[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Timeliness is not in dispute, I reiterate that I agree on this point.

Seph was arguing that the EU had been at fault by:
1) Signing a contract when it knew it could not be fufilled.
2) Not mitigating the risks by signing contracts with other suppliers like Pfizer.

Both of these statements are wrong.

hat's not what I said. I actually said:

Well, exactly. By any project management risk assessment standards, that would have been very high on probability and very high on negative effect. By all means sign the contract but mitigate the risks, which they didn't do. Political considerations would have ruled out the Russian/Chines vaccines and surely/maybe the Germans could have done something about Pfizer.

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.