In the countries with limited vaccine supply how do you justify vaccinating the Olympic team ahead of much more vulnerable people? This isn't an issue for athletes from the USA but it is a huge issue for athletes from many other countries.
In the case of a family leader, they may "forbid" family members under their roof to be vaccinated. Depending on the situation, there are often unfortunate victims of this.
That would be a issue but one that can be sort out I think. What everyone needs to realize is that COVID can knock anyone out of their dreams if not all is vaccinated. It’s just not the young healthy person that got it and now needs to drop out of the Olympics, it’s the athletes that the person also could have got it from themYour taking down everyone’s dreams now for selfish reasons.
People are allowed to disagree. If you don’t want to see that maybe you’re the one who should use the ignore function.
You need that same coincidence with a transmission outside the lab. Two people, in the same city, at nearly the same time being infected. Or one lineage is older and it quickly split.
It's too late now, but the US could have provided vaccines for every athlete, coach, team support, whatever, for every person from every country competing in the games. Plus all the reporters and Olympic staff too.
The median age of people dying from COVID is a fact. I stated multiple times that my opinion about COVID mitigation measures would have been much different if a large percentage of the deaths were young people like the Spanish Flu.No denial he said it, no apology for saying it. I’m beginning to wonder if he wasn’t one of the people posting here back when “It’s just old people who are dying” was the popular line.
PMQs: Boris Johnson urged to apologise for 'over 80s' Covid comment
Boris Johnson comes under fire at Prime Minister's Questions over a text leaked by Dominic Cummings.www.bbc.co.uk
I think the fact that he said 'Get Covid and live longer' is very much worth an apology.
This is a completely useless observation. The life expectancy for somebody born in the past year hasn't changed one iota. It's just a retroactive calculation based on the age of people who have died over the course of the year. Since COVID cut lives short especially in the elderly population it is reflected in the life expectancy calculation. If COVID is still around in 70 years (I certainly won't be) without available vaccines then it would mean something.A sobering read.
US life expectancy decreased by 1.5 years during the pandemic – largest drop since WWII
Hispanic and Black populations in the U.S. saw the largest declines in life expectancy during the COVID-19 pandemic, new data shows.www.google.com
I’d take the bolded part of this brilliant missed opportunity one step further. I’d bet a dollar to a donut Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna would have gladly assisted in donating to this type of effort in a compassionate use/charity care sort of way. Like you said the ads and positive PR write themselves.It's too late now, but the US could have provided vaccines for every athlete, coach, team support, whatever, for every person from every country competing in the games. Plus all the reporters and Olympic staff too.
Use that US excess supply. Sure, it could be argued that instead of this we should give doses to countries in need and better targeted. But, in the scope of US supply and donations to other countries, would this number of doses really matter that much? What is it, 20K people?
Think of the marketing opportunity. US Official Vaccine Sponsor of the 2020* Olympics. They could have run ads galore with all the different teams and countries about how great getting the vaccine is. Be like superstar/team/underdog/touching story athlete and get your vaccination today!
Before someone says "US Vaccine Contracts prevent this", which vaccine provider wouldn't want the positive press of being an Olympic Vaccine supplier or more importantly, which would want the bad press of denying vaccine to Olympic athletes.
The Olympic committee would probably want a check to use that marketing.
Hindsight is wonderful, a missed opportunity.
He didn’t just state a fact. He joked about the age of those dying and said he doubted the NHS would be overwhelmed, even as he was (publicly) declaring how seriously he was taking the threat. His behaviour was callous and dishonest—the sort of thing leaders were expected to apologise for back in the day.
Yes, it does. I don’t see how that justifies Johnson’s flippant attitude, which extends to the NHS itself.
He made one joke inserted within a bunch of facts. You can take something seriously and make a joke about it simultaneously. That doesn't make somebody dishonest. People with disabilities or who get diagnosed with cancer use humor as a means of coping. It doesn't mean that it isn't being taken seriously.He didn’t just state a fact. He joked about the age of those dying and said he doubted the NHS would be overwhelmed, even as he was (publicly) declaring how seriously he was taking the threat. His behaviour was callous and dishonest—the sort of thing leaders were expected to apologise for back in the day.
Yes, it does. I don’t see how that justifies Johnson’s flippant attitude, which extends to the NHS itself.
You and I clearly hold our leaders to different standards. He should apologise.
I still bet large numbers would have turned it down. Surely if there was demand for this it would have happened.It's too late now, but the US could have provided vaccines for every athlete, coach, team support, whatever, for every person from every country competing in the games. Plus all the reporters and Olympic staff too.
Use that US excess supply. Sure, it could be argued that instead of this we should give doses to countries in need and better targeted. But, in the scope of US supply and donations to other countries, would this number of doses really matter that much? What is it, 20K people?
Think of the marketing opportunity. US Official Vaccine Sponsor of the 2020* Olympics. They could have run ads galore with all the different teams and countries about how great getting the vaccine is. Be like superstar/team/underdog/touching story athlete and get your vaccination today!
Before someone says "US Vaccine Contracts prevent this", which vaccine provider wouldn't want the positive press of being an Olympic Vaccine supplier or more importantly, which would want the bad press of denying vaccine to Olympic athletes.
The Olympic committee would probably want a check to use that marketing.
Hindsight is wonderful, a missed opportunity.
Also, his remark about the NHS was not a fact; it was ignoring what those in the NHS were telling him.
Fair.
