> Good for them! Now if they can just send their supplies our way?
Seriously?
Not only is the selfishness in the comment questionable, the selfish logic in itself is flawed... You can pretty much count on the SA strain reaching your country at some point, if it's not already there.
The news is chilling no matter what perspective you take - altruistic, selfish, or anywhere in between.
As you can read in other comments, this is a political game using a deadly epidemic as a wedge.
On the one hand there’s people complaining the rich countries don’t provide vaccines to the poor African countries. On the other hand South Africa doesn’t want to use the vaccine for political reasons.
Note also that even if the results of their studies are right, using the vaccine is still much better than not using it.
If they choose not to use it, which according to the article they do, I have about as much sympathy for them as I have for antivaxers. Suit yourself, as long as you don’t require me to quarantine because of your decision I don’t care.
