at the same time as the EU was royally fecking up its own, has made for a toxic combination.

It’s only mildly entertaining watching German experts scratching their heads and wondering how the official denigration of a vaccine has led to a plummet in confidence and refusals to accept it. Mostly it’s tragic because they now have quantities of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine sitting in fridges rather than in the arms of people who may now get very sick or even die of covid.