Member Info for tecbadger

Theres been a lot if delicious irony today but that takes the biscuit steph.

I'm sat here struggling how you can get back to the average on 0 shares

I just lost IQ reading this. If you don't give it back I'll get my police mate to stick you in a coffin and sing Rick Astley to your for 369 hours straight

Aaah I give up too much right wing bubblery going on to bother with.

I did get a laugh out of the irony of a public servant hating on anyone with views even slightly left of centre though.

Resorting to insults rather than reasoned debate is not a perfect way of displaying intelligence.

Thanks Regulator

Ultra-Instinct we may not live in an autocratic society however in times of crisis there is no reason why a short implementation of tough measures cannot be implemented to safeguard a better long term outcome. Were not exactly very free right now are we?

Red381 thats simply incorrect Britain is (currently) the 5th largest economy in the world we could easily have afforded to fund a national shutdown for 2 months and pay everyone to keep afloat. This would actually have been cheaper than the much longer drawn out response we are enduring now.

PS just because a person is not right wing does not mean they are the loony left contrary to recent popular opinion there is a wide spectrum of political positions. I doubt there is a large representation of far left on sharedealing platforms.

LCP123 we have had 0 lockdowns. We have had 3 half arsed attempts at a lockdown in a vain attempt to mitigate short term economic damage which laughably has led to much greater long term economic damage.

Australia are the perfect example of how to actually do this if we had any sense we would have had military controlled lockdown for a couple of months to stamp out the first wave and then close monitoring to contain flare ups.

here we are in "lockdown" 3 while the Australians get on with their lives. Im no fan of the tories in general but are they even tories anymore or just far right buffoons?

Regulator do you have a publicly available source document for this claim? Does the variant also escape vaccine derived Ab?

Bill Gates is going to know when you go toilet

Some of the posts and attitudes here are laughable. You can easily survive on 20-30k in the north west and the added bonus is your far away from the attitudes of Kent where apparently linking your income to race is acceptable discourse.

I started on 18K with an M.Sc. In Biotechnology....That was right in the teeth of the 2008 recession though. The sciences aren't rewarded fantastically in Britain largely because theres an excess of scientific degrees due to having a large number of universities with great departments.

As little as 5 minutes research in to this company would have told you that their COVID-19 strategy is to technically transfer and manufacture tests developed by other companies.

My god people.

Satellite i do lend towards agreeing with you but it is a very weird situation all round which gives me a little doubt.

AVCT is weird. They definitely have a very strong product from feasibility studies but they have not released a design freeze RNS which you think they would have had to do if it was achieved as its commercially sensitive. We also saw that an R&D member of omega said they were working with AVCT and not a manufacturing member.

If they have achieved design freeze and are in verification/validation in sure there will be a place at the table for them as well as ODX especially as there are rumours ODX will manufacture for them.

Thanks for sharing. The hysteria over nothing last night was particularly humerous, especially on the AVCT board. Quite petty that lot these days.

I think its pretty sad im even reading this board on a Friday night.

But being an uninvested deramper posting guff here on a Friday night? That might be saddest thing i ever did see on a shareboard

The lack of a design freeze RNS at AVCT is troubling to me considering the length of time verification and validation take.

Girdz my hypothesis is that we will eventually reach a "tipping point" where enough of the population have antibodies that we can start to reduce some of the risk calculations and use this to slowly reopen the economy.

It is true that people with antibodies can carry the virus and spread it but what people don't seem to mention in this scenario is viral load. Carriers of the virus with antibodies will have a much lower viral load than a newly infected individual as their immune system will be suppressing its proliferation. To my mind this means while they are a risk for spreading the virus this risk is lower than it would be if they did not have antibodies and so we can start to factor that increasingly lowered risk in as more and more of the population are antibody positive.

This is just my thoughts however im a molecular biologist not a virologist or epidemiologist so i would welcome those opinions if we have that experience on the board.

Stephostocks the government ordered a million ABC-19. Its possible that this is indeed how its being used

Theres always different viewpoints. I would say on the balance of things Deeks is in the minority with his opinion.

MHRA approved an LFT antigen test with the caveat that people with negative results must be instructed that the result isnt comprehensive and they must not change behaviour. LFTs find a proportion of positives that would be missed by lab testing its a win win and the Deeks argument is getting really old and increasingly drowned out.

PS PCR causes false positives in people that have recovered from the virus but still have RNA present in their system. there is no perfect testing tech

What is going on at MM HQ today? The SP is going up on low volume?

Whoever put the Quaaludes in the water cooler have a drink on me!

Hi Simon,

It sounds to me like they have completed feasibility work but all the time consuming work of development, verification and validation with a 3rd party still needs to be conducted. Based upon this statement

University of Birmingham Enterprise has filed a patent application covering the method and its use in diagnostic equipment, and is now seeking to license the patent for rapid product development

Likely to be 6 - 12 months work and thats an accelerated timeline like we have seen for tests in the pandemic.

Im also a little distrustful of constant temperature technologies. they tend to be have a higher limit of detection (virus concentration) that traditional PCR so, if this were to follow the trend the sensitivity would end up somewhere between an LFT and PCR.