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raaaaraaaa12on Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate

that sounds great but its scary technology in wrong hands

raaaaraaaa12on How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down

https://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/why-chinese-masks-...

Czech authorities during a customs raid last Tuesday mistakenly seized 101,600 facemasks gifted by a branch of the Red Cross in eastern China to a Chinese community in Italy. Although Czech officials apologized for the mix-up, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica on Sunday published a bogus article claiming the Czech state had “stolen” that shipment – and much more.

Czechs would send 110,000 facemasks to Italy on Monday (March 23), dispatched along with an evacuation bus of 43 Italian nationals heading home, as agreed with the Italian Embassy in Prague.

--- My comment is that our goverment officials or those policemans are probably stupid...

raaaaraaaa12on How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down

Even if you are breathing calmly mask will catch some small water droplets so spreading is somehow contained. It's true that after ~1 hour wowen mask will become wet and no longer effective. But it's not problem wear some other masks in your bag and change it... Currently there's huge shortage of respiratory protection products globally so your old wowen tshirt will help you :)

raaaaraaaa12on How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down

Yes that's right even your own DIY face mask protect other people. And that's enough to slow down spreading...

You dont know for first ~5-6 days whether you are infected or not.

https://www.businessinsider.com/people-are-making-diy-face-m...

Don't worry too much about effectiveness of DIY face masks - in few months Respilon and other Czech companies will put on market face masks made from nanomaterials which filters virus much more effectively ;)

raaaaraaaa12on How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down

We have face mask mandatory now in Czech Republic, Italy scared us and goverment reacted quickly. Its not over yet but we are on the right track.

https://news.expats.cz/health-medical/breaking-face-covering...

raaaaraaaa12on VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback

- hard constraint for VW could be to ensure there will be enough batteries from their suppliers

- lacking infrastructure in cities

raaaaraaaa12on VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback

and they really need to have low average emissions... that's clearly defined goal which needs to be fulfilled.

raaaaraaaa12on VW’s $50B Bet on an Electric Hatchback

VW is betting hard on EV cars - I guess that German goverment will cooperate and will invest heavily into EV infrastructure ...otherwise it will be huge failure.

VW will finally solve problem with other brands within VW group - Skoda and Seat are sucessful brands and often cannibalize VW models (Skoda Kodiaq vs VW Tiguan, VW Passat vs. Skoda Superb etc...). VW presented recently strategy for next few years where they said that Skoda will become 'low-cost' brand and Seat will be more 'luxurious'.

Skoda is allowed to have only 2 EV models in next few years - minicar Citigo and Octavia (midsize sedan/combi), nothing else will be allowed (except few hybrid models) so it will be easier for VW brand to become EV leader in EU in next few years.

Also in the case there will be crisis VW will throw it's cheaper brands 'under the train' in order to survive :/