I do not understand and it looks like the world didn`t learn anything from the past 18 months!

Pandemic hasn`t even reached a status of control when countries start the competition game what will be the best vaccine.

Millions of people who are happy to live in a country which offers free shots cannot choose which vaccine they get. They have to take what is offered by their home country.

These game played not only by China and the EU is a devider and will have strong economical and social consequences. For business travellers and for global tourism industry. And for all people living in countries known as 3rd world.

What i don`t like in the China case is that their behavior could be the answer to the fact that western countries in general haven`t proven and certificated Sinopharm vaccine yet. Is this chinese behavior just as a tool of economical pressure because chinese tourists are by number and financial power the biggest group of worldwide tourists? Not one chinese tourist or business traveller will enter the EU if he/she hasn`t got a shot from an EU approved vaccine!

The final question which vaccines are certificated for international travel shouldn`t depend on any national, economical or political interests worldwide.

The question of the "best vaccines" must be answered only through science to elimate misfunction in controlling the pandemic e.g. in cases of future virus mutations. (Last week Vietnam discovered a mutant which shows characteristics of UK and Indian viruses. Nobody knows right now if any of existing vaccines will offer effective protection against it!)

The world needs to vaccinate as much people as possible in the shortest amount of time. If countries like China on one side now insist of only one vaccine or the EU don`t certificate Sinopharm for travelling, both on the other side slow down the process of reaching a worldwide immunity including a needless danger of economical and social damage to the rest of the world.

Remember from december 2019 on scientist worldwide promptly started sharing scientic data over the internet to speed up the process of global vaccine development. The pandemic situation was so devastating that envy and distrust where no choice and a nogo solution for all sciencetists.

This was the first case in the history of mankind that a global agreement to fight against something together was found very fast and without any economical and political harrasment. This fight isn`t over or won yet and the world starts falling back in old usual behavior patterns. In my view it looks like the world didn`t learn anything from the past 18 months!

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