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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
hat's not what I said. I actually said:
And I'll amplify what I've maintained throughout this exchange about signing a contract when they knew it couldn't be fulfilled. The EC didn't do its due diligence on the means of production. Consequently, thousands more are dying than is the proportionate case here.
How you can sit and type the defensive stuff you're doing is beyond sensibility when the whole fiasco is staring us in our faces.
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Neither the UK nor EU could have known how the production could have turned out at each plant when the contracts were signed with AstraZeneca. I doubt anyone in AstraZeneca or the factories could have known either.
It was a high-risk, high-reward game. Risk by both the UK and EU was mitigated by multiple vaccine suppliers (which you've so far failed to acknowledge as it doesn't fit your zero-risk-mitigation narrative) and multiple production plants.
The above does not undernine the fact that the EU was less agile than the UK in its procurement process.
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The EC did not tie up that loose end. 3½ months into our vaccination programme, the production facilities upon which the EU is pinning its hopes have not been licensed - never mind they haven't applied. The EC should have been all over that.
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I agree that they should have been all over that, although we don't know to what extent they were or they weren't over that. But that tangential point does not make your case that they knew the contract could not be fufilled. Only Captain Hindsight would know.
And you've yet to acknowledge that your point about no risk mitigation was similarly invalid.
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Originally Posted by pip08456
Not what I asked. Has the vaccine been produced?
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That's a different question, no idea, sorry.