#auspol #covid19aus the refusal of even many experts to resist the gibbering hysteria over vaccination rates…

#auspol #covid19aus the refusal of even many experts to resist the gibbering hysteria over vaccination rates astounds me. How often do prominent Oz people say we're running last in the world? Musings on this graph /1 https://t.co/3nj6Mjms7Y

To beat a pandemic, you need an integrated public health strategy. How fast you vaccinate is one component only, of that strategy. Countries who got emergency authorization to start speed vaccinating in late-2020 were already up shit creek, pandemic-wise. /2

Look at their vaccination rates now. Falling behind even the aggregate world rate, which includes the vast swathes of countries who have next to no vaccine at all. Australia easily outpacing both the US and UK, even with limited supply. /3

Some say yes, but the US and UK have already vaccinated nearly half their people. So what? The goal here is to end the pandemic, not to vaccinate the fastest. They have next to zero meaningful NPI. That will cost them dearly, as it did in 2020. /4

Australia knows how to do NPI. And even more importantly, it has the will to do it. Neither the UK nor US, both infected with virulent strains of libertarianism, have that will. My money is still on Oz beating most of the world, in a canter. We're very short-term. /end