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I thought I had gammon macca on the ****head list a long time ago. He's gone again anyway.
I've been following some of the EU discussions and they're taking a sensible approach.
Problem is, we have a Brexit government who have tried to sh*t on our European neighbours from a great height - and who have refused to engage in some of the earlier EU-wide Covid-related talks. That means that, whilst we are developing some good tests and vaccines, we may find ourselves somewhat isolated further down the line.
And that's before we get to the chaos after 1 January 2021...
I expect this may have been posted before (yesterday, maybe!), but worth understanding where the political will is:
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/european-council/president/news/2020/10/27/20201018-pec-newsletter-3/
"First, testing. While the PCR tests that have been favoured so far – the much talked-about ‘nasal swabs’ – are reliable, they are cumbersome to administer and to process in a laboratory, and getting the results back to the patients is also no easy matter. On a very large scale – that is to say, when the rate of infection is high – the system is difficult to manage. That is why this technique needs to be supplemented through the implementation of antigen tests, which – although currently regarded as less reliable – are more efficient, yielding results within 15 minutes, and therefore make it faster and easier to identify, on a large scale, individuals who are carriers of the virus and contagious, in particular when they are asymptomatic.
Some of those tests are now being approved and ordered by authorities at various levels and in various locations. However, we must not make the same mistakes as before: we must coordinate the approval of those tests in order to ensure that they are recognised Europe-wide. Furthermore, production capacity needs to be strategically assured at European level so that such tests can be available and accessible everywhere at the same time. We cannot see a repeat of a situation along the lines of last spring’s "race" for masks."