The EU death rates are a little better than ours because the countries acted individually.
It should have been a wise move to use their MASSIVE buying power to come together to buy vaccine, but their decision making was so slow and bureaucratic they turned our decision not to be part of the process into a wise one.
Huge bureaucracies can't and won't act fast. They always preserve the bureaucracy itself. So far individually Germany has been massively more successful than us, France, Italy and Spain fairly similarly crap, Belgium too. Once they came together to buy they took so long they went to the back of the queue and bought the wrong stuff. It's just fact.
Command economies have managed to do lockdowns well, why, because they haven't had to go through several layers to make a decision. It's shut down or go for re-education, stay home in case of burly men with a prison van.
To see what I say is true, look at where innovation comes from. Is it within old fashioned companies with a pyramid power structure in which any idea goes through layers of management, or is it in a flatter structure of the empowered young, trying out ideas, getting quick okays and nays? The EU is just well-meaning and out of date. It isn't fit for purpose and its stated aim is to become less so. The fairer it becomes the slower it will go. That's all.
We ourselves are worrying about all kinds of irrelevancies when planning to vaccinate people and protect our population from the virus, so imagine how many problems 27 countries with competing interests can produce. Germany is already beginning to act alone. The others have to follow. I'd sooner have most of their governments than ours ........ if they didn't feel compelled to act as if they couldn't see the wood for the trees.
In a world of smartphones choosing a form of government that makes pigeon post decisions isn't ever going to work. We are led by idiots in a system designed for the nineteenth century and the EU is managing to fall behind us, just because we have some very smart scientists who have made some wise vaccine suggestions. It's no good having huge buying power if you wait till everyone else has been shopping.
It should have been a wise move to use their MASSIVE buying power to come together to buy vaccine, but their decision making was so slow and bureaucratic they turned our decision not to be part of the process into a wise one.
Huge bureaucracies can't and won't act fast. They always preserve the bureaucracy itself. So far individually Germany has been massively more successful than us, France, Italy and Spain fairly similarly crap, Belgium too. Once they came together to buy they took so long they went to the back of the queue and bought the wrong stuff. It's just fact.
Command economies have managed to do lockdowns well, why, because they haven't had to go through several layers to make a decision. It's shut down or go for re-education, stay home in case of burly men with a prison van.
To see what I say is true, look at where innovation comes from. Is it within old fashioned companies with a pyramid power structure in which any idea goes through layers of management, or is it in a flatter structure of the empowered young, trying out ideas, getting quick okays and nays? The EU is just well-meaning and out of date. It isn't fit for purpose and its stated aim is to become less so. The fairer it becomes the slower it will go. That's all.
We ourselves are worrying about all kinds of irrelevancies when planning to vaccinate people and protect our population from the virus, so imagine how many problems 27 countries with competing interests can produce. Germany is already beginning to act alone. The others have to follow. I'd sooner have most of their governments than ours ........ if they didn't feel compelled to act as if they couldn't see the wood for the trees.
In a world of smartphones choosing a form of government that makes pigeon post decisions isn't ever going to work. We are led by idiots in a system designed for the nineteenth century and the EU is managing to fall behind us, just because we have some very smart scientists who have made some wise vaccine suggestions. It's no good having huge buying power if you wait till everyone else has been shopping.