Posts by Jellied Eel

Re: Getting down with the sickness.

I'm no medic, but surely if the situation was that dire, he could have been put on a drip to handle the fluid intake.

I've been in that kind of situation, and it's not fun. Being masked isn't comfortable, and nor is ending up with a dry mouth/throat. Luckily nurses in the HDU were great, and there were squeezy bottles of water & ice to suck on. Worst part was being nil by mouth when the food trolley came round with bacon sarnies and coffee.. Give me coffee, or give me DEATH! They wouldn't even hook up an IV caffeine bag either.. spoilsports. Once I was off nil by mouth, I did manage to convince a nurse to stick a bag of grapes in the freezer. Yey for the NHS!

Re: Getting down with the sickness.

Seems reading, rather than understanding is my problem. Oh well.

I think it's just normal for PFI-style deals. And why it's important to win the bids. Once the customer is locked into the contract, it's hard to get out of it. Even if you can demonstrate non-performance per any contract, it's still hugely expensive and disruptive to re-tender and implement any replacement system. Especially mid-crisis.

Re: A Most Inconvenient Question for UKGBNI Governments to Answer

Kind of. See-

https://www.jurist.org/news/2020/12/uk-government-grants-pfizer-civil-legal-indemnity-for-covid-19-vaccine/

...The new regulation, Regulation 345 of the Human Medicines Regulations of 2012, prohibits civil liability against Pfizer or healthcare professionals distributing the vaccine for any damage that arises through use of the vaccine “in accordance” with its recommended use.

and-

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-add-covid-19-to-vaccine-damage-payments-scheme

The VDPS is a safety net to help ease the burden on individuals who have in extremely rare circumstances experienced harm due to receiving a government-recommended vaccine. It is not a compensation scheme. Rather, it provides a one-off, tax-free lump sum – currently £120,000 – for those suffering a severe disability as a result of a vaccine against a disease listed under the Vaccine Damage Payments Act.

Which is perhaps not the best safety net given severe disability is obviously rather life changing, and £120k may not go far. Presumably other help is still available, ie benefits like PIP to help live with that disability. But Regulation 345 of the HMR also has this clause-

(4)This regulation does not apply in relation to liability under section 2 (liability for defective products) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987(a) or article 5 of the Consumer Protection (Northern Ireland) Order 1987(b)

and only refers to civil claims, not criminal. But then there's also the contracts between HMG & Pfizer, which are commercially confidential. But it does look like Pfizer has immunised itself, despite it's vaccine being novel, and the first ever mRNA one to be unleashed on the public.. Which seems a tad risky, and there have already been possible adverse reactions, including some deaths. Which I guess in Covid score keeping style should mean any deaths within 28 days of being vaccinated should be counted as vaccine deaths. Personally I'd be opting for the Astra vaccine instead of Pfizers, but not sure if we'll be given the choice.

It's an interesting dilemma.. Governments have decided Covid is a national emergency and done stuff like home detention to shield hospitals from being overwhelmed*. Then also decided that priority vaccinations should go to health service staff. So there's an obvious risk that any severe adverse reactions will show up in that population first, and thus a risk to the health services. Plus there are reports that healthcare staff are refusing the vaccine.

Then I guess there'll be the prospect of test cases to see if indemnities are legal. After all, the law is meant to be the mechanism to right a wrong or harm.

Getting down with the sickness.

Either the article is pretty short on details of exactly what, messages are subject to this charge, or I am dense to understand the article. Possibly the latter.

We're IT types. The NHS isn't. And 18p a message is cheaper than a stamp, so represents considerable savings, and excellent value for money to for the NHS! What exactly is a 'message' you say? Well, that would be a result for a specific test. 18p for red cell count, 18p for white and there's probably some other stuff in most people's blood. I'm just interested in the alchohol content! <hic> Now, moving on to the next question. Yes, £8m is excellent value for money, and don't you know there's a war on!

But such is politics. I'm also a bit suprised. System set up to do data exchange can't exchange data and can't simply have a new test code & results field added. I mean it's not like it's being asked to do something complicated, like add PCT cycle counts, or explain why that creates false positives, it's just a pass/fail. Or why the system can't scale. Ok, so it's got a few more suppliers, and probably customers, like say the BBC so they can keep their 'case' count updated in (su)real time.. I mean they're vital in keeping the public informed*.

But we're IT types, so sadly used to seeing stuff like this happening.

* Ah, BBC headline writers..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-55550748

"Dad had to choose between breathing and drinking fluids"

Ok, so the story was slightly more involved, although still normal for hospitals. Trying to do both at the same time is something most of us learn not to do at an early age.

Re: 20 year old tech...

The problem is never new builds, but always retrofitting current stock. New builds can have ground-source heat pumps, whereas everybody else will need air-source.

I think by 'need', you mean 'will be forced to install'. It's a bit like when John Prescott decided gas heaters/boilers deserved promotion and changed building regs. Much rejoicing amongst the CORGIs, including Caroline Lucas's dad as they increased sales of combi boilers, and service/maintenance contracts. People who'd been sold on Economy-7* systems to sink off-peak electricity were SOL. Then gas becomes evil, and we face another rip & replace cycle. But such is politics. See also promoting diesel, or biofuels for more info.

But there's now a target to install 600,000 heat pumps a year, which means lots of money to train CORGIs for new plumbing. Yey!. Big problem with GSHPs is, of course, G. Like having that. Window planters for anyone 2nd floor & above in an MDU won't help. Neither will typical stamp-sized gardens in a lot of new homes. Nor will it help existing leaseholders. Ok, there are options to go vertical and drill GSHP heat pipes, but that's more expensive. And then potential issues with temperature differentials over time, ie if you're sucking all the heat out of the ground during winter, system efficiency will drop over time.. Unless you pump heat back into the garden over summer, in which case that will cost.

Alternatively, there's air-source. So that can simply mean deleting balconies and adding suitably sized heat exchangers & fans to the outside of buildings instead. I'm sure architects can come up with suitable designs to keep planning inspectors happy in conservation areas though.

And of course both will increase electricity demand (and thus bills). Which is a.. slight problem given the lead time between constructing new power stations vs meeting politicians self-imposed targets.

*Economy-7 I think is still grossly overlooked as an aid to unreliable energy policy. Originally a solution for sinking baseload generation like nuclear off-peak, ie supply > demand. Now we have the reverse problem, combined with intermittency. So lobbyists faff around trying to promote 'grid scale' energy storage when micro-scale storage has been around for decades.. Plus of course 'smart' meters that can do demand management at a more granular level than Economy-7 teleswitches. Problem is of course current 'smart' meters are dumb, and an E-7 style solution would be more beneficial to consumers than suppliers, or erstwhile battery farmers. Plus the kit is dirt cheap by comparison being based on simple water tanks & heat bricks with resistive heaters. Not much to go wrong.

Re: 20 year old tech...

But heat pumps and hydrogen are expected to hit their stride around 2040, whereas we are talking 2024. Sixteen years is a long time to wait to switch the heating on.

But such is politics. So for example-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54981425

The government will bring forward, to 2023, the date by which new homes will need to be warmed without using gas heating.

Which isn't that far off, but is far out. So much so that the date quickly got dropped from the 10-yr plan. Problem is still how to hit 'legally binding' decarbonisation targets from Ed Milliband's ruinous Climate Change Act. Which means decarbonising transport and heating. Ed was never one for details, so how exactly this is accomplished is someone else's problem.

And then there's the COP26 shindig looming, where tens of thousands of green lobbyists will descend on Glasgow, where our glorious leader will no doubt make some grand gesture to demonstrate the UK's leadership in saving the climate. Regardless of cost, benefit, or just practicality. Or hopefully Boris will tire of his current squeeze, and find another who isn't so rabidly Green.

Re: 20 year old tech...

Due to the UK being able to sign its own trade deals (eg. the one UK has just signed with Turkey that will make it easier for Turkish citizens to come to the UK and the UK to export arms to Turkey...), we can expect it to sign deals with others especially China, where all those UK kettles are made...

You might be suprised, eg Koç Holding A.Ş & Vestel are both large, Turkish domestic appliance manufacturers, both under their own brands, and also err.. 'white label' manufacturers for other brands. Turkey has a large manufacturing base, which is possibly one of the reasons why it's been sitting on the sidelines of EU membership for so long.

Re: 20 year old tech...

Of course, since all Irish gas travels through the UK, that could have a knock-on effect. (They are currently building an LNG terminal, I think, but I am not sure it'll be sufficient for all RoI's gas needs.)

It'll be fine. The US has built several LNG export terminals on it's East coast, which are desperate for customers. Plus impending climate prevention measures will mean Ireland and the rest of the EU will need much less gas for heating. Ok, so those policies will also mean much more demand for electricity, but "renewables" will provide that. Sometimes.

There's a similar issue for Scotland. When it's windy, Scotland can export electricity south of the border. When it's not, it has to import it. See for example-

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2020/12/29/denmark-importing-a-third-of-its-power-today/

In short, Denmark is heavily reliant on imported power from Norway (hydro) and Sweden (hydro/nuclear). Netting off the power exported to Germany, Denmark is still sourcing about a third of its electricity from abroad.

Which will be FUN as we carry on tilting at windmills. Or just lucrative for hydro/nuclear generators because when the wind drops, the spot price for electricity rockets. Theoretically, the UK now has more energy independence to modify policy, in practice, the lunatics are still in charge of the asylum.

Re: 20 year old tech...

Whatever are you talking about?

Err.. The French! Or possibly French Canadians. Been doing some work with a company based in Quebec, and confused my voltages. On the plus side, once life gets back to normal(ish) I might get to go there and binge on poutine.

Otherwise, Directive 2009/125/EC

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:285:0010:0035:en:PDF

or this-

https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/20375

Where EUrocrats created an "Ecodesign" commissariat to muck about with stuff. So deciding on a maximum power for vacuum cleaners, then moving on potentially embugger other small appliances. Things like kettles, toasters & hair dryers were obvious targets because resistive heating elements. So cut kettles from 3KW to 1KW would save 2KW with every cuppa! But that 'consultation' has been on/off again for some years.. Possibly due to people trying to explain to EUrocrats that the energy required to boil 1l of water is constant(ish).

But then so long, and thanks for all the Directives. Should "Ecodesign" stuff come to pass, the UK can choose to adopt it, as it has done via various SIs, or ignore it, and leave it to manufacturers to create conforming CE products for the EU market. Then again, there has been some good stuff coming out of Ecodesign, like right to repair, clearer product marking etc.

Re: 20 year old tech...

By banning chlorine washing you force the farmer to improve sanitation, as otherwise they cannot sell their meat. That's the European approach, and the reality behind the slogan 'chlorine-washed chicken'.

But that's incorrect, and more to do with messaging & lobbying. So a handy slogan raising fears of the UK (or EU) being flooded with masses of Chlorochickens.. And undercutting EU poultry producers. The reality is a bit different, eg

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32008R0543

Article 7

1. In order to be graded as classes A and B, poultry carcases and cuts covered by this Regulation shall meet the following minimum requirements, i.e. they shall be:

(a) intact, taking into account the presentation;

(b) clean, free from any visible foreign matter, dirt or blood;

(c) free of any foreign smell;

(d) free of visible bloodstains except those which are small and unobtrusive;

(e) free of protruding broken bones;

(f) free of severe contusions.

So the EuroChicken is already washed.. And the marketing slogan also de-couples the welfare issue, ie it's not the farmer who does the washing, it's the poultry processor. The farmer simply follows the orders of whichever agribusiness giant is specifying how their product should be readied for market, which often isn't great for anyone, except the agribusiness. Ok, so politicians sometimes stick their beaks in specifying things like maximum densities in grow sheds, but that's often more for corporate welfare than consumer or chicken.

Re: Wot abaht GDPR then?

This has PHB interference written all over it and I'd be surprised if hadn't been left in the dust long ago. As I pointed out in another post, key management is ignored; if the folks who knew what they were doing felt that encryption had to be specified they'd surely have included it.

Ah, but what does encryption mean? ROT13 good enough? Or something stylish in twisted hessian curves? Or something specifed by the European Cryptologic Center..

(kidding)

But as you say, it falls into PHB turf. Terms must be defined, so encryption methods and security standards must be defined. Which then gets complicated when national interests come into play with treaty signatories, ie lobbying for their preferred standards/standards bodies. Or possibly realising that using something better than MIME and POP mail might mean having to upgrade departments IT. Or occasionally having to find/develop translation gateways to get between foreign networks, and your own. I used to have fun (kidding) doing that with X.25 to IP. X.400 translation was luckily a software problem.

In this case though, the situation seems somewhat muddled by the original Treaty being outwith the normal EU process, and least until the EU decided to stick their oar in.. Which seems to have left things a bit of a mess. From skimming through the withdrawl stuff, that seems fairly common, ie non-EU stuff like this bundled into it, which presumably is for legislative convenience to get it into UK law.

Re: 20 year old tech...

I do like the idea of Brexiteers peddling the ability to trade special "better version" goods or services (food, drink, financial services, data processing, whatever) with foreign countries but have "worse version" of the same things for domestic consumption as an advantage for the UK's population.

Why would there be a worse domestic version? Ok, so UK kettles are better than French ones, but only because 240V vs 110V. And possibly vacuum cleaner-style maximun power edicts that waste time, kind of defy physics, but give EUrocrats a sense of self importance.

Otherwise, it kind of defies the benefits of standardisation and globalisation to end up with export and domestic product lines. Which is why a lot of electronics standardise around the good'ol kettle cable and PSUs that don't care if they're being fed diet voltage, or proper full-fat volts. And given globalisation, international standards are set by global standards bodies.

But there are other oddities.. Like inability for Scotland to export real haggis to the US due to their food regs objecting to lungs.. Which I guess is also odd given the way the US pioneered stuff like MRP.

Re: 20 year old tech...

We won't go hungry - in addition to stuffing ourselves with Brexit Cake, there'll be plenty of cheap chlorinated chicken and hormone fed beef to look forward to then

Chicken is weird. So when the chlorine thing became a thing, I figured I'd check the process.. And basically the 'chlorine wash' has much the same level of chlorination as tap water. So I guess some objectors may only drink bottled water, but it does mean you can experience US-style chicken at home.. Which also seems to have become a thing. So washing a chicken under the tap, drying it, and increasing risk of contamination in the process.. Instead of just roasting it at 150C.

But people are weird. As are crazy mutant US chickens forced to grow at unnatural rates that can't walk. But then the US also figured washing eggs was a GoodThing(tm) so they then have to be refrigerated.

Re: This confused me

I could understand a successful prosecution for publishing UK secrets in the UK, but not US secrets (unless they are shared NATO secrets, but I don't recall any of that being the case).

I think that may be the case, ie stuff that was published would be covered by the UK OSA. Alternatively, I think part of the extradition test is to consider if the alleged crime is one that would also be considered a crime, if committed in the UK.

But the saga rumbles on. Given all the Clinton stuff Assange published, not convinced the Democrats would be keen on dropping charges. Then again, there may be some potential horse trading given Assange has hinted in the past that he's got more damaging stuff about the Dems.

It'll be interesting to see what happens next with the bail hearing, which will no doubt play on the IT angle and risk that the agent becomes a self-terminating process. Kinda tricky given he's absconded once before, and I think it must be tempting to grant bail & not look too hard if his supporters whisk him out of the country. Oops, sorry America..

Re: Bork bork pork

Since the Democrat House had already watered down the latest package to manageable proportions *

Not convinced that's true. The package got published and it's 5,500 pages long. Which I guess means few in either side of the House have read all of it. Especially on their iGadgets. Folks in the twattersphere have, however leading to outrage over ordinary Americans getting just enough to buy a PS5. Meanwhile, there's $1.3bn for Egypt, $4bn for US Navy weapons development and.. "$193 million for federal HIV/AIDS workers to buy cars and car insurance overseas". Which I guess means there's either a lot of those aid workers, or they've managed to get funding for Bugattis. Well played..

So far, so normal for this kind of bundled pork. There's the $600 payout, plus extending welfare & business support, but billions in other stuff thrown in to get the package approved.

Re: Clouds are great!

how would you relate BGP to an ACL?

Very, very carefully. But it's normal for BGP. So there's some examples here for IPv6 filters-

https://www.space.net/~gert/RIPE/ipv6-filters.html

Mainly because v6 can be.. less clear than conventional v4 filtering, masking and inverse masking, so errors can be more common. But basically BGP's.. pretty dumb. It exchanges routes between peers. It might exchange routes you'd rather it didn't, eg bogons (RFC1918 reserved addresses), internal addresses, other peers etc etc. Then BAD THINGS happen.. Like AS7007*. I still remember that given it happened on (I think) the 2nd week of me being a large ISP's router wrangler.

So controlling what BGP advertises (or accepts) from other peers gets done by various bits of BGP-fu, like prefix lists, route filters, ACLs. Then it's generally best practice (ie a LOT less f'ng dangerous/embarassing) to create/modify/sanity check those offline than just going for it on a core router's CLI. Especially given those routers often contain many ACLs. And the BGP peer will also have it's own ACLs, so if it sees stuff that it doesn't like, the peering session may get dropped.

Then more BAD THINGS happen, like if you need to get onto the router at the other end of the peering session, well, it's time to check your out-of-band connection, because if the routing session is down, that network is unreachable via BGP.. Oops.

But that's all part of the joy of networking, especially on large/complex networks. And also leads to design choices, like whether to use BGP, which is a pretty dumb EGP (Exterior Gateway Protocol) as an IGP (Interior Gateway Protocol) for internal routing, when something like IS-IS might be a better choice.

* See- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident

Is the Internet down? Nope, it's just currently on vacation in Florida..

Re: privacy, what privacy?

Does it makes the same provision of the EU GDPR still?

Pretty much I think, ie from Part 3, which echoes other transfer language-

74A Transfers based on adequacy regulations

(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations specify any of the following which theSecretary of State considers ensures an adequate level of protection of personal data—

(a)a third country,

(b)a territory or one or more sectors within a third country,

(c)an international organisation, or

(d)a description of such a country, territory, sector or organisation.

(2) For the purposes of this Part of this Act, a transfer of personal data to a third country oran international organisation is based on adequacy regulations if, at the time of the transfer,regulations made under this section are in force which specify, or specify a descriptionwhich include..

So it's UK GDPR & transposing the EU stuff into national legislation. So not convinced Facepalm can do this, unless the Secretary of State has deemed California or the US 'adequate'.. Which could mean Facepalm's pre-empting any potential trade deal including adequacy, or assuming the ICO won't object. Or slap a fine on Facepalm.. which would seem doable if the transfer's in breach of UK GDPR.

But as you say, Facepalm's counsel has probably crawled all over this and figured it's worth the risk vs leaving UK data where it is, and covered by UK/EU adequacy inherited from EU GDPR. And on the plus side, assuming the UK can & will fine, the Treasury gets to keep the money rather than the EU.

Re: My first thought..

..when I heard about this yesterday was that Russia must've been pissed off because they were unable to meaningfully manipulate the Presidential election this time around.

This is not how the game is played. So Trump won because of Russian election interference. Now Biden's won because of Russian election interference. Assuming any of the investigations into dodgy voting machines find anything, that was Oceana! I mean Russia!

Re: once again

Alexey Navalny, looks like the Flu to me! Do you have any proof he was poisoned by a nerve agent in Russian? Maybe he had a head cold!

Nope, according to the Sunday Times, Navalny fell ill after wearing contaminated underpants. He appears rather healthy now though. Oddly.

I do however think revealing some of this shenanigans may prove countreproductive. How terrifying it would be if Russia merged it's poisoning and hacking branches? How would the West defend itself against Fancy Pants?

Meanwhile, I have popcorn ready for the explanation as to how bears managed to shit in Solar Wind's code repository, compile, and be pushed into production undetected..

Re: Not as powerful as it seems at first sight?

This is typical of a trend that has affected international standards as well - process oriented compliance that doesn't measure results.

Yup. The cynic in me wonders if this is the point. Politicians generate headlines for taking tough action, where in reality there are loopholes several terabytes wide for the erstwhile targets to drive through. Or it could just be the way the EU works. So if this is destined to become a Directive, then those tend to be more specific. If not, the laws are more guidelines for the individual member states to implement. And as it's a draft, presumably it's still slowly circulating those members competition & market agencies for comment. Especially given the way exercising powers at the EU level can lead to it gaining exclusive competence to legislate in those areas.

But such is politics. I suspect the cynic in me is right, especially given the risk of invoking trade wars with the US. Trump's been rather protectionist, it's unclear whether the Harris/Biden presidency will continue that approach.

Re: Semi brute forced by three amateurs

Something to keep in mind for anyone who thinks they've built a better mouse trap of a crypto system.

Yup, and also decryption system. From the looks of it, part could perhaps be optimised by dictionary lookups. Curious how 'machine learning' could be applied to spot the text to add to the crib, or realise ZK made some errors in their cyphertext. All part of the race between man & machine to see who's better at making sense out of patterns.

Re: Charging

As a side benefit you would then have an array of posts along the kerb which might well stop cars just using the pavement as an extension of the road.

That's sort of happening with a bunch of green visionaries partnering with councils in the UK to install roadside charging (or gouging). I guess if you're lucky, you'll have a choice of charging posts. If you're unlucky, that may make opening your car door tricky, but then you could always buy a gull or swan-wing door*. Pedestrians will be safer** because due to the electric fence of posts and cables, they'll only be able to access the road at approved locations.

Or council highways crews can earn extra dosh. You've paid for a drop curb, now pay for an approved kerbside charging port. Which then can be additional revenue if linked into RFID/key systems so they take a slice of the current pie. But as the cost of electricity will probably triple to pay for 'decarbonisation', charging will be a luxury.

Which is the looming problem. Currently the Treasury earns money from VED and fuel duty. It'll lose that with EVs, so need some way to recoup that. Which will get complex/unpopular if simply slapped onto an electricity charge.. Especially given rising energy poverty, Green taxes and the impending banning of domestic gas.

*preferably with easily hackable self-closing/guillotine feature.

**or not, if posts should somehow become energised. Hopefully they're dog/child resistant.

Re: With something as bad as COCID-19,

The Pfizer vaccine costs $19.95 per shot. Two shots are required.

I think you'll find that's the MRsP rather than cost.. So $39.90 per treatment. Which may then need to be repeated, depending on how long immunity lasts for, and how long COVID remains a risk..

The Pfizer vaccine will be available for free in the US. Because it was bought for with US taxpayer money. Same for the Moderna and the AstraZeneca vaccines.

Is free too expensive for you?

So not free, still $39.90, just purchased on behalf of all Americans by the US taxpayers.. Who may also have paid for a lot of the R&D via government grants. So basically socialising the costs, and privatising the profits. But that's a theme wrt COVID and responses. The US may hand out another $1tn in relief funds, which give or take the economics of money printing, isn't free. Same with any post-pandemic spending plans to 'Build Back Better'. Or Greener.

Why don't you go to Russia - or China - and get vaccinated for COVID? Their "vaccine" is available right now. You don't have to wait for those stupid US or EU safety approvals.

That highlights some interesting challenges wrt global pandemic management. So for a long time, we've had travel vaccinations, eg needing Yellow/Scarlet fever vaccination to travel to the swamps of Canvey Island. There's presumably some international agreement that recognises those vaccinations, so people are safe to travel, and return. Which presumably should be necessary with COVID vaccinations, especially if those become a requirement for travel. AFAIK the WHO is trying to wrangle that problem, so keeping a master list of vaguely functional vaccines.

Then there's 'patient choice'. So in the US, adverts bombard me with reasons to buy expensive, branded prescription drugs rather than cheap generic equivalents. Now, we have a slew of COVID vaccines ranging from traditional attenuated to ones based on the humble adenovirus, or the more novel mRNA versions.. Which I guess is good news given some vaccines may be more suitable for some patients than others. But patient choice potentially removed, ie you'll get Pfizer, and don't pull that face. But then the drug dealers would want exclusivity, because that means $$$, and trying to explain the pros/cons of different vaccines is non-trivial for both a GP and patient.

Re: Other suspects?

Oh, who am I kidding. I won't be at all surprised if we now start to see "leaks" of carefully-out-of-context and distorted extracts from these Pfizer documents, spinning a story that the vaccine is unsafe, to sow doubt in target markets and discredit Pfizer, EMA, and the West in general.

One way to counter that would be to publish the documents that were submitted. This may have happened to an extent given Pfizer's submission to the US FDA has been published.. And makes for some interesting reading. Parts have already been spun, ie the risk of 'severe' adverse reactions after the second dose, which were more common in young subjects. Presumably that's due to having a stronger immune system, and 'severe' can just mean swollen lymph nodes.. So 'severe' in a strict, cautious medical sense, but not so bad in the practical.

For me, and with a hint of Russian, this is interesting-

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/509163-covid-19-test-flawed-withdrawn/

Last week I reported on an astonishing review conducted by a group of senior scientists on a paper on which most Covid testing is based. It comprehensively debunked the science behind the Corman-Drosten paper, which described a protocol for using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique to detect Covid, finding 10 fatal flaws, including major failings in the operating procedure and potential conflicts of interest among its authors.

Which other scientists have also questioned. Along with IT types, eg Elon Musk having 4 tests with different results. Which doesn't really change the problem of COVID, or the benefits from working vaccines. Main effect would be on the constant score-keeping of 'cases', and potentially government responses to potential false positive results. I think there may also be other large benefits if mRNA vaccines are proven effective, ie potential to use those to prevent other diseases.