@SomewhereEast
This will go down like a lead balloon but....could we talk about the ethics of rushing to vaccinate incredibly low risk Western children when a third of African health care workers haven't even received a single dose yet (source: International Council of Nurses) and most African countries have yet to meet a target to vaccinate even 10% of their populations (source: WHO). We will look back on this with so much shame in twenty years time. Honestly just stay at home and donate your flights bill somewhere useful.
But those who are making this decision cannot influence in any way whatsoever the roll out of vaccines in other countries.
Parents have parental responsibility to do what they think is in the best interests of their child's health.
It's not like refusing a vaccine for your child will mean an African adult gets a jab sooner. Far from it, it's far more likely to end up with expired and unused vaccine going in the bin.
Also the logistical / storage problems around the mRNA jabs mean that in countries with poor infrastructure, they will use AZ. So it's not even the same vaccine or supplier or producer or factory.
Plus, the more out of control we allow covid to run in this country, the more we risk a vaccine-evading mutation developing. We already gave the world Alpha. THAT is a far bigger risk to those countries and the only way (in this country at least) we're addressing that significant risk is by vaccinating.
The more people vaccinated the better in global world health terms no ifs or buts.
If we really wanted to help those countries, we'd mask up, ventilate, keep covid levels low here to reduce the risk of vaccine-evading mutations, vaccinate as much of the population as possible, and lobby our MPs to fund the vaccine and factories to produce it in other countries.