Did anyone else notice the Supreme (NYC skateboarding/clothing company) branded box on Starmer's bookshelf?
It looks like the box that their lipstick comes in..
This is at least as interesting as Rishi's flipflops.
I now need the uncropped picture to check whether Sir Keir is wearing lippy...
So we now know Mrs Starmer's preferred brand of lipstick. What else can we deduce from the picture??
He is bland and humourless
You wouldn't often see him in the pub, maybe, but at least he'd buy his round when he was. Whereas the current PM might be the life and soul of the party but he'd never have his wallet with him.
The books suggest someone interested in Design - Starck, Nicky Haslam.
Chris Whitty has just given a gloomy update to Cabinet on Omicron. The case doubling time is still 2-3 days, there is no reliable evidence of its severity or a peak in South Africa yet, and we should expect "a significant increase in hospitalisations as cases increase". https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1470730617079873539
Shocked I tell you, absolutely shocked, on her take...LOCKDOWN NOW....
Prof Reicher says people should be clearly told "don't socialise" or govt could legislate to ensure they do. Reicher says govt should use any time during restrictions to make environments safer, i.e. ventilation etc. If it doesn't it will have "squandered" that time
iSAGE are back with a bang. We need 12 years more Lockdown until every home has been fitted with high grade ventilation systems...
Did anyone else notice the Supreme (NYC skateboarding/clothing company) branded box on Starmer's bookshelf?
It looks like the box that their lipstick comes in..
This is at least as interesting as Rishi's flipflops.
I now need the uncropped picture to check whether Sir Keir is wearing lippy...
His ears look pinker than his lips!
It does look like a normal room though. Apart from that damn' flag. WHY!!!
It seems to be a recent political development. You might not have to shag the flag, but you need to show that you can at least get it up.
Though these flags that politicians have seem to be of very high quality. Very rich, bold colours. Outside of Minister's offices, the Downing Street briefing room and now Starmer's spare bedroom, I don't think I've ever seen such luxurious looking flags.
Jenny has left her lipstick on the bookcase?? So SKS wil now be sleeping in his spare bedroom with only a flag to keep him company!!
The vast majority of the UK population are double vaccinated, most South Africans are not vaccinated.
The UK also has a higher percentage of adults already having had their boosters then any other major nation
Who should we believe - experts or a poster from Essex who believed that Bill Gates gets a royalty on every jab because he once read it on a dodgy website?
Did anyone else notice the Supreme (NYC skateboarding/clothing company) branded box on Starmer's bookshelf?
It looks like the box that their lipstick comes in..
This is at least as interesting as Rishi's flipflops.
I now need the uncropped picture to check whether Sir Keir is wearing lippy...
His ears look pinker than his lips!
It does look like a normal room though. Apart from that damn' flag. WHY!!!
It seems to be a recent political development. You might not have to shag the flag, but you need to show that you can at least get it up.
Though these flags that politicians have seem to be of very high quality. Very rich, bold colours. Outside of Minister's offices, the Downing Street briefing room and now Starmer's spare bedroom, I don't think I've ever seen such luxurious looking flags.
Jenny has left her lipstick on the bookcase?? So SKS wil now be sleeping in his spare bedroom with only a flag to keep him company!!
"The Prime Minister said a huge spike of Omicron was coming and the measures we aimed to introduce as part of Plan B were balanced and proportionate, helping to reduce transmission while we ramp-up the booster programme" https://twitter.com/nickeardleybbc/status/1470734265566564358
We are on the same predictable path aren't we. Scary numbers form the modellers, Witty being Dr Doom, iSAGE all over the place calling for eternal lockdowns, Scotland and Wales will introduce more restrictions...the only question is what will Boris do?
The vast majority of the UK population are double vaccinated, most South Africans are not vaccinated.
The UK also has a higher percentage of adults already having had their boosters then any other major nation
Who should we believe - experts or a poster from Essex who believed that Bill Gates gets a royalty on every jab because he once read it on a dodgy website?
We know that some members of SAGE have been leftwing in the past. We also know that vaccination and boosters are the most effective means of avoiding hospitalisation and on that the UK is still leading the way
We are on the same predictable path aren't we. Scary numbers form the modellers, Witty being Dr Doom, iSAGE all over the place calling for eternal lockdowns, Scotland and Wales will introduce more restrictions...the only question is what will Boris do?
The government website has been updated and is now showing that slots are available for walk-in and drive-through PCR test sites across all regions in England.
Pagel's a bleeding idiot then, but we already knew that.
Prof Reicher is a bleeding idiot too, but we already knew that too.
The UK having high cases for months means we have more immunity than anywhere with low cases. Bloody morons!
As bad as Boris is, the more these fools open their mouths the more Boris looks like he has the Wisdom of Solomon.
If it was down to those two, we would now be entering month 20 of lockdown #1....they are the COVID equivalent of the MPs who kept saying well we will agree to vote through Brexit, but there is just one more thing before we do....
Just been for booster - queuing for a drop in centre that also takes bookings is a VERY frustrating experience.
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
The vast majority of the UK population are double vaccinated, most South Africans are not vaccinated.
The UK also has a higher percentage of adults already having had their boosters then any other major nation
Who should we believe - experts or a poster from Essex who believed that Bill Gates gets a royalty on every jab because he once read it on a dodgy website?
We know that some members of SAGE have been leftwing in the past. We also know that vaccination and boosters are the most effective means of avoiding hospitalisation and on that the UK is still leading the way
The point being made by the Prof AIUI is that hopsitalizations have been so high consistently in the UK that (for instance) the staff are knackered and capacity for more is low. It's a rational comment, not obviously Marxist, and makes perfect sense a priori.
Just been for booster - queuing for a drop in centre that also takes bookings is a VERY frustrating experience.
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
That requires nurses the NHS doesn't have.
When people talk about bed crisis / ward closures it's not because of beds breaking - it's a lack of staff to do the work.
The vast majority of the UK population are double vaccinated, most South Africans are not vaccinated.
The UK also has a higher percentage of adults already having had their boosters then any other major nation
Who should we believe - experts or a poster from Essex who believed that Bill Gates gets a royalty on every jab because he once read it on a dodgy website?
We know that some members of SAGE have been leftwing in the past. We also know that vaccination and boosters are the most effective means of avoiding hospitalisation and on that the UK is still leading the way
Dr Paul Burton, chief medical officer at Moderna, said he expects data in the coming days to show how well the Moderna booster improves protection against the Omicron variant. ... We certainly don’t have to panic, we have many many tools at our disposal, we’ve learnt so much about this virus over the last two years, and we can continue to fight it, but I think Omicron poses a real threat.
When you look at the data in SA about 15% of people who are hospitalised are in the intensive care unit, and while there’s variability, if you look back earlier in the year, at a time of delta surge in August, those numbers are about the same, 15%.
So while the mortality rate we are seeing right now is mercifully lower, I think as a disease it is a very fit virus and it’s severe."
Just been for booster - queuing for a drop in centre that also takes bookings is a VERY frustrating experience.
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
That requires nurses the NHS doesn't have.
When people talk about bed crisis / ward closures it's not because of beds breaking - it's a lack of staff to do the work.
That's why I said thinning ratios. If this is a crisis then I'm afraid they need to make some uncomfortable choices.
The data suggests if there is a tidal wave of hospitalisations, they will skew milder than before. So create facilities with lots of beds but half the usual staffing levels and make the best of it - or if it isn't serious enough for hard choices like that, don't flap around trying to act like the world is ending.
Just been for booster - queuing for a drop in centre that also takes bookings is a VERY frustrating experience.
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
That requires nurses the NHS doesn't have.
When people talk about bed crisis / ward closures it's not because of beds breaking - it's a lack of staff to do the work.
That's why I said thinning ratios. If this is a crisis then I'm afraid they need to make some uncomfortable choices.
The data suggests if there is a tidal wave of hospitalisations, they will skew milder than before. So create facilities with lots of beds but half the usual staffing levels and make the best of it - or if it isn't serious enough for hard choices like that, don't flap around trying to act like the world is ending.
Bingo!
And get rid of the distancing that's reduced capacity within the NHS too.
"Oh we have a capacity issue due to this virus, why don't we reduce capacity further, that will help!"
Just been for booster - queuing for a drop in centre that also takes bookings is a VERY frustrating experience.
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
That requires nurses the NHS doesn't have.
When people talk about bed crisis / ward closures it's not because of beds breaking - it's a lack of staff to do the work.
That's why I said thinning ratios. If this is a crisis then I'm afraid they need to make some uncomfortable choices.
The data suggests if there is a tidal wave of hospitalisations, they will skew milder than before. So create facilities with lots of beds but half the usual staffing levels and make the best of it - or if it isn't serious enough for hard choices like that, don't flap around trying to act like the world is ending.
The data doesn't say that - because as I've been saying for the past 2 weeks omicron hasn't been around long enough anywhere to give us a valid dataset to work from.
Everyone looks at posts saying it's milder / more severe but we don't have any valid data yet that actually tells us that.
Compare for example Government statements and the Dr Paul Burton from Moderna below to what some other people are saying.
The vast majority of the UK population are double vaccinated, most South Africans are not vaccinated.
The UK also has a higher percentage of adults already having had their boosters then any other major nation
Who should we believe - experts or a poster from Essex who believed that Bill Gates gets a royalty on every jab because he once read it on a dodgy website?
We know that some members of SAGE have been leftwing in the past. We also know that vaccination and boosters are the most effective means of avoiding hospitalisation and on that the UK is still leading the way
Dr Paul Burton, chief medical officer at Moderna, said he expects data in the coming days to show how well the Moderna booster improves protection against the Omicron variant. ... We certainly don’t have to panic, we have many many tools at our disposal, we’ve learnt so much about this virus over the last two years, and we can continue to fight it, but I think Omicron poses a real threat.
When you look at the data in SA about 15% of people who are hospitalised are in the intensive care unit, and while there’s variability, if you look back earlier in the year, at a time of delta surge in August, those numbers are about the same, 15%.
So while the mortality rate we are seeing right now is mercifully lower, I think as a disease it is a very fit virus and it’s severe."
Hence the UK's high double vaccination rate and rapidly expanding booster programme will help reduce the hospitalisation and death rate from Omicron in the UK
@patrickkmaguire Sir Keir Starmer is addressing his frontbenchers via Zoom. He just told them: "I am not interested in every party member liking your tweets, I want you to speak to the public."
Just been for booster - queuing for a drop in centre that also takes bookings is a VERY frustrating experience.
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
That requires nurses the NHS doesn't have.
When people talk about bed crisis / ward closures it's not because of beds breaking - it's a lack of staff to do the work.
That's why I said thinning ratios. If this is a crisis then I'm afraid they need to make some uncomfortable choices.
The data suggests if there is a tidal wave of hospitalisations, they will skew milder than before. So create facilities with lots of beds but half the usual staffing levels and make the best of it - or if it isn't serious enough for hard choices like that, don't flap around trying to act like the world is ending.
Bingo!
And get rid of the distancing that's reduced capacity within the NHS too.
"Oh we have a capacity issue due to this virus, why don't we reduce capacity further, that will help!"
Nightingales would significantly reduce hospital pressure but acting as triage for marginal cases who just want to know assistance is nearby whilst they're struggling to breathe, but don't actually need intensive intervention yet. Far more bang for buck on the scarce human resource limting factor.
No one in SA has been saying it’s “all mild illness”. They’re saying that for the scale of the outbreak, the number of serious cases is far below what might have been expected.
Did anyone else notice the Supreme (NYC skateboarding/clothing company) branded box on Starmer's bookshelf?
It looks like the box that their lipstick comes in..
This is at least as interesting as Rishi's flipflops.
I now need the uncropped picture to check whether Sir Keir is wearing lippy...
His ears look pinker than his lips!
It does look like a normal room though. Apart from that damn' flag. WHY!!!
It seems to be a recent political development. You might not have to shag the flag, but you need to show that you can at least get it up.
Though these flags that politicians have seem to be of very high quality. Very rich, bold colours. Outside of Minister's offices, the Downing Street briefing room and now Starmer's spare bedroom, I don't think I've ever seen such luxurious looking flags.
Jenny has left her lipstick on the bookcase?? So SKS wil now be sleeping in his spare bedroom with only a flag to keep him company!!
Just been for booster - queuing for a drop in centre that also takes bookings is a VERY frustrating experience.
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
That requires nurses the NHS doesn't have.
When people talk about bed crisis / ward closures it's not because of beds breaking - it's a lack of staff to do the work.
That's why I said thinning ratios. If this is a crisis then I'm afraid they need to make some uncomfortable choices.
The data suggests if there is a tidal wave of hospitalisations, they will skew milder than before. So create facilities with lots of beds but half the usual staffing levels and make the best of it - or if it isn't serious enough for hard choices like that, don't flap around trying to act like the world is ending.
Bingo!
And get rid of the distancing that's reduced capacity within the NHS too.
"Oh we have a capacity issue due to this virus, why don't we reduce capacity further, that will help!"
Nightingales would significantly reduce hospital pressure but acting as triage for marginal cases who just want to know assistance is nearby whilst they're struggling to breathe, but don't actually need intensive intervention yet. Far more bang for buck on the scarce human resource limting factor.
Unless...Boris' intention really is to front it out and do nothing more than get boosters.
I'm not sure any legislation could be passed right now so unless Boris cedes government to the Labour Party he will have to start formulating and following policies that please his own parliamentary party.
Just been for booster - queuing for a drop in centre that also takes bookings is a VERY frustrating experience.
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
That requires nurses the NHS doesn't have.
When people talk about bed crisis / ward closures it's not because of beds breaking - it's a lack of staff to do the work.
That's why I said thinning ratios. If this is a crisis then I'm afraid they need to make some uncomfortable choices.
The data suggests if there is a tidal wave of hospitalisations, they will skew milder than before. So create facilities with lots of beds but half the usual staffing levels and make the best of it - or if it isn't serious enough for hard choices like that, don't flap around trying to act like the world is ending.
The data doesn't say that - because as I've been saying for the past 2 weeks omicron hasn't been around long enough anywhere to give us a valid dataset to work from.
Everyone looks at posts saying it's milder / more severe but we don't have any valid data yet that actually tells us that.
Compare for example Government statements and the Dr Paul Burton from Moderna below to what some other people are saying.
The South African data does say that.
And even if it isn't milder, then even more reason to say this is an emergency and standard peace time staffing ratios are an unattainable luxury. Build the capacity, then let demand decide how many patients each nurse will need to cover. The alternative is letting people die in the streets apparently.
Without a comparison to Delta, that anecdote is meaningless.
The thing is both can be true....it is why I worried about how much press the GP from South Africa has been getting pushing the "its mild" narrative.
It can be statistically less dangerous in population terms, but still mean significant people suffer terribly from it, but that isn't how the public hear talk of milder disease. Same as original "90% only get mild disease" from Wuhan report, meant 90% didn't need to go to hospital, but the public took it as meaning oh I am going to get a cold.
Pagel's a bleeding idiot then, but we already knew that.
Prof Reicher is a bleeding idiot too, but we already knew that too.
The UK having high cases for months means we have more immunity than anywhere with low cases. Bloody morons!
As bad as Boris is, the more these fools open their mouths the more Boris looks like he has the Wisdom of Solomon.
I think this people are addicted to the fame and notoriety that Covid has given them and don't want it to end, and Omicron may be the end to this. Prof Pagel's comment is just plain silly.
Did anyone else notice the Supreme (NYC skateboarding/clothing company) branded box on Starmer's bookshelf?
It looks like the box that their lipstick comes in..
This is at least as interesting as Rishi's flipflops.
I now need the uncropped picture to check whether Sir Keir is wearing lippy...
His ears look pinker than his lips!
It does look like a normal room though. Apart from that damn' flag. WHY!!!
It seems to be a recent political development. You might not have to shag the flag, but you need to show that you can at least get it up.
Though these flags that politicians have seem to be of very high quality. Very rich, bold colours. Outside of Minister's offices, the Downing Street briefing room and now Starmer's spare bedroom, I don't think I've ever seen such luxurious looking flags.
Jenny has left her lipstick on the bookcase?? So SKS wil now be sleeping in his spare bedroom with only a flag to keep him company!!
It's not her brand.
Think I'm joking - I know Jenny.
Jenny who?
Jenny Chapman - former Darlington MP and currently Shadow Minister of State at the Cabinet Office
Just been for booster - queuing for a drop in centre that also takes bookings is a VERY frustrating experience.
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
That requires nurses the NHS doesn't have.
When people talk about bed crisis / ward closures it's not because of beds breaking - it's a lack of staff to do the work.
That's why I said thinning ratios. If this is a crisis then I'm afraid they need to make some uncomfortable choices.
The data suggests if there is a tidal wave of hospitalisations, they will skew milder than before. So create facilities with lots of beds but half the usual staffing levels and make the best of it - or if it isn't serious enough for hard choices like that, don't flap around trying to act like the world is ending.
Bingo!
And get rid of the distancing that's reduced capacity within the NHS too.
"Oh we have a capacity issue due to this virus, why don't we reduce capacity further, that will help!"
Nightingales would significantly reduce hospital pressure but acting as triage for marginal cases who just want to know assistance is nearby whilst they're struggling to breathe, but don't actually need intensive intervention yet. Far more bang for buck on the scarce human resource limting factor.
Unless...Boris' intention really is to front it out and do nothing more than get boosters.
I'm not sure any legislation could be passed right now so unless Boris cedes government to the Labour Party he will have to start formulating and following policies that please his own parliamentary party.
I think he’s quite content to get votes through with the Labour Party. He knows his biggest ever poll bounce was due to the vaccine rollout. And so he is creating a war-time spirit to try and repeat the trick with the boosters.
Just been for booster - queuing for a drop in centre that also takes bookings is a VERY frustrating experience.
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
That requires nurses the NHS doesn't have.
When people talk about bed crisis / ward closures it's not because of beds breaking - it's a lack of staff to do the work.
That's why I said thinning ratios. If this is a crisis then I'm afraid they need to make some uncomfortable choices.
The data suggests if there is a tidal wave of hospitalisations, they will skew milder than before. So create facilities with lots of beds but half the usual staffing levels and make the best of it - or if it isn't serious enough for hard choices like that, don't flap around trying to act like the world is ending.
The data doesn't say that - because as I've been saying for the past 2 weeks omicron hasn't been around long enough anywhere to give us a valid dataset to work from.
Everyone looks at posts saying it's milder / more severe but we don't have any valid data yet that actually tells us that.
Compare for example Government statements and the Dr Paul Burton from Moderna below to what some other people are saying.
Is the data from South Africa this morning not "valid"?
Just been for booster - queuing for a drop in centre that also takes bookings is a VERY frustrating experience.
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
That requires nurses the NHS doesn't have.
When people talk about bed crisis / ward closures it's not because of beds breaking - it's a lack of staff to do the work.
That's why I said thinning ratios. If this is a crisis then I'm afraid they need to make some uncomfortable choices.
The data suggests if there is a tidal wave of hospitalisations, they will skew milder than before. So create facilities with lots of beds but half the usual staffing levels and make the best of it - or if it isn't serious enough for hard choices like that, don't flap around trying to act like the world is ending.
Bingo!
And get rid of the distancing that's reduced capacity within the NHS too.
"Oh we have a capacity issue due to this virus, why don't we reduce capacity further, that will help!"
Nightingales would significantly reduce hospital pressure but acting as triage for marginal cases who just want to know assistance is nearby whilst they're struggling to breathe, but don't actually need intensive intervention yet. Far more bang for buck on the scarce human resource limting factor.
Unless...Boris' intention really is to front it out and do nothing more than get boosters.
I'm not sure any legislation could be passed right now so unless Boris cedes government to the Labour Party he will have to start formulating and following policies that please his own parliamentary party.
Without wanting to sounds like HYUFD: Good!
There must be an incredible proportion of the Tory non-payroll vote today that has signalled a willingness to revolt. Even if the vote isn't lost, its fantastic to see the backbenchers putting the Prime Minister on notice like that.
Its a shame we haven't got an Opposition though. What a disgrace.
@patrickkmaguire Sir Keir Starmer is addressing his frontbenchers via Zoom. He just told them: "I am not interested in every party member liking your tweets, I want you to speak to the public."
One thing Starmer can say is he now has a higher net approval with voters overall than Boris with Mori. However Boris also has a higher approval rating with Conservative voters than Starmer does with Labour voters in the same poll
Without a comparison to Delta, that anecdote is meaningless.
Again - we don't have the dataset but what that anecdote says is that it may not be the mild disease none experts were claiming it was.
It's so vague it isn't saying anything. It could be 10% of the chance of needing ICU, it could be 200%.
one of the original claims was Omicron was infectious but because of that also mild - i.e. virtually no-one would require ICU - that was never likely to be the case.
Without a comparison to Delta, that anecdote is meaningless.
Again - we don't have the dataset but what that anecdote says is that it may not be the mild disease none experts were claiming it was.
What do you mean "no experts were claiming it was"? The South African Medical Association is claiming exactly that! They might be wrong, their data could be rubbish, but to say they aren't claiming it is palpable garbage.
Just been for booster - queuing for a drop in centre that also takes bookings is a VERY frustrating experience.
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
That requires nurses the NHS doesn't have.
When people talk about bed crisis / ward closures it's not because of beds breaking - it's a lack of staff to do the work.
That's why I said thinning ratios. If this is a crisis then I'm afraid they need to make some uncomfortable choices.
The data suggests if there is a tidal wave of hospitalisations, they will skew milder than before. So create facilities with lots of beds but half the usual staffing levels and make the best of it - or if it isn't serious enough for hard choices like that, don't flap around trying to act like the world is ending.
Bingo!
And get rid of the distancing that's reduced capacity within the NHS too.
"Oh we have a capacity issue due to this virus, why don't we reduce capacity further, that will help!"
Nightingales would significantly reduce hospital pressure but acting as triage for marginal cases who just want to know assistance is nearby whilst they're struggling to breathe, but don't actually need intensive intervention yet. Far more bang for buck on the scarce human resource limting factor.
Unless...Boris' intention really is to front it out and do nothing more than get boosters.
I'm not sure any legislation could be passed right now so unless Boris cedes government to the Labour Party he will have to start formulating and following policies that please his own parliamentary party.
Without wanting to sounds like HYUFD: Good!
There must be an incredible proportion of the Tory non-payroll vote today that has signalled a willingness to revolt. Even if the vote isn't lost, its fantastic to see the backbenchers putting the Prime Minister on notice like that.
Its a shame we haven't got an Opposition though. What a disgrace.
SNP don't count? Unless you mean HMO as in Largest Opposing Party?
@patrickkmaguire Sir Keir Starmer is addressing his frontbenchers via Zoom. He just told them: "I am not interested in every party member liking your tweets, I want you to speak to the public."
He's growing on me. The problem remains that he can't assemble a front bench of people who aren't completely obsessed with every party member liking their tweets.
Without a comparison to Delta, that anecdote is meaningless.
The thing is both can be true....it is why I worried about how much press the GP from South Africa has been getting pushing the "its mild" narrative.
It can be statistically less dangerous in population terms, but still mean significant people suffer terribly from it, but that isn't how the public hear talk of milder disease. Same as original "90% only get mild disease" from Wuhan report, meant 90% didn't need to go to hospital, but the public took it as meaning oh I am going to get a cold.
What the hell are the South Africans supposed to say? Their experiences and Delta tell them that it's milder in terms of outcomes than Delta and indeed the original strain. If they think that, they have to say it. They are not "pushing" anything, rather they are laying down their assessment as professionals in the field.
Just been for booster - queuing for a drop in centre that also takes bookings is a VERY frustrating experience.
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
That requires nurses the NHS doesn't have.
When people talk about bed crisis / ward closures it's not because of beds breaking - it's a lack of staff to do the work.
That's why I said thinning ratios. If this is a crisis then I'm afraid they need to make some uncomfortable choices.
The data suggests if there is a tidal wave of hospitalisations, they will skew milder than before. So create facilities with lots of beds but half the usual staffing levels and make the best of it - or if it isn't serious enough for hard choices like that, don't flap around trying to act like the world is ending.
Bingo!
And get rid of the distancing that's reduced capacity within the NHS too.
"Oh we have a capacity issue due to this virus, why don't we reduce capacity further, that will help!"
Nightingales would significantly reduce hospital pressure but acting as triage for marginal cases who just want to know assistance is nearby whilst they're struggling to breathe, but don't actually need intensive intervention yet. Far more bang for buck on the scarce human resource limting factor.
Unless...Boris' intention really is to front it out and do nothing more than get boosters.
I'm not sure any legislation could be passed right now so unless Boris cedes government to the Labour Party he will have to start formulating and following policies that please his own parliamentary party.
Without wanting to sounds like HYUFD: Good!
There must be an incredible proportion of the Tory non-payroll vote today that has signalled a willingness to revolt. Even if the vote isn't lost, its fantastic to see the backbenchers putting the Prime Minister on notice like that.
Its a shame we haven't got an Opposition though. What a disgrace.
SNP don't count? Unless you mean HMO as in Largest Opposing Party?
So the SNP are going to vote against English regulations at the same time as Nicola is announcing even more draconian steps in Scotland? Surely not.
Just been for booster - queuing for a drop in centre that also takes bookings is a VERY frustrating experience.
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
That requires nurses the NHS doesn't have.
When people talk about bed crisis / ward closures it's not because of beds breaking - it's a lack of staff to do the work.
That's why I said thinning ratios. If this is a crisis then I'm afraid they need to make some uncomfortable choices.
The data suggests if there is a tidal wave of hospitalisations, they will skew milder than before. So create facilities with lots of beds but half the usual staffing levels and make the best of it - or if it isn't serious enough for hard choices like that, don't flap around trying to act like the world is ending.
Bingo!
And get rid of the distancing that's reduced capacity within the NHS too.
"Oh we have a capacity issue due to this virus, why don't we reduce capacity further, that will help!"
Nightingales would significantly reduce hospital pressure but acting as triage for marginal cases who just want to know assistance is nearby whilst they're struggling to breathe, but don't actually need intensive intervention yet. Far more bang for buck on the scarce human resource limting factor.
Unless...Boris' intention really is to front it out and do nothing more than get boosters.
I'm not sure any legislation could be passed right now so unless Boris cedes government to the Labour Party he will have to start formulating and following policies that please his own parliamentary party.
Without wanting to sounds like HYUFD: Good!
There must be an incredible proportion of the Tory non-payroll vote today that has signalled a willingness to revolt. Even if the vote isn't lost, its fantastic to see the backbenchers putting the Prime Minister on notice like that.
Its a shame we haven't got an Opposition though. What a disgrace.
SNP don't count? Unless you mean HMO as in Largest Opposing Party?
I mean Labour. I am not sure whether or how the SNP are voting today.
Labour could have said that while they support restrictions, there needs to be economic support to go with it. So that unless [insert demand here] is done by the Chancellor they'd have to vote down the restrictions.
With over 80 Tory rebels the government would either lose the vote, or have to meet Labour's demands.
They could have demanded more support for affected businesses, the return of the £20 uplift or anything else. Instead they've just given the government a blank cheque with no Opposition, no scrutiny, no demands.
I don’t want anything. When I was younger I did think of bigger boobs, but I’m happy now.
Maybe I’m happy now because I am in a relationship. Maybe the driver for plastic surgery is wanting to be pretty and have nice things and to be loved up not lonely?
Maybe. But Korean attitudes look a bit unhealthy to me - note that the most popular eyelid surgery seems to be in pursuit of an idealised western look. They also have very deep seated cultural taboos against any kind of physical disability.
Did anyone else notice the Supreme (NYC skateboarding/clothing company) branded box on Starmer's bookshelf?
It looks like the box that their lipstick comes in..
This is at least as interesting as Rishi's flipflops.
I now need the uncropped picture to check whether Sir Keir is wearing lippy...
So we now know Mrs Starmer's preferred brand of lipstick. What else can we deduce from the picture??
How do we know it’s hers not his? 💋
Also if it is his, is it possibly colourless outdoor lip balm for walking in winter etc.? I'm not an expert in lipstick, you see.
Not that brand..
"Supreme has officially gotten into the beauty products game with their FW20 lipstick collaboration with Pat McGrath Labs. This MatteTrance lipstick was released in an exclusive red pigment shade that was developed just for Supreme."
The vast majority of the UK population are double vaccinated, most South Africans are not vaccinated.
The UK also has a higher percentage of adults already having had their boosters then any other major nation
Who should we believe - experts or a poster from Essex who believed that Bill Gates gets a royalty on every jab because he once read it on a dodgy website?
Surprisingly, this time I'm going with the poster from Essex with whom I rarely agree. The comments from Prager make no sense scientifically. With regards to omicron, everyone is starting at the same level of (omicron) infections - zero.
Without a comparison to Delta, that anecdote is meaningless.
Again - we don't have the dataset but what that anecdote says is that it may not be the mild disease none experts were claiming it was.
It's so vague it isn't saying anything. It could be 10% of the chance of needing ICU, it could be 200%.
one of the original claims was Omicron was infectious but because of that also mild - i.e. virtually no-one would require ICU - that was never likely to be the case.
No, but the evidence is that it is milder (see the latest SA research I referred to in the PT). But very transmissible and with higher propensity to infect the vaccinated or recovered. Thus there's a greater pool of infected and hence potentially more serious cases as an absolute number if lower as a proportion.
The good news arising from these latest findings - if accurate - is that the latest wave should blow through very quickly and leave us with populations of high resistance. Thus not too far into next year things could be looking a lot better. So-called 'Spanish flu' blew through in three waves, which is a hopeful precedent.
"Additional data from Pfizer's clinical trial of its oral Covid-19 antiviral drug confirm the treatment's high level of effectiveness, the company said in a news release Tuesday.
In the final analysis of its Phase 2/3 clinical trial, the antiviral, called Paxlovid, was found to be 89 percent effective at preventing high-risk people from being hospitalized or dying from Covid, the company said."
Apparently, after his dull as dishwater speech last night the latest go to lines from the Starmer cult are ‘pitch perfect’ and ‘honest’. Do they somehow think we can’t hear his boring drivel and are unaware of the lies he utters?
Without a comparison to Delta, that anecdote is meaningless.
The thing is both can be true....it is why I worried about how much press the GP from South Africa has been getting pushing the "its mild" narrative.
It can be statistically less dangerous in population terms, but still mean significant people suffer terribly from it, but that isn't how the public hear talk of milder disease. Same as original "90% only get mild disease" from Wuhan report, meant 90% didn't need to go to hospital, but the public took it as meaning oh I am going to get a cold.
What the hell are the South Africans supposed to say? Their experiences and Delta tell them that it's milder in terms of outcomes than Delta and indeed the original strain. If they think that, they have to say it. They are not "pushing" anything, rather they are laying down their assessment as professionals in the field.
That was Dr Coetzee's thing yesterday, "why would I be saying this if it was not true?"
People seem to think that all SA Doctors and data providers are in on the con the world on the seriousness of Omicron game.
SA had a very controlled and severe lockdown for Delta, they have done nothing for Omicron.
Without a comparison to Delta, that anecdote is meaningless.
The thing is both can be true....it is why I worried about how much press the GP from South Africa has been getting pushing the "its mild" narrative.
It can be statistically less dangerous in population terms, but still mean significant people suffer terribly from it, but that isn't how the public hear talk of milder disease. Same as original "90% only get mild disease" from Wuhan report, meant 90% didn't need to go to hospital, but the public took it as meaning oh I am going to get a cold.
What the hell are the South Africans supposed to say? Their experiences and Delta tell them that it's milder in terms of outcomes than Delta and indeed the original strain. If they think that, they have to say it. They are not "pushing" anything, rather they are laying down their assessment as professionals in the field.
The thing is that we saw in India the horrific images of hospitals collapsing, doctors crying out for oxygen, funeral pyres in the streets and so on.
Italy in February 2000 and India a year later provided utterly horrific imagery. There's nothing like that coming out of South Africa, is there?
Shocked I tell you, absolutely shocked, on her take...LOCKDOWN NOW....
Prof Reicher says people should be clearly told "don't socialise" or govt could legislate to ensure they do. Reicher says govt should use any time during restrictions to make environments safer, i.e. ventilation etc. If it doesn't it will have "squandered" that time
iSAGE are back with a bang. We need 12 years more Lockdown until every home has been fitted with high grade ventilation systems...
Nobody is arguing for lockdown forever, even people who seem to be a bit shrieky.
Reality is that we have a valid point here - months of 40k new cases a day is not a positive...
Without a comparison to Delta, that anecdote is meaningless.
The thing is both can be true....it is why I worried about how much press the GP from South Africa has been getting pushing the "its mild" narrative.
It can be statistically less dangerous in population terms, but still mean significant people suffer terribly from it, but that isn't how the public hear talk of milder disease. Same as original "90% only get mild disease" from Wuhan report, meant 90% didn't need to go to hospital, but the public took it as meaning oh I am going to get a cold.
What the hell are the South Africans supposed to say? Their experiences and Delta tell them that it's milder in terms of outcomes than Delta and indeed the original strain. If they think that, they have to say it. They are not "pushing" anything, rather they are laying down their assessment as professionals in the field.
but they don't actually know that.
Remember they only sequenced Omicron 3 weeks ago and cases started increasing 10 days or so ago.
The time frame between initial illness and needing hospital admission means that the first time you will have a relative accurate viewpoint on severity isn't for another 2-4 weeks.
Anyone talking about severity now isn't paying proper attention to Covid's lifecycle.
Downing Street’s public position is there is a “tidal wave” and “huge spike” of Omicron cases coming but the PM is not considering further measures beyond Plan B and more boosters. 🧐 https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1470743202974031888
Even by 2019 Boris was less popular than Corbyn had been in 2017. His personal election-winning magic is a myth; 2019 was mostly anti-Corbynism plus GBD.
"Additional data from Pfizer's clinical trial of its oral Covid-19 antiviral drug confirm the treatment's high level of effectiveness, the company said in a news release Tuesday.
In the final analysis of its Phase 2/3 clinical trial, the antiviral, called Paxlovid, was found to be 89 percent effective at preventing high-risk people from being hospitalized or dying from Covid, the company said."
A question totally missed by the media, the government have ordered loads of these anti-viral treatments....do we have any, if not when are they coming and what's the plan to distribute them? Because remember you need to start taking them within hours of getting symptoms for them to be effective.
Its no good if I have to make a GP appointment, then get them to prescribe them etc...its all too late.
Do policies like this mean that more people can buy houses? Because my instinct is that those who get in early may benefit but the the barrier just increases to the new borrowing limits.
"Additional data from Pfizer's clinical trial of its oral Covid-19 antiviral drug confirm the treatment's high level of effectiveness, the company said in a news release Tuesday.
In the final analysis of its Phase 2/3 clinical trial, the antiviral, called Paxlovid, was found to be 89 percent effective at preventing high-risk people from being hospitalized or dying from Covid, the company said."
A question totally missed by the media, the government have ordered loads of these anti-viral treatments....do we have any, if not when are they coming and what's the plan to distribute them?
Because remember you need to start taking them within hours of getting symptoms for them to be effective.
Didn't MaxPB have the numbers a couple of weeks ago when the purchase was announced.
The issue is really 1 of how do we ensure they are available quickly enough given the timeframe in which treatment has to be started.
Shocked I tell you, absolutely shocked, on her take...LOCKDOWN NOW....
Prof Reicher says people should be clearly told "don't socialise" or govt could legislate to ensure they do. Reicher says govt should use any time during restrictions to make environments safer, i.e. ventilation etc. If it doesn't it will have "squandered" that time
iSAGE are back with a bang. We need 12 years more Lockdown until every home has been fitted with high grade ventilation systems...
Nobody is arguing for lockdown forever, even people who seem to be a bit shrieky.
Reality is that we have a valid point here - months of 40k new cases a day is not a positive...
You've been wrong for months. It is a fantastic positive.
You still seem to fail to understand that it was an exit wave too. It was both an exit (from restrictions) and a wave (since the 40k was with schools closed, then schools open, without an exponential increase when schools reopened).
Just been for booster - queuing for a drop in centre that also takes bookings is a VERY frustrating experience.
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
That requires nurses the NHS doesn't have.
When people talk about bed crisis / ward closures it's not because of beds breaking - it's a lack of staff to do the work.
That's why I said thinning ratios. If this is a crisis then I'm afraid they need to make some uncomfortable choices.
The data suggests if there is a tidal wave of hospitalisations, they will skew milder than before. So create facilities with lots of beds but half the usual staffing levels and make the best of it - or if it isn't serious enough for hard choices like that, don't flap around trying to act like the world is ending.
Bingo!
And get rid of the distancing that's reduced capacity within the NHS too.
"Oh we have a capacity issue due to this virus, why don't we reduce capacity further, that will help!"
Nightingales would significantly reduce hospital pressure but acting as triage for marginal cases who just want to know assistance is nearby whilst they're struggling to breathe, but don't actually need intensive intervention yet. Far more bang for buck on the scarce human resource limting factor.
Unless...Boris' intention really is to front it out and do nothing more than get boosters.
I'm not sure any legislation could be passed right now so unless Boris cedes government to the Labour Party he will have to start formulating and following policies that please his own parliamentary party.
Without wanting to sounds like HYUFD: Good!
There must be an incredible proportion of the Tory non-payroll vote today that has signalled a willingness to revolt. Even if the vote isn't lost, its fantastic to see the backbenchers putting the Prime Minister on notice like that.
Its a shame we haven't got an Opposition though. What a disgrace.
SNP don't count? Unless you mean HMO as in Largest Opposing Party?
So the SNP are going to vote against English regulations at the same time as Nicola is announcing even more draconian steps in Scotland? Surely not.
"Ah but the restrictions announced by the Scottish Government are logical and measured, unlike the knee-jerk gibberish from Westminster. I mean, vaxports! What a stupid proposal"
Apparently, after his dull as dishwater speech last night the latest go to lines from the Starmer cult are ‘pitch perfect’ and ‘honest’. Do they somehow think we can’t hear his boring drivel and are unaware of the lies he utters?
All the best lefties are furious that he's besmirched the party's name with the horrendous adjective "patriotic".
Without a comparison to Delta, that anecdote is meaningless.
The thing is both can be true....it is why I worried about how much press the GP from South Africa has been getting pushing the "its mild" narrative.
It can be statistically less dangerous in population terms, but still mean significant people suffer terribly from it, but that isn't how the public hear talk of milder disease. Same as original "90% only get mild disease" from Wuhan report, meant 90% didn't need to go to hospital, but the public took it as meaning oh I am going to get a cold.
What the hell are the South Africans supposed to say? Their experiences and Delta tell them that it's milder in terms of outcomes than Delta and indeed the original strain. If they think that, they have to say it. They are not "pushing" anything, rather they are laying down their assessment as professionals in the field.
Indeed. For any individual, being milder (on average) is good news, since it tilts the odds of suffering only a minor illness more heavily in our favour. For populations and for healthcare, the transmissibility and greater infectiveness for the vaccinated is less good news, since there'll be a lot more infected people, a proportion of whom will still be seriously affected.
Shocked I tell you, absolutely shocked, on her take...LOCKDOWN NOW....
Prof Reicher says people should be clearly told "don't socialise" or govt could legislate to ensure they do. Reicher says govt should use any time during restrictions to make environments safer, i.e. ventilation etc. If it doesn't it will have "squandered" that time
iSAGE are back with a bang. We need 12 years more Lockdown until every home has been fitted with high grade ventilation systems...
Nobody is arguing for lockdown forever, even people who seem to be a bit shrieky.
Reality is that we have a valid point here - months of 40k new cases a day is not a positive...
iSAGE at every turn have said no no we need longer for restrictions to work. Zero COVID and all that. As I say, they are like the MPs in parliament who said well if only such and such was shorted we would then finally vote Brexit through, but of course they never would and when they eventually got opportunity to make a choice between options they even rejected that.
They would have always had an excuse not to release all restrictions.
I was due to start a High Court case today, the Jury having been empanelled yesterday. The trial did not proceed because an essential Crown Witness had a positive lateral flow test after being in contact with 3 other friends who had positive tests after a night out last week.
At the moment the trial is adjourned to tomorrow to allow a PCR test to be done but I will frankly be amazed if even remote juries are allowed to continue at present. We are asking 15 jurors plus sundry staff to stay in the same room as each other for maybe 7 hours a day. We know for a fact that Omicron is at least 3x more infective than Delta. We do not know if social distancing, which seemed to work for Delta, will work. The reasonable assumption is that it won't. And we have the PM telling us that a "tidal wave" of cases is coming in the next few weeks.
I think that is a completely unreasonable thing to ask of a juror. I think we should abandon trials this month and at least the first half of next. I think we need to think seriously about whether schools should have an extended break too. This "tidal wave" threatens our health service. We need to be realistic about what is needed to reduce the height of the wave.
As for those voting against the restrictions in the Commons today, words simply fail me. They are not accepting the seriousness of the situation. Having said words fail me, my opening bid would be irresponsible.
Shocked I tell you, absolutely shocked, on her take...LOCKDOWN NOW....
Prof Reicher says people should be clearly told "don't socialise" or govt could legislate to ensure they do. Reicher says govt should use any time during restrictions to make environments safer, i.e. ventilation etc. If it doesn't it will have "squandered" that time
iSAGE are back with a bang. We need 12 years more Lockdown until every home has been fitted with high grade ventilation systems...
Nobody is arguing for lockdown forever, even people who seem to be a bit shrieky.
Reality is that we have a valid point here - months of 40k new cases a day is not a positive...
You've been wrong for months. It is a fantastic positive.
You still seem to fail to understand that it was an exit wave too. It was both an exit (from restrictions) and a wave (since the 40k was with schools closed, then schools open, without an exponential increase when schools reopened).
Yes, this is a new definition of the words "exit" and "wave".
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Tobias Ellwood saying that, actually, if we're going to have vaccine passports, they need to be three-jabs.
Contacts should be limited, she strongly argues. Prof Reicher agrees and says cases could end up "catastrophically high" on current trajectory
https://twitter.com/REWearmouth/status/1470732322911801353
https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1470730617079873539
Prof Reicher says people should be clearly told "don't socialise" or govt could legislate to ensure they do. Reicher says govt should use any time during restrictions to make environments safer, i.e. ventilation etc. If it doesn't it will have "squandered" that time
iSAGE are back with a bang. We need 12 years more Lockdown until every home has been fitted with high grade ventilation systems...
The vast majority of the UK population are double vaccinated, most South Africans are not vaccinated.
The UK also has a higher percentage of adults already having had their boosters then any other major nation
Think I'm joking - I know Jenny.
"The Prime Minister said a huge spike of Omicron was coming and the measures we aimed to introduce as part of Plan B were balanced and proportionate, helping to reduce transmission while we ramp-up the booster programme" https://twitter.com/nickeardleybbc/status/1470734265566564358
Forget Brittas Empire, that fits Keir Starmer perfectly. 😂
Prof Reicher is a bleeding idiot too, but we already knew that too.
The UK having high cases for months means we have more immunity than anywhere with low cases. Bloody morons!
As bad as Boris is, the more these fools open their mouths the more Boris looks like he has the Wisdom of Solomon.
I bet this doesn't get as many retweets.....
Anyway, given the RSA data out this morning, if hospitalisations are much less likely to need ICU, surely now is the time to be reopening nighingale hospitals with very thin staffing ratios to deal with all the low key hospitalisations and leave real hospitals for the hopefully few serious cases.
When people talk about bed crisis / ward closures it's not because of beds breaking - it's a lack of staff to do the work.
Every day that passes with sustained pressure in the past means a better off future.
Dr Paul Burton, chief medical officer at Moderna, said he expects data in the coming days to show how well the Moderna booster improves protection against the Omicron variant.
...
We certainly don’t have to panic, we have many many tools at our disposal, we’ve learnt so much about this virus over the last two years, and we can continue to fight it, but I think Omicron poses a real threat.
When you look at the data in SA about 15% of people who are hospitalised are in the intensive care unit, and while there’s variability, if you look back earlier in the year, at a time of delta surge in August, those numbers are about the same, 15%.
So while the mortality rate we are seeing right now is mercifully lower, I think as a disease it is a very fit virus and it’s severe."
I feel, and I can't be alone, thoroughly fed up with it not appearing.
The data suggests if there is a tidal wave of hospitalisations, they will skew milder than before. So create facilities with lots of beds but half the usual staffing levels and make the best of it - or if it isn't serious enough for hard choices like that, don't flap around trying to act like the world is ending.
@Pulpstar's a bit boxed in I see. 😳
@Beibheirli_C - I saw that... (2^20)-1 indeed!
And get rid of the distancing that's reduced capacity within the NHS too.
"Oh we have a capacity issue due to this virus, why don't we reduce capacity further, that will help!"
Early days but from one observation, some are needing high-flow oxygen and ICU, not all 'mild illness'.
https://twitter.com/Davewwest/status/1470736306867253254
https://twitter.com/HSJnews/status/1470726182261952512
Everyone looks at posts saying it's milder / more severe but we don't have any valid data yet that actually tells us that.
Compare for example Government statements and the Dr Paul Burton from Moderna below to what some other people are saying.
@patrickkmaguire
Sir Keir Starmer is addressing his frontbenchers via Zoom. He just told them: "I am not interested in every party member liking your tweets, I want you to speak to the public."
I'm not sure any legislation could be passed right now so unless Boris cedes government to the Labour Party he will have to start formulating and following policies that please his own parliamentary party.
And even if it isn't milder, then even more reason to say this is an emergency and standard peace time staffing ratios are an unattainable luxury. Build the capacity, then let demand decide how many patients each nurse will need to cover. The alternative is letting people die in the streets apparently.
It can be statistically less dangerous in population terms, but still mean significant people suffer terribly from it, but that isn't how the public hear talk of milder disease. Same as original "90% only get mild disease" from Wuhan report, meant 90% didn't need to go to hospital, but the public took it as meaning oh I am going to get a cold.
There must be an incredible proportion of the Tory non-payroll vote today that has signalled a willingness to revolt. Even if the vote isn't lost, its fantastic to see the backbenchers putting the Prime Minister on notice like that.
Its a shame we haven't got an Opposition though. What a disgrace.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/axing-of-affordability-rules-will-mean-buyers-can-take-out-larger-mortgages-kh9vnbrhd?shareToken=4446dc9078d3fb7314413e3628d41fbe
Labour could have said that while they support restrictions, there needs to be economic support to go with it. So that unless [insert demand here] is done by the Chancellor they'd have to vote down the restrictions.
With over 80 Tory rebels the government would either lose the vote, or have to meet Labour's demands.
They could have demanded more support for affected businesses, the return of the £20 uplift or anything else. Instead they've just given the government a blank cheque with no Opposition, no scrutiny, no demands.
Weak, weak, weak.
But Korean attitudes look a bit unhealthy to me - note that the most popular eyelid surgery seems to be in pursuit of an idealised western look.
They also have very deep seated cultural taboos against any kind of physical disability.
"Supreme has officially gotten into the beauty products game with their FW20 lipstick collaboration with Pat McGrath Labs. This MatteTrance lipstick was released in an exclusive red pigment shade that was developed just for Supreme."
From the Spectator data hub:- https://data.spectator.co.uk/category/politics https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1470742562214400008/photo/1
The good news arising from these latest findings - if accurate - is that the latest wave should blow through very quickly and leave us with populations of high resistance. Thus not too far into next year things could be looking a lot better. So-called 'Spanish flu' blew through in three waves, which is a hopeful precedent.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/effectiveness-pfizers-covid-pill-confirmed-analysis-company-says-rcna8662
"Additional data from Pfizer's clinical trial of its oral Covid-19 antiviral drug confirm the treatment's high level of effectiveness, the company said in a news release Tuesday.
In the final analysis of its Phase 2/3 clinical trial, the antiviral, called Paxlovid, was found to be 89 percent effective at preventing high-risk people from being hospitalized or dying from Covid, the company said."
Do they somehow think we can’t hear his boring drivel and are unaware of the lies he utters?
People seem to think that all SA Doctors and data providers are in on the con the world on the seriousness of Omicron game.
SA had a very controlled and severe lockdown for Delta, they have done nothing for Omicron.
Italy in February 2000 and India a year later provided utterly horrific imagery. There's nothing like that coming out of South Africa, is there?
Reality is that we have a valid point here - months of 40k new cases a day is not a positive...
Remember they only sequenced Omicron 3 weeks ago and cases started increasing 10 days or so ago.
The time frame between initial illness and needing hospital admission means that the first time you will have a relative accurate viewpoint on severity isn't for another 2-4 weeks.
Anyone talking about severity now isn't paying proper attention to Covid's lifecycle.
https://twitter.com/benrileysmith/status/1470743202974031888
Its no good if I have to make a GP appointment, then get them to prescribe them etc...its all too late.
Oxygen or no.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/news-health/17036536/hospitals-overwhelmed-weeks-could-close/
The issue is really 1 of how do we ensure they are available quickly enough given the timeframe in which treatment has to be started.
You still seem to fail to understand that it was an exit wave too. It was both an exit (from restrictions) and a wave (since the 40k was with schools closed, then schools open, without an exponential increase when schools reopened).
They would have always had an excuse not to release all restrictions.
At the moment the trial is adjourned to tomorrow to allow a PCR test to be done but I will frankly be amazed if even remote juries are allowed to continue at present. We are asking 15 jurors plus sundry staff to stay in the same room as each other for maybe 7 hours a day. We know for a fact that Omicron is at least 3x more infective than Delta. We do not know if social distancing, which seemed to work for Delta, will work. The reasonable assumption is that it won't. And we have the PM telling us that a "tidal wave" of cases is coming in the next few weeks.
I think that is a completely unreasonable thing to ask of a juror. I think we should abandon trials this month and at least the first half of next. I think we need to think seriously about whether schools should have an extended break too. This "tidal wave" threatens our health service. We need to be realistic about what is needed to reduce the height of the wave.
As for those voting against the restrictions in the Commons today, words simply fail me. They are not accepting the seriousness of the situation. Having said words fail me, my opening bid would be irresponsible.
As you wish.