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"France to open extra covid testing centers.... why "
I had to show my elderly French in laws how to use their French government supplied LFT tests this weekend. ....
Why did I have to do this, because there were no instructions in French, it was a German test with lots of other languages , but no French.
So why are people in France being supplied with tests without French language instructions ...
Follow the money ....
PCR tests .. the gold standard , being relatively high grade , their profits are hard to seperate from the manufaturer.
But LFTS, anyone can source these anywhere, set up a company overnight , and it you have the right contacts in Brussels, Westminister where-ever, you can flog them and make loads of money despite having little medical background.
LFTs. very hard to administer one of those to yourself, you will never stick that prong far enough up.
@Brentw1 " I appreciate the sentiment but what has this got to do with Novacyt and this board? "
Here we have another fine example of the failing education system.
PCR tests my boy, PCR tests ... its a vital tool to get out of this mess, MASS REGULAR PCR testing.
Read the headlines across the glode, they have run out of PCR tests among other things,
Havent you heard NOVACYT make them .
Now back to school for you, you should have listened to the teacher more and paid attention instead of trying to make eyes with the pretty girl in the glass whilst playing the class clown for attention.
And the elites wonder why the man on the street has so little respect for them. They have earned this lack of respect by a litany of failures, and I include ALL political parties, Universites,institutions, EU and worldwide.
And no , if anyone responds with some isolated excepetion to the rule, they can shove it. If your class of party or institution has failed then OWN IT, and dont deflect by saying ohh look over in that corner they got it right so therefore we are all great.
2 years into a global pandemic and the world is still caught with its trousers down. Lack of a plan, lack of tests, lack of multi-lateral measures, lack of a brain cell between the ears.
Reminds me of how 2 years into a World War , the US were taken by surprise at Pearl Harbour, only this is even worse than that debacle.
Abject failure on all fronts . From the moment this virus emerged , it has been a light that has shone deep into every inept , bungling, endemic structural failure borderline criminal negligence in every political, media, economic , university and EU beureaucratic money grabbing pension pot lining virtue signaling 'listen to me Ive some letters after my name ' gravy train of twats. The failures were glaringinly obvious for decades to the ordinary man, why do you think we went down the pub or off to the match so much. We knew you lot didnt have a f'ing clue, what do the elites think we talk about in the pub. They do realise we spent most of the time laughing at how thick you lot are even if you had a lot of qualifications and all the money . Covid has just exposed your total failure to get much of anything done. I say this as someone who has spent most of my workling life in that elite bubble, but I prefer to spend my social life outside my working buble , hence I see both sides all the time.
I have no faith that the same lot or academic, social, political, economic and media elites who over DECADES, not years but DECADES , oversaw the reforming of the institutions found so lacking ,will ever solve the issues we are faced with now with Covid. Why get the builder who left your house un-inhabitable back to do the repairs ?
The ordinary man is having to bail you out after you destroyed great British instituions that could have lead the way but are now a pale shadow of past glorious days when real leaders lead organisations with real talent. A plague on all your houses.
hello Sir, Madam ..
Here are the results of your diabetes check ... " its negative, but maybe you still have it, we recommend doing another 5 tests just to check "
Here are the results of your heart disesase check ... " its negative, but maybe you still have heart diseasem , we arent really sure, but on the bright side the test was cheap, we recommend doing another 5 tests "
Here are the results of your cancer screening... " again good news its negative, bad news we arent really sure if you are clear though, good news it was fast and you didnt wait long and even better news is Im a scientist and Ive been on the radio.
Here are the results of your LFT Covid test .. " negative, but it might be positve, or negative, we arent sure , or maybe its showing your pregnant, oh your a man, maybe the result means your a woman, who can tell these days, anyways it was cheap and fast so alls good..... and did I mention Im a scientist who was on the radio.
1 of those tests above is for a rampant virus that has locked down the global economy and our lives for 2 years . Anyone who wants to use sub par tests for this beast is an idiot.
@Monty888 -- " I would think the tests should compliment each other in a practical world. LFT test "
another clown comment. In a practical world .as if that makes it sound intelligent
Hows this for in a practical world .
On any given day, allowing for Covid, there are between 30,000 and 100,000 flights a day .
Last Thursday we effectively had a 'random' spot check . 2 flights were pulled from these thousands of flights and every passenger had a PCR test, (this was in Holland when they pulled the South Africa Arrivals) , and they found 60 positive cases.
Factor that across the global movement of peopel and its quite clear COVID is moving about freely, and PCR is the only way to lock it down at source.
How any idiot could at this stage into a 2 year global pandemic , claim that we can get by with a sub-par , hit and miss element in the fight against Covid is , as I said before an indictment on failing science and a failing education system.
The 'chain' of processes to fight Covid needs to be 100% solid, any break in that chain, you may as well not bother.
@StarBright ....I think your stance is idiotic.
pick up the newspaper .. open your eyes... have a look around .. are you sure you want to take a position that LFT has a place. LFTS are the Aldi/Lidl/Poundstore of tests .
Is Aldi great, yeah , I love it, I picked up a cheap drill there once and ran it into the ground . But that was a drill I used for some DIY .
Maybe Aldi should do operating room supplies, maybe we should look at gettting Lidl to do medical heart rate monitors and intensive care kit, you know who cares , this expansion by high street into the medical arena ticks all the LFT boxes its cheap, it kind of works sometimes and you know its quick . What could go wrong ?
The only reason PCRs take 24 hours is because the DHSC screwed up on planning and putting in place rapid PCR testing in the community.
12 months time, we have another outbreak or variant and I expect you would make the same claim, ahh well the LFTs cheap are quick, sure they will be grand .
Some clown scientist on BBC 4 today talking about the new variant and she is saying to keep using LFTs ?
Another embarassment for the scientific community and indications of the general failing education system in the UK .
2 years into a pandemic and someone who should know better is still talking about using this LFT junk .
BBC 4 - The cases in Scotland had not travelled to Southern Africa ...
Indications are OMICRON is in circulation in the community . !!!!
@RBMInvest - " Living in France, the answer is very simple - sentiment " .
Still not buying it , either IIs got a heads up on the way the virus is moving from Govt contacts and have insight into upcoming PCR demand , or else they got wind of some other major positive for NCYT . That volume move 10 days ago wasnt just public news cycle .
One would hope that after a year on this board people might have learned something, the idea that some inside games are being played should not be dismissed.
@Bluelight " We haven't seen II increases yet, "
Nov 16th we did 700k volume
Nov 18th we did 4,2 million in volume. ... surely that was alot of II.. question is why ?
2 possibilities - 1) many IIs have various contacts at government level and have an insight into what is really happening with infections and more importantly how government mistakes all over Europe are taking everyone to knock on the door of NCYT .
2) Something else is at play, a possible takeover .
This is all speculation im not a financial adviser.
Being a LTH, I thoroughly welcome all this blue today, and we can put it down to the 48 hour news cycle so to speak.
But whats the explanation for the volume trend in France that began 2 weeks ago.
NCYT had been averaging sub 500k volume for months , but suddenly November we 3x to 3 million volume and have constantly had volume days over between 2 and 4 million since.
Do the Frenchies know somethign else ? Im surprised if this massive change in volume was down to the Covid news last week ? Any thoughts anyone.
Back in the day didnt someone here point out that by French law a takeover price was limited by the prior 6 months market cap or some regulation like that. If someone in France wanted to buy NCYT , they were certainly happy to see us in the doldrums so they could pick us up cheap and all legal above board.
Sonicboomboy .. back of the class for you Im afraid " they are all Antigen tests FFS. "
actually they are not, A PCR is detecting amplified genetic material, an antigen test is detecting antigen proteins .
Fundamentally different .
The messaging in Ireland is very poor. And theres alot of confusion about what tests todo and what action to take post a test result. Whether it is Antigen or PCR, the same confusion applies.
I think everyone here would say the logical think to do to address a global pandemic that is crippling the worlds economy and destroying peoples lives , would be to use a gold standard PCR test with statistically reliable results and then base our actions on good PCR test results.
Instead governments all around the world are pfaffing about.
Dont say it is a question of money as the ECB is buying a few billion in commercial paper every week to prop up their big buisness mates.
Lots to be learnt from this epidemic. But somethings have not changed.
What needs to be done is known (quality mass scale regular testing), to some degree this has been known for 12 months, but governments still havent acted on it.
Blonity mentioned in a recent video, MARA is being priced at around $1 billion per 50 bitcoin mined, whereas ARGO is only getting valued at $1Billion per 200 bitcoin mined. Take it as a rough metric.
So either MARA 4 times overvauled or ARGO 4 times under valued .
stop promoting the cross ramp threads .. just ignore them and block the posters
Thats an interesting comparison you make and the numbers can be used as a guidance, but you are forgetting to factor in many intangibles.
Effectively MARA was first to market, first to the meme stocks, first to the Redditt crowd, first to the youtube dedicated videos. etc.
Its hard for ARB to catch up on the momentum that these other companies stole by being 6 months earlier with everything than Arb was.
Theres alot of potential catalysts ... in no paticular order
New ATH will bring more positive press.
New investors and high profile 'celebrities' - a few are bound to come out of the woodwork
Massive amounts of capital that is outside the coin exchanges is itching to come into hte BTC market
China property bond crash will have positive reprecussions for BTC
Inflation is all around us and BTC is the hedge
The kids have zero interest in many traditional physicalassets , gold, silver , art.. But a digital coin/currency is like a moth to a flame.
Kids have "time in the market " on their side ... a 24-30 year old is looking at 20 years down the line
Traditional payment systems and the inherent delays or middle men are on the way out
More ETFs to come both spot and futures
Major mega-whale financiers of our age are on board with BTC the likes of Paul Tudor Jones is a man who sees the future.
ARB has had the IPO radio silence, soon as that expires all RNS news will be good
The energy issue has been and gone and proven to be FUD, our stake in TExas will have net benefits
Good luck everyone , sun is out , and we are blue, stay safe friends .
Everyday theres more news indicating more adoption and more exposure of BTC around the financial world.
Its all positive IMO .
This is ARB bitcoin miner thread, why should we care if there is a shortage or sugary pastries with a hole in them ....
I will get my coat...
MeetKevin youtuber did a quick analysis of the pricing of MS Microstrategy as compared to the miners based on their BTC HODL holdings.
So MS are priced about 1.1x times the amount of BTC they hold, so almost a one to one correlation with the BTC price.
The main miners, RIOT, MARA, HUT are all priced in the region of 6-10x times the amount of BTC they hold.
Im not sure what ARB are priced at, probably in the 10x range also.
Effectively your miners investment is an investment in the miners BTC HODL and their assets, GPUs, plant etc and future profits. The assets are negligible really so your valuing them on future earnings.
Whereas MS is a pure BTC play , no valuation of tangibles that are not 1-1 with the BTC price.
A case could be made for MS having more room to run.
Calm down everyone, its Monday have cup of coffee, no need to get wound up by my post , its just a discussion.
Oh look while writing this ARB is up 4% , Im happy for all us investors and believers, have a great day everyone, be blessed with this indian summer in October and hopefully we make some cash. And all that panic and worry in September is gone .