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Wednesday 15th 46F, milder, but windy, with a leaden overcast. Just my usual walk. A bird of prey on a field decided it didn't like the look of me and flew away. The cat in the bird feeder had been replaced by a dozen, grateful sparrows.
Brexit continues to screw up normal people's lives. A parcel with prepaid Danish VAT has been sitting, without moving, in a Danish post office, customs office for 5 days. I sat, waiting on the Danish post office, customer service telephone, listening to the same jingle, for 30 minutes without being connected to a bod. It gets worse! Despite prepaying the Danish VAT to the British dealer I have been charged VAT again and had to pay the 160DKK [£18.30] standard, handling charge.
Postnord has now sent a letter instead of an SMS or email. So another day has passed with the parcel sitting in the sorting office without tracking updates. I have now paid online. They said 2-3 days for delivery. Wednesday + 3 = Saturday. Weekend = NO deliveries. So that will be 10 whole days for a Christmas food parcel to be sitting in a cosy sorting office in Denmark.
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Denmark is struggling to find enough medical staff to provide the promised 3rd vaccination. There is an ongoing industrial dispute between the nurses and health service over low pay and poor working conditions. Further exacerbated by the Jinping plague crisis.
Managers are are pulling active staff off the wards to work on vaccinating the Danes. Now they are even seeking non-medical volunteers to give the jabs. They will be given a short lesson in vaccination before being let loose on the public. 😱 I presume they will be taught how to aspirate properly? 😂
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It is reported that VW is sending out unfinished ID3 electric cars [BEVs] with multiple faults. Some owners claim their brand new cars have been in the garage for repairs for months in total. After only a half year of ownership. The cars would not start. Or would not go into drive. Mostly due to endless software problems.
The story in the Danish papers is that VW needs to sell a shed load of BEVs. To avoid huge CO2 climate impact payments [fines] from their continuing sale of ICE cars. So, being VW, they chose to shove a load of unfinished electric cars out of the factory gate to skew their green car sales figures and avoid these payments[ climate impact fines] to the EU. Amounting to about £15,000 per vehicle. Potentially billions in Euros in total! Most ICE vehicle manufacturers make very little profit as it is.
VW is still recovering [?] lost public trust from their deliberately crooked software for official testing of diesel emissions. There has been some shuffling of top personnel at VW. Too much too late for VW to survive the EV revolution? Probably, based on this latest story.
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