@schmaker
Well, sadly the efficacy of all COVID vaccines turned out to be a far shot from what they've been telling us — I'm not some anti-vax dude and I don' even think that Sputnik was much worse than the others (maybe only a tiny bit😅), but going such great lengths to get access to a vaccine that hadn't even proven to be effective at the time… I don't know — seems extremely fishy.
@kravietz @sesivany

@schmaker
In fact three vaccines have been developed in Russia: one was based on tried but old tech — this one was the most trustworthy, but it was produced in tiny quantities, it was nearly impossible to get vaccinated with it even in Moscow.
The second one had been raising questions since its inception — some experts expressed concerns that it couldn't work even in theory.
At some stage of trials it was proven to be ineffective — lack of antibodies, and was called off.

@kravietz @sesivany

@schmaker
So even in Russia they stropped using it.
And the third one, the most popular, produced in huge quantities, to be exported — was Sputnik. It probably wasn't even THAT bad — at least not as bad as its reputation was. As you can probably remember, Russia was carrying out antivax disinformation campaigns in the developed countries — but it backfired quite spectacularly!

@kravietz @sesivany

@schmaker
People started translating articles published by RT in English back to Russian and sharing them on Russian social media and over WhatsApp 🤣
The reputation of Sputnik was ruined entirely — even when vaccination was made mandatory, some people were bribing the medical personnel to get the certificate, but not the vaccine🤦

@kravietz @sesivany

@schmaker
I don't know anyone like that personally — my circles don't have too many people who are into conspiracies and antivax, but this was reported in local news outlets that I consider trustworthy.

Again, downplaying such a blatant act of sabotage to get access to vaccines from the country that had… these three. That is completely fucked up IMO🤪

@kravietz @sesivany