what sarcasm?

i was told i should be more optimistic towards UK

so i am more optimistic


good no longer gonna slag off AZ vaccine then, then it is to be blamed on a bad batch of AZ here in the EU, but that is no excuse for us, since we also got other vaccines than this one


well Netherlands (my own country) really not proud of our lacklustre mess, slightly over 2 million vaccinated is far too little

I am so confused, they won't use it and are waiting on Curevac and Sputnik but they won't export it either :shrug:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has voiced support for EU chief Ursula von der Leyen's threat to block AstraZeneca vaccines produced in the bloc from being exported, ahead of a crunch EU summit on the escalating row.

"I support Commission President Ursula von der Leyen," said Merkel.

"We have a problem with AstraZeneca," she added.

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/...covid-vaccine/

yes the problem is more that people there no longer have faith in AstraZeneca, and as you can't force it onto people, since vaccinating should always remain a free choice


also why export something you don't trust? maybe all this what they got of AZ are a bad batch

The EU need to get vaccinating if they want to get cases down.
They're so behind, they've messed this up.
I really feel for people in Europe, they should be getting vaccinated, it's a complete disaster!

Vaccination is the only way out of this.
Why don't they just use other vaccines?
They can't delay any longer.

We're using it again in Ireland anyway :shrug:

That's very good.

Its all political grandstanding and its costing lives

The EU is a disgrace

is that why they are not exporting, who knew

My sister's husband got his this morning, he has health issues so up the list :clap1:

Gavin's dad got his first jab last week (it was the Pfizer one though) It will be a massive weight off Gavin when he's got both

:clap2:

i'm nearly 3 weeks in from my first jab, so from a confidence perspective, it makes all the difference in the world. People shouldn't underestimate the difference it makes mentally after the year we have had

Yeah I was a bit worried about how fast they were rolled etc at the start but tbh at this stage I just don't care, I'd take anything to get life back to some sort of normality

well thats is me 48 hours past my first jag and no after effects

Yes, I can't wait to have some normality back.
Its going to be amazing!

Bojo will be secretly shipping AZ via Rosslare after Mehole's support earlier :laugh:

I get vaccine nationalism, every nation wants to look after its own citizens and get its economy back on track, but what is frustrating about this is they have stockpiles of the stuff they won't use, France is a vaccine hesitant nation anyway so Macrons comments haven't helped at all, and yet they don't want anyone else to have it either :facepalm:

I'll take it :hehe:

3 weeks after the first vaccine it seems from all the data so far, you're basically "out of the woods" in terms of severe risk to health / death regardless of second dose. Although is Ireland sticking with the actual guidelines and giving 2nd dose after 3 weeks?

Exactly. Press will soon switch from deaths to 'cases'. Even though cases dont even matter tbh as long as people are as safe and not likely to be very ill or die :shrug:

Could have half the bloody country infected and it shouldn't really matter.

I'm having my second one in May.
Can't wait.

hmm that explains it

how many vaccinations have been done in France as of today anyway?

Netherlands: ministery of health our vaccination rollout rate will rise from 250.000 jabs a week to 400.000 jabs this week and 500.000 jabs next week

daily average of jabs will increase from 32.000 to 57.000 jabs

I'm not sure tbh, I'll let you know when he gets the 2nd jab