"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Oh god, poor you..
Good luck. Hopefully we’ll all be ok.
Thank you.
I had an intimation of mortality just before Xmas when I became very ill very quickly. My son was with me and he said: “Mum. You’re white and your lips are blue.” I had chest pain and it crossed my mind that maybe this was it: heart attack and off. I’d go to bed and not wake up. Partly it was because the evening before my mother died in her sleep we’d noticed that her lips were a bit blue (she had a cold) and told her we’d get the doctor in the next morning. And this was around Xmas too. So there seemed to be echoes which my son’s words brought to the surface, even though he did not know this.
Instead of which I got something nastier.
Anyway I’m still here but I remember thinking that I mustn’t worry my sons - they were all for calling an ambulance - and that bothering doctors at Xmas was the last thing they needed. I really didn’t want them (my sons) seeing me in such a state.
And now I do wonder whether I shouldn’t hoick them out of London, just in case .....
When Biden wins SC I am expecting the market to go bananananananas
Brokered convention here we come with Hillary Clinton as the one every unites behind.
Not even in jest
She's my only red now, so it's going to happen.
You are going to pay a terrible price in all other aspects of your life for Liverpool winning the League.
Remember that Faustian pact?
Earlier on this season I actually promised to become a good Muslim if Liverpool won the title this year.
Fortunately I never specified for how long.
You're in a right pickle then. Once you declare the Shahadah that's it my old fruit. Muslim you then be. And here's the rub. If you then backslide you're worse off than if you hadn't opened with those glorious words in the first place.* Apostate!
* And yes they are utterly glorious. Whatever your take on Islam, the words of the Shahada are quite sublime. The Arabic alliteration is beautiful.
When Biden wins SC I am expecting the market to go bananananananas
Brokered convention here we come with Hillary Clinton as the one every unites behind.
Not even in jest
She's my only red now, so it's going to happen.
You are going to pay a terrible price in all other aspects of your life for Liverpool winning the League.
Remember that Faustian pact?
Earlier on this season I actually promised to become a good Muslim if Liverpool won the title this year.
Fortunately I never specified for how long.
You're in a right pickle then. Once you declare the Shahadah that's it my old fruit. Muslim you then be. And here's the rub. If you then backslide you're worse off than if you hadn't opened with those glorious words in the first place.* Apostate!
* And yes they are utterly glorious. Whatever your take on Islam, the words of the Shahada are quite sublime. The Arabic alliteration is beautiful.
I declared the Shahadah many years ago.
Actually I'm a very good Muslim if you ignore my constant whoring and gambling, and that I only pray twice a year, if that.
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Yes, take care. Home working in the Lakes sounds a good plan.
The Lakes, particularly the quiet bits, is a good place. Stay safe, Cyclefree.
When Biden wins SC I am expecting the market to go bananananananas
Brokered convention here we come with Hillary Clinton as the one every unites behind.
Not even in jest
She's my only red now, so it's going to happen.
You are going to pay a terrible price in all other aspects of your life for Liverpool winning the League.
Remember that Faustian pact?
Earlier on this season I actually promised to become a good Muslim if Liverpool won the title this year.
Fortunately I never specified for how long.
You're in a right pickle then. Once you declare the Shahadah that's it my old fruit. Muslim you then be. And here's the rub. If you then backslide you're worse off than if you hadn't opened with those glorious words in the first place.* Apostate!
* And yes they are utterly glorious. Whatever your take on Islam, the words of the Shahada are quite sublime. The Arabic alliteration is beautiful.
I declared the Shahadah many years ago.
Actually I'm a very good Muslim if you ignore my constant whoring and gambling, and that I only pray twice a year, if that.
When Biden wins SC I am expecting the market to go bananananananas
Brokered convention here we come with Hillary Clinton as the one every unites behind.
Not even in jest
She's my only red now, so it's going to happen.
You are going to pay a terrible price in all other aspects of your life for Liverpool winning the League.
Remember that Faustian pact?
Earlier on this season I actually promised to become a good Muslim if Liverpool won the title this year.
Fortunately I never specified for how long.
You're in a right pickle then. Once you declare the Shahadah that's it my old fruit. Muslim you then be. And here's the rub. If you then backslide you're worse off than if you hadn't opened with those glorious words in the first place.* Apostate!
* And yes they are utterly glorious. Whatever your take on Islam, the words of the Shahada are quite sublime. The Arabic alliteration is beautiful.
I declared the Shahadah many years ago.
Actually I'm a very good Muslim if you ignore my constant whoring and gambling, and that I only pray twice a year, if that.
Lawyers, at least in private practice, spend quite a lot of time praying. Generally it involves transactions going to term and is mixed with a big element of “there but for the grace of god”.
When Biden wins SC I am expecting the market to go bananananananas
The 15 that Biden was at with Betfair before last night's debate was always a bit silly, since he was bound to come in with South Carolina being the next primary.
So. Was the Javid speech so unmemorable that it’s not even worth mentioning?
I can help you there. As a precis, he said something along the lines of "I should be able to pick my advisors, but I fully support this wonderful govt in which I have total confidence and our glorious PM. And that is why I resigned"
I guess Labour is really happy with upper middle class white men leading the party then.
Why would Labour object to having a leader who has worked his way through the English class system to achieve extraordinary things, helped in large part by a redistributive state that enabled him to fulfil his potential? What Starmer has achieved is everything that Labour should be about.
Bring back Grammars and expand assisted places at Fee paying schools? Sounds good
No - I attended a Grammar School but it was a very unfair system.
Why not have one per constituency and let all the parents who’d rather their kids go to an academy or whatever do so? Nice to have the choice.
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Oh god, poor you..
Good luck. Hopefully we’ll all be ok.
And now I do wonder whether I shouldn’t hoick them out of London, just in case .....
Fox Jr is in London now, and growing up to be a fine young man. Travelling on the tube, going to theatres and crowded pubs etc.
The risks to youngsters are quite low though, so he should be fine if he gets it. There have been very few fatalities under 30, mostly minor symptoms and quick resolution.
I suspect your kids are equally low risk in London, if that is any comfort.
So. Was the Javid speech so unmemorable that it’s not even worth mentioning?
He spoke up quite strongly for his fiscal rules as written in the manifesto, and for debt to be lower at the end of Parliament. Low taxes, tight on value for taxpayers money.
So. Was the Javid speech so unmemorable that it’s not even worth mentioning?
I can help you there. As a precis, he said something along the lines of "I should be able to pick my advisors, but I fully support this wonderful govt in which I have total confidence and our glorious PM. And that is why I resigned"
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Oh god, poor you..
Good luck. Hopefully we’ll all be ok.
And now I do wonder whether I shouldn’t hoick them out of London, just in case .....
Fox Jr is in London now, and growing up to be a fine young man. Travelling on the tube, going to theatres and crowded pubs etc.
The risks to youngsters are quite low though, so he should be fine if he gets it. There have been very few fatalities under 30, mostly minor symptoms and quick resolution.
I suspect your kids are equally low risk in London, if that is any comfort.
When Biden wins SC I am expecting the market to go bananananananas
Brokered convention here we come with Hillary Clinton as the one every unites behind.
Not even in jest
She's my only red now, so it's going to happen.
You are going to pay a terrible price in all other aspects of your life for Liverpool winning the League.
Remember that Faustian pact?
Earlier on this season I actually promised to become a good Muslim if Liverpool won the title this year.
Fortunately I never specified for how long.
You're in a right pickle then. Once you declare the Shahadah that's it my old fruit. Muslim you then be. And here's the rub. If you then backslide you're worse off than if you hadn't opened with those glorious words in the first place.* Apostate!
* And yes they are utterly glorious. Whatever your take on Islam, the words of the Shahada are quite sublime. The Arabic alliteration is beautiful.
I declared the Shahadah many years ago.
Actually I'm a very good Muslim if you ignore my constant whoring and gambling, and that I only pray twice a year, if that.
So. Was the Javid speech so unmemorable that it’s not even worth mentioning?
I can help you there. As a precis, he said something along the lines of "I should be able to pick my advisors, but I fully support this wonderful govt in which I have total confidence and our glorious PM. And that is why I resigned"
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Oh god, poor you..
Good luck. Hopefully we’ll all be ok.
And now I do wonder whether I shouldn’t hoick them out of London, just in case .....
Fox Jr is in London now, and growing up to be a fine young man. Travelling on the tube, going to theatres and crowded pubs etc.
The risks to youngsters are quite low though, so he should be fine if he gets it. There have been very few fatalities under 30, mostly minor symptoms and quick resolution.
I suspect your kids are equally low risk in London, if that is any comfort.
Thank you.
Children are always a worry, but for this, probably not too much.
I am hoping that containment measures will keep outbreaks under control, and that it doesn't kick off in a big way other than economically (which will bounce back quickly after the peak).
I am not a particularly brave sort, and not so much in the front line as some others, but will not shirk when duty calls. I signed up for this 3 decades ago, and have had a good career.
I guess Labour is really happy with upper middle class white men leading the party then.
Why would Labour object to having a leader who has worked his way through the English class system to achieve extraordinary things, helped in large part by a redistributive state that enabled him to fulfil his potential? What Starmer has achieved is everything that Labour should be about.
Bring back Grammars and expand assisted places at Fee paying schools? Sounds good
No - I attended a Grammar School but it was a very unfair system.
Why not have one per constituency and let all the parents who’d rather their kids go to an academy or whatever do so? Nice to have the choice.
In the past it was never a matter of choice - nor was admission dependant on reaching a particular academic threshold. So much was owed to luck - in that pupils who gained entry in one academic year would have been rejected in another year and vice versa.In large metropolitan areas such as London entry requirements varied significantly from borough to borough, so that applicants failing to obtain entry in Redbridge - say - would likely have been successful in Enfield - or vise versa.
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Oh god, poor you..
Good luck. Hopefully we’ll all be ok.
And now I do wonder whether I shouldn’t hoick them out of London, just in case .....
Fox Jr is in London now, and growing up to be a fine young man. Travelling on the tube, going to theatres and crowded pubs etc.
The risks to youngsters are quite low though, so he should be fine if he gets it. There have been very few fatalities under 30, mostly minor symptoms and quick resolution.
I suspect your kids are equally low risk in London, if that is any comfort.
Thank you.
Children are always a worry, but for this, probably not too much.
I am hoping that containment measures will keep outbreaks under control, and that it doesn't kick off in a big way other than economically (which will bounce back quickly after the peak).
I am not a particularly brave sort, and not so much in the front line as some others, but will not shirk when duty calls. I signed up for this 3 decades ago, and have had a good career.
As a random fact, the AVERAGE age of the first 11 deaths in Italy was above 80. I think it has dipped just below since. Indeed, the local health authorities are expecting a somewhat higher case fatality than in China because of Italy's demographics.
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Oh god, poor you..
Good luck. Hopefully we’ll all be ok.
And now I do wonder whether I shouldn’t hoick them out of London, just in case .....
Fox Jr is in London now, and growing up to be a fine young man. Travelling on the tube, going to theatres and crowded pubs etc.
The risks to youngsters are quite low though, so he should be fine if he gets it. There have been very few fatalities under 30, mostly minor symptoms and quick resolution.
I suspect your kids are equally low risk in London, if that is any comfort.
Thank you.
Children are always a worry, but for this, probably not too much.
I am hoping that containment measures will keep outbreaks under control, and that it doesn't kick off in a big way other than economically (which will bounce back quickly after the peak).
I am not a particularly brave sort, and not so much in the front line as some others, but will not shirk when duty calls. I signed up for this 3 decades ago, and have had a good career.
As a random fact, the AVERAGE age of the first 11 deaths in Italy was above 80. I think it has dipped just below since. Indeed, the local health authorities are expecting a somewhat higher case fatality than in China because of Italy's demographics.
I don't think Chinas age demographics are very different now to our own.
It is early days in Italy though, and quite a few on ICU.
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
31% of members think RBL is the answer to the shellacking Lab just got?
Jeez. Starmer has his work cut out.
I hope Starmer stands for stamina.
Assuming Starmer wins, what will all the Corbyn fans that joined while he was leader do?
1) Leave and set up new party.
2) Leave and get disinterested in Politics
3) Stay members paying the £4 a month but not do anything for the party.
4) Stay but continually campaign within the party for a return to a Corbyn like leader, in a never-eding civil war.
5) stay and campaign for the party as viscerally as they did before?
Clearly each is an individual and some will try each of the above, but what do we think most will do? given its potentially 100,000 plus people we are talking about it could make a difference to how successful labour are.
Most of the Corbynites I know (like myself) are philosophical about it - we lost, we accept it's time to try someone new, and we hope they won't swing violently right. Unless Starmer goes out of his way to attack them, I think most will stick around and see how it goes. They certainly won't start a new party in any number.
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Remoteness didn’t help during the Black Death
Yes, it did. Read The Decameron!
I'm guessing that during the Black Death, the total population of England was less than the modern population of Wuhan?
If this does drag on and Bloomberg spends hundreds of millions on such adds, but Sanders wins the Dem Nomination anyway, it will be very hard if not impossible for him to win in November.
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Remoteness didn’t help during the Black Death
Yes, it did. Read The Decameron!
I'm guessing that during the Black Death, the total population of England was less than the modern population of Wuhan?
Estimated at about 3-4 million before hand, and 40-50% mortality. That’s without checking John Hatcher (which is at school).
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Remoteness didn’t help during the Black Death
Yes, it did. Read The Decameron!
I'm guessing that during the Black Death, the total population of England was less than the modern population of Wuhan?
Way less.
The point is good. If you could REALLY self isolate during the Black Death, before you were infected, it did give you some protection. I think.
Clearly, if you "REALLY self isolate" before you are infected, you're not going to get infected. But you might have to self-isolate forever.
(EDIT: Though on reflection, with the Black Death you'd have needed to self isolate from rats and fleas IIRC.)
I guess Labour is really happy with upper middle class white men leading the party then.
Charles you are upper middle class. Keir Starmer isn't.
Charles is upper class born and bred never mind upper middle class
Solidly middle class I’m afraid, sorry to disappoint
How many average middle class people went to Eton and Oxford, live in a posh part of central London, have family estates and know half the royal family as you do? Upper landed gentry with trade added on rather than a Dukedom is about as close as you get to middle class
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
I guess Labour is really happy with upper middle class white men leading the party then.
Charles you are upper middle class. Keir Starmer isn't.
You’re right. QC MP PC xDPP makes him upper class
Being upper class is determined by birthrate, you can work your way up to the upper middle class as Starmer has but you can never truly be upper class unless born into it
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Remoteness didn’t help during the Black Death
Yes, it did. Read The Decameron!
I'm guessing that during the Black Death, the total population of England was less than the modern population of Wuhan?
Estimated at about 3-4 million before hand, and 40-50% mortality. That’s without checking John Hatcher (which is at school).
Black Death had an 80% mortality rate on some estimates, made coronavirus looked like a slight winter sniffle
I guess Labour is really happy with upper middle class white men leading the party then.
Charles you are upper middle class. Keir Starmer isn't.
Charles is upper class born and bred never mind upper middle class
Solidly middle class I’m afraid, sorry to disappoint
How many average middle class people went to Eton and Oxford, live in a posh part of central London, have family estates and know half the royal family as you do? Upper landed gentry with trade added on rather than a Dukedom is about as close as you get to middle class
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Remoteness didn’t help during the Black Death
Yes, it did. Read The Decameron!
I'm guessing that during the Black Death, the total population of England was less than the modern population of Wuhan?
Way less.
The point is good. If you could REALLY self isolate during the Black Death, before you were infected, it did give you some protection. I think.
Looks like you should move up the road to the Vale of Health.
I guess Labour is really happy with upper middle class white men leading the party then.
Charles you are upper middle class. Keir Starmer isn't.
Charles is upper class born and bred never mind upper middle class
Solidly middle class I’m afraid, sorry to disappoint
How many average middle class people went to Eton and Oxford, live in a posh part of central London, have family estates and know half the royal family as you do? Upper landed gentry with trade added on rather than a Dukedom is about as close as you get to middle class
Shopkeepers made good would be more accurate
You are about as much a shopkeeper as Mohammed Al Fayed
Just got back from a week in Colorado, which is a Super Tuesday state. Saw adverts as follows:
Bloomberg (2 different ones) Warren Sanders
My impressions from what I have seen on US TV is as follows:
- Warren is viscerally offended by Bloomberg's presence in the race. - I can't see the democrats voting for a billionaire and Bloomberg is pretty uninspiring - Sanders is far more like Corbyn than Boris is like Trump. I can see things going the same way as for Labour if he gets the nomination - There's a bit of snark going on between Buttegieg and Klobuchar
It feels like it might go to the convention unless the DNC can lean on one or more of the moderates to drop out
I guess Labour is really happy with upper middle class white men leading the party then.
Charles you are upper middle class. Keir Starmer isn't.
Charles is upper class born and bred never mind upper middle class
Solidly middle class I’m afraid, sorry to disappoint
How many average middle class people went to Eton and Oxford, live in a posh part of central London, have family estates and know half the royal family as you do? Upper landed gentry with trade added on rather than a Dukedom is about as close as you get to middle class
Shopkeepers made good would be more accurate
You are about as much a shopkeeper as Mohammed Al Fayed
I’m not - I work for a bank - but my brother works in the family shop.
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Remoteness didn’t help during the Black Death
Yes, it did. Read The Decameron!
I'm guessing that during the Black Death, the total population of England was less than the modern population of Wuhan?
Estimated at about 3-4 million before hand, and 40-50% mortality. That’s without checking John Hatcher (which is at school).
Black Death had an 80% mortality rate on some estimates, made coronavirus looked like a slight winter sniffle
Never seen that high an estimate, although it varied somewhat by area (London had a higher mortality rate than Penkridge). What’s your source for it?
I guess Labour is really happy with upper middle class white men leading the party then.
Charles you are upper middle class. Keir Starmer isn't.
Charles is upper class born and bred never mind upper middle class
Solidly middle class I’m afraid, sorry to disappoint
How many average middle class people went to Eton and Oxford, live in a posh part of central London, have family estates and know half the royal family as you do? Upper landed gentry with trade added on rather than a Dukedom is about as close as you get to middle class
You can be very well off and middle class - virtually all americans with money for instance come into this category. But when the money is older than the old lady of Threadneedle
If this does drag on and Bloomberg spends hundreds of millions on such adds, but Sanders wins the Dem Nomination anyway, it will be very hard if not impossible for him to win in November.
Adverts or no adverts, it will be very hard for Sanders to win in November.
God, I bloody love Osea island. The silence and darkness is intense. 90 minutes from London.
And the bird life is insistent. When you drive along the Roman causeway at dusk, the white birds flee the car lights, like tiny frightened ghosts. And then the shadows thicken.
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Remoteness didn’t help during the Black Death
Yes, it did. Read The Decameron!
I'm guessing that during the Black Death, the total population of England was less than the modern population of Wuhan?
Estimated at about 3-4 million before hand, and 40-50% mortality. That’s without checking John Hatcher (which is at school).
Black Death had an 80% mortality rate on some estimates, made coronavirus looked like a slight winter sniffle
Never seen that high an estimate, although it varied somewhat by area (London had a higher mortality rate than Penkridge). What’s your source for it?
Certainly some medieval villages hit an 80% death rate
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
Wasn't that a characteristic response of Spanish flu in 1918? Explaining some of the death rate in some younger age groups.
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Remoteness didn’t help during the Black Death
Yes, it did. Read The Decameron!
I'm guessing that during the Black Death, the total population of England was less than the modern population of Wuhan?
Estimated at about 3-4 million before hand, and 40-50% mortality. That’s without checking John Hatcher (which is at school).
I always thought it was 40-45%, but I've heard recently that's based on records of deaths of the clergy and there's reason to think they might have suffered a higher mortality rate. Other records suggest a mortality rate of 20-30% for the general population.
I have a sentimental attachment to the 40-45% range because the probability of rolling 6 or less on two D6 is 41.7%, which you can use to simulate the effect of the Black Death on your nearest and dearest. Which is what I had my daughter do when she was eight.
Voted. Weird confusing website. You have to drag and order candidates. Now waiting for my second vote.
I have not had any ballots through. I have a horroible feeling it is something to do with an article I posted on here a couple of years back, which led to an official complaint being made against me by someone whose identity I never discovered. When I left the party I assumed that it would all be dropped, but maybe it was just sitting on file waiting for me to come back!!
I think I'd defend that if you were actually suspended while they looked into it. Say you were alleged to be a mad anti-semite, and were suspended while it was checked out. It wouldn't make sense if you could simply resign and then rejoin as a fresh new member - they would need to have a look to see if you were a known suspendee.
I'd be all in favour of clearing you (and Al) now though.
I have no problem with being investigated - as long as I know it’s happening! I am confident I can make my case, but I need the chance to.
31% of members think RBL is the answer to the shellacking Lab just got?
Jeez. Starmer has his work cut out.
I hope Starmer stands for stamina.
Assuming Starmer wins, what will all the Corbyn fans that joined while he was leader do?
1) Leave and set up new party.
2) Leave and get disinterested in Politics
3) Stay members paying the £4 a month but not do anything for the party.
4) Stay but continually campaign within the party for a return to a Corbyn like leader, in a never-eding civil war.
5) stay and campaign for the party as viscerally as they did before?
Clearly each is an individual and some will try each of the above, but what do we think most will do? given its potentially 100,000 plus people we are talking about it could make a difference to how successful labour are.
Most of the Corbynites I know (like myself) are philosophical about it - we lost, we accept it's time to try someone new, and we hope they won't swing violently right. Unless Starmer goes out of his way to attack them, I think most will stick around and see how it goes. They certainly won't start a new party in any number.
I still cannot quite understand how the Corbynites added anything other than to herald in possibly 10 years of rampant neoliberalism through their pathetic grandiose posturing of nonsense gesture politicking.,..seriously I hope all the Corbynites fuck off and disappear into some swamp somewhere....
Voted. Weird confusing website. You have to drag and order candidates. Now waiting for my second vote.
I have not had any ballots through. I have a horroible feeling it is something to do with an article I posted on here a couple of years back, which led to an official complaint being made against me by someone whose identity I never discovered. When I left the party I assumed that it would all be dropped, but maybe it was just sitting on file waiting for me to come back!!
I think I'd defend that if you were actually suspended while they looked into it. Say you were alleged to be a mad anti-semite, and were suspended while it was checked out. It wouldn't make sense if you could simply resign and then rejoin as a fresh new member - they would need to have a look to see if you were a known suspendee.
I'd be all in favour of clearing you (and Al) now though.
I have no problem with being investigated - as long as I know it’s happening! I am confident I can make my case, but I need the chance to.
"The lung disease seems to be a progressive viral pneumonia, peaking at 10 days, possibly exacerbated by an excessive host inflammatory response."
I had mild pneumonia at university when I was 20.
It was absolutely horrible. I felt and looked like death. I felt freezing cold and boiling hot (because I had a very high temperature) at the same time.
Never again.
I have had pneumonia 6 times (and much else besides). It is horrible. I have bronchiectasis. I have to do all I can to avoid further lung infections.
Where I am currently am is practically off the map. So am keeping calm.
I try not to worry about stuff I can do little about.
Oh god, poor you..
Good luck. Hopefully we’ll all be ok.
And now I do wonder whether I shouldn’t hoick them out of London, just in case .....
Fox Jr is in London now, and growing up to be a fine young man. Travelling on the tube, going to theatres and crowded pubs etc.
The risks to youngsters are quite low though, so he should be fine if he gets it. There have been very few fatalities under 30, mostly minor symptoms and quick resolution.
I suspect your kids are equally low risk in London, if that is any comfort.
Thank you.
Children are always a worry, but for this, probably not too much.
I am hoping that containment measures will keep outbreaks under control, and that it doesn't kick off in a big way other than economically (which will bounce back quickly after the peak).
I am not a particularly brave sort, and not so much in the front line as some others, but will not shirk when duty calls. I signed up for this 3 decades ago, and have had a good career.
As a random fact, the AVERAGE age of the first 11 deaths in Italy was above 80. I think it has dipped just below since. Indeed, the local health authorities are expecting a somewhat higher case fatality than in China because of Italy's demographics.
I don't think Chinas age demographics are very different now to our own.
It is early days in Italy though, and quite a few on ICU.
Yes, I wondered that. Might be a locality specific thing as well - Wuhan city vs wine growing villages in winter.
Thinking back, and my memory is hazy, I may even have once, many years ago, got completely blotto at the wine harvest festival in Codogno within the current exclusion zone (as you would) - it was certainly very, very close to that area.
God, I bloody love Osea island. The silence and darkness is intense. 90 minutes from London.
And the bird life is insistent. When you drive along the Roman causeway at dusk, the white birds flee the car lights, like tiny frightened ghosts. And then the shadows thicken.
OOOOOOhhhhyeah
You hired the whole thing?
In late February I appear to be the only guest here. I am certainly the only person in the nine bedroom “Captain’s House”. There must be other people on the island (a few workers live here full time) but they are invisible.
It is a deliciously eerie feeling.
A bloody good place to ride out COVID-19. Shoot any potentially snotty bastard that ventures on the causeway....
Voted. Weird confusing website. You have to drag and order candidates. Now waiting for my second vote.
I have not had any ballots through. I have a horroible feeling it is something to do with an article I posted on here a couple of years back, which led to an official complaint being made against me by someone whose identity I never discovered. When I left the party I assumed that it would all be dropped, but maybe it was just sitting on file waiting for me to come back!!
I think I'd defend that if you were actually suspended while they looked into it. Say you were alleged to be a mad anti-semite, and were suspended while it was checked out. It wouldn't make sense if you could simply resign and then rejoin as a fresh new member - they would need to have a look to see if you were a known suspendee.
I'd be all in favour of clearing you (and Al) now though.
I have no problem with being investigated - as long as I know it’s happening! I am confident I can make my case, but I need the chance to.
Doesn’t sound like an organisation I’d want to be part of.
I guess Labour is really happy with upper middle class white men leading the party then.
Why would Labour object to having a leader who has worked his way through the English class system to achieve extraordinary things, helped in large part by a redistributive state that enabled him to fulfil his potential? What Starmer has achieved is everything that Labour should be about.
Bring back Grammars and expand assisted places at Fee paying schools? Sounds good
I can’t argue against grammar schools. I went to one and it was very good for me. The issue is what happens to the 75% or so of kids who don’t get in. There is also a fairness issue. I did not initially get into my school, even though I passed my 11+ and was literally the closest child to it. The second closest applicant didn’t get in either. My Dad fixed lifts, his Dad was a taxi driver. Kids who lived further away, with parents in the professions were accepted, though. We both ended up going because others dropped out and went private instead. That was the 70s, and I doubt things would be as blatant now, but bias is always an issue when there is selection.
I guess Labour is really happy with upper middle class white men leading the party then.
Charles you are upper middle class. Keir Starmer isn't.
Charles is upper class born and bred never mind upper middle class
Solidly middle class I’m afraid, sorry to disappoint
Always makes me laugh me how the upper classes pretend to be middle class. You have to wonder who they think really is upper class?
I work for a living and my family lives in a flat over the shop. Does that make us working class?
No. Even the Queen works for a living.
Anybody who was privately educated is upper class, end of.
Seant- one of his wisest bits of advice to me was that a person needs to work....
Sean was right.....I returned back to work because I needed something to get me through the week...it can be a long time....I get paid a quarter of what I use to earn, maybe less...and I seriously do not need any more money, wealth, capital...I'm trying to divest myself of assets...but work can be fun
31% of members think RBL is the answer to the shellacking Lab just got?
Jeez. Starmer has his work cut out.
I hope Starmer stands for stamina.
Assuming Starmer wins, what will all the Corbyn fans that joined while he was leader do?
1) Leave and set up new party.
2) Leave and get disinterested in Politics
3) Stay members paying the £4 a month but not do anything for the party.
4) Stay but continually campaign within the party for a return to a Corbyn like leader, in a never-eding civil war.
5) stay and campaign for the party as viscerally as they did before?
Clearly each is an individual and some will try each of the above, but what do we think most will do? given its potentially 100,000 plus people we are talking about it could make a difference to how successful labour are.
Most of the Corbynites I know (like myself) are philosophical about it - we lost, we accept it's time to try someone new, and we hope they won't swing violently right. Unless Starmer goes out of his way to attack them, I think most will stick around and see how it goes. They certainly won't start a new party in any number.
I still cannot quite understand how the Corbynites added anything other than to herald in possibly 10 years of rampant neoliberalism through their pathetic grandiose posturing of nonsense gesture politicking.,..seriously I hope all the Corbynites fuck off and disappear into some swamp somewhere....
Osborne was a neoliberal, Boris is not, even Blair was more neoliberal than Boris
31% of members think RBL is the answer to the shellacking Lab just got?
Jeez. Starmer has his work cut out.
I hope Starmer stands for stamina.
Assuming Starmer wins, what will all the Corbyn fans that joined while he was leader do?
1) Leave and set up new party.
2) Leave and get disinterested in Politics
3) Stay members paying the £4 a month but not do anything for the party.
4) Stay but continually campaign within the party for a return to a Corbyn like leader, in a never-eding civil war.
5) stay and campaign for the party as viscerally as they did before?
Clearly each is an individual and some will try each of the above, but what do we think most will do? given its potentially 100,000 plus people we are talking about it could make a difference to how successful labour are.
Most of the Corbynites I know (like myself) are philosophical about it - we lost, we accept it's time to try someone new, and we hope they won't swing violently right. Unless Starmer goes out of his way to attack them, I think most will stick around and see how it goes. They certainly won't start a new party in any number.
I still cannot quite understand how the Corbynites added anything other than to herald in possibly 10 years of rampant neoliberalism through their pathetic grandiose posturing of nonsense gesture politicking.,..seriously I hope all the Corbynites fuck off and disappear into some swamp somewhere....
Osborne was a neoliberal, Boris is not, even Blair was more neoliberal than Boris
Boris is a rampant neoliberal clothed in a false Keynesian fleece....
31% of members think RBL is the answer to the shellacking Lab just got?
Jeez. Starmer has his work cut out.
I hope Starmer stands for stamina.
Assuming Starmer wins, what will all the Corbyn fans that joined while he was leader do?
1) Leave and set up new party.
2) Leave and get disinterested in Politics
3) Stay members paying the £4 a month but not do anything for the party.
4) Stay but continually campaign within the party for a return to a Corbyn like leader, in a never-eding civil war.
5) stay and campaign for the party as viscerally as they did before?
Clearly each is an individual and some will try each of the above, but what do we think most will do? given its potentially 100,000 plus people we are talking about it could make a difference to how successful labour are.
Most of the Corbynites I know (like myself) are philosophical about it - we lost, we accept it's time to try someone new, and we hope they won't swing violently right. Unless Starmer goes out of his way to attack them, I think most will stick around and see how it goes. They certainly won't start a new party in any number.
I still cannot quite understand how the Corbynites added anything other than to herald in possibly 10 years of rampant neoliberalism through their pathetic grandiose posturing of nonsense gesture politicking.,..seriously I hope all the Corbynites fuck off and disappear into some swamp somewhere....
Osborne was a neoliberal, Boris is not, even Blair was more neoliberal than Boris
Boris is a rampant neoliberal clothed in a false Keynesian fleece....
God, I bloody love Osea island. The silence and darkness is intense. 90 minutes from London.
And the bird life is insistent. When you drive along the Roman causeway at dusk, the white birds flee the car lights, like tiny frightened ghosts. And then the shadows thicken.
OOOOOOhhhhyeah
You hired the whole thing?
In late February I appear to be the only guest here. I am certainly the only person in the nine bedroom “Captain’s House”. There must be other people on the island (a few workers live here full time) but they are invisible.
It is a deliciously eerie feeling.
A bloody good place to ride out COVID-19. Shoot any potentially snotty bastard that ventures on the causeway....
Now there's a novel.
Or maybe an island in Poole Harbour. Or one of the tinier Scilly Isles.
But for full-on Gothic atmospherics, Osea is almost impossible to beat. The Battle of Maldon took place here (and on the neighbouring isle) - the skulls of Saxon warriors sleep beneath the shingle.
The oyster beds are Roman. The villa was used for rehabbing Amy Winehouse. There are five species of owl.
Probably had a Snowy Owl too out there, over the years.
A crazy amphibian soundtrack too, at this time of the year.
I guess Labour is really happy with upper middle class white men leading the party then.
Why would Labour object to having a leader who has worked his way through the English class system to achieve extraordinary things, helped in large part by a redistributive state that enabled him to fulfil his potential? What Starmer has achieved is everything that Labour should be about.
Bring back Grammars and expand assisted places at Fee paying schools? Sounds good
I can’t argue against grammar schools. I went to one and it was very good for me. The issue is what happens to the 75% or so of kids who don’t get in. There is also a fairness issue. I did not initially get into my school, even though I passed my 11+ and was literally the closest child to it. The second closest applicant didn’t get in either. My Dad fixed lifts, his Dad was a taxi driver. Kids who lived further away, with parents in the professions were accepted, though. We both ended up going because others dropped out and went private instead. That was the 70s, and I doubt things would be as blatant now, but bias is always an issue when there is selection.
The other kids, who don’t get in, go to the kind of schools we have now. Comprehensive school teachers are all supposedly of similar ability, so it shouldn’t make much difference. I’d say the most beneficial effect of a Grammar is to be in an environment where academic ability isn’t seen as something to be ashamed of.
When I was thinking of being a Kipper candidate, my policy suggestion was to turn the school in the worst part of each constituency into a Grammar to put house prices up as well as give poor kids a better chance
31% of members think RBL is the answer to the shellacking Lab just got?
Jeez. Starmer has his work cut out.
I hope Starmer stands for stamina.
Assuming Starmer wins, what will all the Corbyn fans that joined while he was leader do?
1) Leave and set up new party.
2) Leave and get disinterested in Politics
3) Stay members paying the £4 a month but not do anything for the party.
4) Stay but continually campaign within the party for a return to a Corbyn like leader, in a never-eding civil war.
5) stay and campaign for the party as viscerally as they did before?
Clearly each is an individual and some will try each of the above, but what do we think most will do? given its potentially 100,000 plus people we are talking about it could make a difference to how successful labour are.
Most of the Corbynites I know (like myself) are philosophical about it - we lost, we accept it's time to try someone new, and we hope they won't swing violently right. Unless Starmer goes out of his way to attack them, I think most will stick around and see how it goes. They certainly won't start a new party in any number.
I still cannot quite understand how the Corbynites added anything other than to herald in possibly 10 years of rampant neoliberalism through their pathetic grandiose posturing of nonsense gesture politicking.,..seriously I hope all the Corbynites fuck off and disappear into some swamp somewhere....
Osborne was a neoliberal, Boris is not, even Blair was more neoliberal than Boris
Boris is a rampant neoliberal clothed in a false Keynesian fleece....
One of the great eccentricities of UK politics is how the right wing gloat in bathing in lefty policies (Cameron and civil partnerships), but as soon as a lefty ventures into righty territory (ie Blair with Iraq) they get absolutely fucking hammered....
It’s remarkable why this rule is so hard for some motorists to understand.
Who cares? There are more important things in life, yet this seems to wind up the leather glove brigade.
It's a sign that the driver responsible isn't paying enough attention to be safe enough on the road and it's so easy to get right, quite apart from the inherent rudeness of it.
God, I bloody love Osea island. The silence and darkness is intense. 90 minutes from London.
And the bird life is insistent. When you drive along the Roman causeway at dusk, the white birds flee the car lights, like tiny frightened ghosts. And then the shadows thicken.
OOOOOOhhhhyeah
You hired the whole thing?
In late February I appear to be the only guest here. I am certainly the only person in the nine bedroom “Captain’s House”. There must be other people on the island (a few workers live here full time) but they are invisible.
It is a deliciously eerie feeling.
A bloody good place to ride out COVID-19. Shoot any potentially snotty bastard that ventures on the causeway....
Now there's a novel.
Or maybe an island in Poole Harbour. Or one of the tinier Scilly Isles.
But for full-on Gothic atmospherics, Osea is almost impossible to beat. The Battle of Maldon took place here (and on the neighbouring isle) - the skulls of Saxon warriors sleep beneath the shingle.
The oyster beds are Roman. The villa was used for rehabbing Amy Winehouse. There are five species of owl.
My girlfriends mates parents live in nearby Mersea... they’re from Hong Kong, they are going back for a family funeral next week... and I’m scared of the kids playing together in the near future!
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It's coming home
It's coming
Football's coming home
Liver bird on a shirt
Old big ears still gleaming
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming
I had an intimation of mortality just before Xmas when I became very ill very quickly. My son was with me and he said: “Mum. You’re white and your lips are blue.” I had chest pain and it crossed my mind that maybe this was it: heart attack and off. I’d go to bed and not wake up. Partly it was because the evening before my mother died in her sleep we’d noticed that her lips were a bit blue (she had a cold) and told her we’d get the doctor in the next morning. And this was around Xmas too. So there seemed to be echoes which my son’s words brought to the surface, even though he did not know this.
Instead of which I got something nastier.
Anyway I’m still here but I remember thinking that I mustn’t worry my sons - they were all for calling an ambulance - and that bothering doctors at Xmas was the last thing they needed. I really didn’t want them (my sons) seeing me in such a state.
And now I do wonder whether I shouldn’t hoick them out of London, just in case .....
* And yes they are utterly glorious. Whatever your take on Islam, the words of the Shahada are quite sublime. The Arabic alliteration is beautiful.
Actually I'm a very good Muslim if you ignore my constant whoring and gambling, and that I only pray twice a year, if that.
The risks to youngsters are quite low though, so he should be fine if he gets it. There have been very few fatalities under 30, mostly minor symptoms and quick resolution.
I suspect your kids are equally low risk in London, if that is any comfort.
I suspect that is why Johnson wanted him out.
I'm certain that 2020 will have more craziness than 2000 and 2016 combined.
I am hoping that containment measures will keep outbreaks under control, and that it doesn't kick off in a big way other than economically (which will bounce back quickly after the peak).
I am not a particularly brave sort, and not so much in the front line as some others, but will not shirk when duty calls. I signed up for this 3 decades ago, and have had a good career.
https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/1232769796644777986?s=20
Coronavirus cases jump to 400 in Italy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51645902
It is early days in Italy though, and quite a few on ICU.
If this does drag on and Bloomberg spends hundreds of millions on such adds, but Sanders wins the Dem Nomination anyway, it will be very hard if not impossible for him to win in November.
You have to wonder who they think really is upper class?
I've always considered people with a title as upper class.
(EDIT: Though on reflection, with the Black Death you'd have needed to self isolate from rats and fleas IIRC.)
Bloomberg (2 different ones)
Warren
Sanders
My impressions from what I have seen on US TV is as follows:
- Warren is viscerally offended by Bloomberg's presence in the race.
- I can't see the democrats voting for a billionaire and Bloomberg is pretty uninspiring
- Sanders is far more like Corbyn than Boris is like Trump. I can see things going the same way as for Labour if he gets the nomination
- There's a bit of snark going on between Buttegieg and Klobuchar
It feels like it might go to the convention unless the DNC can lean on one or more of the moderates to drop out
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/black_01.shtml
I have a sentimental attachment to the 40-45% range because the probability of rolling 6 or less on two D6 is 41.7%, which you can use to simulate the effect of the Black Death on your nearest and dearest. Which is what I had my daughter do when she was eight.
Anybody who was privately educated is upper class, end of.
Thinking back, and my memory is hazy, I may even have once, many years ago, got completely blotto at the wine harvest festival in Codogno within the current exclusion zone (as you would) - it was certainly very, very close to that area.
Now there's a novel.
I did idly wonder what would happen if he picked Warren and they both succumbed.
Sean was right.....I returned back to work because I needed something to get me through the week...it can be a long time....I get paid a quarter of what I use to earn, maybe less...and I seriously do not need any more money, wealth, capital...I'm trying to divest myself of assets...but work can be fun
Boris is a rampant neoliberal clothed in a false Keynesian fleece....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8036023/Boris-Johnson-spend-Tony-Blair-Chancellors-Budget-pushes-figure-1trillion.html
A crazy amphibian soundtrack too, at this time of the year.
When I was thinking of being a Kipper candidate, my policy suggestion was to turn the school in the worst part of each constituency into a Grammar to put house prices up as well as give poor kids a better chance
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/brexit-day-coins-sell-for-c2-a360k-at-tory-black-and-white-ball/ar-BB10q8mx