The Firestarter
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The school day description wasA Tragedy of Indecision.
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The school day description wasA Tragedy of Indecision.
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Johnson doesn't look like he can really be bothered anymore. He always wanted to be PM, but he's famously workshy. Now that he's ticked that box (and got a Brexit 'deal'), he'll not stick around too long I wouldn't think. Tories will replace him with Sunak/Raab/Gove and call a snap general election while the new leader is still in the honeymoon period.Tories strategically need to get Johnson out before inquiry seriously starts you'd think which I'm guessing will be mid to late 2022. New guy can just say he wasn't the one making the decisions even though Rishi Sunak or Gove have been at heart of decisions pretty much in last six months.
Kind of hoping inquiry goes into 2023 as then it will all still be in people's minds for the election the next year.
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There's no need to be confused, you're just overthining it. I would suggest to you that people more likely to vote Tory are generally more selfish. Make your peace with that and you'll understand why they're not so arsed about people that aren't themselves dying.I'm confused by a lot of things, in part the reaction of the public naysayer tinfoil brigade who would rather believe that the Government's of the World (including Israel, India, New Zealand and Taiwan) are conducting mass gene therapy on us all for some 1984'esque reasoning than think a virus which was kept under wraps from the Country of origin has caused a pandemic on a World Wide scale...
Can someone shed some light, I'm not pretending to be that knowledgeable on Politics and Socioeconomics but...
Communism was born from the idea of shared ownership and goes hand in hand with liberalism and state theory then how is the most communist country in the World, North Korea, then seen as one of the most restricted dictatorships?
Also, people who voted Tory are now complaining about the lockdowns being anti-freedom and that we're now in a dictatorial state. Yet they forget they voted the Tory's in via an act of democracy, maybe they should have asked what the Tory's manifesto on pandemics was?
It seems a lot of people who didn't vote Tory (and are fairly liberal) aren't complaining about the lockdown at all, if anything they're more likely to be adhering whether that's because of an understanding that in not doing so will harm others? This seems odd to me because I'd consider lockdowns and house arrests as a rather right-wing policy.
So the Tory voting tinfoils want freedom and liberalism yet the liberal voting freethinkers don't care about having right-wing policies thrust upon them? I'm confused.
(I'm taking my data from the Daily Heil's website comments section here which overwhelming are against the Government's stance with a lot calling for an overthrowing of the Government)
I've read that Liberal states such as Korea and Taiwan have handled it so well because of their experiences with Sars in the past. The public of there are more willing to accept restrictions. So, is this a case of the British public needing to come to a similar understanding? That regardless of how free a country is at some point you need to make sacrifices for others.
I'd dare say those protesting would have been doing so during the Blitz when we had blockouts and curfews.
Apparently he's going to quit in six months anyway. Wish he'd just go now.Tories strategically need to get Johnson out before inquiry seriously starts you'd think which I'm guessing will be mid to late 2022. New guy can just say he wasn't the one making the decisions even though Rishi Sunak or Gove have been at heart of decisions pretty much in last six months.
Kind of hoping inquiry goes into 2023 as then it will all still be in people's minds for the election the next year.
cabal of careerist shit mucnhers Im stealing that!A Tragedy of Indecision.
Will people on here do this out of interest? If there's ever a best example for the hypernormalisation thread it's this nonsense in my view.
Nope, i'll be showing my appreciation for the NHS the way i always have by not voting for the party that constantly underfunds it.Will people on here do this out of interest? If there's ever a best example for the hypernormalisation thread it's this nonsense in my view.
All the complicated issues and governmental incompetence and cronyism boiled down to a shared conformity event where people clap at a scheduled time. If this had stayed in China and you witnessed such actions by the Chinese people you'd rightly think it was mental.
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Probably because there’s only a finite amount of them surely?Apart from Yorkshire and Humber hospitalisations for over 85's are dropping in every region and sharply in the East.
I don't want to jump to conclusion's but that is very promising.
Yet they don't get a pay rise. Seems an empty gesture.
Gove strikes me as an ineffective version of Goebbels.Johnson doesn't look like he can really be bothered anymore. He always wanted to be PM, but he's famously workshy. Now that he's ticked that box (and got a Brexit 'deal'), he'll not stick around too long I wouldn't think. Tories will replace him with Sunak/Raab/Gove and call a snap general election while the new leader is still in the honeymoon period.
About 25% of the over 85s have had one dose of vaccination already, so I think the correlation is showing promising signs in hospitalisation rates.Probably because there’s only a finite amount of them surely?
Most are either shielding or have sadly already perished you’d think?
Maybe, but they all drop at around the same time, hopefully it's not a coincidence.Probably because there’s only a finite amount of them surely?
Most are either shielding or have sadly already perished you’d think?
https://www.ft.com/content/c2aa5ea4-66b9-4f64-9e74-7c89c12f9461“At this moment, we think that a vaccine could be a little less effective,” Professor Tulio de Oliveira, of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, who is leading South Africa’s scientific effort to understand the 501Y.V2 strain, told the Financial Times.“[But] between all the varieties of vaccines that are coming to the market, we still have strong belief that some of them will be very effective.”
The mutation in question, called E484K, changes the “receptor binding domain” — a key part of the spike protein that the virus uses to enter human cells. This is also an important site at which neutralising antibodies induced by infection or vaccination bind to the virus.
A team at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle has assessed the ability of antibodies taken from people previously infected with Sars-Cov-2 to neutralise various new strains of coronavirus.
Their study, released on Tuesday but not peer-reviewed, found that “emerging lineages in South Africa and Brazil carrying the E484K mutation will have greatly reduced susceptibility to neutralisation by the . . . serum antibodies of some individuals”. However, the effect was much stronger in some people than others, the paper said.
They're pretty strange metrics to use. Picking a two week period without looking at volume of tests administered and not accounting for population when looking at deaths.Pretty poorly considering the UK have the highest total number of Covid deaths in Europe and the highest number of covid cases of any country in the World over the last 2 weeks, apart from the USA. We are in a steep ascent, unfortunately.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...es-have-the-most-coronavirus-cases-and-deaths
I can't believe our borders are open during this critical phase.
Kind of wish broadcasters would coordinate their efforts to get this kind of footage in front of as many eyes as possible - heck, air it straight after a national address from the Prime Minister.
They’ve got very mixed results from just 11 samples, so I wouldn’t be getting too worries. Yet. Worst case we end up with an influenza situation, with annual boosters specific to whatever strain is on the increase. It’s also interesting that for some of the samples they compare the response to the immunity we get to measles. Which is lifelong protection from a single infection or vaccine.
One reason that influenza virus undergoes such rapid antigenic evolution is that neutralizing human immunity often focuses on just a few residues in hemagglutinin, such that a single mutation can dramatically reduce neutralization (Lee et al., 2019). In contrast, while measles virus can escape neutralization by monoclonal antibodies, polyclonal serum targets multiple co-dominant measles epitopes, meaning that no single mutation has a large effect on neutralization (Muñoz-Alía et al., 2020). Our results show that polyclonal antibody immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 RBD is sometimes focused as for influenza, but in other cases more broadly targets the RBD in a way that mitigates the effect of any single mutation.
It was sobering to watch at 6pm.
Yes, according to Worldometers highest number of cases and deaths. It will rise.4k deaths in the US yesterday.. first day over 4k?
Oh, yes.4k deaths in the US yesterday.. first day over 4k?
By the end of May there should be 22 million vaccinated, over two thirds of the eligible population. By August everybody should be done. As long as there are no curveballs in the meantime i'd say you'll be able to fly by then.Don't know if this is the right thread to ask this so feel free to move it if not. I'm thinking of booking a flight to Rome late May/early June and there's some flights currently available for £20-40.
For that price would you say the risk (things not improving enough to go, unable to go because it's my time for the vaccine) outweighs the rewards (got a cheap flight safely booked when most have likely skyrocketed due to demand)?
Ideal thanks for your reply.By the end of May there should be 22 million vaccinated, over two thirds of the eligible population. By August everybody should be done. As long as there are no curveballs in the meantime i'd say you'll be able to fly by then.
You can usually take anything the Italian government says with a pinch of salt, but so far the vaccination programme is going well.
Isn't this what every company does? Our dependant leave certainly isn't paid.https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/parents-working-jaguar-land-rover-19573368
JLR refusing to pay parents who need to take time off to look after their kids while the schools have been closed.
During an enforced lockdown is a bit of a different matterIsn't this what every company does? Our dependant leave certainly isn't paid.
They have to option to furlough staff though and aren’t taking it.Isn't this what every company does? Our dependant leave certainly isn't paid.
How in the hell are JLR workers "critical" workers? The current situation with the virus is way worse than where we were in March, but the government response is so full of holes, even calling it half-arsed would be excessively complimentary. It's like a 16th of an arse. Maybe just the anus. It's an anus response.https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/parents-working-jaguar-land-rover-19573368
JLR refusing to pay parents who need to take time off to look after their kids while the schools have been closed.