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What set-ups? Hair stylist is a family-rated occupation mate. 🙃


I have friends in Australia and one has been bothering me to visit. Two birds. One stone. Always looking out for my friends.
 
From a well known infectious disease specialist:

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1352257455036751873
 
From link.

Pfizer and BioNTech, scaling up for 2B coronavirus vaccine doses, temporarily cut deliveries in EU, Canada​

Last week, Pfizer and BioNTech said they were boosting vaccine production to 2 billion doses this year. There's a catch, though: Scaling up a factory in Belgium to help meet that goal means supplies will run short temporarily in Europe, Canada and other places.

BioNTech late last week unveiled a factory upgrade that’ll allow the company and Pfizer to deliver "significantly more doses in the second quarter" but require a short-term disruption of supply. The disruption will affect Europe, Canada and a few other countries, The Wall Street Journal reports. The companies say deliveries will return to normal starting next week.

The manufacturing upgrade will start to boost output in mid-February, BioNTech said, leading to more deliveries in the first quarter and “significantly more in the second quarter.” The companies last week hiked their 2021 output target to 2 billion doses from a prior goal of 1.3 billion doses.
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Pushback to the news came swiftly. Six EU countries wrote in a letter to the companies that the situation is "unacceptable," Reuters reports.

“Not only does it impact the planned vaccination schedules, it also decreases the credibility of the vaccination process," the letter reads, according to the news service.

Separately, Germany's government said Pfizer was failing to meet a "binding commitment" on its delivery schedule, the WSJ reports.

Still, the partners are “working relentlessly” on the scale-up, BioNTech said in a statement, “not only expanding their own manufacturing capacities but also by adding further suppliers as well as contract manufacturers to increase total manufacturing capacity.”
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Across the Atlantic, deliveries are continuing in the U.S. and are disrupted in Canada, according to various reports. In Ontario, Minister of Health Christine Elliott said “Pfizer is doing some retooling at their plant in Belgium,” so Ontario will “see our supplies reduced for a period of time,” as quoted by the Toronto Sun.

Some municipalities are changing vaccination plans in response, GlobalNews.ca reports. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the effect of the disruption will be "huge," according to the Sun. He called on Canada's government to pressure Pfizer to increase deliveries.

On the same day BioNTech unveiled the upgrade, the biotech won approval to start manufacturing the vaccine at a German factory it purchased from Novartis in September, Hessenschau reports (German). The Marburg site employs 300 people and is set to produce up to 750 million doses annually, according to the German news outlet.
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The "re-tooling" will increase the production from 1,300,000 to 2,000,000 doses, so I accept the "temporary cut". Hopefully, the "re-tooling" will be short term.
 
Yeah, my street nurse friend isn't even near being vaccinated yet. She's not too worried though....apparently dealing with crackheads > viruses in terms of danger. hahaha

I thought she would have been as the patients she deals with are pretty socially promiscuous but they haven't even had any cases in their patient pool yet, 11 months later.
 
So I watched the city's news conference today and was witness to another float in the pandemic farce parade.

The lot wore their masks when not speaking but took them off when speaking.

Ahem...........yeah

There is zero point in wearing a mask if you're going to take it off when expelling more aerosolised particles than when breathing.

Not sure what the problem is as politicos in central Europe have had no problem speaking whilst masked, seeing as that's the whole point of wearing the bloody things.

It's like pandemic virtue signalling up in this piece.
 
SunriseChampion said:
So I watched the city's news conference today and was witness to another float in the pandemic farce parade.

The lot wore their masks when not speaking but took them off when speaking.

Ahem...........yeah

There is zero point in wearing a mask if you're going to take it off when expelling more aerosolised particles than when breathing.

Not sure what the problem is as politicos in central Europe have had no problem speaking whilst masked, seeing as that's the whole point of wearing the bloody things.

It's like pandemic virtue signalling up in this piece.
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If they're 2 m from another person, why not?
 
W. K. Lis said:
If they're 2 m from another person, why not?
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Sure, then why wear them when not talking?

It's a joke.


Also, when yapping, in a closed room like that, 2m ain't going to do it I'm afraid.

11 months later and those in charge still don't know how this stuff works?
 
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