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"I spoke to the PM on Saturday, [that] was the last time I spoke to him," says Foreign Secretary Dominic RaabBoris Johnson is in hospital with "persistent symptoms" of coronavirus https://t.co/OIh7EwyqSR pic.twitter.com/HDmG3ygnUP
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But Boris is in hospital, apart from a story for the sake of it why should Raab be talking to someone who should be resting to get better.
Nobody will think less of you PM if you spend a while solely focussing on getting better.
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1247198753582391301
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1247170441778782208
Meanwhile
https://twitter.com/darreneuronews/status/1247205301520142336?s=21
Quite.
They should get an EU spin doctor to read the lines out at the lectern - there would be a C4 special and a a BBC daily podcast dedicated to repeating the output.
His health secrets will be protected by medical ethics and the short-term course is already plotted anyway. Keep a lid on things and wait for the peak to pass. A point the experts will advise on.
So what was the point of the press conference? Apart from an excuse to publish misleading headlines for the journalists. We'd get more information from viewers' questions.
I suspect the journalists think that bringing in an antibody test is just a matter of decanting one test tube of coloured liquid into another test tube with another brightly-coloured liquid in it.
Whitty explained the problem well, but it was pointless. Relativity explained to a slug.
It is similar to when Bush Snr effectively ran the US while Reagan was in hospital after being shot
We're up to 13k now. Need much greater test capacity before any restrictions lift
Back to fatalism. The real answer to your question 'What's the bloody point of spending your entire life wanting to PM when your ego means you're PM for less than a year?' is that he doesn't believe that his survival is really up to him. He learned his classics lessons all too well. As Eteocles said as he went out to fight his brother to the death before the seventh gate of Thebes, θεῶν διδόντων οὐκ ἂν ἐκφύγοις κακά - from god-sent ills, there's no escape.
As for Boris he needs a consultant that tells him to cut this running the country crap out, to rest as much as he possibly can and to concentrate on getting well. He does not want an unborn child to lose its father before it is even born
https://twitter.com/DavidHenigUK/status/1246699527823921152
christ
I agree that an extention is looking almost certain.
Or are the people moving through Heathrow simply more important ?
Although the schedule is still very much a work in progress officials from Augusta National, the USGA and the PGA of America announced in a joint statement on Monday that the Masters will be played Nov. 12-15; the PGA Championship will be held Aug. 6-9 at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, where it was originally scheduled to be played; and the U.S. Open will be relocated to Sept. 18-21 and the championship will remain at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, N.Y.
Totally bonkers. I’m glad the R&A have seen sense.
Lockdown will lift in May.
I was talking (at a safe distance, natch!) to our excellent fishmonger on Saturday, who told me that one of the supply problems is that a lot of farmed bass and bream comes from Turkey and Greece. They can send trucks over, but when they get back the drivers have to go into quarantine for 10 days, completely clobbering the supply chain. Extrapolate that to supplies from France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, and you've got a real problem.
Until very recently, you could get on a plane and go pretty much anywhere with zero checks.
That will change.
You see it now with China. You will see it in other areas. I don't doubt that if Scotland was largely CV-19 free, and the England was not, then you would see restrictions on people crossing the border. You'll certainly see it across Schengen.
My guess is that you'll see "two way" re-openings happen relatively quickly. If Luxembourg and Belgium both see CV-19 cases drop to near zero, then things will normalise there quite quickly.
I suspect a much bigger issue will be places like the US. Wyoming or North Dakota - where social distancing is a natural consequence of incredibly spread out populations - will probably not bother with restrictions. Which means they'll keep low levels of CV-19 infections, well, in perpetuity.
This means that a New York will never really be free of it either, because people will come from Wyoming on a regular basis.
And that means travel between the US and the UK will need to be restricted.
"Ending lockdown" isn't a binary thing. What we had before versus what we have now. We're not going back to what we had before for a long time. And that's before we even factor in numbers beginning to rise again.
"According to 2018/2019 statistics from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, there are currently 485,645 international students pursuing their degree in the UK. The number has experienced an increase from the previous year statistics which encompassed a total of 458,520."
https://www.studying-in-uk.org/international-student-statistics-in-uk/
We are therefore committed to finding alternative ways to operate while there are no football matches being played that ensures we are not applying for the government relief scheme.
I agree that someone other than Boris should be running things, but Raab?? Gove maybe. The problem is that many of Boris's cabinet are so uninspiring. Truss, Patel, Shapps ....
The Spurs decision was galling because Levy was paid £7 million, FSG haven't taken a salary or a penny out of the club*. That's a proud achievement for a decade of ownership.
*Well apart from the repayment of the Main Stand loan.
Sigh.
Incidentally my friend rhwrehas been diagnosed with bronchitis. Discovered they had unknowingly had contact with someone from N Italy. Called GP at 5pm to inform them. Test arranged for tomorrow morning.
Or here
https://www.pgachampionship.com/2020newdate
It's about infected+recovered. Germany has identified 100k cases. Most will survive and recover. UK has identified 50k so far. By that logic we're closer to herd immunity, but what really counts is, of course, the true number of cases. This can only be roughly estimated once antibody testing shows the number of infected+recovered cases.
You can’t do anything at all.