If you're missing your sport the NRL starts tomorrow morning on Sky Sports. All 8 games live over the weekend. By far the highest quality domestic rugby competition of either code in the World. Mornings only. Bloody Aussies living upside down but nonetheless.
501 deaths in Mexico today. Don't even want to imagine how high that figure might go.
Mexico has the 10th highest population in the world and the 9th highest number of Covid deaths so about as expected
UK has the 21st highest population in the world and the... oh, 2nd highest number of Covid deaths... so about as expected?
The important factor is population density. And on that score we are in big trouble.
Lots of densely populated places are doing fine. The important factor is government incompetence.
Rubbish. A few places with extensive previous experience of such viruses are doing fine. Anywhere else - so anywhere outside of the Far East - is basically suffering a similar effect depending on population density.
I have said all along that the Government have been incompetent in certain areas and there should be criminal prosecutions for those things. But it is absolutely no surprise that it is some of the most densely populated areas of Europe that have suffered worst.
This is also why the Swedish 'experiment' is so clearly a failure. Their population density meant they should have had a fairly low death rate. But because they decided to go for the herd immunity method they have suffered far higher death rates compared to the much more densely populated Denmark next door.
Who are we going to blame if it turns out lockdown was a waste of a lot of time and even more money?
Nicola Sturgeon? As she likes the Stalinist lockdown approach
Boris obviously didn't want to do it, so we could blame him for not having the courage of his convictions.
Then again he was a relative sceptic compared to the Hitler youth lockdown zealots
Since you dropped the H bomb, great leader who was dragged unwittingly into immoral disaster by the fanatics isn't really an hypothesis with a great precedent.
That is because no-one bothered to read what the BBC said, which was that EM's questions were NOT biased in the context of the whole programme, as she was summarising the questions that would be examined in greater detail BUT were biased if taken out of that context.
"Camilla Stoltenberg, director of Norway’s public health agency, has given an interview where she is candid about the implications of this discovery. ‘Our assessment now, and I find that there is a broad consensus in relation to the reopening, was that one could probably achieve the same effect – and avoid part of the unfortunate repercussions – by not closing. But, instead, staying open with precautions to stop the spread.’ This is important to admit, she says, because if the infection levels rise again – or a second wave hits in the winter – you need to be brutally honest about whether lockdown proved effective."
Will Dominic Cummings still be in position on 1st June?
Ladbrokes has taken the market down overnight. Ladbrokes had been shortest about Cummings going and (unsurprisingly) longest about him staying so it will be interesting to see how they open up in the morning. PP/Betfair 11/4 go, 2/9 stay Starsports 11/4 go, 1/4 stay
An interesting new article has appeared on the Unherd website.
"Why we remember wars but forget plagues Pandemics aren't represented in film or literature because they're too boring, too horrific and too depressing BY SEAN THOMAS"
So if you have been in contact with anyone with Covid 19 you must self isolate for 14 days, you must self isolate. So what about all the carers in care homes, and the hospital doctors, nurses, pharmacists, porters, cleaners and dinner ladies on Covid wards. And what about their partners and flat-mates, and the people they travel to work with on the bus. And on it goes
There has to be an exemption for care home workers. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to function.
But there are huge numbers of care home workers, probably the highest risk group in the UK, and if we start exempting them and their friends and families we might as well not bother. This is a hopeless farce.
I assume it means any contact without wearing PPE, otherwise it would indeed be totally unworkable.
Daily testing of contacts who can't self isolate might also make sense.
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A new escalation in the tech conflict illustrates the limits of American power" (£)
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/05/23/america-is-determined-to-sink-huawei
All 8 games live over the weekend. By far the highest quality domestic rugby competition of either code in the World.
Mornings only. Bloody Aussies living upside down but nonetheless.
I have said all along that the Government have been incompetent in certain areas and there should be criminal prosecutions for those things. But it is absolutely no surprise that it is some of the most densely populated areas of Europe that have suffered worst.
This is also why the Swedish 'experiment' is so clearly a failure. Their population density meant they should have had a fairly low death rate. But because they decided to go for the herd immunity method they have suffered far higher death rates compared to the much more densely populated Denmark next door.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-52826751
"Camilla Stoltenberg, director of Norway’s public health agency, has given an interview where she is candid about the implications of this discovery. ‘Our assessment now, and I find that there is a broad consensus in relation to the reopening, was that one could probably achieve the same effect – and avoid part of the unfortunate repercussions – by not closing. But, instead, staying open with precautions to stop the spread.’ This is important to admit, she says, because if the infection levels rise again – or a second wave hits in the winter – you need to be brutally honest about whether lockdown proved effective."
Ladbrokes has taken the market down overnight. Ladbrokes had been shortest about Cummings going and (unsurprisingly) longest about him staying so it will be interesting to see how they open up in the morning.
PP/Betfair 11/4 go, 2/9 stay
Starsports 11/4 go, 1/4 stay
"Why we remember wars but forget plagues
Pandemics aren't represented in film or literature because they're too boring, too horrific and too depressing
BY SEAN THOMAS"
https://unherd.com/2020/05/why-we-remember-wars-but-forget-plagues/
"Unlike the BBC, Channel 4 receives no public funding. It is funded entirely by its own commercial activities."
https://www.channel4.com/about_c4/information.html
Daily testing of contacts who can't self isolate might also make sense.