This is true.
But at the same time, is there anywhere else that actually had a worse problem with this in 2021?
We lost 30,000 people in a month. We became the country with the worst deaths per capita.
We are now 4th, behind Belgium, Slovenia and Czech Republic. Not exactly poor countries.
You get Bosnia Herzegovina in 9th, which is the first that I felt might be on the disadvantaged side. Bulgaria 13th, Peru 15th. If you add all their deaths together you get nowhere near half of the UKs.
We've had 1836 deaths per million. The countries mentioned are 400 per million below that. I recognise that access to testing is a factor in that, but the death stats are weighted to be as accurate as possible using expected deaths stats.
My point being that, wealth is one thing but very few countries had the kind of desperate need for vaccines that we have had in the last 3 months. If we are truly worried about mutation, it is the rest of the world that should have been looking to our plague Island and throwing vaccines our way, simply because of the volume of cases and proliferation of the disease.
Now that has calmed down we certainly can start thinking about sending excess to other countries. I'm sure CP will be along to tell us that we should start sending all our vaccines abroad as soon as all the over 40's are done