• tal@lemmy.today
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    11 months ago

    Just a reminder of the situation:

    https://www.biospace.com/article/european-commission-raids-astra-zeneca-s-belgian-vaccine-plant/

    European Commission Raids AstraZeneca’s Belgian Vaccine Plant

    Published: Jan 29, 2021

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/italy-vaccine-astrazeneca-police-raid-b1821727.html

    Italian police find ‘millions’ of vaccines in factory raid amid fears AstraZeneca jabs being hidden

    Wednesday 24 March 2021 18:24 GMT

    I imagine that that was a pretty not-fun time for AstraZeneca.

    EU: AstraZeneca’s says that their production isn’t meeting quotas. Sounds questionable. They must be smuggling some to the UK. Let’s raid their Belgian production facilities.

    Also EU: No, that didn’t turn anything up. Maybe they’re hiding some in their Italian production facilities.

    EU: Darn, they weren’t smuggling them there either.

    UK leadership: AstraZeneca’s been raided by the EU. Let’s do a military raid on their Dutch production facilities.

    AstraZeneca: We told you, we’re having production problems. Can you lunatics all just leave us alone so that we can just focus on production?

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, to be fair to Johnson, he wasn’t any more insane than the EU leadership, admittedly that isn’t a very high bar…

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      People lost their fucking minds during the pandemic. What a shit show. Didn’t the EU try and sue AZ multiple times?