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Oops. If this pandemic teaches us anything, it should be to check our numbers before speaking.

Is this just going to turn out that the lower confidence interval on their data for the small number of >65s is 8% and someone's got over excited?

Sheesh - don't ask him to buy your lottery tickets.

No - it's basically entirely on trust in the UK. I've got friends and family members who could be working from home, and have done previously, but are being told to come in for at least part of the week. There's even been people on this forum...

The definition of "essential" has been widened to "anyone who's boss wants them in the office/on site" though, so this is inevitable. There's plenty of jobs going on that wouldn't cause society to fall apart if they were not done, or done from...

The lockdown - it is so hard

This report in the FT suggests some in Australia are pushing to delay vaccine roll out to give everyone the mRNA vaccines. I'd be interested to hear opinions in Australia about this - I feel like I would want to be out from under the shadow of...

Yeah but that middle aisle at Aldi is brilliant.

Yes - washing your hands is just a good idea anyway - our hands are pretty disgusting at times. I'd say the importance of realising that inhalation is generally a bigger issue is with places that claim to be "covid-secure" because they have hand...

Nothing's for certain, but that does seem to fit the characteristics of transmission so far. Then again, there are degrees of risk - picking the virus up off a surface and sticking it in your eyes/mouth/nose appears less likely that having it on...

Cases are still rising. Total in last 7 days is up 5% on previous week. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

Assuming you mean the article - the guy from Southampton University quoted in it does address this point, but says that can't account for the scale of reduction.

Well, yeah, obviously all the restictions have helped - but given schools have largely been open to date this winter, and children are known to be a major spreader of flu, it's impressive that we've seen the reduction we have. That's a good...

This was interesting, largely because it suggests to me that the measures taken by schools have actually been very effective. Viruses that we do know children are a significant reservoir for, like flu, are down massively. Credit to schools for...

There's data for England here https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/