Irish Examiner wrote: A nursing home in Tipperary is paying for antigen testing for staff and visitors so they can safely reopen for families. Nursing homes were allowed from yesterday to allow visitors inside the homes twice weekly. However, Patterson's Nursing Home in Roscrea went one step further and is open since Mother’s Day to visitors who agree to an antigen test first.
Irish Examiner wrote: A vaccination centre will open at Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork this week and operate as one of 11 centres nationally as the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines ramps up. The GAA stadium will now be used for the rollout of vaccines for the first time this week when the final group of healthcare staff receive their jabs on Thursday and Friday. The centre will be used to vaccinate people in the first four priority groups and will be used as a mass vaccination clinic further down the line as the vaccination programme scales up.
GT89 wrote: » I said a while back that there may be coercion to get people to take the vaccine some people doubted my argument. Well I guess I have been proven right.
titan18 wrote: » It going nuclear hurts the UK more than us so feck them tbh if they want to go nuclear over not getting some of the vaccines from the Halix factory. Can't keep on backing down from bullies.
GT89 wrote: » I said a while back that there may be coercion to get people to take the vaccine some people doubted my argument. Well I guess I have been proven right.https://twitter.com/shannoncarty3/status/1374290179956047875?s=19
Deeper Blue wrote: » Proper order, do your bit and take the vaccine otherwise you're out in the cold. Roll on the day when that happens here (and it will).
titan18 wrote: » I don't particularly see why the EU should be sending vaccines produced in th EU to vaccinate 40 years in the UK when there are 70 year olds in the EU unvaccinated. It seems stupid tbh.
eoinbn wrote: » I love how the British government/media have been framing the story. The PM is willing to share the vaccines from the Netherlands with the EU. How nice of him.
astrofool wrote: » Especially as all the bluster about their self sourced supply has proven to be completely false. It can't sit well with the tory government that the vaccine "success" has been built on the back of EU graciousness towards them.
Halix is a subcontractor of AstraZeneca AB (EU) and AstraZeneca Plc (UK). I'll use a simple analogy. You buy a BMW. It has a transmission issue. You can't take ZF (who actually manufactured the gearbox) to court because you have no contractual relationship. You can take BMW to court because they're the ones you signed an agreement with when you got the car. Meaning that if Halix signed an agreement with Vaccitech and/or AstraZeneca Plc to provide vaccines or vaccine components to Vaccitech/AstraZeneca's customers (in this case the UK) on a first come/first serve basis and did so before the deal with AstraZeneca AB (which it did, since the UK agreement was in April, EU in December), then the EU has no legal standing to assert any claim against Halix, as they have no contractual relationship. The EU would have a claim against AstraZeneca AB (who they signed their agreement with), however because of the Commission's incompetence in drafting their contract that's dubious. This is universal in contract law.
IRISHSPORTSGUY wrote: » 30m doses, blimey. Divided by population, that's a little over 300k for Ireland from AZ in the next week?
correct horse battery staple wrote: » Russian science was good, in 90s anyone with half a brain left for the west. The educational system has also imploded and like everything in country is severely under funded. Russia today more resembles the more redneck parts of US with religion and nationalism and fascism all mixed in not the Russia of Soviet Union era where science was a good way to avoid being shipped off to Siberia, back then government could take everything from a person but they couldn’t have their mind, that’s why so many went into science, math and engineering back then. Russia is a shell of what it was a, it’s now a dystopian oligarchy which would make all those millions who spent their lives defending the motherland cry.
lawrencesummers wrote: » The vaccine works though. As much as you might not like the country the vaccine works.
GazzaL wrote: » Many of the pro lockdown crowd are racist. They'd seemingly rather see Irish people die and destroy our society and economy before they'd consider Sputnik. I got a load of abuse from them when I said I shook hands with an Eastern European gypsy during the lockdown.
ArmaniJeanss wrote: » From memory most of the people who argued with you did so on the basis of whether or not it was a good idea, with most thinking it was good and you not approving of it. I don't recall many posters nailing their mast to the idea that it couldn't happen. So I'm not sure you can say you've been proved right.
Micky 32 wrote: » Do you know something we don’t? Did you get some inside info? If so please share
funnydoggy wrote: » Go on, explain why
is_that_so wrote: » They are not bullying anyone, they already know they'll be down 5m from India, they could be down a lot more from Halix. They also know that Halix will probably be approved for EU vaccine supplies on Thursday. I'd call it realpolitik - a solution where everybody wins a bit but nobody is fully happy. We'll just have to see how it pans out.
Melanchthon wrote: » It's likely to do with thishttps://nos.nl/artikel/2368414-deel-in-nederland-geproduceerde-vaccins-naar-vk-door-britse-afspraken.html You'l need to translate though. Also now I could be wrong here but didnt the way the EU contract refer to plants in Belgium and Germany? Anyway stealing this comment from Reddit.
Tenzor07 wrote: » A Very sad day when you see people who've completely lost faith in this Government and the shambolic vaccine rollout that they're so desperate to get the Vaccine they travel up North knowing the chances of getting the jab are little or none....https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0323/1205728-northern-ireland-vaccinations/
votecounts wrote: » https://twitter.com/thejournal_ie/status/1374464917550469123 thought this would have been an issue earlier
Red Silurian wrote: » Chances are that in a few weeks time we will be able to fly to America and buy a vaccine in a pharmacy
john4321 wrote: » What has been shambolic about the rollout here so far? All reports I have read here of people being vaccinated have been positive. Lack of supply is not shambolic and using an article of people chancing their luck booking appointments in NI is not proof of anything apart from selfishness and stupidity.
