Unlike US politicians, inventors of BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine are yet to be allowed to get vaccinated.

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Wednesday December 23, 2020 · 9:14 AM PST

2020/12/23 · 09:14

Deutsche Welle is reporting today that scientists behind the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine have yet to be added to German priority list for vaccinations. European Union approved the vaccine this week and started vaccinations (https://www.dw.com/en/biontech-ceo-the-science-we-did-was-important/a-56032805)

Why are you legally not allowed to take the vaccine?

You know, there is a priority list. It is not allowed to take the vaccine outside that priority list. What is also important: we were even not allowed to participate in clinical trials, because by law it is not possible to include people from the company in such trials, which is fine. But now we face the challenge of making sure that our company is able to function, and I believe we will find a legal and fair solution for that.

Would not be nice to keep them healthy? Just in case that we need to produce more of the vaccine or change the vaccine to some new strain of coronavirus. I would like to say thank you to the scientists. Let us ask German Minister of Health, Jens Spahn, and Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to place them on priority list. German politicians are on social media, @BMG_Bund, @jensspahn and can understand your message regardless of language. #vaccinateinventors

Flood? What flood? How does infrastructure investment work in Austria.

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Thursday June 06, 2013 · 6:00 AM PDT

2013/06/06 · 06:00

The center of Europe has received lot of rain last week. The floods in Germany, Czech Republic and Austria are breaking records as far as they remember. This is the Old World, they have records going back for long time. One city in Austria, Grein, decided to do something about the floods. The Danube is very nice to look at, so they want to keep the river most of the time. They just do not want the river in the bedroom. Welcome to the world of Austrian engineering. The video below fold is very impressive, especially around 40 sec mark. One of the great infrastructure investments.

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