Will Russia give us its working Covid-19 vaccine if we’re condemning Navalny poisoning?
This is awkward.
It seems Russia has developed a Covid-19 vaccine that works – it creates an immune response with no ill effects:
Sputnik V, which the Kremlin announced in August would enter mass production this month despite serious international concern, caused no major adverse effects and induced antibodies in all participants in two small rounds of early testing. The results were published in medical journal The Lancet on Friday.
If this is true, then it could end the crisis worldwide – if distributed beyond Russia.
There’s just one problem.
The Establishment here in the UK spends most of its time condemning Russia. At the moment the UK is treating that country with disdain over the poisoning of Alexei Navalny – and for interfering in UK democracy.
So there’s very little incentive for the Russians to help us.
In fact, the Russians would do well to withhold the vaccine. That country could then resume business as usual while the rest of us remain under restrictions until we come up with a vaccine of our own – or steal theirs via spies (gosh).
The UK has already fallen well behind the rest of the world because of Boris Johnson’s pathetic response to the pandemic. Make no mistake; the nation has suffered unduly because of his dithering.
Brexit could push us even further back, if Johnson fails to get a decent trade deal. That’s what we understand he wants, too.
Being forced to try to compete while still under Covid-19 restrictions could finish off the UK economy altogether.
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I would put Putin far above Johnson or Trump for such acts of inhumanity.
That’s all very well, but the question is what our leaders would do if faced with the possibility of being able to secure a vaccine against Covid-19, but from someone they are convinced – or at least have been convincing us – has committed serious crimes.