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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    OK, I was giving the UK the benefit of the doubt.. at present in round numbers 40% of the UK population of 66 M has had at least one jab. 10% of the EU population of 450M have had at least 1 jab. The daily vaccine rate of Germany +France+Spain equals the UK daily vaccination rate. You can't...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    "The above is not unusual, many countries did exactly the same. The U.K. was quick to order and quick to approve. That’s why we are doing so well." ..Not really true is it? There were not "many" countries . Russia developed their own, and rushed it out. We do not know its performance. China...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No ! yet again. It is the difference between being small ..and in this case agile, and being bigger. The EU is still vaccinating at the same number of people per day as the UK, but being 8 times bigger the percentage per day is smaller. The UK got a head start with the Pfizer, and then Pfizer...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    In the old days ..lets say 3 years ago, we would now be entering the Festival season and and all the talk would be about those ticket scalpers ,and why we needed legislation to stop selling tickets at a profit. It was always a temporary situation,.. more punters than product... That is exactly...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Your logic is correct. And if we had a million litres of the pure stuff, we could innoculate everyone simultaneously, and we would only have to quarantine for 3 weeks , and then another jab and the nightmare over.. but we don't.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I almost agree with you. However neither you nor I or anyone else has any idea of the incubation period of this bug in kids who don't immediately get sick. This bug continues to give us nasty surprises, and a time bomb in kids would be par for the course. Remember, how many years later after...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yet again you ignore the fact, that the UK is where it is because of EU Vaccine.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ..and of course the decisions to stop vaccinating was not done for no reason. The initial concern was a batch problem , then a systematic problem ,which was investigated . You and all Britons are safer as a result of the due diligence of the EMA.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    For the UK..yes , for the world..maybe . In the short term it has stopped a disaster at Christmas turning into a catastrophe... But unless those second doses get done, the jury is out. The Point you deliberately refuse to confront is that even in the UK, the AZ has only been a minor contributor...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The vaccine rule was set up on 29th. January, when it was discovered that the AZ cupboard in Brussels was bare. And it was always in the rulebook. Now the UK never needed to ban Vaccine exports, because the AZ contract, the only UK manufacturer of vaccines had written into their contract with...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    UVDL is like the head girl or monitor in the class, she and the Board of Governors has no interest in the shivelling snotty faced whiner in high babies , smoking behind the bicycle shed ... Unless they are near the oil tank.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Just to show the interconnectedness... About this time last year, the US was ramping up production of test kits, and of course wanted to ban travel from Italy,in particular. The major global producer of the long plastic sticks for holding the swabs was located in Bergamo!.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Wow, you have finally got it. Its the law if the playground. The big boys make the rules, all the little uns can do is . 1 cheat and subvert 2 sniffle and whine 3 play along .4 join a gang And they don't get bigger than the EU,USA or China.. Its a lesson we in Ireland learned a long time ago
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Probably the blood in your brain has all seized up... Its the AZ of course. I also was rooting for France, .. a comeback from 10points down with 6minutes left on the clock was incredible. Mind you I thought the England France game of last week was the highest quality skilled game I ever saw...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Nope!. Nothing like 5 years. That is the beauty of these vaccines. There is a gestational period, but the quantities of product produced is phenomenal. .. a Single batch of the AZ treats 1M . And we need 14,000 batches. We have come from zero to 200M in 3 months from a standing start in mass...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes if you afford to you buy more insurance Remember there were hundreds of vaccine candidates nine months ago., There were dozens six months ago. There are now a maximum of 4 certified in Western Europe and 3 in the USA, only 2 available.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    What you had described did seem to me consistent with injecting just under the skin
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    How?. The quantity is just not there. Had the wobbly not happened last week, my son would have his AZ. First Jab. It is now rescheduled for Monday. Had the EU not taken the lead from Germany and France, the chances are there would be none at all for Ireland. Thinking this through a bit, I am...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    If you read anything I had written it is obviously option# 3 .. Remember I choose an option last September with a 1/50 fatality risk and then again a month later at 1/50 risk, cumulative risk 1/25.. But until #3 is available, I choose #1. And option #3 will be available. I would rate my...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ..it will be , until it isn't.