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French lifts to open start of Spring 2021 ?

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Had confirmation friday that our mont blanc season pass refund has been accepted
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davidof wrote:
Lockdown from this Thursday.


https://www.lejdd.fr/Politique/troisieme-confinement-ce-nest-plus-quune-question-de-jours-4020527


Not definitive, but worryingly probable..........
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I just got a confirmation email regarding a refund for my Serres Chevalier's season pass...didn't ask for it. Resort season is not happening. I have been great just touring, but another lockdown sounds brutal Sad
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Apparently confinement not happening yet and Macron has postponed his next TV address ...
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@Android2000, that’s great.
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Apparently confinement not happening yet and Macron has postponed his next TV address ...


I suspect they may be looking at the Netherlands and will know that will happen across France if another lockdown is seen as unneccesary by the people
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@Nelbert75, they were talking about it on the execrable BFM this morning and suggesting that that sort of shocking behaviour was not “in the French character”

Shocked Shocked

I think it somewhat is!
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sucette wrote:
Oh and yes, rumour has it round here that the reason behind the slow french vaccination program is the authorities deliberately dragging their feet to give the Institut Pasteur more time to roll out their own vaccine... it would seem the french want a home-made jab !!!
Who knows... although through my experience with all things french, I wouldn't put it past them !! rolling eyes



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/french-self-esteem-hit-after-pasteur-institute-abandons-covid-vaccine
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sucette wrote:
Oh and yes, rumour has it round here that the reason behind the slow french vaccination program is the authorities deliberately dragging their feet to give the Institut Pasteur more time to roll out their own vaccine... it would seem the french want a home-made jab !!!
Who knows... although through my experience with all things french, I wouldn't put it past them !! rolling eyes



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/french-self-esteem-hit-after-pasteur-institute-abandons-covid-vaccine


“It is not acceptable that our best researchers, the most brilliant of our researchers, are sucked up by the American system,” Bayrou added (Macron ally).

Meanwhile the left say:

Bastien Lachaud, an MP for the hard-left La France Insoumise, was equally withering. “No vaccine in the country of Pasteur! What a symbol. This is where the impoverishing of public research, the primacy of the private sector and the triumph of management and profit are leading,”

I am keeping my own council, and saving it all for a book on working in a French research lab Very Happy Toofy Grin snowHead Laughing
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Macron ... le chihuahua of Europe. Poodle of Merkel, has no bark when there is no master's voice. Poooof ....... le vaccine disparru. rolling eyes

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/macron-faces-national-humiliation-as-french-firm-abandons-coronavirus-jab-development/ar-BB1d7ber?ocid=entnewsntp


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@skimastaaah, Laughing I'm imagining Boris as the old english sheepdog now!! Laughing
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The French are probably not that happy with another French export "Pascal Soriot".

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/head-of-astrazeneca-confirms-uk-has-prior-claim-on-vaccine
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@KathE, Please don't compare Boris to an old English sheep dog. The man has no pedigree!! Toofy Grin Although plenty of chums apparently... Confused Very Happy
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Cabinet meeting today to discuss lockdown measures but the Dutch protests and warning from economists that France can't afford a new lockdown do seem to have had a moderating effect.
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@skimastaaah, @KathE, It is noted that in the canine world poodles are regarded as fairly intelligent, whereas old english sheepdogs pretty thick and of course useless.

I am amazed how much Pasteur is revered in France. Has anyone ever come a Edward Jenner avenue or John Snow street in the UK. Both did much more to increase life expectancy than Pasteur (in the case of Snow very much more) but are unknown by a surprising large number of people in the UK.
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@johnE, Unfortunately most youth will think of Game of Thrones
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@johnE,

You live and learn - Thought of two other John Snow's before I looked it up!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow


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@johnE, Regarding John Snow we did something more British to remember him - we named a pub after him on Broadwick Street! The John Snow Society meets there. York, his birthplace, finally caught up in 2017 when the Civic Trust built a memorial in North St Park close to his birthplace. But yes, he does not get the recognition he deserves.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/26/coronavirus-vaccine-supply-problems-could-see-dutch-violence-repeated-in-rest-of-eu
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@skimastaaah, @KathE, It is noted that in the canine world poodles are regarded as fairly intelligent, whereas old english sheepdogs pretty thick and of course useless.

I am amazed how much Pasteur is revered in France. Has anyone ever come a Edward Jenner avenue or John Snow street in the UK. Both did much more to increase life expectancy than Pasteur (in the case of Snow very much more) but are unknown by a surprising large number of people in the UK.


Pasteur is revered because he worked out why red wine turns to vinegar and pioneered pasteurization.

A shout out for Benjamin Jesty who predated Jenner with vaccination for smallpox. He's well known.... in Dorset and particularly Yetminster and Worth Mattravers.

John Snow is famous for removing the pump handle in London that was supplying locals with cholera infected water.
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@johnE, the the thick sheepdog was 3 months ahead in thinking about the vaccines. The EU are way behind with less than 2% population vaccination.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/german-media-savages-eu-for-vaccine-shambles-an-advert-for-brexit/ar-BB1d8eo7

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/german-media-savages-eu-for-vaccine-shambles-an-advert-for-brexit/ar-BB1d8eo7?fullscreen=true#image=7

Being months behind the UK in terms of population vaccination will mean the French ski resorts will be shut for at least the next 3 months.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/brexiteers-claim-eu-vaccine-chaos-proves-brexit-was-right-decision/ar-BB1d86XZ?item=flights%3Aprg-enterpriseblended-t%2C1s-ent-microsoft&ocid=entnewsntp



Edit to add that Astra Zenica have just pulled out of meeting with EU officials regarding vaccination production for EU countries. Calls for both sides to publish the agreed contract for transparency. Looks like France/EU vaccine availability will be only 60% of initial expectation.
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@davidof, Isn't that just how the French make their wine? Very Happy
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@skimastaaah, An actual #BrexitDividend?
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@davidof, Isn't that just how the French make their wine? Very Happy


You'd think so with some of the wine !
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@skimastaaah, An actual #BrexitDividend?


Couldn't make it up, could one? A Brexit bonus, with Van de Leyen ordering AZ to meet commitments with thinly veiled threats to UK exports. Bear in mind she herself is responsible for the junk EU AZ orders that were 3 months late, with some of this destined for France (which now has worst vaccination rate in EU). https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccination-doses-per-capita?tab=chart&stackMode=absolute&time=latest&region=World
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@skimastaaah, Am I correct that AZ is a UK company? In which case I think they have the leading hand!
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Chamrousse is packing up the ski area for the end of season. Protection and ski run markings are coming down.
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@skimastaaah, Am I correct that AZ is a UK company? In which case I think they have the leading hand!


British-Swedish But HQ in Cambridge

The Quid pro quo is that EU may not allow the shipment of Pfizer to the UK in return.
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Les Deux Alpes have published plans for February holidays. Fairly similar to Christmas/New Year with touring routes, a piste down, cross country track, hiking/snowshoeing tracks, kids activities, etc. Obviously predicated on not being confined.
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MorningGory wrote:
@skimastaaah, Am I correct that AZ is a UK company? In which case I think they have the leading hand!


British-Swedish But HQ in Cambridge

The Quid pro quo is that EU may not allow the shipment of Pfizer to the UK in return.

I thought they were a uk/swiss company, their origins go back to ICI, showing my age now rolling eyes
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@robs1, Imperial Chemical Industry ............. Yikes, that's a 1960's set up.

France is way behind in getting set up for the 21st Century. And the EU is 3 months behind the curve for getting the AZ vaccine. Hence the posturing today!!!!!!

QED ............ No skiing in France this season! Madeye-Smiley
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Chamrousse is packing up the ski area for the end of season. Protection and ski run markings are coming down.


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ringingmaster wrote:
MorningGory wrote:
@skimastaaah, Am I correct that AZ is a UK company? In which case I think they have the leading hand!


British-Swedish But HQ in Cambridge

The Quid pro quo is that EU may not allow the shipment of Pfizer to the UK in return.

I thought they were a uk/swiss company, their origins go back to ICI, showing my age now rolling eyes


Half right!
Zeneca was the former ICI pharmaceuticals business
Astra was a SWEDISH pharma company
They merged.
Zeneca used to based in Cheshire but fairly recently moved to Cambridge because of access to life sciences talent.
The UK chemical industry (of which ICI was of course a major part) was and still is heavily based in the NW and on Teeside for a variety of reasons which is why Zeneca used to be based in NW.
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BTW there is another company - Syngenta - which is in origin UK/SWISS. It is in agrichemicals and the British part was the former ICI crop science division. That may have mislead you
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@jedster, Yeah, my BiL worked at the Cheshire site for many years and was made redundant when they moved. Seems to be doing nicely as a self employed 'bio-science consultant' these days!
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robs1 wrote:
ringingmaster wrote:
MorningGory wrote:
@skimastaaah, Am I correct that AZ is a UK company? In which case I think they have the leading hand!


British-Swedish But HQ in Cambridge

The Quid pro quo is that EU may not allow the shipment of Pfizer to the UK in return.

I thought they were a uk/swiss company, their origins go back to ICI, showing my age now rolling eyes


Half right!
Zeneca was the former ICI pharmaceuticals business
Astra was a SWEDISH pharma company
They merged.
Zeneca used to based in Cheshire but fairly recently moved to Cambridge because of access to life sciences talent.
The UK chemical industry (of which ICI was of course a major part) was and still is heavily based in the NW and on Teeside for a variety of reasons which is why Zeneca used to be based in NW.


Not sure why I thought they were swiss must have read it somewhere, but must have been wrong, we used ici ferts for many years and use syngenta chems these days.
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Originally, I guess originally ICI location was during was all about raw materials: Cheshire - salt. Teesside- petrochems and so on.

Now it's more about Life science brainpower, so Cambridge.
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Heck, just realised this thread is about French Ski lifts.

Palafour!
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