The comment was made in the context of us all understanding well how late we started to ramp up vaccination and the ground that we've made up in the meantime. If you need a disclaimer before every post rather than the context of 300 odd pages of discussion, so be it.
I am certainly not a Liberal party apologist and as a Victorian I'm exceptionally angry about how the federal channels have been managed but what good does either whinging about state allocations or the late start do? The point is, once you start, making up ground and you are sitting in front of a graph that shows us 1 day away from overtaking Germany in terms of first dose coverage of population, with a 20% delta between jabs being an unfortunate byproduct of a late start, but you're not seriously suggesting that we won't be able to match first doses with second doses are you? Because if not, we're already ahead of the US, next to Germany and 10% off of Canada, Denmark and China for first dose and thats not bad for a country that started in earnest 3-6 months after most of the countries you're referring to, a point illustrated by the graph you've provided.
You can see it clearly in the curve shown. We started in earnest way too late but we have at least maintained a run rate that is allowing us to finally catch up. With 10% delta on first jabs (a different metric to your fully vaccinated graph) and 25% on full vaccinations, Australia will soon be in that league, albeit late - we're talking perhaps a month and a half behind at this stage and this rate, and I'd love to see where in my post you think I suggested otherwise.
