Posted on 04/08/2021 11:42:21 PM PDT by Cronos
WHEN INDIA presented Bhutan with a generous gift of covid-19 vaccines in January, the neighbouring kingdom made an unusual choice. Rather than rushing to inoculate all 800,000 of its citizens, the government sought advice from the Zhung Dratshang, a body of Buddhist monks. The stars were not auspicious, they ruled. Better to wait two months, and then to make sure that the first dose be both administered by, and given to, women born in the Year of the Monkey.
So Bhutan waited until March 27th before Tshering Zangmo administered the first jab to Ninda Dema. The injection took place at a school in the capital, Thimphu, at the auspicious hour of 9.30am, after prayers were chanted and butter lamps lit. But then there was no dallying. Within a single week a world-beating 85% of Bhutan’s adult population had received the first shot. Only two countries, Israel and the Seychelles have vaccinated a (slightly) better proportion of people, but both took months to do so (see chart)...
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WAYS THE US BENEFITS FROM FOREIGN AID TO BHUTAN
https://borgenproject.org/u-s-benefits-from-foreign-aid-to-bhutan/
Wonder which brand vaccines they are using.
About the same population as Vermont. Has Vermont vaccinated 85% of its people in a week?
“Wonder which brand vaccines they are using.”
In the future history professors will teach of the once proud and noble people of Bhutan, and how their society mysteriously disappeared overnight without a trace. Cue the creepy music.
AstraZeneca vaccine
Who needs Bhutan anyway?
AstraZeneca is the cheapest vaccine around. As such it is used almost exclusively in the third world countries like Bhutan.
Moreover, AstraZeneca makes most of the vaccines in India.
That’s makes me think - A-Z vaccine is two doses regime, administered in about 3 months. So it will take some time before Bhutan will get the second dose.
Sounds like they didn’t want to be first in line.
Zhung Dratshang, a body of Buddhist monks advised that “the stars were not auspicious, they ruled. Better to wait two months, and then to make sure that the first dose be both administered by, and given to, women born in the Year of the Monkey.”
Follow the science! The science is settled! Monkey women first!
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