AstraZeneca was, IIRC, but its effectiveness against newer variants is pretty weak, to the extent of being pretty irrelevant, so it makes sense to withdraw.
I don’t think many people have ‘fled’ the land down under over the issues he brings up. Most folks here seem to think that the pandemic was handled pretty well compared to (for instance) the US or UK. Though that might be a WA thing. It may not though, for example the premiere of Victoria, despite having imposed lots of lockdowns that the wingnuts were very upset about, was recently voted back in with an increased majority.
(Edit — There does seem to have been an issue with motivated liars in other countries (USA) reporting exaggerations and falsehoods about the severity of it all though, for their own partisan gain. Stories about forced vaccinations at sports stadia, for instance.)
Personally I ‘fled’ the UK mid-pandemic to get here, though that was more for general quality of life reasons than anything specific to covid.
AstraZeneca was, IIRC, but its effectiveness against newer variants is pretty weak, to the extent of being pretty irrelevant, so it makes sense to withdraw.
I don’t think many people have ‘fled’ the land down under over the issues he brings up. Most folks here seem to think that the pandemic was handled pretty well compared to (for instance) the US or UK. Though that might be a WA thing. It may not though, for example the premiere of Victoria, despite having imposed lots of lockdowns that the wingnuts were very upset about, was recently voted back in with an increased majority.
(Edit — There does seem to have been an issue with motivated liars in other countries (USA) reporting exaggerations and falsehoods about the severity of it all though, for their own partisan gain. Stories about forced vaccinations at sports stadia, for instance.)
Personally I ‘fled’ the UK mid-pandemic to get here, though that was more for general quality of life reasons than anything specific to covid.