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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Those statistics are , even if correct, meaningless. .. The Germans and the French were not jabbing the older cohorts with AZ, and had not gone down to the younger age groups yet. Mind you if they forwarded some of their 5M ,to us we would happily use them We have a younger population...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The information you are quoting is just the immediate gob smacked response from EU officials. Now that they have had a night to to sleep on it, you will be getting the more considered response... . And that is that last night they were being conciliatory!. Unless BJs plan was to scupper the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes. Germany has now DECIDED to use the AZ vaccine on the older cohort. The key question is the WHY... Answer .. EVIDENCE from the UK now shows it is effective. There wasn't sufficient evidence now there is. It is exactly what they said they would do. But remember AZ is only supplying 40% of...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Again .. not exactly true. They might make an educated guess with the AZ , that it would create responses equivalent to other vaccines, since it was if similar structure. But they had zero experience with an mRNA type. And yes I am suggesting that it was a forlorn hope excercise and against...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Maybe if Corbyn had bought more into EU thinking and schemes, he would have enforced rational lockdown measures and the UK would not have experienced the death spiral in December., And it could have afforded the slower less risky EU strategy. We will never know.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The only flaw in your otherwise cogent argument, is that the policy was decided on with zero evidence.... Not even a hunch, that it would work. The UK stopped giving the second jab of Pfizer Before the AZ was even a a week released. The evidence starting to emerge showing enhanced protection...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. Yep, we've seen the photos
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Like that poor patriot on 6th. January at the Capitol?. It was what is called in polite circles a ballsup
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And it has a distinct sweetness and a bouquet reminiscent of blackberries. It benefits from being served at room temperature or above
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. however the fact remains, or is at least currently undisputed that down in the South, on the tributary of the Rhone, the guys in Die were making and enjoying their concoction for at least 1000 years., bubbles and all... Probably because they used crockery carafes rather than glassware. Now...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I understand the SWMBO, reference, but in post reformation England there were no monks . So no it was a real live academic . The French had apparently been trying for ages to remove the bubbles , but English entrepreneurship decided to turn a flaw into a feature. .. That and improved...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    It appears your information is somewhat garbled.. in that it was a English Chemist, who identified the exact process, and how it could be induced. It was also the English who first popularised it and saw the bubbles not as a blemish but an addition. Part of Bling and conspicuous consumption.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The situation would not be much different in Brittany. The people there see themselves as Breton, and get along with all .. except not very fond of Parisians. The Germans are still disliked. Where we have our house was in the unoccupied zone or battle ground between the German Army and Navy...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The French have long memories.. My wife and her brothers and sisters are fond of a particular bubbly french wine ..no not that one, but a much older ..and much cheaper version from the department of Drome ..called Clairette de Die , it is about 4 euro a bottle. It is always very well...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    According to my daughter, who is attending professional seminars on virology, perhaps the devil takes care of his own, and evidence is emerging that the AZ vaccine fortuitously does improve with a delayed second jab!. No information on the Pfizer , so BJ comes up smelling of Roses. Who knew...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Not the policy of vaccination .. but the Strategy of single jabs. My particular interest is obviously in Ireland but I have family interests in Germany also. The figures for Germany to end of February would be that in some states 3.8% of people have been properly vaccinated and 5 I am not...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Nobody has knocked the achievement. But remember they in the UK were doing vaccination for 3 months , and the rest of Europe for 2 , and the rest of Europe was stymied because the product they expected was not present which cost a minimum of a week in lost productivity. But also accept that...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    You are at least half right . Macron speaks for France, he doesn't speak for the EU. Merkel speaks for Germany. UVDL speaks for the EU not Germany. All have taken oaths to this effect. Macron is a major EU, European and world figure. Just as unfortunately A.Foster speaks for NI not the UK, or...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Nope!. That text, which you have misquoted related not to production, which was an AZ competence, but to whether the vaccine would meet regulatory compliance ,which was not within AZs competence to deliver, since the EMA was an independent third party body. Putting it in entertainment terms, A...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    With your economy with the truth, you would make a marvelous finance minister. The EU had published a process and a probable timeline for approval of any vaccine.. And they then adhered to it. The UK jumped the gun and authorised use of the two vaccines in question using partial data. AZ had...