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It's city-level, rather than country level, but it tells you that NYC is the nearest to herd immunity (at c. 20%), but it's still a long way from it.
https://twitter.com/BogochIsaac/status/1266359066659602432
Could be a lot more of this for the government now that they've trashed their reputation and trust. The public are sure that they're fucking it up somehow, even if they can't say how or why.
It's the position that Major's government found there was no way back from.
Re the poll, I think it's based in part on approach and demeanour - e.g. what Mrs Sturgeon does not do is always look for a comic off the cuff quip. My partner commented that you could see Mr Johnson doing that, visibly, till he remembered himself, repeatedly, during the recent select committee interrogation.
Also rather better [edit: deaths] figures overall (and that is even without the gap between covid-19 reported deaths and excess deaths you get in the English figures - a comparative anomaly which is still unexplained).
The whole thing has become (even before Cummings' jaunts) absurdly politicised. As this article points out very persuasively, a myth has been developed by the media which is simply not supported by the facts:
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-lockdowns-founding-myth/
Of course, myths matter more than reality in politics, so this is very bad news for the Conservatives. They should have got their own myth out first.
For instance, I don't recall Ms Stugeon diluting the lockdown warning with a suggestion she'd go to visit her mum anyway, or her father weighing in with moans about not being able to go to the pub.
That in itself is a major public health issue - having the right presentation.
Boris started off with the wrong tone but then improved a lot once he realised the full severity of the crisis. Since his severe illness hit him he has understandably sounded not on full form.
I do think we have to ask why it was that we gave up on containment almost without trying, but I think that's as much a question for the scientists as it is for the politicians.
https://www.ft.com/content/6b4c784e-c259-4ca4-9a82-648ffde71bf0
It is still a striking result. To quibble, rather more than yout 99% will be familioar with Scottish procedures of course, being Scottish and able to compare it with the "UK" but in this context partly English news beamed in by the BBC etc. But not 41%!
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Asking out of curiosity rather than any desire to dob them in!
I'm also fascinated by the people being tested currently (typically more than 70,000 a day) that are not Covid-19 positive - what are their symptoms?
In a year or two's time it might be possible to begin to unravel the effects of the various factors.
https://www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk/home/the-dramatic-life-and-passing-of-prime-minister-lord-palmerston-1-4288750
I think it’s more likely to be an urban legend inspired by the ummm, energetic death of President Félix Fauré in 1899.
Which is ironic because Palmerston hated the French.
ETA the people drinking should separately obey the social distancing rules.
Back came the reply, ‘Well, if I were not English, I should also wish to be English.’
In its own way that’s ironic because technically he was Irish. But that’s another story.
This just in my in box for the historians among us - talk from TNA on the Tudor responses to pandemics, social distancing etc.
https://twitter.com/PPJamesPhillips/status/1266400130804125699?s=20
The weather, ennui and Dominic Cummings have between them destroyed lockdown.
If we need a second wave lockdown it doesn’t look like there’ll be one.
Edit - our history teacher did tell us these stories about Palmerston though.
How long do you think the UK can continue with the present schemes or is it correct to start mitigating the cost in incremental increases.
Small world nonetheless.
Capitalism cuts both ways.
I think it sort of makes sense because some businesses do need a starting gun for reopening.
I don’t particularly disagree with this decision. It has, however, consequences, many of which will be unwelcome.
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1266400635429310466?s=20
In London, around one-in-six people have antibodies.
While in Shrewsbury, you'll be lucky if you can find six people with antibodies.
(See his reputed answer about the Schleswig Holstein Question.)
After Beijing announced plans this week to proceed with the imposition of a national security law on Hong Kong, London retaliated with an “unprecedented” pledge to expand visa rights for British National (Overseas) passport holders in Hong Kong from six to 12 months and “provide a pathway to future citizenship”.
About 350,000 people hold valid BNO passports, a document issued to Hong Kong residents born before the handover of the territory from UK to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
However, the Home Office clarified on Friday that the pledge to extend visa rights would apply to anyone eligible to apply for a BNO passport currently living in Hong Kong, of which there are estimated to be about 2.9m. Most of the additional 2.55m people have held a BNO passport in the past but not renewed it.
https://www.ft.com/content/06e30290-1fcb-44cb-9ed6-5f4b0e7ff565
Good thing too - the government has finally found a spine....
https://www.mylondon.news/whats-on/food-drink-news/89-london-pubs-you-can-18310902
Get your drink, sit on a bench outside a closed pub. Just the same, but half the cost.
The bbqs are starting to be lit up judging by the sniff of the breeze.
As I have said all along there was no way the lockdown would last too long as too much for people.
But I'm not sure why small businesses with only a handful of employees (the number six comes to mind funnily) aren't being told to get back to work, seeing that is less contact than the constant stream of comings and goings in gardens.
I expect these decisions with define this government and being popular may well be very hard to maintain
Let's hope many of her 86m young followers who are American turn out in November.