[Skybird]

29 million doses of the aZU vaccine have been found in a storage site in Italy. They are (were?) meant for export to the UK, produced in the Netherlands and bottled in Italy.

Report first was released by La Stampa and later confirmed towards German DPA. La Stampa wrote that AZ has deliberatly not told the EU of the existence of this storage.

The discovery is explosive because Astrazeneca is very far behind in deliveries to the European Union. Instead of up to 220 million cans, the company wants to deliver only 100 million to the EU states by the middle of the year. Most recently, the vaccine manufacturer promised to deliver 30 million doses to the EU in the first quarter - roughly equivalent to the number of doses found in Italy.

Lets face it, even if the EU negotiated terribly bad with AZ - and others - and signed an hilariously lousily worded treaty (that in a comment was practically destroyed by the head of the German industry association who ridiculed the incompetence and naivety of the EU in signing such a set of legally failed formulations), AZ has done what it can to destroy its reputation, and they started with that already during their phase 1 trials in late rSpring and early summer last year. By now I rate their trustworthiness as exaclty nill point nill nill.

The UK play it tough, and from their POV they must do it. I am excited to see what happens now, whether the EU gets is remaining sense of realism together and plays it tough, too, or again betrays the people of the European states. The US rations exports of vaccines. Russia does it. The UK does it. China does it. They all use vaccines as a political tool of foreign politics. Time to wake up, EU - your super-idealist intention not only has failed, but had no chance from beginning on. And you could have known that: if only you would have wanted.

My logic often ticks surprisingly simple. If you get hit, hit back, and carry on hitting until the other stops hitting you.