We could have rolled it into Australia Day and the first Brexit anniversary as 'Merking Foreigners Week'.
We could have rolled it into Australia Day and the first Brexit anniversary as 'Merking Foreigners Week'.
The EU is right to be pissed about the UK using a UK developed vaccine that the EU hasn't even approved for use? And is right to cut us off from one of the labs?Originally Posted by Giggles
Damn I didnt see it.
@Lewis
You should put this approval thing on the side of a bus.
I think the main thing I can’t get my head around is that I don’t want to see Britain without a vaccine or with deaths just for a bit of political chest beating, I don’t want to see them anywhere. But yeah, more ‘EU’ deaths, awesomeBrexit oi oi oi. You’re absolutely ridiculous people.
Enjoy your win now but long term brexit is going to destroy you as a country. Not because of the eu or trade or anything else, but because of what it’s turning you all into
Is being an island of wallies permanently seething about the oblivious neighbours really that bad?
That's not really what's happening though, is it? People are lolling at some idiotic Greek, and to a lesser extent other prominent EU bureaucrats, going off the deep end at a situation [clearly] entirely of their own making. I bet the EU Heath woman is the one who lobbied for things to be taken out of Operation Barbavaccine or whatever it was called's hands so she could sit on it for however long it was.
If the EU doesn't recognise the principle of first come first served what does it recognise? Last come first served? Classic elbows in at the bar behaviour, hardly surprising but no less deplorable.
fucking hell, what a zinger.
It's the way I tell 'em.
You should have seen us in the 1840s, that was the real golden age.
Oh shit.
Shitty shit fuck.
1.5 weeks before Tet, and 2 days before I head up north to watch footy and spend a week in Hanoi, 82 cases have been identified in the north.
Fucking shitecunts.
Which strain?
The EU has no reason to be without a vaccine. They have atleast 2 others being made by them, they're just taking forever and a day to approve them for use. I'm sure that's our fault too, somehow.You should put this approval thing on the side of a bus.
I think the main thing I can’t get my head around is that I don’t want to see Britain without a vaccine or with deaths just for a bit of political chest beating, I don’t want to see them anywhere. But yeah, more ‘EU’ deaths, awesome
Enjoy your win now but long term brexit is going to destroy you as a country. Not because of the eu or trade or anything else, but because of what it’s turning you all into
TBC, though rumoured to be the UK variant.
Look what you've become!
I've no real idea why the UK's decision to leave the EU, albeit probably ahead of ideal schedule, isn't really seen as win-win from the Ode to Joy mob. It allows the process of ever closer integration to continue without a major and insurmountable thorn in its side and condemns the UK to terminal and unavoidable decline and irrelevance.
In actual thread news, we're in with Ho Chi Minh here, up to 82 cases from what is rapidly becoming 'The Ship and Crown Cluster'. Desperately hoping the exit strategy is going to be on a more expedited schedule than last time (I think 8+ weeks from zero covid to internal normality). Almost certainly the new, more contagious strain.
The woman who had the UK strain here in Bridbane travelled in a packed train in peak hour and it didnt kick on a community transmission.
The EU (and arguably the UN too) is fundamentally about a mixture of German postwar guilt, the northern French experience of the 20th century, and the benefits that Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg gain from being united at the table with the big boys, rather than having their armies drive through them every few years. When it comes down to it - and it probably will at some point - half the peripheral nations will end up leaving rather than surrendering themselves entirely to that mentality.
The economic benefits of being in it are about convenience, which can be got around, rather than anything fundamental.
Whilst all this is going on, Britain's got their hands on a 4th vaccine. French company Valneva are making it but it's manufactured in Scotland. 60m doses.
At a conservative estimate this would be about double the number of people who have tested positive in that time frame. Are they all asymptomatic, or are they all just hiding from the testing system?Scientists behind a study tracking coronavirus in England say there are signs of a "shallow decline" in infection levels but they remain high. An estimated 1.57% of people had the virus between 6 and 22 January - slightly down from 1.58% in early January, according to Imperial College London research based on the swab tests of 168,000 participants.
Depends where the ONS is doing their surveillance and what sample size they're using. I've never completely got on with their numbers.
1.58 to 1.57 must fall within a margin of error, surely.
It's not been approved yet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/55825480
Hopefully this cunt finds out Covid exists in the firmest possible way.
Deaths now down week-on-week for the first time since early December. Cases at their lowest since 15 Dec.
Of interest to me are hospitalisations, which for the last two days have been much lower than you would have expected. If that continues then it'll be a sign of the vaccine working I think (if they decline, but in a more orderly fashion, then it'll just be general decline following the case decline).
Got the call from the hospital this morning. My wife's nan has Covid induced Sepsis and we should expect the worst at some point today.
Well that's shit.
Bugger.
More vaccines.
That's a little iffy.In the South African part of the trial, where most of the cases were the South African variant of the virus, the vaccine was 60% effective among those without HIV.
The QLD Uni vax that was scrapped had false positives with HIV...
Given that they will be able to re-engineer vaccines to suit new variants, 60% isn't a bad start to be honest (90% in other strains should get it approved, too. God bless our regulator.)
And if your over-65 data is a little lacking, the Germans will approve it but then tell everyone else not to use it.
Vietnam has locked-down Chi Linh city (only 220,000 people) following the most recent outbreak. Pretty much all live events and sports have been postponed until further notice, and everybody has been reminded to mask up and sanitize hands. Government reckon they need 10 days to sort this shit out. Fortunately, of the something like 2,500 tests at a suspected hotspot factory, all have come back negative.
Currently 110 positive from the recent outbreak.
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Do you speak Vietnamese?
Im sorry mate that is shit.
A fair amount, but not fluent. I recently restarted one-on-one lessons to try to get better.
You'll wish you hadn't when all you keep hearing is "white devil" being shouted from passing mopeds.
You're not too far offIt's usually "Nước ngoài đụ mẹ", which is basically 'mother fucker foreigner'.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...ngham-55842241
Absolutely dons the police and not one claim of racial prejudice. Someone give that lad a fucking knighthood in place of that disgusting F1 hypocrite cunt.
Wales are (slightly) relaxing their lockdown.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...st-astrazeneca
They sound like a proper shower of shit.
By the time it goes to court we'll be half way through vaccinating the next pandemic.
Perhaps the problem is using Belgian law and not English law... highlighted for Giggles' benefit
Today's hospitalisations the biggest 7-day rolling drop since the first wave. It's happening, people.
Carbombs in 5...4...
12 July 2021, the first British vaccine aid convoy crosses the Irish border with a full Orange Order escort.
That must be breaking some law though right? Years of negotiating to keep it open and they shut it on whim, without conversation, being well aware of the potential consequences?
Article 16 allows one side to act unilaterally to relieve 'economic, societal or environmental difficulties', but it is such a shittily-worded clause that it was basically seen as a safety valve for any major kick-offs down the line, if not something never to actually be used. Now that they have used it to try to freeze us out of something why can't we do likewise to suspend checks on food going over there?
Somebody should say it breaches the Good Friday Agreement just so they have to say it doesn't because there is nothing in it about an open border.
Macron appears to have completely lost the plot (if he ever had it).
He wants his beard out the way.
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