Fair play. I daresay that there will still be a goon somewhere (even on here possibly) claiming that he's been got at by the ubiquitous, persuasive tentacles of the Natz.
an ongoing deep recession prompted by a global pandemic would be a good time to bury leaving the EU with no deal.
Or maybe as in the post-WW2 period, this is the opportunity for a reset and fresh independent thinking.
Not a bad idea at all. All kinds of trade flows, contingencies, supply chains, etc will have been dramatically revised and new relationships put in their place (whether inter- or intra-nationally).
As such a review and fresh independent thinking would be very sensible. But in that spirit, it would be ridiculous to try to leave the EU *at the same time*.
Once this has subsided, let's as you say see where we are, and then make some sensible decisions. We will be tying our hands if we try to pursue it right now as with everyone being so vulnerable (as in national trade positions) we don't want to be in a position whereby we aren't able to leverage whatever strengths we find we have post-Covid19.
We have left the EU. Didn't you notice? I am sure it was mentioned on here at least a couple of times.
What do you guys do for composting? I have a single 'dalek' composter, and I need to get a further one, or change the arrangement.
Daleks are good. They should come with a lid though, and I have found they work better when the contents are kept damp.
Yes there's a lid :-). Having no lawn I need more greens, though.
I assume it is directly on the ground and that there is no bottom so that the worms can get up into the material and do their stuff.
If you have the space you can go for the full Monty Don experience: 3 spaces side by side bounded by wooden fencing and open to the sky. First one is for all the stuff you initially put in, then as it rots down and you turn it you put it into the middle section and let it rot some more. Then finally you turn it and put it into the last section where it turns into the lovely sweet smelling crumbly compost we all love.
For those of us without the space, I have found the wooden beehive composters to be pretty effective. And also quite attractive. If you have the space you can put two in and do a truncated version of what I’ve described above. But even if you do nothing, eventually it will all rot down. Just make sure you put them somewhere where it is easy to access the compost at the bottom.
Bob Flowerdew once pointed out that urine can be effective at speeding up the rotting process. It is not essential however ......
Peeing on a compost heap is an old gardeners trick.
Younger ones can usually make it to the loo in time.....
Coronavirus makes a 31/12 Brexit timing severely sub-optimal.
The talk of a second wave in Winter is not just a generalisation, it fits absolutely with the pattern of previous pandemics: the warmth of summer will have a suppressive effect alongside whatever relaxed social distancing we end up with, but momentum will start to build again in early October and, depending on the success of apps, treatments and the rest of it, a second peak, with all that entails, within 4 weeks of Christmas is odds-on.
So, how does France, in particular, respond to a large increase in the requirement for Border Officers to go-live with disruptive new ways of working that require close quarters supervision in the peak of the second wave. If we're lucky, enforcement is suspended on an emergency basis and trade continues unimpeded. If we're unlucky: and France decides this: we end up with a fully closed trade border in addition to people not passing. A blockade, if you like. Do you feel lucky, Brexiteer punk?
Let's be helpful. Alistair Meek's one year delay isn't the best, its height of winter again. But July 31st 2021, say. Final, final date. That suits.
Oxford University to begin tests of its coronavirus vaccine on humans NEXT WEEK Oxford's vaccine programme has already recruited 510 people, aged between 18 and 55, to take part in the first trial.
an ongoing deep recession prompted by a global pandemic would be a good time to bury leaving the EU with no deal.
Or maybe as in the post-WW2 period, this is the opportunity for a reset and fresh independent thinking.
Not a bad idea at all. All kinds of trade flows, contingencies, supply chains, etc will have been dramatically revised and new relationships put in their place (whether inter- or intra-nationally).
As such a review and fresh independent thinking would be very sensible. But in that spirit, it would be ridiculous to try to leave the EU *at the same time*.
Once this has subsided, let's as you say see where we are, and then make some sensible decisions. We will be tying our hands if we try to pursue it right now as with everyone being so vulnerable (as in national trade positions) we don't want to be in a position whereby we aren't able to leverage whatever strengths we find we have post-Covid19.
We have left the EU. Didn't you notice? I am sure it was mentioned on here at least a couple of times.
Not really. We haven't left the EU by any practical measure. We are still in the position we have been in for the past 40 years (albeit with less say, AIUI).
The fuss was over 3 products out of over 2,000.....
Each day we distribute millions of items of PPE to care settings in Scotland, Wales and England. Our committed team have been working incredibly hard to make sure that everyone who has been a regular customer of Gompels can continue to access the stocks that we can buy in these difficult times.
Stocks of PPE are at a record low in the UK and coronavirus has created massive demand for products that would not normally be widely used in a care setting. This has meant that the usual supply channels are unable to fulfil the requirements. Pandemic flu stocks have been released under the Department of Health & Social Care Covid-19: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Plan.
These pandemic English pandemic flu stocks are mandated for supply to CQC registered settings operating in England. Currently there are only 3 products from over 2000 that this relates to. We continue to supply on a daily basis our full range (less these 3 products from Public Health England) to Care providers in Wales and Scotland.
That's a decline from the peak. We may indeed be over the worst. Deus Vult.
That's a 150 from the nations excluding England. That seems more than usual.
The Scottish numbers now try to include care homes which gives them a slightly different basis.
So we are now not only comparing apples and oranges over dates of deaths, we are now counting different "standard" by which we include a death in the figures.
Are we likely to see the number of deaths rise to the levels of previous highs?
Have we, ur, [long theatrical pause] peeeeeeeeeeeeeaked?
Can I go out and play in the park with my mates now?
You missed the most knuckle head one of the variety the "why won't the government tell us x"....its on the government websites, and these stats have been collected since 1849.
Perhaps some of those self-declared moderate Leavers might, you know, start actually voicing their opinions instead of waiting for others to do their dirty work?
Great news - these chaps are showing us the way - that working from home can be productive.
Also - we can use the £12Bn membership fee for next year to pay down debt.
Clearly the Government is mad. It is beyond bonkers to keep the possibility of a No Deal exit on the table just as the possible 2nd wave of virus hits next winter.
Tories will be out of office for a generation once the voters get their say on that.
All the self-proclaimed moderate Leavers who have been slating me for weeks for pointing out what was coming will by then have decided that was what they always wanted. The self-radicalisation will have taken another turn of the screw.
Wouldn't bother me if we stayed in! Mass, uncontrolled, immigration is a thing of the past now
So it was just about prejudice all along. Well I never!
Well it wasnt!
Love the fact you called me "Brexit obsessed" yesterday by the way, Mr... what was that surname again?
Perhaps some of those self-declared moderate Leavers might, you know, start actually voicing their opinions instead of waiting for others to do their dirty work?
Great news - these chaps are showing us the way - that working from home can be productive.
Also - we can use the £12Bn membership fee for next year to pay down debt.
Clearly the Government is mad. It is beyond bonkers to keep the possibility of a No Deal exit on the table just as the possible 2nd wave of virus hits next winter.
Tories will be out of office for a generation once the voters get their say on that.
All the self-proclaimed moderate Leavers who have been slating me for weeks for pointing out what was coming will by then have decided that was what they always wanted. The self-radicalisation will have taken another turn of the screw.
Wouldn't bother me if we stayed in! Mass, uncontrolled, immigration is a thing of the past now
That's an astonishingly naive comment.
Its still part of the globalist agenda and there are endless millions throughout the world who will always want to move to western countries.
The fuss was over 3 products out of over 2,000.....
Each day we distribute millions of items of PPE to care settings in Scotland, Wales and England. Our committed team have been working incredibly hard to make sure that everyone who has been a regular customer of Gompels can continue to access the stocks that we can buy in these difficult times.
Stocks of PPE are at a record low in the UK and coronavirus has created massive demand for products that would not normally be widely used in a care setting. This has meant that the usual supply channels are unable to fulfil the requirements. Pandemic flu stocks have been released under the Department of Health & Social Care Covid-19: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Plan.
These pandemic English pandemic flu stocks are mandated for supply to CQC registered settings operating in England. Currently there are only 3 products from over 2000 that this relates to. We continue to supply on a daily basis our full range (less these 3 products from Public Health England) to Care providers in Wales and Scotland.
Well soldier, we have all the equipment you need to fight this war. All 2000 pieces from the entrenching tool to your ammunition. However, we don't have your rifle, helmet or boots. Sorry.
Perhaps some of those self-declared moderate Leavers might, you know, start actually voicing their opinions instead of waiting for others to do their dirty work?
The negotiations have just started. Do you really think it is a productive thing to do for the first thing on the agenda of a negotiation to agree that there won't be a conclusion?
There is plenty of time to delay things if they get stuck but the ideal is that there is no ongoing uncertainty and we have a good and open trading relationship with the EU on confirmed terms by the end of this year. There will be enough uncertainty going forward without that. I suspect that the virus may play a positive part in this. It really isn't the time for either side to muck about seeking some petty perceived advantage.
Erm, a decision to extend needs to be taken by the end of June. Given that the government (and every other European government) has its hands quite full just now, yes I do think it would be a productive thing to agree at least a year’s delay. I’m amazed anyone can seriously imagine otherwise.
The lockdown really is starting to bite - we've now got 2019 project fear omelette being reheated and served up.
Oh dear the Brexit self-harmers are bringing out their best clichés again. No doubt you have had enough of experts and Covid-19 is just another ruse to thwart the will-o-the-people. How long before the EU gets the blame for the fact that we have had 3X as many fatalities as Germany. Dominic Cumming's herd immunity theory was all to do with knowing that his Brexit supporting dumbass herd would still keep believing, even when the facts backed the experts.
Whats the collective noun for straw men ? A twatload ?
The fuss was over 3 products out of over 2,000.....
Each day we distribute millions of items of PPE to care settings in Scotland, Wales and England. Our committed team have been working incredibly hard to make sure that everyone who has been a regular customer of Gompels can continue to access the stocks that we can buy in these difficult times.
Stocks of PPE are at a record low in the UK and coronavirus has created massive demand for products that would not normally be widely used in a care setting. This has meant that the usual supply channels are unable to fulfil the requirements. Pandemic flu stocks have been released under the Department of Health & Social Care Covid-19: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Plan.
These pandemic English pandemic flu stocks are mandated for supply to CQC registered settings operating in England. Currently there are only 3 products from over 2000 that this relates to. We continue to supply on a daily basis our full range (less these 3 products from Public Health England) to Care providers in Wales and Scotland.
So the National is kicking up a fuss because stocks reserved for England aren't being used in Scotland? That seems like a problem for the devolved body in Scotland.
Perhaps some of those self-declared moderate Leavers might, you know, start actually voicing their opinions instead of waiting for others to do their dirty work?
Great news - these chaps are showing us the way - that working from home can be productive.
Also - we can use the £12Bn membership fee for next year to pay down debt.
Clearly the Government is mad. It is beyond bonkers to keep the possibility of a No Deal exit on the table just as the possible 2nd wave of virus hits next winter.
Tories will be out of office for a generation once the voters get their say on that.
All the self-proclaimed moderate Leavers who have been slating me for weeks for pointing out what was coming will by then have decided that was what they always wanted. The self-radicalisation will have taken another turn of the screw.
Wouldn't bother me if we stayed in! Mass, uncontrolled, immigration is a thing of the past now
Weren't you feeling nostalgic about your childhood listening to Soul II Soul the other day?
Scotland said 84 more people have died there, Wales 60 and Northern Ireland six - a total of 150
Significant jumps in Scotland and Wales. Perhaps bank holiday effect of reporting.
Scotland reported very few deaths over the weekend (I think it was 9 on one day and 26 on another) and they'd been averaging 40-50 before that. I think this is a one off correction there. Also, note the 84 will be counted tomorrow in the UK wide figures, so there will be ~110 cases (40 in Scotland; 60 in Wales and 10 in N Ireland) to add to the English total - so about 760 or so in sum for today I think.
That's a decline from the peak. We may indeed be over the worst. Deus Vult.
That's a 150 from the nations excluding England. That seems more than usual.
The Scottish numbers now try to include care homes which gives them a slightly different basis.
That makes the 801 figure better than without those deaths.
Don't know but you are right on a comparable basis. At the conference yesterday England said that they were trying to do the same which will give us an artificial "peak" at some point as they got in France.
Incidentally, regarding plague literature, which we - mainly me - were discussing yesterday, I have since learned that Yeats, Eliot and Woolf all suffered in the Spanish Flu, Eliot and Woolf had it, and Yeats watched his wife nearly die of it.
Yeats alludes to it in The Second Coming:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
Spanish flu, like coronavirus, drowns the sufferer in his own fluids.
Mrs Dalloway is full of references to Woolf's experience.
And Eliot wrote about the flu in the first part of The Waste Land:
Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
The fuss was over 3 products out of over 2,000.....
Each day we distribute millions of items of PPE to care settings in Scotland, Wales and England. Our committed team have been working incredibly hard to make sure that everyone who has been a regular customer of Gompels can continue to access the stocks that we can buy in these difficult times.
Stocks of PPE are at a record low in the UK and coronavirus has created massive demand for products that would not normally be widely used in a care setting. This has meant that the usual supply channels are unable to fulfil the requirements. Pandemic flu stocks have been released under the Department of Health & Social Care Covid-19: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Plan.
These pandemic English pandemic flu stocks are mandated for supply to CQC registered settings operating in England. Currently there are only 3 products from over 2000 that this relates to. We continue to supply on a daily basis our full range (less these 3 products from Public Health England) to Care providers in Wales and Scotland.
So the National is kicking up a fuss because stocks reserved for England aren't being used in Scotland? That seems like a problem for the devolved body in Scotland.
Nope, it's an excuse for the SNP to accuse everyone of being unfair to Scotland in their usual woe is me approach that MalcolmG loves.
Incidentally, regarding plague literature, which we - mainly me - were discussing yesterday, I have since learned that Yeats, Eliot and Woolf all suffered in the Spanish Flu, Eliot and Woolf had it, and Yeats watched his wife nearly die of it.
Yeats alludes to it in The Second Coming:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
Spanish flu, like coronavirus, drowns the sufferer in his own fluids.
Mrs Dalloway is full of references to Woolf's experience.
And Eliot wrote about the flu in the first part of The Waste Land:
Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
The fuss was over 3 products out of over 2,000.....
Each day we distribute millions of items of PPE to care settings in Scotland, Wales and England. Our committed team have been working incredibly hard to make sure that everyone who has been a regular customer of Gompels can continue to access the stocks that we can buy in these difficult times.
Stocks of PPE are at a record low in the UK and coronavirus has created massive demand for products that would not normally be widely used in a care setting. This has meant that the usual supply channels are unable to fulfil the requirements. Pandemic flu stocks have been released under the Department of Health & Social Care Covid-19: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Plan.
These pandemic English pandemic flu stocks are mandated for supply to CQC registered settings operating in England. Currently there are only 3 products from over 2000 that this relates to. We continue to supply on a daily basis our full range (less these 3 products from Public Health England) to Care providers in Wales and Scotland.
So the National is kicking up a fuss because stocks reserved for England aren't being used in Scotland? That seems like a problem for the devolved body in Scotland.
Nope, it's an excuse for the SNP to accuse everyone of being unfair to Scotland in their usual woe is me approach that MalcolmG loves.
an ongoing deep recession prompted by a global pandemic would be a good time to bury leaving the EU with no deal.
Or maybe as in the post-WW2 period, this is the opportunity for a reset and fresh independent thinking.
Not a bad idea at all. All kinds of trade flows, contingencies, supply chains, etc will have been dramatically revised and new relationships put in their place (whether inter- or intra-nationally).
As such a review and fresh independent thinking would be very sensible. But in that spirit, it would be ridiculous to try to leave the EU *at the same time*.
Once this has subsided, let's as you say see where we are, and then make some sensible decisions. We will be tying our hands if we try to pursue it right now as with everyone being so vulnerable (as in national trade positions) we don't want to be in a position whereby we aren't able to leverage whatever strengths we find we have post-Covid19.
We have left the EU. Didn't you notice? I am sure it was mentioned on here at least a couple of times.
Not really. We haven't left the EU by any practical measure. We are still in the position we have been in for the past 40 years (albeit with less say, AIUI).
Indeed, I wasn't allowed to buy duty free at Pafos airport, I had to pay the slightly higher duty paid price. But I wasn't limited to 1 litre though. Should have bought more... didn't realise I'd be stuck drinking at home for the foreseeable.
One thing that has changed is visa arrangements. We have already got independent entry agreements with some countries, some have rolled over the EU arrangements, others we have a temporary fix with, for example Ukraine who have agreed to extend visa free travel until the end of the year (I think they want us to offer them visa free travel in return, which indeed many EU countries already do)
Some actual detail on the ventilator issues and designs.
This is the biggest part of that,
Mercedes have turned over their entire UK engine base in Brixworth to the production of the CPAP device and are producing up to 1,000 units a day.
What is also interesting is that the F1 correspondent managed to write a story full of detail. In a simple, understandable manner.
I'd rather have Benson at the daily briefing than the lobby hacks. They have a much better grasp of detail oriented issues and how to ask the right questions.
LOL, the UW horseshit model even crazier than usual for todays predicted numbers...their prediction range is between 170 and 4100 deaths....so utterly broken.
they're updating again today , so presumably they're busy right now rolling dice or throwing darts to work out the new numbers.
The fuss was over 3 products out of over 2,000.....
Each day we distribute millions of items of PPE to care settings in Scotland, Wales and England. Our committed team have been working incredibly hard to make sure that everyone who has been a regular customer of Gompels can continue to access the stocks that we can buy in these difficult times.
Stocks of PPE are at a record low in the UK and coronavirus has created massive demand for products that would not normally be widely used in a care setting. This has meant that the usual supply channels are unable to fulfil the requirements. Pandemic flu stocks have been released under the Department of Health & Social Care Covid-19: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Plan.
These pandemic English pandemic flu stocks are mandated for supply to CQC registered settings operating in England. Currently there are only 3 products from over 2000 that this relates to. We continue to supply on a daily basis our full range (less these 3 products from Public Health England) to Care providers in Wales and Scotland.
So the National is kicking up a fuss because stocks reserved for England aren't being used in Scotland? That seems like a problem for the devolved body in Scotland.
Why do you think the Times and BBC were kicking up a fuss about it?
LOL, the UW horseshit model even crazier than usual for todays predicted numbers...their prediction range is between 170 and 4100 deaths....so utterly broken.
they're updating again today , so presumably they're busy right now rolling dice or throwing darts to work out the new numbers.
Well PDC "darts at home" tournament starts Friday, maybe they could just use their scores as predictors.
one.......hundred......and eightyyyyyyyyyyy.....deaths in Sweden....
The fuss was over 3 products out of over 2,000.....
Each day we distribute millions of items of PPE to care settings in Scotland, Wales and England. Our committed team have been working incredibly hard to make sure that everyone who has been a regular customer of Gompels can continue to access the stocks that we can buy in these difficult times.
Stocks of PPE are at a record low in the UK and coronavirus has created massive demand for products that would not normally be widely used in a care setting. This has meant that the usual supply channels are unable to fulfil the requirements. Pandemic flu stocks have been released under the Department of Health & Social Care Covid-19: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Plan.
These pandemic English pandemic flu stocks are mandated for supply to CQC registered settings operating in England. Currently there are only 3 products from over 2000 that this relates to. We continue to supply on a daily basis our full range (less these 3 products from Public Health England) to Care providers in Wales and Scotland.
So the National is kicking up a fuss because stocks reserved for England aren't being used in Scotland? That seems like a problem for the devolved body in Scotland.
Why do you think the Times and BBC were kicking up a fuss about it?
Scotland said 84 more people have died there, Wales 60 and Northern Ireland six - a total of 150
Significant jumps in Scotland and Wales. Perhaps bank holiday effect of reporting.
Scotland reported very few deaths over the weekend (I think it was 9 on one day and 26 on another) and they'd been averaging 40-50 before that. I think this is a one off correction there. Also, note the 84 will be counted tomorrow in the UK wide figures, so there will be ~110 cases (40 in Scotland; 60 in Wales and 10 in N Ireland) to add to the English total - so about 760 or so in sum for today I think.
My day is only complete when I have the Yorkshire figures. The last few days have been 49-60-44-65, so that's from 781 deaths in total with 28% of those deaths being reported in the last four days (the national total for the same days is 24%).
Incidentally, regarding plague literature, which we - mainly me - were discussing yesterday, I have since learned that Yeats, Eliot and Woolf all suffered in the Spanish Flu, Eliot and Woolf had it, and Yeats watched his wife nearly die of it.
snip
And Eliot wrote about the flu in the first part of The Waste Land:
Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
My favourite being from the Four Quartets (Little Gidding) and the perfect summary of our situation.
"What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. "
We have reached an end. What we had is gone but the joy is that something new will arise. We have a new beginning.
LOL, the UW horseshit model even crazier than usual for todays predicted numbers...their prediction range is between 170 and 4100 deaths....so utterly broken.
they're updating again today , so presumably they're busy right now rolling dice or throwing darts to work out the new numbers.
Incidentally, regarding plague literature, which we - mainly me - were discussing yesterday, I have since learned that Yeats, Eliot and Woolf all suffered in the Spanish Flu, Eliot and Woolf had it, and Yeats watched his wife nearly die of it.
snip
And Eliot wrote about the flu in the first part of The Waste Land:
Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
My favourite being from the Four Quartets (Little Gidding) and the perfect summary of our situation.
"What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. "
We have reached an end. What we had is gone but the joy is that something new will arise. We have a new beginning.
It's this that is giving me hope.
If you're looking for hope (or joy) you're looking at the wrong poet.
It’s an insignificant rag propped up by well who knows..
But it was enough for the First Minister to make a statement about the story (though not today, once it had been clarified) and Forty A Day to write not one but two letters to Hancock and phone him up. Not as though he (or she) have anything else to do....
It’s an insignificant rag propped up by well who knows..
But it was enough for the First Minister to make a statement about the story (though not today, once it had been clarified) and Forty A Day to write not one but two letters to Hancock and phone him up. Not as though he (or she) have anything else to do....
I would be asking the BBC why they show the front page on their paper review given there are dozens of other regional British papers with higher circulations.
Testing and tracing possibly may be more important than lockdown? But yes there are lots of unknowns, and even more unknown by the amateurs who have such certainty that it is all policy related with the govt to blame.
It'd make some sense. But then look all over Eastern Europe, death rates even smaller than Germany's. Latvia 5 deaths, Lithuania 29, Estonia 35 - and they've all done equal or more testing than Germany per capita, so it's not like they're ignoring the problem.
Incidentally, regarding plague literature, which we - mainly me - were discussing yesterday, I have since learned that Yeats, Eliot and Woolf all suffered in the Spanish Flu, Eliot and Woolf had it, and Yeats watched his wife nearly die of it.
snip
And Eliot wrote about the flu in the first part of The Waste Land:
Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
My favourite being from the Four Quartets (Little Gidding) and the perfect summary of our situation.
"What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. "
We have reached an end. What we had is gone but the joy is that something new will arise. We have a new beginning.
It's this that is giving me hope.
If you're looking for hope (or joy) you're looking at the wrong poet.
I'm a great admirer of Eliot's poetry, there's a lot of beauty and transcendence and that's enough for me!
"Brown said a crisis like this would likely push the Democratic National Committee to put the vice presidential nominee at the top of the ticket."
Harris is 250/1 and Klobucher is 400/1 to be nominee.
Just saying...
Check the terms of the market though. For instance, Betfair's market rules say: This market will be settled on the candidate voted to be the Democratic Party nominee as a result of the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
And not anyone substituted in between the convention and the election, so you need to price in the time window to land the bet.
It’s an insignificant rag propped up by well who knows..
But it was enough for the First Minister to make a statement about the story (though not today, once it had been clarified) and Forty A Day to write not one but two letters to Hancock and phone him up. Not as though he (or she) have anything else to do....
I would be asking the BBC why they show the front page on their paper review given there are dozens of other regional British papers with higher circulations.
The (Dundee) Courier has over four times the circulation and did some proper journalism - like talking to the firm involved, unlike the Nat Onal which confined itself to looking up a web page....but only a couple, or they'd have found the 2,000 products which were for sale in Scotland.....
(...though I really ought to have put a couple of hundred quid on it.)
She was my fave way back. Lumped on at 20. So if she drifted to 1000 - and is now 250 - but ends up winning my 20 remains a mug bet yet it pays off. I'd be embarrassed to win like that and would keep it quiet.
The fellow whose graphs I posted, to much consternation, has written an article about the Covid lockdown. Toby Young's involved, so I'm sure it will receive a fair hearing
"Does peak infection sync with lockdown enforcement? The lockdown logic’s basic arithmetic doesn’t add up"
Tearful care home bosses saying they've been let down and old folk are dying because of lack of testing to date. Others saying they've put their infection control procedures in place they would have done against a bad flu season but it hasn't been enough.
The thing that really got me was one care home manager saying if only he'd been able to get his staff and patients to test negative, they could have skipped the PPE and that would have made care much more personal/comfortable for the old dears.
I can see the attraction of that but it did worry me that they all seemed to view the testing as foolproof and a silver bullet, with a negative test indicating that all was clear.
Seems dangerous to me, as false negatives appear to be rather common. If you're testing a care worker because they've got symptoms or they believe they've been exposed to it at home or whatever then wouldn't it be safer for them to be staying at home anyway? The negative test doesn't "prove" they're safe to return. And if you did a mass testing of all your staff regardless of symptoms or possible prior exposure, then even if you did believe all the negative test results were correct, that only shows they were clear today. What about tomorrow, or next week?
Obviously it would be great if you just so happened to test someone who was asymptomatic but infectious and stopped them bringing the virus in, but it would involve a big a stroke of luck that you tested them after they caught it rather than just before and cleared them, but not so long after that the symptoms had started to show (I think the eggheads reckon some people never know they had it while others have a brief pre-symptomatic stage before the symptoms kick in). And in the meantime while you're waiting for the test result, should these apparently asymptomatic and unexposed people be coming to work?
A big difference between care homes and hospitals is that we accept that COVID is going to be floating around in hospitals and even with PPE it's inevitable some of the staff are going to catch it too. With care homes the arithmetic of the risk is rather different, you just don't want it getting in at all, if you can avoid it.
Those care homes that have just locked down a crew of managers, care staff, cooks and cleaners inside have given themselves a fighting chance. Even then, it's quite common for frail residents to have to go to hospital (eg if they've had a fall) and then come back again, and they might bring something in with them. If staff are going in and out every day, and spending time with the kiddywinkles or out shopping, then no matter what you do with the testing I can't see how, with current technology, you can stop it.
The fellow whose graphs I posted, to much consternation, has written an article about the Covid lockdown. Toby Young's involved, so I'm sure it will receive a fair hearing
"Does peak infection sync with lockdown enforcement? The lockdown logic’s basic arithmetic doesn’t add up"
Coronavirus makes a 31/12 Brexit timing severely sub-optimal.
The talk of a second wave in Winter is not just a generalisation, it fits absolutely with the pattern of previous pandemics: the warmth of summer will have a suppressive effect alongside whatever relaxed social distancing we end up with, but momentum will start to build again in early October and, depending on the success of apps, treatments and the rest of it, a second peak, with all that entails, within 4 weeks of Christmas is odds-on.
So, how does France, in particular, respond to a large increase in the requirement for Border Officers to go-live with disruptive new ways of working that require close quarters supervision in the peak of the second wave. If we're lucky, enforcement is suspended on an emergency basis and trade continues unimpeded. If we're unlucky: and France decides this: we end up with a fully closed trade border in addition to people not passing. A blockade, if you like. Do you feel lucky, Brexiteer punk?
Let's be helpful. Alistair Meek's one year delay isn't the best, its height of winter again. But July 31st 2021, say. Final, final date. That suits.
No need to put a date on it. Bit silly to do so, in fact.
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I daresay that there will still be a goon somewhere (even on here possibly) claiming that he's been got at by the ubiquitous, persuasive tentacles of the Natz.
The talk of a second wave in Winter is not just a generalisation, it fits absolutely with the pattern of previous pandemics: the warmth of summer will have a suppressive effect alongside whatever relaxed social distancing we end up with, but momentum will start to build again in early October and, depending on the success of apps, treatments and the rest of it, a second peak, with all that entails, within 4 weeks of Christmas is odds-on.
So, how does France, in particular, respond to a large increase in the requirement for Border Officers to go-live with disruptive new ways of working that require close quarters supervision in the peak of the second wave. If we're lucky, enforcement is suspended on an emergency basis and trade continues unimpeded. If we're unlucky: and France decides this: we end up with a fully closed trade border in addition to people not passing. A blockade, if you like. Do you feel lucky, Brexiteer punk?
Let's be helpful. Alistair Meek's one year delay isn't the best, its height of winter again. But July 31st 2021, say. Final, final date. That suits.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8221379/Oxford-University-begin-tests-coronavirus-vaccine-humans-WEEK.html
Lets hope the second rate university comes good.
I’m thinking of growing some fungi, how much space will I need to grow the fungi?
I’m guessing I’ll need as mushroom as possible? Am I right?
Each day we distribute millions of items of PPE to care settings in Scotland, Wales and England. Our committed team have been working incredibly hard to make sure that everyone who has been a regular customer of Gompels can continue to access the stocks that we can buy in these difficult times.
Stocks of PPE are at a record low in the UK and coronavirus has created massive demand for products that would not normally be widely used in a care setting. This has meant that the usual supply channels are unable to fulfil the requirements. Pandemic flu stocks have been released under the Department of Health & Social Care Covid-19: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Plan.
These pandemic English pandemic flu stocks are mandated for supply to CQC registered settings operating in England. Currently there are only 3 products from over 2000 that this relates to. We continue to supply on a daily basis our full range (less these 3 products from Public Health England) to Care providers in Wales and Scotland.
https://www.gompels.co.uk/latest-news/doing-our-best-to-supply-ppe.html
Significant jumps in Scotland and Wales. Perhaps bank holiday effect of reporting.
Some actual detail on the ventilator issues and designs.
Have we peaked?
When was the peak?
Have we peaked?
Has the number of daily deaths, er, peaked?
Are we likely to see the number of deaths rise to the levels of previous highs?
Have we, ur, [long theatrical pause] peeeeeeeeeeeeeaked?
Can I go out and play in the park with my mates now?
How about Wales ?
How about Wales ? Dan Hodges is itching to get down the pub.
Love the fact you called me "Brexit obsessed" yesterday by the way, Mr... what was that surname again?
Mercedes have turned over their entire UK engine base in Brixworth to the production of the CPAP device and are producing up to 1,000 units a day.
Also the official death stat today is 761, not 810, due the differing reporting times.
https://twitter.com/DHSCgovuk/status/1250416371453669377?s=20
One thing that has changed is visa arrangements. We have already got independent entry agreements with some countries, some have rolled over the EU arrangements, others we have a temporary fix with, for example Ukraine who have agreed to extend visa free travel until the end of the year (I think they want us to offer them visa free travel in return, which indeed many EU countries already do)
Wet Bats,
Wet Bats is where it started from!"
Oh, I keep missing it.
one.......hundred......and eightyyyyyyyyyyy.....deaths in Sweden....
fiffffffffty....seven....deaths in Denmark....
https://twitter.com/cricketwyvern/status/1250420241617715202?s=20
This is the kind of dig down approach that generates real information - Who, What, Where, Why & When?
The contrasting approach is to go with the first thing you've heard - "Something happened".
The first is what many would think of as journalism. The second resembles a wire service crossed with a rumour mill.
Read some stories here - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com - then compare with what you have heard via the usual channels, on spaceflight.
"The fool - on the ill."
"What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from. "
We have reached an end. What we had is gone but the joy is that something new will arise. We have a new beginning.
It's this that is giving me hope.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-happens-if-a-presidential-nominee-can-no-longer-run-for-office/
About half that of The Yorkshire Post.
It’s an insignificant rag propped up by well who knows..
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/15/warren-endorses-biden-as-democrats-unite-for-the-fall-187627
"Brown said a crisis like this would likely push the Democratic National Committee to put the vice presidential nominee at the top of the ticket."
Harris is 250/1 and Klobucher is 400/1 to be nominee.
Just saying...
The average donation is £20
Have to say i reckon he is going to raise circa £15m - quite extraordinary.
Just sayin'...
(...though I really ought to have put a couple of hundred quid on it.)
And not anyone substituted in between the convention and the election, so you need to price in the time window to land the bet.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8221445/Coronavirus-Nicola-Sturgeon-forced-humiliating-climbdown-PPE-probe.html
"Does peak infection sync with lockdown enforcement?
The lockdown logic’s basic arithmetic doesn’t add up"
https://thecritic.co.uk/does-peak-infection-sync-with-lockdown-enforcement/
Oh..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52289607
Tearful care home bosses saying they've been let down and old folk are dying because of lack of testing to date. Others saying they've put their infection control procedures in place they would have done against a bad flu season but it hasn't been enough.
The thing that really got me was one care home manager saying if only he'd been able to get his staff and patients to test negative, they could have skipped the PPE and that would have made care much more personal/comfortable for the old dears.
I can see the attraction of that but it did worry me that they all seemed to view the testing as foolproof and a silver bullet, with a negative test indicating that all was clear.
Seems dangerous to me, as false negatives appear to be rather common. If you're testing a care worker because they've got symptoms or they believe they've been exposed to it at home or whatever then wouldn't it be safer for them to be staying at home anyway? The negative test doesn't "prove" they're safe to return. And if you did a mass testing of all your staff regardless of symptoms or possible prior exposure, then even if you did believe all the negative test results were correct, that only shows they were clear today. What about tomorrow, or next week?
Obviously it would be great if you just so happened to test someone who was asymptomatic but infectious and stopped them bringing the virus in, but it would involve a big a stroke of luck that you tested them after they caught it rather than just before and cleared them, but not so long after that the symptoms had started to show (I think the eggheads reckon some people never know they had it while others have a brief pre-symptomatic stage before the symptoms kick in). And in the meantime while you're waiting for the test result, should these apparently asymptomatic and unexposed people be coming to work?
A big difference between care homes and hospitals is that we accept that COVID is going to be floating around in hospitals and even with PPE it's inevitable some of the staff are going to catch it too. With care homes the arithmetic of the risk is rather different, you just don't want it getting in at all, if you can avoid it.
Those care homes that have just locked down a crew of managers, care staff, cooks and cleaners inside have given themselves a fighting chance. Even then, it's quite common for frail residents to have to go to hospital (eg if they've had a fall) and then come back again, and they might bring something in with them. If staff are going in and out every day, and spending time with the kiddywinkles or out shopping, then no matter what you do with the testing I can't see how, with current technology, you can stop it.
republished in The National and is therefore no longer relevant.
Pregnant nurse with cornavirus dies but baby is saved
A pregnant 28-year-old nurse who was diagnosed with Covid-19 has died.
An emergency caesarean section was performed to deliver the nurse's child, Channel 4 News repored.
The baby is alive and being cared for, the broadcaster said.
In an internal email, the Trust’s chief executive described her as a “wonderful young woman who made a huge contribution”.
He said the survival of her baby daughter was a “beacon of light at this very dark time”.