22-02-2021, 08:14 PM
Well, here's hoping. But just to correct you on the vaccines, that was all arranged whilst we were still in the EU. Member countries were free to join the bloc purchase and roll-out or make independent arrangements. We did the latter, which is probably the only good thing this government has done since 2010.
Its also worth remembering that it was international science, and not British exceptionalism, that created the Oxford vaccine. Of the 383 scientists and support staff working directly on the vaccine, at least 68 came from the countries that are members of the European Union. If Covid had hit three or four years later in our post-Brexit, brain-drain Britain, maybe the vaccine wouldn't have been found.
Its also worth remembering that it was international science, and not British exceptionalism, that created the Oxford vaccine. Of the 383 scientists and support staff working directly on the vaccine, at least 68 came from the countries that are members of the European Union. If Covid had hit three or four years later in our post-Brexit, brain-drain Britain, maybe the vaccine wouldn't have been found.