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Jaeluni Asjil posted:That book Weapons of Math Destruction is on my 'want to read' list (when I've got through my backlog of books). It is a very good book. Just sayin'
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Reveilled posted:Omegaverse alpha I hate that I know what that refers to.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:So what's the actual deal with this Article 16 thing then? Is it as nakedly stupid as it appears (that the EU think that people are going to be smuggling vaccines across the border) or is it some wider political point/punishment they're trying to give out? The EU suspects that pharma companies will, in their eternal quest for money, renege on their contracts with the EU (but pocket the money they got) and export to other countries where they can sell it for higher profit. That is the suspicion with Astra Zeneca, which has already broken a number of terms in the contract. The EU doesn't suspect private persons are going to smuggle vaccine over the border, it suspects that pharma companies will. Again, Astra Zeneca has already demonstrated they are shady as hell, so there is no trust whatsoever. AZ also went on to publicly lie about the terms of the contract, so…yeah, no trust.
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Private Speech posted:Also as per the A-Z comments to Bloomberg they're explicitly prioritising UK orders based on HM government wishes: I posted it in the 'rona thread, but: quote:13.1 AstraZeneca represents, warrants and covenants to the Commission and the Participating Member States that: They got over 200 million € to produce doses while the vaccine was still in testing.
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Ah, so AZ found 9 million doses under the sofa all of a sudden? That's not suspicious at all… Still half of what they contractually agreed to ship and took 200 million euros for.
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