Vaccines: Give the job to the IEC or call in Amazon
Why the silence over who will pay what for the vaccines and how they’ll be transported and protected?
The first 1-million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have landed. Halala! Seeing the pictures of a vital, precious pallet being pushed into a truck was like watching a ray of sunlight streaking through storm clouds. It was a Churchillian moment after a year in which the world seems to have been living through the film Contagion – on repeat; Groundhog Day for those with apocalyptic views.In 1942 — after the Russians had stopped the Germans at Stalingrad, the Americans routed the Imperial Japanese fleet at Midway and the Allies finally broke through at El Alamein in the Western Desert — UK prime minister Winston Churchill offered his best wisdom yet for an war-weary and exhausted public."Now, this is not the end," he said. "It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."Wise leaders may have thought the same thing as they watched those vaccine-laden trucks leave OR Tambo’s rain-spattered apron.But we have complete silence from the government on who...
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