COVID1984 - waar stropoppen geuit worden #90

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Onderscheiding voor Jaap van Dissel
Jaap van Dissel krijgt de Akademiepenning van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen "voor de wijze waarop hij tijdens de corona-epidemie de minister van VWS en het crisisteam van de overheid wetenschappelijk heeft geadviseerd over de bestrijding van covid-19". De prijs wordt eens in de twee jaar uitgereikt aan iemand die zich inzet "voor de bloei van de Nederlandse wetenschap."
https://nos.nl/liveblog/2(...)ijgt-akademiepenning

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Op donderdag 6 mei 2021 14:48 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Was dat niet die Nigeriaanse toverdokter?

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Op donderdag 6 mei 2021 14:03 schreef devlinmr het volgende:

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met zijn opmerkingen dat de Nederlandse overheid door Bill Gates wordt aangestuurd oid

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Op donderdag 6 mei 2021 16:53 schreef Gebruikersnaam_7 het volgende:

DarkHorse Podcast with Geert Vanden Bossche & Bret Weinstein

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Op donderdag 6 mei 2021 16:41 schreef weetjewel5 het volgende:

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nee je bent weer eens slecht geïnformeerd.

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Global shortage in computer chips 'reaches crisis point'

Consumer price rises loom while dearth of semiconductors slow production from Samsung to Ford

Consumers are facing price rises and shortages of products from TVs and mobile phones to cars and games consoles as a global shortage in semiconductors grows.

The shortage in chips, the “brain” within every electronic device in the world, has been steadily worsening since last year.

Initially the problem was only a temporary delay in supplies as factories shut down when the coronavirus pandemic first hit.

However, although production is back to normal, a new surge in demand driven by changing habits fuelled by the pandemic means that it is now reaching crisis point.

Car manufacturers investing in tech-heavy electric vehicles, the boom in sales of TVs and home computers and launch of new games consoles and 5G-enabled mobile phones have all driven demand.

Even the mighty Apple, a $2tn company and the world’s biggest buyer of semiconductors spending $58bn annually, was forced to delay the launch of the much-hyped iPhone 12 by two months last year due to the shortage.

“Chips are everything,” says Neil Campling, media and tech analyst at Mirabaud. “There is a perfect storm of supply and demand factors going on here. But basically, there is a new level of demand that can’t be kept up with, everyone is in crisis and it is getting worse.”

Ford recently cancelled shifts at two car plants and said profits could be hit by up to $2.5bn this year due to chip shortages, while Nissan is idling output at plants in Mexico and the US. General Motors said it could face a $2bn profit hit.

Last month, Sony, which along with other console makers has struggled with stock shortages over the last year, said it might not hit sales targets for the new PS5 this year because of the semiconductor supply issue. Microsoft’s Xbox has said it forecasts supply issues continuing at least until the second half of the year.

However, the most telling example of the semiconductor crisis has come from Samsung, the world’s second-largest buyer of chips for its products after Apple. Earlier this week, the company said it might have to postpone the launch of its high-end smartphone due to the shortage, despite also being the world’s second-largest producer of chips.

“It is incredible that Samsung sells $56bn of semiconductors to others, and consumes $36bn of them itself, finds it may have to delay the launch of one of its own products,” says Campling.

Samsung’s co-chief executive, Koh Dong-jin, who also heads its mobile business unit, highlighted a significant issue saying that there is a “serious imbalance” in the pecking order of who is getting the limited supplies of chips.

Car manufacturers, who cut chip orders as vehcle sales fell last year, found themselves at the back of the queue when they tried to reorder when the market rebounded. The entire global car industry buys about $37bn worth of chips, with the biggest players such as Toyota and Volkswagen spending more than $4bn each, making them relative minnows for semiconductor suppliers.

"The worst affected have been autos because they were last to the party; if Apple is spending $56bn a year and growing who are you going to keep supplies going to first?” says Campling.

The chip shortage looks set to persist for some time yet. It can take up to two years to get complex semiconductor production factories up and running, and manufacturers are in the process of significantly raising prices for the second time in less than a year.

“There is no sign of supply catching up, or demand decreasing, while prices are rising across the chain,” says Campling. “This will cross over to people in the street. Expect cars to cost more, phones to cost more. This year’s iPhone is not going to be cheaper than last year."

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Global Covid vaccine rollout threatened by shortage of vital components

Pharmaceutical firms warn of delays to items such as the large bags in which vaccine cells are grown

Vaccine-makers around the world face shortages of vital components including large plastic growbags, according to the head of the firm that is manufacturing a quarter of the UK’s jab supply.

Stan Erck, the chief executive of Novavax – which makes the second vaccine to be grown and bottled entirely in Britain – told the Observer that the shortage of 2,000-litre bags in which the vaccine cells were grown was a significant hurdle for global supply.

His warning came as bag manufacturers revealed that some pharmaceutical firms were waiting up to 12 months for the sterile single-use disposable plastic containers, which are used to make medicines of all kinds, including the Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax Covid-19 vaccines.

But Erck and his British partners said they were confident they had enough suppliers to avoid disruption to the supply of Novavax. The vaccine is waiting for approval from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) but the first of 60 million doses ordered by the government are already in production in Teesside.

The Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies factory began growing the first cells for the Novavax vaccine in Billingham, County Durham this month and in a few weeks they will fill the bioreactor bag, ready to be transported to GlaxoSmithKline’s plant at Barnard Castle to be put into vials for distribution.

“The first hurdle is showing it works and we don’t have that hurdle any more,” Erck said.

But he added there were others still to overcome. “There’s the media that the cells have to grow in,” Erck said. “You grow them in these 2,000-litre bags, which are in short supply. Then you pour it out and you have to filter it, and the filters are in short supply. The little things count.”

Novavax almost ran out of bags at one of its 20 factories earlier this year, but there had been no delays for the UK operation, according to Martin Meeson, global chief executive of Fujifilm Diosynth.

“We started working on our part of the supply chain in summer last year,” he said. “We had to accelerate some of the investment here, but the commitment we made last summer to start manufacturing in February has been fulfilled.”

Both Meeson and Erck said the UK’s vaccine taskforce had been helpful in sorting out supply issues so far, but other countries and other medical supplies might be affected.

ABEC makes bioreactor bags at two plants in the US and two in Fermoy and Kells in Ireland, and delivered six 4,000-litre bags to the Serum Institute in India last year for its Covid vaccines.

Brady Cole, vice-president of equipment solutions at ABEC, said: “We are hearing from our customer base of lead times that are pushing out to nine, 10, even 12 months to get bioreactor bags. We typically run out at 16 weeks to get a custom bioreactor bag out to a customer.” He said ABEC was still managing to fulfil orders at roughly that rate.

“The bag manufacturing capacity can’t meet demand right now,” he added. “And on the component side, the tubes and the instruments and so forth that also go into the bag assembly – those lead times are also starting to get stretched as well. But the biggest problem we see is it really is just the ability to get bags in a reasonable amount of time.”

ABEC expanded its factories last year and has now started making 6,000-litre bags, which are roughly the size of a minibus. Other firms including MilliporeSigma, part of German company Merck, have also been expanding their manufacturing facilities. American firm Thermo Fisher Scientific expects it will finish doubling its capacity this year.

The US government has also blocked exports of bags, filters and other components so it can supply more Pfizer vaccines for Americans. Adar Poonawalla, the chief executive of the Serum Institute of India, said the restrictions were likely to cause serious bottlenecks.

Novavax is hoping to avoid delays and “vaccine nationalism” by operating on four continents, with 20 facilities in nine countries.

“One year ago, we had exactly zero manufacturing capacity,” Erck said. “We’re self-sufficient. The two main things we need to do are done in the UK. And in the EU we have plants in Spain and the Czech Republic and fill-and-finish in Germany and the Netherlands.”

There was no need for vaccines to cross borders to fulfil contracts, he said.

The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was hit by a delay to a delivery of 5 million doses from India and a problem with a batch made in Britain, and the company has been dragged into a lengthy row between the UK and the EU over vaccine exports.

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Op vrijdag 7 mei 2021 16:07 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:
Wereldwijd chip te kort door nano chips in vaccins ?

Het zal de meeste niet ontgaan zijn dat er sinds de pandemie een wereldwijd te kort is aan computer chips.

In het begin werd ons verteld dat dit kwam omdat de fabrieken een tijdje stilgestaan hebben. Klinkt opzich wel aanneembaar, maar ondertussen draaien de fabrieken al weer geruime tijd op volle toeren maar zijn er nog steeds flinke tekorten overal. Apple, Samsung, Sony, Intel, Nvidea, AMD, allemaal kampen ze met computer chip te korten waardoor producten uitgesteld of in kleine aantallen op de markt kwamen.

Waar zijn al die chips dan heen gegaan die al het hele jaar volop geproduceerd worden vraagt elk weldenkend mens zich dan af. Nou, niet naar bovengenoemde bedrijven in ieder geval, zoveel is wel duidelijk, maar waar dan wel ? Ik (en enkele zeer goed ingelichte bronnen in GAME) beginnen het vermoeden te krijgen dat de wereldwijde chip te korten door fabrieks stilstanden een grote hoax is. Dat er afgelopen jaar meer chips zijn geproduceerd dan ooit. Geen chips voor de nieuwste Apple en Samsung phones maar wel nano chips voor Pfizer, Astra Zenica, Moderna en Johnson & Johnson vaccins. Ga er maar aan staan, miljarden mensen moeten zo snel mogelijk gechipt gevaccineerd worden. Dan is het ineens niet meer zo gek dat er te kort overblijft voor de tech producenten ondanks dat de fabrieken al geruime tijd volop draaien. Die staan nu even in de wacht tot iedereen op deze planeet een chip ingespoten heeft gekregen.

Uiteraard doet de MSM wat het kan om de mensen om de tuin te leiden en blijven ze ons voorliegen dat de te korten zouden komen door fabrieks stiltanden of een te kort aan zakken (uhuh uhuh ja vast ).
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https://www.theguardian.c(...)reaches-crisis-point
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https://www.theguardian.c(...)-of-vital-components

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Op vrijdag 7 mei 2021 16:46 schreef Jimbo het volgende:

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Godverdomme het is allemaal de schuld van corona 'vaccins' dat ik nu geen PS5 heb.

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Op vrijdag 7 mei 2021 17:24 schreef ludovico het volgende:

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Johhh, gedachte van al die Fok "kabinet beleid is heilig" adapten denken echt dat als je niet gevaccineerd bent dat je nog steeds een gevaar bent voor mensen die wél gevaccineerd zijn.

Knettergek die mensen, ze willen voor die waanideeën mensen gewoon uitsluiten van het normale leven. En allerlei verplichtingen opleggen anderzijds.

En ze denken echt dat dat normale ideeën zijn en de wetenschap houdt zich helemaal stil.

Ook om gezichtsverlies tegen te gaan, met hun mondkapjes, flikker toch op met dat op waanzin gebaseerde beleid.

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Op vrijdag 7 mei 2021 16:46 schreef Jimbo het volgende:

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Godverdomme het is allemaal de schuld van corona 'vaccins' dat ik nu geen PS5 heb.

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Op vrijdag 7 mei 2021 17:52 schreef ludovico het volgende:

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Niet iedereen hoeft een corona prikje gehad te hebben om dit virus te decimeren tot minder erg dan de seizoensgriep.

Dus waarom zou eerst iedereen gevaccineerd moeten worden voordat we het open gooien en krijgt influenza een andere behandeling?

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Op vrijdag 7 mei 2021 16:07 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:
Wereldwijd chip te kort door nano chips in vaccins ?

knip

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Op vrijdag 7 mei 2021 18:07 schreef ludovico het volgende:

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Nou nee, als we wat verder zijn in vaccineren / de risicogroepen geweest zijn kan de zorg sector het prima aan, geen idee welk argument je nog meer ziet om dan restricties te handhaven terwijl de feitelijke situatie in dat geval prima kan zijn dat de druk op de IC minder is dan vergelijkbaar jaargetijde met influenza.

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Op vrijdag 7 mei 2021 18:12 schreef ludovico het volgende:

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Doet niks af aan wat ik zeg, jij reageert daar (bewust ? ) niet op.

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Op vrijdag 7 mei 2021 18:16 schreef ludovico het volgende:

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Zonder bewijs? Is het ooit anders gegaan in de wereld? Heb jij één voorbeeld dat de samenleving, na opbouw van antistoffen, de oversterfte niet de baas was over influenza danwel corona?

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Op vrijdag 7 mei 2021 18:18 schreef ludovico het volgende:

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Er liggen iets van 46 mensen onder de 40 op de IC........

Dat zijn geen aantallen om de samenleving voor te gijzelen.