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Mullis had off the record meetings with Bethell amongst lots of others.
Mullis has walked away with £8 million quid and a ghost has replaced him.
I'm now starting to get more than a little annoyed by this.
I invested initially not because of covid, I invested because I know this will become the future of diagnostics, a field I am both qualified & experienced in.
I honestly can't adequately express how disappointed I am now in the new CEO.
As of today, I honestly have no clue about not only the current performance and sales, who or what we are selling to, or volumes.
Zero new contracts have been officially announced, irrespective of value. What the future strategy is for for future growth, absolutely nothing.
I've been patient, I've given the new guy a chance, I'm now becoming angry.
The AIM markets are not like the main markets, these are fledgling companies, they thrive on new innovation, new contracts and POTENTIAL for the future.
That's what builds value here, after Mullis swanned off with his multi millions and before tbh, we have heard absolutely nothing as shareholders. We are the ones who actually put our money into this company and believed in it. I still do tbh but I'm getting royally pi $$ed off now with the radio silence now.
I'm more than happy to coordinate a consolidated response from all the investors here, to express our dissatisfaction with the current state of play. As there are no institutional investors yet, there is no one to put pressure on the BOD to up their game.
I'm not sure just yet how to logistically organise this yet but I will find a way if required. I'm not looking for positive reinforcement here but if anyone agrees with this sentiment, recommend this post and let's see where we are

@P100, yet again, your responses would suggest that you are not invested here, yet you continue to post, convince me otherwise

I'm intrigued that ppl think that Omicron is the final page in the covid story. With so much of it circulating globally, I wouldn't think for 1 minute that this is the end

They are running down the clock so they can offer a derisory bid price to current shareholders when the TATA bid comes in

Covid is following the path of the Spanish flu, each wave takes its toll, it wipes out the more vulnerable first, then comes back for those it missed, I'm pretty sure Omicron isn't going to be the end of this, just because everyone is fed up with it doesn't mean its gone away. Do some research on Spanish flu and who it targeted in its final wave, those thinking I'm alright Jack, cos I'm young, fit and healthy innit, may have an unpleasant reality in their face soon

My final point on this thread, its been a very interesting read, is that none of these conversations would be necessary if the company were communicating effectively with their shareholders. It shouldn't be upto ppl like Larry to find info like TATA partnership. Its hardly confidential if it can be found in the public domain.
It all smacks of amateur hour, why AREN'T they passing on, what I would consider price sensitive info, to both us and the wider market, im completely baffled by this approach, it makes no sense at all

@bakky, I worked in India for a while as we had outsourced work over there, as much as it pains me you are 100% correct, India is a very different culture from the European one and most definitely has a different approach to business

@B2H, personally can't see the reverse engineered scenario tbh, surely if that were the case they would have at least developed an instrument that looked different, its exactly the same. It may well have been manufactured in India but under license. Also, if TATA had infringed novacyt IP, we would have heard about it by now as they would be taking legal action, so I think its unlikely, that said, in the absence of any comms, who knows

@B2H agree 100% with everything you have said.
The TATA thing really disappointed me. I personally think if there is to be a T/o then it will be by TATA.
TATA look to be expanding into this sphere from what I've managed to pick up. I appreciate that there are NDAs and confidentiality issues but the odd snippet released to the market would go a long way to shore up a bit of confidence in novacyt.
This static white noise atm is just ridiculous now. Novacyt 'should' be coining it in now but with nothing to go on, its just all guesswork.
I've stayed in this long, might as well stay the course

I watched the Amryt investor presentation on YouTube that was posted earlier and now I'm even more confused. He's clearly capable of giving solid presentations and seemed well across all the detail, so he is clearly no clown which makes the silence all the more confusing and frustrating. Glass half full view, he's getting to grips with current state of play and putting a future strategy together and will inform the market when all the ducks are lined up.
Half empty glass view, were f*cked, I'm leaning to the half full view atm, he's clearly no mug

@didi, but we're not managing fine without it, the NHS is collapsing in case you hadn't noticed.
The only reason they have done this is because they haven't got the testing capacity to cope, we've gone from 40 to 50 positives a day being a really bad day to 400 to 500 positives a day.
So instead of ramping up capacity whilst they had the chance, they didn't bother and now the NHS can't cope, so they move the goalposts.
Just when I think they have reached the bottom of their incompetence, they dig a bit deeper

P100, what makes you think its just because its winter cases will be higher compared to summer.
On another point ive read your daily garbage posted on here, day in day out for the last few months.
There is absolutely no chance that you are a long term holder of this stock. You say you are but your posts would suggest the exact opposite.
Do us all a favour and stop posting, you add precisely nothing to this board, your posts are neither inciteful, educated and to be honest even interesting.
Jog on

@Digby, thanks and I don't want to catch it again, felt like I was dying the first week, my smell and taste is only just starting to come back now.
Best wishes to you and yours x

I hate the way someone trips off 100 deaths a day from covid like that is in someway ok, just take a moment to think how many people that is over the course of a year. This is not OK

I honestly wish some of the posters on here would take a walk around a hospital and see both the number of people in a serious condition, the number of people waiting in AED and the toll this is taking on the staff.
They have been working under extreme conditions now for nearly 2 years. It takes its toll, these people are only human and there's only so much they can take. So sick of reading the died with or of covid questions, it screams ignorance.
I've filtered most of the morons on here but occasional ones slip through, they truly are the worst of us, goto a hospital to see the best of us.
NHS staff are in despair now because of morons like this

Been speaking to a few contacts over the Christmas break, things on the ground are now getting serious.
The actual staff on the ground are dropping like flies now with covid. One reported that a department of 40 ppl now have 12ppl covid positive and more testing positive everyday.
They literally can't cope with the workload, these are the guys doing the testing too.
This is being repeated across all departments across multiple sites.
I knew it would be bad but Omicron has made it 10x worse.
If there are not enough staff to run the hospital the whole system is in real danger of collapsing and soon.
Most tests are now positive, which includes staff too.
If we continue to see the eye watering numbers we've seen this last week, they are only going to get worse, much worse, very quickly, this is the sharp end of exponential growth now.
Hospitalisation are rising equally as quickly now.
There is going to be no one to staff the hospitals.
I'm staying home, we are rudderless from a country leadership perspective, its a free for all now. January and February are normally the worst months for winter pressures and Flu has re emerged so we have pressure from this too.
They will start triage soon in hospitals about who to save and who not to

I'm beginning to think I should come out of retirement and jump in on these opportunities, good money to be made on short term contracts for experienced, qualified, biomedical scientists

I'm logging out of here for the Christmas break, not posting so much these days as there's not much I can add that will add any value.
I wish you all a peaceful and safe Christmas.
I have posted a few times over the last few months about how I thought this winter would be bad, I fear its going to be worse than I expected.
I've just read the attached tweet from Prof John Ashton, he was the PHL medical director, he appeared on Question Time at the beginning of the pandemic warning us all about the impending storm to come.
He was ridiculed after this appearance, yet everything he said would happen did happen and if he had been listened to, 1000s of ppl would probably still be alive.
He's just posted this
https://twitter.com/Johnrashton47/status/1472490425533571073?t=08iJ4cuBc5mERWPZTbCyUw&s=19

Take heed and stay safe, we are all on our own now

Path labs have been told now to assume all new positives are Omicron

Worrying that there will high numbers of both delta and Omicron circulating for quite a while, its entirely possible to be infected with both at the same time. God knows what could be the outcome of that melting pot