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PL, I've found a new T-shirt for your collection (it's below the comic strip)
http://wondermark.com/1k62/

Well done all. I sent the following to Paul.waugh@Huff post

Dear Mr Waugh,

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/five-minute-covid-test-nightclubs-moonshot-plan_uk_602fee6fc5b67c32961d49aa
First of all, I wanted to congratulate you on the above excellent February article on Avacta. As a shareholder myself, I was very pleased to see this fine piece of investigative journalism on testing. So much Government expenditure is going into this effort - and the majority of it has been directed towards Innova, a US shell company which acts as a sales distribution arm for Xiamen Biotime Biotechnology Co. Ltd, China. Although the Innova contract ends this month, the total spent on their inferior Lateral Flow Tests stands at £4,011,000,000. In addition, contracts awarded to Air Charter Services to fly the tests in from China amount to £230,544,000. (Source: https://bidstats.uk/tenders/?q=lateral+flow+test)

Secondly, I wondered whether you had any plans to follow up on Avacta's progress, given the news today that they have received MHRA approval now and a CE mark for their test? https://www.lse.co.uk/rns/AVCT/mhra-confirms-registration-of-lateral-flow-test-yzf825wx0nwaj0n.html.

Personally, I find it sinister bordering on criminal that the so-called 'Sovereign test' is not out there and being used already. Instead of being made aware of a completely plausible alternative route out of lockdown (highly accurate release testing), young people are being strong-armed into getting vaccinated instead. How crass is it to be targeting dating websites to enable covid virtue signalling? Surely a recent STD test is more relevant, but no doubt the sexual health clinics are all closed at present.

Anyway, I do hope that you will follow up on Avacta's good news and hold the Government to account for its failure to be using reliable testing amongst the general population already, enabling holidays, greater trust in borders and less resentment of G7 diplomats visiting us without quarantine.

[Sign off]

Didn't huge amounts of taxpayer money go into developing the slogan? Haven't heard it much. Instead, there is an insidious campaign going on to force vaccinations into the arms of young people who are not at risk - indeed may be at greater risk from the vaccine itself. Have just listened to an expert pediatrician on the radio saying that Pfizer's latest evidence to MHRA relegates news of two adverse reactions (pulmonary embolisms) to the appendix on the basis that they 'were not vaccine related'. The pediatrician stated that pulmonary embolisms are virtually unheard of in children in her experience. I think that the propaganda is now bordering on criminal - especially when we know that they are suppressing news of an alternative approach.

BTW I am not an anti-vaxxer. I have had my two shots. I just don't want my 20-year old daughter who has already had Covid believing that getting the vaccination is the ONLY way she will ever be able to travel again.

Pigster, surely you don't trust the BBC to give us genuine news? All those foreign correspondents stationed all over the globe and yet all we hear about is the minutiae of the woke agenda.

"I've had a little prick, do you want to meet-up?" Love it! I would have thought that on these dating websites a 'virtue badge' showing a clear recent STD test would be more relevant.

This rise is long overdue

It does raise an interesting point for us though. Does anyone here speak Swahili and follow Tanzanian news?

Thanks FDI. That makes sense - and (dare I say) should be long enough for the sovereign test to receive approval for home use!

Scaredy-cat “Abby nicely moving north too...”

Indeed, amazing the difference between a manufacturer that recognises that AVCT good news and celebrates it and the manufacturer that continues to view us as some kind of rival! The resulting *****iness on their BB does nothing to attract new buyers.

Awax, are you really there or do you just have a vivid imagination?

Here we go! ;-)

The problem is that Porton Down doesn’t use it ‘as intended’. Home use ( and Gov contracts) still requires Porton Down approval - as noted in Avacta Annual Report.

Yeah, our first order! RNS anyone?

But as per my earlier post, are we still in an ‘emergency’ scenario if we open up fully on 21st June? Isn’t that the real reason why the gov. is considering delaying that deadline? Vaccines are approved for emergency use only, Innova at home is emergency use only. How do things stand if the emergency is over?

“The Company can also confirm that as part of the UK Government manufacturing contract announced on 11 February 2021 it has received cash Preproduction Payments totalling £2.5m (excluding VAT), with £2.0m of this cash payment received after the year ended 31 March 2021. It is expected that an amount per test, sufficient to recover the Preproduction Payment, will be deducted until such time as the funds have been repaid.”

I think that ABDX needs to change its payment terms. Get everything up front in future!

Those were the days!

Just a thought...if June 21st is declared as ‘Freedom Day’ does this mean that the ‘emergency’ is officially over and all the medical products that have been declared ‘for emergency use only’ such as the vaccines and the Innova LFTs need to reapply for non-emergency approval?

Like Innova

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/The--clean-meat--revolution-is-coming
WRITTEN BY
Anthony Browne MP for South Cambridgeshire and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment.
“Billions of dollars of investment are pouring into the sector, with backers including Richard Branson and Bill Gates. The San Francisco company that made the cultured chicken nugget, Eat Just, raised $170 million a few weeks ago, and is now valued in the billions. It is a new tech gold rush.”
“The cultured meat revolution is also sometimes called ‘the protein transition’ and its advocates are confident that this transition will happen far quicker than almost anyone realises, in years not decades.”

Seems he may have contracted Covid on a flight home from Portugal.
This is the interesting part...

“However, instead of self-isolating for 10 days, Mr Gove will be able to take part in a pilot scheme for certain workplaces, whereby he can instead be tested every day for a week.

Those who test negative after a lateral flow test each morning are allowed to attend their workplace as usual, but are not allowed to socialise with others.”

Which lateral flow tests are considered acceptable for this experiment I wonder?

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/michael-gove-gets-covid-alert-after-attending-champions-league-final-in-portugal/ar-AAKHvwn

G7 includes Japan who need some highly accurate tests if they are to proceed with the olympics (at this stage they either proceed or lose the hosting opportunity altogether). If Sir Al does have the ear of Boris, perhaps he could plant the seed of an idea.