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Covid Whack-A-Mole – politicalbetting.com
Covid Whack-A-Mole – politicalbetting.com
“Fatta la legge, trovato l’inganno.” Every law has a loophole. Though many Italians view it less as a description, more an order, a necessity, even, if life is to be bearable. Find the loopholes and stretch the rules to their limits. It is an approach which comes from a long history of mistrust of often distant, capricious, arbitrary rulers, a belief that the state’s benefits are, as has often been the case, doled out to favourites, to those clever enough to have cultivated the right people, to those from whom a favour in return will be expected, to those who are useful. So why not do the same in return – exploit whatever loopholes, ambiguities, fudges can be found – and as shamelessly as possible. If it’s good enough for rulers, it’s good enough for everyone else. L’arte (and it is an art) d’arrangiarsi. It is what makes life in Italy very pleasant, once you have mastered it, but utterly exasperating for the literal-minded outsider naïve enough to think that the de jure position matters a damn.
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But thanks for your suggestion, this weekend I am going to make a Scotch egg using kofta meat, I just have one question, does the egg need to be runny?
*Phonetical joke.
Pratting around with loopholes is just stupid. Restaurants and pubs and customers know what the rules are as much as people in the media put of affectations of idiocy.
There haven't been any really serious side effects that we're *sure* are caused by the vaccine. One of the AZ participants spent a night in hospital with some inflammation in the spinal cord. We just don't know if that was caused by the vaccine, or simply a consequence of someone, somewhere having something bad happen because - you know - with 40,000 people, there are going to be some people who get sick for some reason.
Well apart from most of us here?
I can see all sorts of fights over this when people get on the plane with a bag that then doesn't fit.
And pratting about is stupid. I agree. Decent establishments don’t do it.
Pratting about imposing stupid rules and not providing support is even stupider. It’s as stupid as asking people to self-isolate but doing it in such a way that they don’t get the money otherwise provided.
It undermines what they are trying to achieve.
If bankruptcy and unemployment is the option to stretching the rules as far as they can, some will do the latter. Best not put them in that position.
Anyway wish my daughter luck for tonight. She was in tears this morning at what is happening. I have little patience with a government consisting of morons willing to reward their already rich friends and damaging the businesses of young entrepreneurs like her. I am biased but she and her team have more integrity and competence in their little fingers than Johnson, Gove and co will ever have in their entire miserable lives.
So they can fuck off as far as I’m concerned.
Oh and she’s not serving scotch eggs. She has a foodie reputation to maintain.
1. Increase the number of people coming through the pub, when they have limited capacity. They can run 5pm, 7pm and 9pm sittings.
2. Stop pubs being full of drunk people who forget they’re supposed to be keeping apart from each other, thus spreading the virus around.
And I've never once heard of a pub or restaurant taking the piss with that to serve 16 and 17 year olds.
This is a non-story of the media's making, just immature. I've heard of no pubs or restaurants getting raided for serving Scotch Eggs, any more than pubs getting raided for serving lager and Scotch Eggs to children.
From 4 years ago:
https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2016/06/16/When-to-serve-alcohol-to-16-17-year-olds-with-a-meal
Twelve to sixteen weeks. That's all they need.
Just give them a grant equal to their running costs as declared to HMRC over the last year. It won't save all of them, but it will save most of them. Yes, it'll be pricey, but the cost of letting them collapse in terms of lost corporation tax, VAT, lost jobs (and thus lost income tax and NI coupled with increased Universal Credit payments) - all that alone makes it sensible, because those will be foregone for a far longer period than the needed grants. Let alone the human cost.
For God's sake, Boris and Rishi. Just do it.
Otherwise, evening all.
Similar caveats apply.
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2020/11/30/across-the-vaccine-efficacy-line-and-a-late-breaking-safety-episode-covid-19-vaccine-race-month-11/
...In mid-October, a 40-year-old trial participant in the Indian phase 3 trial of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine had a serious neurological adverse event, requiring intensive care. The vaccine developers’ partner, the Serum Institute of India (SII), deemed the event unrelated to the vaccine – but it was clearly a serious adverse event in the trial. (Any episode of intensive care would be classed as a serious adverse event.) The drug regulator’s investigation is not complete.
Despite this, the head of SII has recently stated that there were no hospitalizations in the Indian trial, and no serious adverse events. The trial participant’s lawyer made the situation public, as they have asked for compensation, indicating they would shortly lodge a court claim, and calling for the trial to be halted.
In an appalling turn of events, the SII has said it will sue the trial participant for damage to the SII’s reputation. Maybe there’s a worse way to handle this, but I find it hard to imagine one. And it’s clear that determination of whether or not this event is vaccine-related has financial implications for the manufacturer.
What now? We don’t know if regulators in other countries with ongoing trials of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine have been notified. It’s been about a month since the event. Many of us have been calling for radical transparency in these trials. It’s obviously urgently needed here, along with reassurance that this event has been properly investigated. The handling of this at many levels raises a lot of questions.
[Update December 2] Other trial participants expressed concern about the way this man was being treated by the vaccine manufacturer. They have contacted the drug regulator, concerned that they were given injections after the serious adverse event without being informed of it, and some are reportedly considering legal action. Fortunately, the trial participant has almost completely recovered: he was in the intensive care unit for 10 days...
Dodds is right.
Off topic - but interesting opinion piece. Basically the fishing industry is a minnow against the proper big industries being trashed for a bunch of fishermen.
"Even if No 10 succeeds in its ambition of taking 60% of catches in British waters back from EU vessels, gains for the country’s fishing industry could never come close to matching potential losses from the UK’s economic leviathans."
Edit: And -
"There is an irony in the fact that the automotive and finance were two of the industries most assiduously courted by Margaret Thatcher during the 1980s. Now they face an overnight transition to World Trade Organization terms on 1 January – a disaster in their eyes – under another Conservative prime minister."
You might be clear in your head but if there is no clear guidance to whoever is in charge of enforcement then the whole thing becomes messy.
I don't believe for a second Starmer doesn't want to abstain. 🤣
Scotch eggs can be quite filling.
At least there's no suggestion of him having his daughter vaccinated on TV. Compare Mr Selwyn Gummer and the burger at the heigth of the nvCJD/BSE panic.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/16/newsid_2913000/2913807.stm
He's only a few weeks younger than me.
https://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/recipe_directory/m/mini_scotch_eggs_with_quail_eggs.html
Anyone who commutes to work by tube should arguably take preference over retired 70 year-olds living in suburbs who rarely mix in crowds
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/02/really-get-economy-moving-give-private-sector-londoners-priority/
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https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/02/hancock-brexit-helped-uk-to-speedy-approval-of-covid-vaccine
Our MHRA was already very before Brexit which is in part why the EMA was based in the UK, this is a sector in which the UK does well like the Germans do car manufacturing well.
As a consequence of Brexit the MHRA was expanding to take over functions currently the responsibility of the EMA. Also as the EU chose to relocate the EMA overseas many experienced EMA staff switched to the MHRA. See this article from the end of 2019: https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2019/10/ema-staff-losses-tick-up-as-workload-increases
Reminds me of Clegg and a potential referendum on Lisbon.
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High risk spreaders like care staff and NHS absolutely, but protect the vulnerable directly and the young won't need the restrictions since they're already pretty safe.
From case data
From hospital admissions
When it is hard, I withdraw.
It'll be a weapon against the SNP if they vote against a (broadly popular) deal too - having ramped up no deal chaos. Granted, with the SNP, they are between a rock and a hard place as a large proportion of their supporters would think voting for any Tory deal was totally unacceptable.
It isn't though, is it? It is a principle of sovereignty.
The state support stuff is potentially much bigger economically but doesn't have quite the same implications (at least in my mind).