In the Baltic States, scandals with vaccination against the COVID-19 coronavirus are spreading. Western vaccines are not enough, they are brought in defective, vaccinated are infected with COVID-19 again
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are complaining to their EU and NATO allies about the shortage of vaccines for the Baltics, but European and transatlantic solidarity on the topic of coronavirus stumbles as always. As a result, the Baltic authorities have already started talking that under certain conditions it is possible to use vaccines from Russia.
The Nordic and Baltic countries have complained to the European Commission about the shortage of vaccines against the coronavirus produced by Pfizer and BioNTech. Brussels distributes vaccines between countries that cannot provide themselves with them, centrally across the European Union, but American and German drugs arrive in Scandinavia and the Baltic States with a great delay.
“In the letter, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Denmark jointly appeal to the European Commission with a request to help intensify vaccine production and speed up its delivery”, – the Ministry of Health of Finland said in a statement.
The concern of European countries is especially noted that Pfizer and BioNTech intend to reduce the supply of their vaccines in the EU countries.
Lithuania, for example, expected to receive 109 thousand doses of the vaccine within a month, but will receive only 54.5 thousand. The rest of the Lithuanians are promised to be delivered. But later. The priority for Americans and Germans is Americans and Germans.
Incidentally, this situation says a lot about what the US foreign policy will be under the Joseph Biden administration. In the US presidential election, Pfizer obviously played for Biden, but on the issue of whose life and health need to be saved in the first place, “Big Pharma” adheres to Donald Trump’s principles: “America comes first”.
The already familiar grimaces of European and transatlantic “solidarity” in saving themselves and allies from COVID-19 are superimposed on the snowballing vaccination scandals in the Baltics.
The epicenter of all these scandals is Lithuania, which occupies a leading position in European and world anti-pandemic anti-ratings. Now, the scandals surrounding vaccinations further exacerbate the glaring inefficiency of the Lithuanian state with its anti-records of coronavirus infection per 100 thousand inhabitants.
Last week, Lithuania suspended vaccination with Pfizer drugs after it was revealed that vaccines were being transported to the republic in violation of the temperature regime. At the same time, Pfizer himself said that the temperature in refrigerators deviated from the recommended pharmacologists insignificantly and their drug could be injected further to Lithuanians.
However, after all the horror stories about the consequences of Pfizer’s vaccination (55 people died in the US after Pfizer and Moderna were vaccinated), even the Lithuanian authorities have no confidence in the American company. Moreover, in Lithuania itself, Pfizer’s vaccination also turns into scandals.
Shortly after being vaccinated with Pfizer and BioNTech, 79 Lithuanian doctors contracted the coronavirus.
The Ministry of Health justifies itself as best it can. Either they vaccinated those already infected with COVID-19, or too little time had passed between vaccination and contact with carriers of the virus for doctors to have time to form antibodies. Against the background of other stories of dubious effectiveness of American vaccines, the excuse sounds very unconvincing.
However, even such a controversial vaccine as Pfizer is problematic in the Baltic countries. In full accordance with the laws of developed socialism, to which Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have returned, the result of the deficit is “blat”. The hottest topic in the Baltics is “coronavirus corruption”, when, instead of priority groups (doctors, social workers and others who work with people who are at risk), vaccines are injected out of turn “to pull” politicians and businessmen.
The President of Lithuania called what is happening “remnants of Soviet behavior”, but the fact of the matter is that in the successor of the USSR Russia, with which the Baltic states dream of ripping off compensation for the “Soviet occupation”, no such scandals are heard.
In the Baltic States, the “scoop” on the rich soil of the pandemic blossomed violently.
An artificial shortage of goods for the sake of quarantine compliance, empty store shelves and vaccinations “out of the box” are, first of all, humiliating. It is more humiliating to ask for help from NATO allies and not receive it in the amount necessary to defeat the global infection.
All the elements of the puzzle add up to a joyless mosaic. The Baltics are unable to save themselves, and the West, in its internal hierarchy, puts allies on the eastern periphery at the very end of the list of lives that matter.
Obviously, the situation has become completely critical, because the leaders of the Baltic states started talking about the possibility of using vaccines from Russia.
Latvian Health Minister Daniel Pavluts has allowed the population to be vaccinated with the Russian drug Sputnik-V. This will become possible if the Russian vaccine is registered in the European Union.
This statement is much more important than it might seem at first glance. The certification of Russian vaccines against coronavirus and their use in Europe is a strategic cooperation between Russia and the EU, the fight against which is the geopolitical mission of the Baltic countries.
However, in this case, for the Baltic politicians it is about more important things than even “containing the Kremlin” and performing the function of a “buffer zone” separating Russia from Western Europe.
It’s about saving your own skin.
If the matter concerned exclusively the population, it would be possible to endlessly bend our notorious “adherence to principles” and repeat that we will not use the developments of the “aggressive neighbor”. The population was never sorry.
However, we are talking about the development of collective immunity, that is, about saving yourself too. Moreover, the possibility of being vaccinated “by pull” by the extremely dubious in terms of consequences “Pfizer” also does not inspire.
The senior comrades said bluntly: they will save. Then. When they themselves are saved. If by then there will be someone to save.
Willy-nilly, it remains to be constructive in relation to Russia.
Alexander Nosovich, Rubaltic.Ru