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22 Jun, 6 tweets, 2 min read
The grilling of Hungary today by ministers from other member states is said to have been passionate and heated -- at least two in the room were themselves gay.
“It basically links homosexuality with paedophilia," @ThomasByrneTD said of the law
irishtimes.com/news/world/eur…
14 member states have signed the declaration proposed by Benelux condemning Hungary's law: Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden; Italy then signed as well
The map is stark
Austria picked a side ey
UPDATE: and then there were 16.
Austria and Greece have joined the declaration condemning Hungary's new law as targeted discrimination against LGBT people
Dave is on it

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18 Jun
Belgian court finds AstraZeneca "deliberately violated" contract with the EU by excluding British factory Oxford Biomedica in supplying contracted vaccines, and orders it to use the factory if needed to meet orders.
"AstraZeneca did not make its "Best Reasonable Efforts" it finds
In its conclusion the court orders AstraZeneca to deliver vaccines on a fixed schedule, or face a €10 fine per late dose.
However, AZ has already delivered most of these. The court found it couldn't impose a timetable for the outstanding ~220mln doses due (company says end-year)
Confusingly, both sides welcomed the judgment.
- AstraZeneca said it won, because the court says that the EU's order does not have priority over other contracts
- EU claimed victory as well, as the court found AZ violated its contract and that it should use the British factory
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30 Apr
In 2019, international vaccine deniers descended on the Pacific island of Samoa.
In the measles outbreak that followed, 1 in every 150 babies aged 6-11 months died.
My piece on a cautionary tale as anti-vaxxers exploit the pandemic for platforms and power.
irishtimes.com/news/world/eur…
The WHO produced guidelines to help public health officials deal with vocal vaccine deniers in 2016.
It explains how to counter the false claims, and that the audience is not the vaccine deniers (who will not be convinced) but the broader listening public
who.int/immunization/s…
Some interesting observations from the WHO:
- the arguments of vaccine deniers have not changed much since the invention of vaccines
- out-and-out vaccine deniers are a very, very small group. But they can influence a much larger group of people who are persuadable either way
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12 Apr
I think the evidence that Covid spreads through air, which has been apparent since the earliest days of the pandemic, was ignored and denied because its implications required institutional change. 'Distance and wash hands' puts emphasis on individual.
We knew how to reduce transmission in schools last summer before they went back and just... didn't do it
I'm not saying there was a deliberate conspiracy or something. Just a kind of laziness, cowardice, preference for whatever requires the least action -- basically a lack of leadership.
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30 Mar
France vaccinated 400,000 people in a day this week.
For context, by population size that's the equivalent of the United States vaccinating 2 million people a day, which is the rate the US hit this month.
To compare to a closer neighbour with the same size population, the UK's daily record was 844,285 in a day on March 20. However, the NHS has warned of a "significant reduction in weekly supply" of vaccines in April.
Let's see some other countries.
Belgium vaccinated 39,000 a day in its best week, which is the equivalent of 1.1 million a day in the US in proportion to population -- the rate the US hit in January.
There are strong regional variations in Belgium, with Wallonia currently leading
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29 Mar
In Ireland we don't have a coherent national medical data system. So how does someone who eg knows they are group 5 for vaccination, but also knows they aren't on the records of those giving the vaccines, make their presence known?
There are different ways of doing medical/official records. I think Ireland should look to Estonia and the Nordics for inspiration for how to do it well and securely. It's too late to build one for this pandemic, but still useful for the future
As soon as you introduce this kind of thing, 'you have to call 'your' consultant' (assumption of a consultant, access, a team taking the calls, a phone, time, organisation, the instruction reaching people that they must call) you're adding delay and exclusion into the system
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28 Mar
The idea of a vaccine pass is alluring to many, seeming like a get-out-of-jail free card from the pandemic.
But when you look at the practicalities, there are deep pitfalls and tradeoffs, and the resources required to do it are immense.
Remember the contact-tracing apps?
They were hard enough to get off the ground and they didn't have nearly as many thorny rights and liberties questions.
I do struggle to see the proposed pan-EU system becoming a reality by this summer.
I think the countries pushing hardest for it, e.g. Greece, will probably just go ahead and introduce a vaccine exception for tourists.
And just like with test certs for travellers now, in some places recognised proof of vaccination won't be available, and in some places it will.
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