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Or if you are a senior EU politician .......

Pick a fight with Astra Zeneca, the only company who is making their vaccine at cost and not selling it for profit, selectively release chosen details of the confidential contract and then go quiet when they release the other stuff that says how wrong you were. Nevertheless, keep complaining about them in the press.

Trigger the Northern Ireland border controls (a month after you said it was a die in a ditch red line during Brexit), risking a return of hundreds of years of hatred and killing.

Tell your population that the UK have been cavalier in their testing and that the Astra Zeneca vaccine is high Risk

tell your population that over 55s shouldn’t have the Astra Zeneca vaccine

Tell your population that children shouldn’t have the Astra Zeneca vaccine

Suspend any vaccinating with the Astra Zeneca vaccine

Threaten a trade war over the vaccine that you haven’t got, and wouldn’t use if you did have it.

Refuse to export any of it (even though the constituent parts come from a huge complex international supply chain that you are utterly dependant on), and you are not the only people making it

Suddenly say it’s OK, and the Astra Zeneca vaccine is very good after all (and wonder why your populations are now surprisingly suspicious about taking it)

Announce a new strict lockdown over Easter.

The very next day, cancel the lockdown.


What the fuck is going on over there? These people are costing the lives of their own citizens. It’s a bloody shambles!
good goobity goob...wtf is going on with the human race...