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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted to hospital for tests, 10 days after testing positive for coronavirus https://t.co/RhjYRNfpUN
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*actually I'm not sure about that, but I think it was a few more years before annual parliaments were required, I might be wrong on that.
https://twitter.com/kelvinnewman/status/1246904252775137281
Good time to resign.
Johnson is in an NHS hospital in London where he will stay for “as long as needed”.
Johnson was taken to hospital earlier this evening, he has been admitted, so expected to stay in overnight and is having what are described as ‘routine tests’ -
Nothing routine about this situation....
(*Though, now I type that, I can't see any reason why
On a lighter note, proud, very proud.
https://twitter.com/Historic_Ally/status/1246753288181166081?s=20
Statement from Dr Catherine Calderwood.
Whats the alternative - make it up as it unfolds?
Not least because the alternatives hardly inspire confidence.
Regarding the Scottish CMO... I’m struggling to see what’s bad about someone travelling to their own house really, if they’re only with people who they live with in their other house. Maybe that’s not what happened, I’ve not really read it properly
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/01/cats-can-infect-each-other-with-coronavirus-chinese-study-finds
I doubt Raab would win that.
I would have thought the final two would most likely be Sunak and Hunt.
"In the novel, it is uncertain whether China has "won". It crafted the virus to wreak economic havoc once its own fortress was built - but suffered greatly when it had the virus released from a Wuhan lab by foreign powers, appalled after having learnt of its plans. Of course, neither side could admit what had occurred.
The foreign powers hadn't won either, not with so many tens of million dead. But along with the rest of the world, they had settled into a policy of "buy China last". China was gradually crumbling from this lack of trade. The Chinese Communist Party was riven with factions. We join as a military plot on whether to invade Taiwan is being decided upon...."
I've turned the model into a spreadsheet that you can copy and play around with the numbers. By good chance today is one of the days the model spits out a number for. The model predicted seven and a half thousand deaths by now.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XTwPjI5l4d_xZAXOQy72LU8eRoPJyfU6fp9Hgx1flUo/edit?usp=sharing
All developed countries presumably have the necessary emergency communications infrastructure for high-level government as to not require face-to-face meetings with the top bods. Why not use them? Yes it's going above and beyond the official advice to the general public, but politicians meet a lot of people (and a lot of those people are important to emergency response, senior administrators and advisers) so from a risk management point of view it's worth being stricter to prevent the response being damaged by inconveniently timed incapacitations at the top. At the very least cutting down on handshakes and unnecessary meetings weeks before (how often would a phone call suffice?) could have been a decent start. Instead, there were still members of the public going round tours of the Palace of Westminster and lots of MPs and cabinet ministers holding relatively unimportant visits and meetings just a few weeks ago.
https://twitter.com/Number10cat/status/1246895323844403200
What’s the harm in moving from one empty house to another?
I think that's what made her position even more tenuous. What she did wasn't just going arguably against the spirit of the campaign she was fronting, it was something that had been actively and specifically condemned. It would utterly undermine the credibility of the messaging if she continued in her position.
Amazing timing too - just elected today.
But it is not exactly a slow news day, so damage minimal.
If i read the medical thing right days 10 to 15 or so are where the greatest numbers of fatalities occur if there has been no recovery signs.
So I tend to go with Occam' razor here. Brilliant conspiracy theory/thriller novel ground though, I admit.
At a minimum there would be MPs' votes.
A GNU is not needed. Both sides parking partisan nonsense for a bit so that they work together on the important matters, including bringing in the opposition to some degree, and the opposition continuing to provide constructive challenge, that is what is needed.
And I think by and large that is what they will both do.
The real sophistication is 75%+ showing no symptoms. I bet they were really chuffed when they cracked that.
Best wishes to any on here who are suffering - @Floater’s son, I think. @GideonWise and @MaxPB too. And anyone else.
Are the Scottish voters going to give her a kicking as per your devout wish?
Are you getting it yet?
Three drivers, two controllers.
Probably impossible to tell for sure whether people are catching it at work or through other means, but given what these people were potentially exposed to you'd have to put a pretty high probability on the former, sadly.
There are quite a lot of low-paid jobs (HCA, social care, warehouse work, supermarket jobs) that we are really seeing the "social value" of right now and there's a lot of those jobs I really wouldn't want to do right now it if I was, say, fiftysomething and not terribly fit.
Tonight our PM lies in hospital.
Eadric, if you're still around I'm with you on your thoughts on this. I'd better not continue in that vein, however, as we'll be accused of being identical.
What a day. I'm off to bed.
The first thing I did on reading this news was to check Betfair, not BBC news.
I'd like to see real solid evidence from reputable sources before I give it the time of day.
I actually agree on the going to a second home, if you traval only with mebers of your own family bring your own food stay in the house when you get there and don't interact with anybody while there, then the risk of increasing the spread is probably minimal.
But:
What I don't like is the people setting the rules not flowing them. Those in power will fell less resistant about taking away freedoms and liberty of others if they do not expect to have to follow the same rules.
While it might be argues that COVID is a spashale case, I think it is shining a light on an attitude an agagance, and its reminding me why I'm a libertarian and pushing me towards Anarchism.