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Majority of Brits support the ‘Rule of Six’ but few are ready to be “snitchers” – politicalbetting.c
Majority of Brits support the ‘Rule of Six’ but few are ready to be “snitchers” – politicalbetting.com
New Ipsos-MORI polling on support for the "rule of six" pic.twitter.com/FmX7P2dZMO
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Perhaps those with good eyesight will in future be required to wear lab or welding goggles to protect their eyes from incoming viruses, or simply (as the study suggests) to stop people touching their eyes and thus transferring the virus from their hands. Anecdata: a friend remarked to me some time ago that he'd not caught a cold since using tissues to rub his eyes.
There was a suggestion at work (iirc -- now redundant so cannot check) that people use a clean hand/dirty system by using their non-favoured hand to open doors, press buttons and so on. The rationale was that it was hard to stop touching your face, and that the favoured hand was invariably used so keep it clean.
Fascinating study - small sample but big effect:
Findings In this cohort of 276 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Suizhou, China, the proportion of daily wearers of eyeglasses was lower than that of the local population (5.8% vs 31.5%).
https://twitter.com/bbcjonsopel/status/1308898098224259075?s=21
And even I am confused this morning. The government has announced weddings will be limited to 15 people but the government's published guidelines have not yet been updated so still refer to 30.
15 limit: Weddings and civil partnership ceremonies and receptions will be restricted to a maximum of 15 people (down from 30).
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/coronavirus-covid-19-what-has-changed-22-september
30 limit: Marriage ceremonies Must have no more than 30 people. Anyone working is not included as part of the 30 person limit.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-the-safe-use-of-places-of-worship-during-the-pandemic-from-4-july/covid-19-guidance-for-the-safe-use-of-places-of-worship-during-the-pandemic-from-4-july (updated 17/9)
30 limit: No more than 30 people should attend a marriage or civil partnership
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-small-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/covid-19-guidance-for-small-marriages-and-civil-partnerships
Could it be this inconsistent messaging results from central direction by Number 10 (or wherever Dominic Cummings is holed up these days) without involving the normal departmental channels that maintain these pages?
Or just move that line.
And there’s nothing worse at all than having poorly maintained government websites giving inaccurate or out of date information. The public can’t be expected to make judgements over what is reliable and what is not. If they read it on a Government website, however obscure, they have to be able to trust it.
And, dare I suggest it, what will be the legal position on old style “lock-ins” (limited to 5 customers and the landlord, obviously!)
Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/517935-romney-unthinkable-and-unacceptable-to-not-commit-to-peaceful-transition-of
I’m done being fair. This administration and its enablers have no respect for law or constitution except as tools of power; the evidence was long since overwhelming.
Generally, when the crisis started everyone was obsessed with surfaces whereas now the science seems to point toward airborne.
http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=296599
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says thousands of passengers on board commercial flights may have been exposed to coronavirus since the start of 2020.
In a statement emailed to CNN, the CDC says it was made aware of 1,600 flights between January and August where a person on board may have had Covid-19, potentially exposing 10,900 people "within a 6-foot range for droplet transmission" to coronavirus.
Meanwhile I see that the town of Swastika, NY, has just voted to keep its name.
Or is he blind in some way?
Quite a hard problem in getting enough clearly differential data, I suspect.
I have been routinely wearing my prescription aerosol resistant safety glasses at work since April. www.safetyspecs.co.uk have a great range and excellent service. When the virus goes, I will use them when cutting my hedge!
International examples show take-up rates of similar apps at between 10% and 30%, a far cry from the NHS app target in April of 80% of smartphone users. Oxford University’s Big Data unit, which advised the government on its development, said that would be the equivalent of 56% of the population
https://www.safetyspecs.co.uk/covid-19-keyworker
1) A program that shows a blank face with the wherewithal for a customers to design their face mask pattern. I favour "flames" like some wide boys used to put on their souped up car bonnets.
2) A range of protective glasses. Those dentists' dark glasses that can go over one's own are quite sexy. Or it could be made to order specs with a surrounding sides with prescription lenses, or not.
Oh, wait a sec. We should all wear burkas, albeit customised.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/sep/23/durham-university-withdraws-freshers-place-over-abhorrent-online-posts
We are some way off our PM refusing in advance to accept the result if the election unless he wins. How anyone might think it appropriate to even consider appointing this man’s Supreme Court nominee before the election is quite beyond me.
Trump declines to commit to a peaceful transition of power after election
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/23/trump-peaceful-transition-of-power-420791
"Get rid of the ballots and you’ll have a very peaceful — there won't be a transfer, frankly. There will be a continuation,” Trump said. “The ballots are out of control. You know it, and you know who knows it better than anyone else? The Democrats know it better than anyone else.”
Get rid of people voting and there won't be a transfer there will be a continuation. People voting are out of control. Yes Trump, you're not supposed to control what people do with their ballots that is the point of democracy.
It seems to me Trump is running out of time for a swing back to him, especially once a meaningful proportion of the votes have been cast. So the debate on Tuesday is surely critical for him - the next Presidential one is 2 weeks later, by which point he'll be running out of time.
Erm, only after you failed to build your own solution that didn't work with Apple devices mate. Wasting god knows how much time and money.
(Sorry. Couldn't resist.)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/09/24/scaremongering-no-10-risks-repeating-deadly-covid-mistake/
This been fact checked? Worrying if true.
I think, Mr L, that citizens of the US seem largely in denial about the faults in their system. Although I see that somewhere in New England AV is being introduced.
May be progress; may be a blind alley, of course!
Or something!
The 'Shining City on the Hill'?
Genuine hollow laughter.
In words that trump would understand, he is not attempting to drain the swamp he is part of the swamp.
And is it that great a jump to our own government saying that it will abolish judicial reviews so it does not have to follow the law?
It would be ironic if it wasn't so shit.
(The banging on about "It's false positives" was really illuminating as to how they can totally ignore any logic or arithmetic in favour of trumpeting a phrase they don't understand and haven't thought through:
1 - Conditional probability doesn't work like that; you can't bait and switch "random sample of entire population" with "sample of people who are symptomatic" when the latter has hugely greater positivity than the former. Of course, this bit does require understanding the use of the term and isn't instantly obvous
2 - Applying their claimed rate obviously meant that we would not only have had zero covid through much of July and August, it would actually have had to be a significant amount of negative covid (more false positives than the total of false and true positives, thus true positives need to be a negative number). I wonder how many covid-ill people landed in the UK and were instantly cured on breathing our air.
3 - The most obvious one, though - the larger the false positive number, the worse the surge in true positives had to be. If half the cases when it was 1,000 per day were false positives (500 false) and the testing rate was similar, then when it's 5,000 per day, it hasn't quintupled. It's gone up ten-fold. Choose a higher number of false positives (900 of those 1000), and it's gone up fifty-fold. Which probably screams for far harsher restrictions)
Yet they continued to bang on about it for days, obviously not actually thinking about it but clinging to it as the latest "proof" that it's all fine and an overreaction and let's please get back to normal it's all a Government conspiracy.
Toby Young, the latest of these.
Getting TX too would be fun and decisive (especially as it doesn't do much mail voting) but if Trump can steal all the places needing smaller swings then I imagine he can steal TX as well. That said, it might be worth it for a different reason, namely that even without shenanigans, we don't really know what the impact of postal voting will be. On balance I think it's likely to favour the Dem side, but there's definitely a non-bonkers argument that a certain proportion get rejected because the voter used the wrong envelope or whatever, and that'll outweigh the gain from higher turnout and smoother GOTV.
Covid-19: UK volunteers could be given virus to test vaccine
This is surpassingly odd. If we are comfortably beating the world in vaccine production, and not facing the problem that there's likely to be a shortage of virus in the wild to test on, why are we breaking ethical ranks like this to save ourselves a week or two? Answer presumably is that the government is even more shit scared than we thought.
I agree with the slowness of loading and on this version of Chrome the comments do not load at all unless the initial box with "Comments are closed" is visible on screen. If that is off-screen, loading does not start until you scroll "Comments are closed" back into view.
I tend to flick through it but today I read it in more detail and page after page attacks Boris demanding he stops pandering to the experts and reject increasing covid measures and address the economic consequences.
In some ways the mail seems to want to lock and isolate away all of us oldies and let the disease have it's way.
I believe this is the 'herd' immunity theory but when expressed in the pages of the mail it is just repulsive and to be honest I am grateful Boris is following the science and not bowing to these idiotic right wing loons.
We experienced on this forum in the last couple of days the pain felt by Dura Ace when his 81 year old mother fell and on going to hospital for an X-ray picked up covid and dreadfully died 11 days later
Before anyone accuses me of being a Boris cheerleader I have not changed my mind that he is not the right PM for these times but he is at least trying to respect the lives of all of us
The daily mail should hang it's head in shame
And it's happened in America too, Roosevelt's Supreme Court packing in the 1930s being an obvious precedent for what the Democrats are thinking of doing now.
Well, he who lives by the sub-sample, dies by the sub-sample. The IPSOS-MORI sub-sample has them on 60%!