[Info-vax] [Totally OT] Covid-19, was: Re: Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-03-16, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <hd9or2Fiqa2U2 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
><bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes: 
>
>> I heard a report on the news over here (being from our typical
>> media must be taken with a very large grain of salt) that UK
>> officials want everyone to get at least a mild case of the
>> virus so that they develop natural antibodies to prevent a
>> recurrence.  
>
> Yes, Boris Johnson.  What did you expect?  First, it is not clear if one 
> can influence whether one gets a mild case.  Second, it is not clear 
> what fraction of those would be immune.  There are certainly cases of 
> people getting infected more than once.
>

Phillip, what's the reaction by the German public to the news that
Trump tried to get a German company developing a vaccine to move to
the US and then attempted to monopolise the company's output for the
US only if they were successful in creating a vaccine ?

That last bit has been walked back BTW, but there's still been a
sudden change in leadership of the German company in question.

I know what the media are saying, but does that reflect what the
German people themselves are saying ?

For anyone else not aware of this:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/not-for-sale-anger-in-germany-at-report-trump-seeking-exclusive-coronavirus-vaccine-deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/world/europe/cornonavirus-vaccine-us-germany.html

In trying to solve this, I really hope everyone works together for
the benefit of humanity in general and that no-one (including the UK
government) attempts to pull a stunt like the one alleged to have
happened above in those reports.

Simon.

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