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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

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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.

Andrew, I don't know what you do for a living. But I live in the world of projects. Risk analysis and risk mitigation are matters of expertise ahead of any feared event. My projects also involve safety of life - and if the vaccine isn't in that class, my whatsit's a kipper.

In the EU vaccine case, one of the feared events is (should be in any competent organisation) late/non-delivery. The EC fupped badly here and then started a campaign to shake the blame off their shoulders,

It's no good you trading nonsense here by looking at the square root of a few words. Nobody agrees with you (that might provoke a few Remainers!).