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I am delighted to see that the infection rate and mortality rate in the UK is declining, and is now about 25% of the peak value a few weeks ago. However exactly the same result is also appearing in other countries which have not had the Vaccines as long as has the UK, and the protection rate...

.. no it wasn't Churchill, it was my wife in reference to me.

Possibly because they have less practice or need.

It is astonishing that a production plant can move countries with so little red tape in a pharma industry. One can only assume that this is just dispensing and packaging an active compound already compounded in another plant. I did refer previously to a major NI pharmaceutical plant which...

It is the concept of retaliation which is the worrying aspect. The UK is fully entitled to restrict plastic bottled water from anywhere on public policy grounds

The name of the game has to be the most jabs per day into the most arms . Stragglers can be picked up later. This is where Herd Immunity actually works. But my concern then moves in to giving or not giving the second jab at the correct interval,and whether this facilitates mutant propagation.

On the contrary, I suspect that at the time he was petrified that a potential mutation of the virus would produce more virulence and fatalities. .. And if he wasn't, he was in a minority of medical personnel. At that time, the UK was following a fatally flawed strategy of Herd Immunity.. and...

Careful now. I actually listened to UVDL address to the EU Parliament and it was a lot more nuanced than your headlines would suggest. Moreover the selection of Quotes you have taken from a German MEP , nearly 3 weeks ago , reflected his annoyance with delays in Germany..

Zlatan, as I read that comment, the STRATEGY is herd immunity. The TACTIC was to prevent the number dieing unnecessarily because the NHS was overwhelmed. The death rate from Cov19 remains stubbornly at 3% when the Health services are within capacity, but rises to perhaps 10% when it crashes...

The EUs rollout is not in anyway shambolic. We started a full month behind the UK for two reasons ..more like 3. 1. The EU decided not to short circuit the protocols 2. The idea of having stockpiles and the entire Community , not just the rich countries having supplies. 3. The death rates in...

Actually not so. There are exact engineering principles within the production of pharmaceutical products,and everyone of the manufacturing and product design principles for toilet seats are applicable ,whether it is aspirin or mRNA . Even the efficacy arguements have parallels . Just as in...

That would be true, but as I understood it, the Moderna vaccine used a different more temperature stable substrate molecule than the Pfizer ..at least that was what was being said about 3 months ago. The Oxford one uses a long established process allowing for near room temperature distribution.

That is brilliant news. It increases the usability factor a lot!.

And if they were the ugliest, the display on a mid 1960s voltmeter was the most beautiful. I acquired a Solatron ..,I think Voltmeter ,for 30 quid around 1978, it was huge . A full 19 inch rack job and weighted a couple of stone. ..all pre metric. It had its own reference chemical cell...

I think I read that magazine . I actually worked with nixie tubes ..and a slightly larger very ugly 7 segment display which had lengths of incandescent filment

Your memory serves you well. I was a bit of a calculator nerd. The Physics lab in Uni had a few Olivetti calculating machines . We were required to use them for calculations on Brownian motion , tables upon tables of displacement values, sums of squares etc . These mechanical wonders could...

Yep!. You even sound guilty writing about

That's the Ulster Fry!. We need Wee Arlene to chill out.

Well yes. I was still a child of old money, and roods and perches etc. Land measure was extremely complex.,with the English Mile and the Irish mile ( yes seriously!!, The Irish mile is bigger.) Then still today land on ordnance survey and land deeds is in English Statute Acres , but now...

That will will be impossible until the UK learns metric.