Yeah sorry wrong choice of words ātimescalesā would have been a better term than āprotocolsāā¦thatās what I meantā¦not skipping stages of ratification.
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A sad announcement today from Jolyon Maugham of the Good Law Project, who has been preparing a legal case against the Government regarding the awarding of PPE contracts. Truly shocking, this is the true face of ādemocraticā UK. This is a government saying quite clearly and unequivocally that itās above the law.
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The Government spending money that is effectively āoursā to defend themselves against the indefensible 
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Like the US Senate working to pass anti-Reddit trading legislation because the wrong people have made some money
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Sorry, that one passed me by. What is / was it exactly (genuine question)
WHAT?
BBC News - GameStop: What is it and why is it trending?
The repercussions efforts to stop it are all over Twitter including proposed legislation. They bankrupted a Hedge Fund - $2.1 billion value in a day
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NO worries, but its important with these things to be a accurate as possible, to avoid the conspiracy theorists latching on to any ambiguity. In all cases nothing has been skipped re ratification. All the stage and protocols have been applied as normal.
What the Koch institute are looking is not whether the study was carried out correctly (which it was) but at the stats. Its quite a common criticism of clinical studies that whilst the overall number of participants was high and correct to get a good degree of statistical significance, when you look at isolated segments, it may be that in some the n number is below the number needed to establish a significant clinical benefit etcā¦ that seems to be the case here.
Its does not mean its failed or is not good, Just statistically it does not match the thresholds due to lower than necessary patient numbersā¦ which given they speed of the study was always quite likely
Its quite common, because recruiting for clinical studies is hard, especially in certain age groups or ethnic groups. This means when the data is analysed, some segments may not be included in the approval or there may be restrictions applied until further evidence is available.
So nothing has gone wrongā¦ IN fact it shows the rigour of true scientific analysis of clinical studies that this has been picked up and shared, Sadly, the general public are then bombarded by inaccurate media and other conspiracyā¦
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Ah, saw the word Game and assumed it was something to do with those computer game things a lot on here play in darkened rooms late at night / when the Mrs is out 
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I have to say this does have itās funny side, opens a window on how these people really see the world. I bet there are loads of them in government who genuinely couldnāt see this coming, scratching their heads and wondering what the fuss is all about. Even former Tory minister, Caroline Nokes expressing incredulity that it was actually signed off. Probably by Jacob Rees-Mogg! Iām just surprised they didnāt go the whole hog and express their true feelings in the ad, and have all the women white, barefoot and pregnant.
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Er, what were we talking about?
With regards to the German saying that they will not give it to the over 65s and a chance that the EMA follows suits and then combine that with the demand to get hold of vaccines earmarked for the Uk, we have a situation where the Germans want to deprive the UK of vaccines to give to our elderly and vulnerable so that they can give it to younger citizens
Now if our doses for our under 50s were going towards their elderly you could kind of swallow that (I reserve the right to bitch like billyho) but the other way around? Fuck right off.
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My folks are booked in for next weeks 
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Well the thing is they are no āour dosesā they are AZs. UK and EU have orders with them and they as a private company will chose how to fulfil these ordersā¦ in normal circumstances, i suspect they will go with biggest and higher paying (for the rest of their portfolio) customerā¦ as stated before, could be a shitfestā¦
The time to start worrying is when they only give the vaccine to those with blond hair and blues eyes.
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Love this, this is brilliant, been laughing all day at this!
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You are batshit crazy, did you start the virus?
This will be about optics not contracts - the EU are already playing that game - they are running out of jabs because they backed the wrong horses or placed orders way too late and have created a row to deflect the inevitable shit storm coming their way when their members citizens realise there is no vaccine to be had
Even if there was unlimited supply of the stuff they still havenāt approved it - that cannot explain away why Madrid has had to stop their programme because they have run out - they are not alone
They have panicked. They have cast about looking for a solution and seen an opportunity. They are now trying to bully a company into breaking a contract to fulfill their own, which does not guarantee delivery but offers best efforts
Look I understand why they are doing it, but had the roles been reversed they would be sat smug in Brussels saying - tough shit thatās Brexit for you
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On another positive note, my mate is up and about. Managed to take the kids for a short walk today. Still has no appetite and is struggling to sleep, but it is night and day compared to how he was last week
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Hehe
That has screwed all those āinfluencersā
Direct flights stopped as well
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Novavax 89% effective - also against the new strains on the verge of approval
60m doses to be made in Stockton on Tees
But I expect the EU have decided that the exploratory talks which concluded in December take precedence