I found her quite sinister today with veiled threats on exports. She reminds me of a WW2 German propaganda spokesman. I actually find listening to a North Korean diplomat less threatening. Not our fault guv it was all AZ and if you mess with us we will mess with you. For all our faults i am so pleased we don’t have people like her. On a nicer note I heard that deaths in elderly has drop 88% since the vaccine. Shame we did get this sooner.
Let’s give a hypothetical example. You are a cab driver. You take two bookings in advance, but miscalculate, there is no way you can get the second booking to where they want to be on time if you are also going to pick up and drop off the first customer who booked. You decide to honour the first booking, a long term customer, and try to explain, clumsily, to the second, who seems to be booking on behalf of 27 other people, that there will be a delay, it’s physically impossible to do both jobs, yes it’s your fault, but if you read the small print on the booking app there are no guarantees. The second customer then accuses you of having an unsafe car, but doesn’t cancel the booking. He says you smell, he doesn’t like your face, and doesn’t trust you, but he doesn’t cancel the booking. He threatens to ruin your business by preventing you from getting to other jobs, but he doesn’t cancel the booking. Eventually you do pick him up, but he keeps on asking you to stop the car so he can get out, shout abuse at you for a bit, and decide whether he wants to continue the journey. As the supplier, you, the cab driver, are clearly at fault and unethical. The second passenger is blameless. Now it seems the U.K. will face a shortage from 29 March. I wonder how we will react, running around like headless chickens blaming the moon and her sister, or just ****ing getting on with it, thankful that nearly all vulnerable people have had at least one jab and that we can prioritise the second jabs for these groups with the supplies we do have.
From HSE COVID Tracker App As at 14th March.... 1st dose vaccinations 452,554 2nd dose vaccinations 164,496 Breakdown Pfizer/BioNtech 468,366 Moderna 19,520 AstraZeneca 129,164 So we have roughly 617,000 people or just around 11% of the population with some level of protection and it has taken 2 and a half months to get this far. The Government keep talking about ramping up (sound familiar) vaccinations in Q2 but it's going to take some huge improvement in organisation and logistical work to get 80% of all adults vaccinated by end of September......... Meanwhile we continue to have the most stringent lockdown...... One other thing that I don't get and maybe someone can explain....... In the EU countries we all had to wait for the EMA to approve the various vaccines. Yet now without any science to back up their actions 19 countries have taken a decision themselves to pause the use of the AZ vaccine even though the EMA are saying that it is safe to use and there's no link to these blood clots in the 40 or so people out of 17m doses, something like 0.000002%. How come national Governments can take this decision now without any science to back it up when they claim to be following the science all along and they now choose to ignore what the EMA is saying.......... It doesn't make any sense to me or maybe I'm missing something.......
Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1 Ursula @vonderleyen is a really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, REALLY bloody useless President of the European Commission, isn't she? And, to think, she's the *sober* one. please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image 5
Doesn’t seem to have crossed her mind, apparently not a long journey, that mucking around with a company’s freedom to move its products where it makes commercial sense might end up with the company thinking that perhaps there are other, less intrusive, places they could make stuff. Her threats aren’t just to countries they are to the companies, huge employers and investors with massive supply chains who have plenty of choice in where they locate.
You are talking to an ex-cab driver now Stan. Thanks to Brexit. I am about to move on to a different career. Unfortunately Stan, the very first point you are trying to make is factually incorrect according to CNN. The first contract signed by AZ was with the EU. It was signed on 27th August 2020 and the UK contract was signed one day later on 28th August. Both contracts contain the wording "best efforts" regarding supplying the agreed numbers. Astrazeneca are choosing to prioritise one customer over another who signed a contract one day earlier. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/17/europe/uk-astrazeneca-vaccine-contract-details-intl/index.html That is why AZ have zero respect in the EU.
Astrazeneca left the EU short of 60m vaccines this quarter that they were contracted to deliver. They are also proposing to leave the EU short of 110m vaccines in quarter two. Yes, the EU should have tightened their contracts and made sure there was no ambiguity in what was expected. They should have also sourced the Sputnik vaccine and looked at approving that. They should have ordered more Pfizer vaccine too. I know they are no saints and I definitely did not agree with the way they threatened the NI protocol. That was a completely stupid thing for them to have done. However, I fully understand their frustration at how AZ are continuing to treat them.
Yep but we haven't........and besides weren't 100k of those only due to arrive on 31st March which is still 2 weeks away!!!!!!!
I care little for respect for AZ, they are a competitor of ours. How much did the EU invest in the development of the Oxford vaccine? The U.K. taxpayer put in £65m at risk back in May last year. The US contributed, as did Bill Gates. The rest of the funding comes from private and corporate, as well as academic sources. Some European countries were on course to, in an alliance led by Germany, France, Italy and Holland, but were told to stop so the EU could take over. I’ll leave this now.
By the end of March, the EU should have got 90m vaccines from AZ. They only delivered 30m. By then, we would have received our 1.1% share which is 330k.
Brexit didn't make me do anything. I got a job as a Customs officer because of the paperwork/freight issues caused at ports due to Brexit.
They may not have contributed to the development but they did pay 365m euros up front for the agreed supply.
