What Can Our Electorate Leaders Be Doing Now?

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The real injustice here is the difficulty that lower income compeent countries have had a getting the vaccine. They know tat there's a billion doses promised, but they're not getting there till mid 20 22. Not getting vaccines quick enough means that lives are lost em so i think the e trying to accelerate those. We can't say that there isn't going to be a really bad pandemic of some sort in five years time or ten years time. And we should be thinking about how we do better co operation.

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