The vaccine committee member, Chen Pei-jer, who resigned a few days ago is accused of being an advisor of Zhimeng Biopharma Inc, a Shanghai based company, as the company had allegedly listed him as such on their website. If true would violate the law that restricts government officials from having concurrent jobs in China & other countries.
Chen responded by showing a letter this his role was merely an honorary title.
Not sure if same article but basically same content.
talks fell through as the government felt it could not produce the 300 million shots the company had requested
they had talked with AstraZeneca about producing 100 million doses on the firmâs behalf, but the company had said they had hoped for a minimum of 300 million doses.
So you donât have to wait around in a line! And you actually will get the shot and not be turned away because too many tickets were printed that day!
This treating people like humans and respecting their time stuff is really going to work a treat!
Taiwan is looking more and more like a shithole country every day this year isnât it âŚ
Not fining big businesses and airlines and hotels for causing an outbreak
Basically locking migrants up in their dorms and treating them like garbage and even escorting them too and from work
Letting the privileged and those with connections jump the queue
Doing naff all about the health centers letting peopke jump the queue
Kowtowing to the bosses and not implementing work from home
Utter shambolic. Itâs bringing all of the worst things about Taiwan to the surface.
Iâm expecting it to break that the Mobâ The Bamboo Nipples or whatever they call themselves-- have managed to get a bunch of vaccines ahead of everyone else anytime soon.
Thats not true, they didnt say they didnt have the means to. They said that producing that many would be difficult,not that didnt have the means. The extra production could have seen Taiwan become a net exporter, but again didnt want to take the risk
The entire vaccine budget approved by the Legislative Yuan last year was 11.5 billion NT, which was enough to buy 19.6 million doses if BNT would sell the doses at the price that US paid ($19.5 USD). So they didnât have the money to buy 30 million doses. Would you have spent your entire budget on one unproven vaccine if you were the CDC?
Really? Thatâs an answer.
So, Thailand got the AZ manufacturing and now has âsupply issuesâ.
Dumb fuq-nuts couldnât even say âyes, weâll make that supply # happenâ. Taiwan has the ability. If youâre a businessman at a trade show and someone suddenly comes to your cubicle and says, can you make X amount (and it is HUGE for both publicity and profits), you say Yes right then and there and then start fuqqing working on the details ASAP. You donât say âSorry, we cannot do that, because weâre stupid at figuring out production.â
Sheet, what is all this MIT crap slogan, if you cannot do it yourself.
So, there is plenty of blame to be dealt around like spoiled č for the AZ manufacturing deal fuq-up.
Exactly. Taiwan HAD the means. There are companies that do have the ability to do it. So, again, there is big blame sheet that needs to be thrown at CDC Chen and others that fuqqed up that deal.
Itâs probably due to the amount of face time required, and trying to get back to school normal. I donât think you can get a bunch of young kids to pay attention to a monitor all day and not be distracted. Youâd have to have someone around and baby-sitting them at the same time.
When youâre in Academia Sinica, youâre in Academia Sinica. You donât care whether the vaccine is made in mainland China, or in the US, or in your own backyard. You care about the science. And science doesnât care about you, who you are, who your connections are etc etc etc. Science just doesnât give a shit.
Seems like Tsai is putting undue pressure on the people around her. Even Chen is feeling the heat as of late, when he states âsomeoneâ is unhappy.
In my limited experience in business most of the time the client would boast about their demand and the sales rep have to figure out the actual business. Itâs very unlikely theyâll put down 30M in their very first contract.
Want to hear some interesting conspiracy rumor? Some say the government is saving the production line for domestic vaccines.