The disinformation is strong in the government’s story.
The Tory government has been making a huge song and dance about having vaccinated a quarter of the UK’s population against Covid-19 – even though they haven’t.
They had an opportunity to vaccinate large numbers of the population – but with both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines, that would involve giving people two injections, with the second preferably happening after a three-week interval.
That hasn’t happened. Instead – in an attempt to grab headlines by publicising a large number of people getting the vaccine – the Tories ruled that nobody would receive their second jab earlier than 12 weeks after the first.
(That’s nobody apart from super-rich people like Boris Johnson’s father Stanley who could afford to pay for it, of course).
By then, the effects of the first injection are likely to have worn off.
The 15 million people mentioned in the headline are, in fact, unlikely to have any protection at all.
Still, it’s nice that they think they’re protected, isn’t it?
I wonder what will happen if (when?) somebody who’s had the injection then contracts the disease, or even – God forbid! – dies of it.
Who will Johnson try to blame then?
I’m not saying this will definitely happen.
But by ignoring scientific advice – from the manufacturers of these vaccines, for crying out loud! – Johnson and his government have made it much more likely.
Source: Covid: UK vaccinates 15 million people | The Independent
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