If you watched German TV news (doesn't matter if it was public or commercial) over the weekend, there's been this trendy topic....'catastrophic vaccination start-up'. Various characters have come out and done a dump on the Health Minister (Spahn, CDU).
Legit?
You can divide this into four areas:
1. The prioritized listing for the vaccination. This should have been openly discussed back in July/August.....instead, it occurred roughly four weeks prior to the start.
I would imagine....nationally speaking....at least ten different groups felt they should have been in group one, and they weren't listed there.
2. People seemed to have this idea that the system would crank-out 100-odd thousand a day across Germany in the first week or so. There's just not enough vaccine to accomplish that.
You have x-amount in the production cycle, and no one really openly discussed that back in August or September.
3. Folks with allergies are discouraged? Well....yeah, that topic came up. To be honest, I would guess that one out of ten Germans will suggest they have an allergy (whether they officially do or not is up for debate).
This is something which should have been openly discussed back in August.
4. Essential is not as essential as you think.
Some Germans will tell you that on the list of essential folks....they ought to be a 'ten'. Apparently, in real life and the Covid-19 vaccination.....they probably rate a 'eight' at best.
Maybe we ought to have a term/word for folks between essential and non-essential.
All this chatter is worth a brief discussion but we are in the midst of the holiday period and there's simply nothing much going on. So the news folks tend to make something out of nothing.
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