1. Curious piece off Focus news this morning, some science folks have examined the mutant virus (like the Brit one), and found that when talking about the vaccination business....it is effective with the current 'design'....HOWEVER, they are now talking about a third shot (the current plan is shot number one, wait three to four weeks, and get shot two). Based on commentary, there's still probably another couple of months of testing to occur before they mandate this. Making a bigger problem for the logistical chain? Well...yeah.
2. Discussion of cyber attacks on vaccine developmental companies? Yes. ARD had a piece on this discussion and there is some governmental worry about hackers now.
3. Calls for a Europe-wide travel ban? N-TV picked up the discussion this morning, and it centers on the virus experts (not the politicians). The suggestion is that too many people are crossing borders and spreading the virus (by car, train and airplane).
How would this work? Well....only speculation upon my part....you'd turn to the railway services and just say nothing crosses borders except for freight. Then you'd go to the airports and suggest that only in-country flights were possible. As for the vehicle situation? You have to allow truckers to move cargo across the continent. How long could you mount some drastic travel ban? Maybe for 30 days....but they might be willing to go to some harsh view and try some two-month attempt.
To be honest about it....out of the Frankfurt airport....I doubt if their schedule even meets the 15-percent point of what was going on in 2019. If you said only in-country flights....it'd probably add up to 40 flights a day in Frankfurt.
4. I noticed this morning off the news via N-TV....a fair discussion had started up over the mandated wear of the FFP-2 mask. The experts all agree....it's the best mask for the situation....IF WORN PROPERLY.
The mask (I have two that I paid a ridiculous amount of money for)....require a 'seal' of sorts. If you wear them wrong....they are of zero value. If you walk around, I'd suggest more than forty-percent of people have them on in a crappy way and there is no seal. So all this mandating business....probably has zero value.
5. All this chatter over the Astrazeneca vaccine from the EU?
I'll reference this commentary from N-TV, but there are tons of news sites talking about the matter.
In simple terms....way back in the spring/summer of 2020....the Astrazeneca folks got the EU's attention, and most everything that the EU was signed up on contracts for....for the 'good' of all EU members....was put on Astrazeneca.
In a matter like this....most business-minded folks would have gone to the top three producers, and spread the responsibility around....expecting one of the three to screw up and at least you lessened the pain. Well...the EU screwed up.
The EU would now like Astrazeneca folks to explain the schedule. Under what they knew in December....the production folks would deliver around 80-million doses in March 2022. In the past week, Astrazeneca said 'no'....the best they can now do is 31-million (end of March).
6. Finally, today (Wed), is the start of year two of the virus in Germany. There's no parties, bottles of Champaign, or fests for the situation. Most Germans are coming to the belief that nothing much will improve over the next six months, and economically....it's a fairly harsh year ahead.
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