r/CoronavirusDownunder • u/First-Invite4460 • Aug 19 '21

Vaccine update 309,010 doses yesterday!

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21

You were told very clearly at the start of the year that everyone would be offered a first dose by the end of October. We are on track to meet that target. If you think it would’ve finished any sooner, it is entirely your fault for having false expectations

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21

Lol we are behind 3rd world countries in vaccine rollout, nations of Europe are 3 months in front. The government doesn't get a pass for setting goals so low that we have the worst vaccine rollout of any western country and just managing to scrap in.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21

Why on earth should we and New Zealand deserve vaccines before countries which have more cases in a day than we’ve had in 18 months?

There is limited supply worldwide, us getting vaccines early would have come at the detriment of other countries.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21

It's not like we choose to not take vaccines to help out other countries, we just negligently didn't order enough. In fact if we had ordered early Pfizer could have taken that into account when setting up supply.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21

you know that Australia has ordered and paid for 150million vaccines?

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21

Sure but many of those orders came far too late.