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Larssen wrote:

The speed at which the EU is doing this is depressing.

uziq wrote:

yeah i am shocked too and sincerely hope no european nation gets near to our death figures.

I asked Gylfi what had given Iceland this edge, he was adamant: "It has been the scientists making up the rules, not the politicians. That matters. They know what they are talking about, the politicians do not."

At every step, Iceland has followed the science, led by Prof Gudnason and his team, with politicians nowhere to be seen in the daily briefings.

"I think it's important for a politician to realise what is politics and what needs to be solved by scientific means. It's my firm belief that we need to listen more to the experts"
Katrin Jakobsdottir
Iceland Prime Minister

uziq wrote:

Larssen wrote:

The speed at which the EU is doing this is depressing.

wasn’t i saying this 5 weeks ago? and you were telling me how, actually, letting individual members states (that is, germany and france), publicly vacillate and sow doubt over perfectly safe and APPROVED vaccines was ‘a good thing’?

the EU has been the most ineffective, bureaucratically-mired, redundant and unnecessarily politicised organisation in the WORLD when it comes to a covid response. numerous diplomatic incidents and climb downs. ‘vaccine nationalism’.

i could understand the trump administration doing a dirty with vaccine supplies. i could understand a china or a russia being shits about vaccines. instead china, russia and india are selling their vaccines to other nations. it’s EUROPE, beacon of the free world, the sophisticated adults in the room, the high-point of liberalism, which has dithered and fucked it up.

i told you 4 weeks ago there was going to be a major third wave in europe because people like macron were showboating over the ‘quasi-ineffective’ british vaccine whilst having NOTHING as a feasible, widely available plan B.

uziq wrote:

are you trying to make a point to me that dominic cummings was bad for government? wow a great point, surely.

where your intelligent god-brained analysis goes wrong is in thinking dom cummings is the perfect representative of a 'humanities graduate'. off dilbert goes, down the rabbithole of his own insipid monomanias again. dom cummings is an idiot to any right-thinking person, regardless of educational background.

uziq wrote:

plenty of AZ vaccines went to waste in the last few months. there have been numerous stories of them piled up in fridges, not being used, because distrust was so high in germany, france and places like belgium.

'AstraZeneca’s Vaccines Go Unused in EU as Mutants Spread'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles … in-germany

Just weeks ago, the European Union was clamoring for AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine. Now, fewer than one-tenth of the doses delivered to Germany have been administered in the initial days of the roll-out, and some health-care workers say they’re concerned about side effects.

fewer than one-tenth of the delivered doses used ... are you fucking kidding? what an utter travesty. please don't conveniently smudge the facts, here.

'Europe's AstraZeneca stockpile mounts as citizens snub jab'.

https://www.ft.com/content/767fdd85-532 … c85d28b492

https://www.euractiv.com/section/corona … e-germany/

but OK.

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Larssen wrote:

Thank you for your expert contribution. We should all go back into lockdown. I'll inform the ministers on your point of view

Germany must bring down coronavirus infections in the next few weeks or risk new virus mutations that are resistant to vaccines, and should impose night-time curfews in regions with high caseloads, said a top aide to Chancellor Angela Merkel according to Reuters.

“We are in the most dangerous phase of the pandemic,” Merkel’s chief of staff Helge Braun told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. “The next few weeks will determine whether we can foreseeably get the pandemic under control.”

If the number of infections rises rapidly again there is a growing danger that the next virus mutation will become resistant to the vaccine, Braun said.

“Then we would need new vaccines, then we would have to start vaccinating all over again,” he added.

After a popular backlash and legal hurdles, Merkel was forced to ditch plans for an extended Easter holiday intended to try to break a third wave, but Braun said it remained imperative to reduce the number of infections.

In regions where the number of cases per 100,000 people in the last seven days is more than 100, he spoke out in favour of additional curbs. “That’s where regional curfews in the evening and at night can help, because we have the highest infection rates at meetings in people’s homes,” he said.

Coronavirus infections have risen sharply in Germany in recent weeks, driven by a more transmissible variant of the virus and moves to ease some restrictions.

Last edited by uziq (2021-03-31 10:12:15)