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The commentary on ifollow incredibly quiet for anyone else?

Saw someone in a Cov shirt at a WWE show in Miami back in 2012. Was going to say hello but the wife, now ex-wife, was with me and thought it was weird! Also saw a tent with SISU Out written on it at Reading Fest a few years back.

Does anyone really see them going through with the threat to block exports. Imagine you're the country whose order is blocked because the EU want to jump the queue, are you just going to shrug your shoulders and say OK. Look what happened when there was even a rumour that India was planning to...

Its not even just down to shit employers, its down to parents who can't be bothered to look after their own kids. We had a team meeting yesterday and several people who are working from home 100% of the time spoke about how their kids were in nursery or school as they'd managed to get their...

I don't think anyone is shocked at that. Every country is of course acting in their best interests. But every country is struggling to get the amount of doses they ordered and they aren't all storming into manufacturing facilities or trying to block doses reaching other countries.

Same with offices. Way more people in than last time. There's an article on the BBC site about this today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55843506

This is from twitter so no guarantees to its accuracy but it seems this comes under Belgian law and they have a thing called inspanningsverplichting which says best efforts shall not constitute an obligation or guarantee commitment and there is no liability.

That was going to be my question. Obviously I'm not a lawyer but I can't see where that says they can jump the queue ahead of those who ordered months before them.

From a legal standpoint how would best effort but the EU at the head of the queue when demand worldwide far outstrips supply? You would assume everyone else who placed orders, in some cases many months before the EU did, didn't sign up to be pushed down the queue if the EU finally got round to...

You would imagine if they did that then supplies from non-EU production that were intended for the EU won't be delivered and will be diverted elsewhere. Assume EU produced vaccine should be delivered around the world not just to the UK. That's a lot of countries that will be very unhappy with...

Looks like hospital admissions is now starting to drop, behind the drop in new cases as would be expected. Lets hope the death figure starts to drop as well. Of course they're still all very high so a long way to go but at least its going in the right direction.

If you click through to the testing page and then onto data it gives you this

I think I must be reading a different forum as I'm seeing people on here criticising the EU over their vaccine stance.

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/coventry-worlds-first-airport-flying-19711976

I think the lease was on the basis of the hotel being built. Presumably if they don't build the hotel the lease stays with the council and they've found an alternative use for it. Would actually be a good move from the council if this is something that is realistically going to happen. There's...

For me the problem is so much was built at the same time, for obvious reasons, which results in a lot of buildings of the same age and style. Add in poor upkeep and its a recipe for disaster. That doesn't mean you need to knock everything down and start again, that's just repeating the same...

Telegraph reporting today that there is going to be an airport for flying cars (I checked and its not April 1st) in Coventry. The location is the Ricoh car park, so guess that means the hotel isn't happening.

Or maybe not. From what I can make out they've ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer, half of their total expected output and 400 million doses of the Astra among an order of 2.3 billion doses, for a population of 450 million. We've ordered 30 million of the Pfizer and 100 million of the...

Exactly, remember the discussion on the covid thread that if they turned out to be useless we'd wasted a fortune as we had commited to pay. Even if the EU did also commit in advance they did it months after other countries, I can't see any reason they should now be at the front of the queue.

I understand they're annoyed if they throught they were getting doses and now aren't but surely the same applies to everyone around the world and other countries seem to be accepting it and waiting their turn. “We reject the logic of first come, first served” is a hell of a quote. Are they...