The COVID-2019 Thread

[strigils]

^^ & ^ agreed, even thought the AZ vaccine seems to offer a lower level of overall protection, it does never the less seem to stop people developing severe symptoms which really is the point. I'd be happy with either when it comes round next month hopefully.

[strigils]

Money talks

[harrybarracuda]

<- Googles "Holiday Resorts French Guiana"

[bsnub]

Getting my first jab this coming Wednesday.

[harrybarracuda]

Getting my first jab this coming Wednesday.

Don't forget to pick up your 5G SIM card.

[OhOh]

Money talks

Your graph needs updating.

If you have money you are free to decide when and how to spend it. If whatever you wish to buy, is available and the seller is able to deliver.

Some ameristani politicians are reporting the supplies of vaccines are as they were "told" and will not be available not available to buy for some time.

QED: Talk is cheap. Promises forgotten. The delivery of a functioning product, is proof.

Biden Says U.S. Struck Deals for 200 Million More Covid-19 Vaccine Doses

Deals follow pledge last month to boost number of shots available to Americans


"President Biden said the U.S. has struck deals to purchase 200 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses, following a pledge in January to boost the number of shots available for Americans. Mr. Biden said in a speech at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., that the U.S. signed contracts with Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. that require each company to provide an additional 100 million vaccine doses.

“We have to stay vigilant, we have to stay focused and for God’s sake, we have to remember who we are. We are the United States of America. We can do this,” the president said.
The additional vaccines will bring the total number of doses ordered by the U.S. from the two companies to 600 million from 400 million. The administration said in January that it was working on the purchases, which would provide enough supply to vaccinate 300 million Americans in a two-dose regimen, covering all individuals in the U.S. currently eligible to receive the vaccine. The vaccine hasn’t been approved for people under 16 years old"

""The new deals are unlikely to make vaccine widely available much sooner than originally anticipated, but they would prevent a shortfall later in the year." Biden later confirmed this in his remarks.And by the time of his actual address standing beside Dr. Fauci the president confirmed he had signed final contracts for about half the anticipated 200 million doses. He said deals were finalized for 100 million more Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Biden began by noting the vaccine plan was "a mess" when he entered office while saying he wants to be "blunt." "We're going to fix it," Biden said..."

Biden Says U.S. Struck Deals for 200 Million More Covid-19 Vaccine Doses - WSJ

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"President Biden on vaccination efforts:

"My predecessor, to be very blunt about it, did not do his job ... He didn't order enough vaccines. He didn't mobilize enough people to administer the shots. He didn't set up federal vaccine centers."

In addition, will the ordered vaccines have any effect with the new mutants being experienced today?

[bsnub]

Don't forget to pick up your 5G SIM card.

Be the first thing I do.

QED: Talk is cheap, delivery is proof.

Well assclown I am an American and I am getting my jab in 4 days and America just got another 200 million doses. It is happening no matter what your propaganda networks are telling you.

[harrybarracuda]

If you have money you are free to decide when and how to spend it. If whatever you wish to buy, is available.

Some ameristani politicians are reporting the supplies of vaccines are as they were "told" and will not be available not available to buy for some time.

QED: Talk is cheap, delivery is proof.

Vaccines in the US are taxpayer-funded and free to all.

So what are you wittering on about?

[bsnub]

So what are you wittering on about?

They usual nonsense.

[harrybarracuda]

In addition, will the ordered vaccines have any effect with the new mutants being experienced today?

Pfizer has already been studied and the effect of new variants is minimal.

Your chinky and Russian shit I have no idea.

[OhOh]

America just got another 200 million doses

None of the new order is "expected" for months.

It appears they have been ordered;

the U.S. signed contracts with Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. that require each company to provide an additional 100 million vaccine doses.

Not in a stockpile awaiting transportation.

Not delivered to any hospital.

Not injected in any citizen.

Let's hope the new doses will be expedited and the hospitals will not receive the excuses in the future as utilised recently.

[harrybarracuda]

None of the new order is "expected" for months.

It appears they have been ordered;



Not in a stockpile awaiting transportation.

Not delivered to any hospital.

Not injected in any citizen.

Let's hope the new doses will be expedited and the hospitals will not receive the excuses in the future as utilised recently.

Actually the US have already delivered 50m vaccines, which if my calculations are correct is about 50m more than Thailand.

The good news for you hoohoo is that if the government approve the chinky vaccine, there are clinics up and down the country ready to give you a double dose for the giveaway price of Bt3,200, a modest price to pay for you to honour your hero Mr. Shithole.

[OhOh]

Actually the US have already delivered 50m vaccines

Well done ameristan. One would expect a government whose society needs to be drip fed with daily doses of "information", true or false every minute of the day.

The Thai government introduced new regulations which the Thai population continue to adhere to. The outcome illustrates the difference in society in both countries, along with their abilities, that is all.

Unfortunately as is usual you state a fact which is not in dispute.

My post, as illustrated by my link, was referring to Bshit's claim that the additional 2m doses had:

America just got another 200 million doses

today by the ameristani authorities. Which is clearly incorrect.

His statement here on TD in this thread illustrates the way ameristanis try to be cute but fail. Alcohol abuse, inadequate education, daily, visible, peer pressure to conform with others so as not to be ostracised, to constantly reinforce a long-lost position of superiority over the foreign brow/yellow/.... people of the world.

Pick one to explain why the once powerful governments, guiding voices have been corrupted and are being overtaken in many areas and by multiple countries.

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One would expect a government whose society needs to be drip fed with daily doses of "information", true or false every minute of the day.

This from a bozo that constantly spews CCP supplied propaganda. The person who is brainwashed here is clearly you nitwit.

His statement here on TD in this thread illustrates the way ameristanis try to be cute but fail.

The fact is bozo that come Wednesday I will get a jab in my arm. 28 days after that I will get my second. How about yourself?

[harrybarracuda]

Well done ameristan. One would expect a government whose society needs to be drip fed with daily doses of "information", true or false every minute of the day.

The Thai government introduced new regulations which the Thai population continue to adhere to. The outcome illustrates the difference in society in both countries, along with their abilities, that is all.

Unfortunately as is usual you state a fact which is not in dispute.

My post, as illustrated by my link, was referring to Bshit's claim that the additional 2m doses had:


today by the ameristani authorities. Which is clearly incorrect.

His statement here on TD in this thread illustrates the way ameristanis try to be cute but fail. Alcohol abuse, inadequate education, daily, visible, peer pressure to conform with others so as not to be ostracised, to constantly reinforce a long-lost position of superiority over the foreign brow/yellow/.... people of the world.

Pick one to explain why the once powerful governments, guiding voices have been corrupted and are being overtaken in many areas and by multiple countries.

The US has confirmed it has acquired 200m doses of Pfizer and Moderna 5G DNA chips to be delivered by the end of July.

So I'm not sure what you are wittering on about in this particular post.

[panama hat]

Three community cases in NZ today, one family where the mother works in the catering area of the airport . . . travelled quite a bit and are now in quarantine.


Satisfied with the 12.000 unit vaccines ordered, Jacinda? (6000 frontliners)

[harrybarracuda]

To the unvaccinated among us: you may thank me and my 5G DNA chips later for protecting you.

Researchers are getting the first real-world hints that a vaccine can curb the coronavirus’s spread, not just prevent people from getting seriously ill.

People vaccinated with Pfizer’s shots and who still get infected with the coronavirus carry less virus in their bodies than unvaccinated people who are infected, researchers from Israel report in two separate preliminary studies posted February 8 at medRxiv.org.

If the vaccines do reduce the spread of the virus, “it means that even people [who] aren’t vaccinated will gain protection from the vaccinated people around them,” says Marm Kilpatrick, an infectious diseases researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As more people get vaccinated, they won’t go on to infect as many other people as they might have before the shot, he says.

Even as data on vaccines’ ability to curb transmission is just starting to emerge, U.S. public health officials have updated quarantine guidelines for vaccinated people exposed to the virus. If exposure happens from two weeks to three months after getting both doses of Pfizer’s or Moderna’s vaccine, no quarantine is needed, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said February 10. That’s because the vaccines are highly effective at preventing COVID-19 symptoms, and people who get sick are thought to be more likely to transmit the virus.

Pfizer’s vaccine appears to reduce coronavirus transmission | Science News

[jabir]

I feel protected already, but will wait for v2 or later.

[harrybarracuda]

Well didn't the eurotrash fuck that right up?

The European Union was offered an extra 500 million doses of the vaccine now making it’s way across Europe, but turned the offer down, Der Spiegel reports. The offer came from BioNTech, the German partner of the American pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer. The EU had already signed a contract for 200 million doses, with an option of 100 million more.

According to the magazine, citing sources familiar with the negotiations, the objection came mainly from France. The French company Sanofi had been given a contract for 300 million doses of its own vaccine, which has yet to obtain approval.

Vaccines: EU turned down offer of 500 million extra doses

And now:

PARIS (Reuters) - A COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by Sanofi and U.S. group Translate Bio “will not be ready this year,” the French drugmaker’s chief executive told Le Journal du Dimanche newspaper.

Sanofi'''s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate not ready this year - CEO | Reuters

[panama hat]

Auckland is at level 3, out of max. 4



No more cases of community transmission

[harrybarracuda]

What's level 4? Zombies roaming the streets?

Oh, that's level 1.

[panama hat]

Oh, so fuuuunnnyyyyy . . .

It's clearly Armageddon!

[OhOh]

Japan's dry ice makers scramble to meet vaccine-driven demand surge.


Feb 15, 2021

"As Japan prepares to begin COVID-19 vaccinations this week, dry ice manufacturers are scrambling to ensure they can meet the expected surge in demand driven by a need to store the Pfizer Inc. vaccine at an ultra-cold temperature.But preparations, critical for a smooth vaccine rollout, are facing challenges, with dry ice makers possibly unable to ramp up production capacity quickly enough partly due to the difficulty of acquiring enough liquid carbon dioxide to create the refrigerant.

On Sunday, Japan approved the vaccine jointly developed by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech SE which must be stored at a temperature of about minus 75 degrees Celsius. Dry ice will be used when there is a shortage of ultra-cold freezers.

An executive of a major ice manufacturer, who declined to be named, said a shortage of dry ice should not get in the way of the rollout. But the executive also expressed concerns, saying “I am not sure of how much (dry ice) will be needed when the vaccines are rolled out.”

The opaque outlook makes it even more difficult to plan production effectively as demand in a normal year varies according to temperatures seen across the country around the peak of summer.
The government has agreements in place with Pfizer, AstraZeneca Plc and Moderna Inc. to receive more than enough doses to cover Japan’s population of 126 million.

Hiroshi Kajiyama, minister of economy, trade and industry, said at a news conference last month that the “major role” of the ministry is to secure freezers and dry ice for the rollout. It has requested that major dry ice manufacturers increase production.

A ministry official said the amount of dry ice required has lessened due to the government securing more freezers than originally planned.

“The Pfizer vaccine is the only type that requires dry ice for transportation and storage. Those developed by AstraZeneca and Moderna do not require it,” the official said.

The government plans to begin inoculating 20,000 health workers on Wednesday in a study to verify the vaccine’s safety. It will then expand the program to other health workers in March and people aged 65 and older in April.

Dry ice suppliers face not only challenges in producing the amount required but also delivering it in the form needed.

Blocks of dry ice are most commonly produced but smaller, dry ice pellets, which are manufactured using a specialized machine, will be needed to keep the vaccines at the correct storage temperature.

Dry ice is a solid form of carbon dioxide. In recent years, manufacturers have struggled to keep up with demand in Japan because it has become increasingly hard to obtain the liquid form of carbon dioxide needed for production in the face of increasing demand from carbonated beverage producers.

The supply from oil refiners has also become tight as they have streamlined refineries where carbon dioxide is produced in the process of petroleum refining.

Dry ice manufacturers are aiming to boost output by producing carbon dioxide on their own.
A subsidiary of Air Water Inc., which provides about half of the domestic dry ice market, has opened new factories in Hokkaido, Yamaguchi Prefecture and Kanagawa Prefecture since 2013 to produce liquid carbon dioxide and dry ice.

Several other companies have followed suit, including Showa Denko Gas Products Co., which built a new plant for liquid carbon dioxide in Oita.

But, understandably, manufacturers had not expected a sharp rise in demand for dry ice due to the coronavirus pandemic, and some officials are worried that there may be a limit to what they can do.
“We have received a request from the government to ensure a steady supply. This is an important matter, so we would like to respond to it as much as possible,” an official of Showa Denko Gas Products said.

Another manufacturer representative said, “There is uncertainty over many elements. … Either way, it will be a balancing act.”



Japan's dry ice makers scramble to meet vaccine-driven demand surge | The Japan Times

[OhOh]

a modest price to pay

The availably and price, in Thailand, for foreigners has been announced?

A link to the Thai government announcement, would be useful.

[harrybarracuda]

Oh, so fuuuunnnyyyyy . . .

It's clearly Armageddon!

Is that you stumbling home from the pub prior to Lockdown?