Stop Whining About Vaccines. It's Only February
Some time this year, most Europeans who want shots will get them. How about being grateful for that?
We’ll each get our turn.
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It’s “chaos.” A “fiasco.” A “disaster.” Skimming the headlines, you’d be forgiven for the impression that the European Union has already failed in the most important counterattack against SARS-CoV-2: getting people vaccinated. Surely somebody, somewhere — Brussels? Berlin? Paris? — should resign.
Let’s all calm down instead. What’s true is that the EU is currently trailing vaccination bellwethers like Israel and the U.K. and a few other rich countries such as the U.S. But please, it’s February. The first shots in Western countries were approved and administered in December. Covid-19 itself was only declared a “pandemic” less than a year ago. A bit of perspective is in order.