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The big vaccine divide: The UK’s approach is politician led while the EU’s is run by its officers – politicalbetting.com
Above is a pic taken today on Johnson’s visit to Scotland and highlights the very different way in which the EU and the UK is approaching the effort to vaccinate those most at risk from COVID. For their is no reason why Boris should be there except to get the media coverage.
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They would if they had the vaccines.
Security officials are preparing for a wave of violence in Europe as the public cracks under the stress of lockdowns.
Both liberals and conservatives believe that using facts in political discussions helps to foster mutual respect, but 15 studies—across multiple methodologies and issues—show that these beliefs are mistaken. Political opponents respect moral beliefs more when they are supported by personal experiences, not facts.
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/6/e2008389118
I think that makes sense, and is illustrated on PB. Dogmatism and "facts" don't change minds. Personal experiences sometimes do. There is a lot of empathy on PB.
Excellent header by the way.
I didn't even spot him at first, lurking in the shadows.
There's something weird about that photograph!
Mein Gott.
There was a design for a nuclear powered plane that never made it off the ground...
Actually for a truly mad idea have a look a project Orion. Not just nuclear propulsion, but propulsion by nuclear bombs.
Fly you fools!!!!
https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1354706310063923200?s=20
Which is a problem.
As it just encourages hyperbole based on anecdote.
I mean, Foxy is a doctor.
Roger, Bron and me all pointed out data that showed only 48 healthy under forties had died from Covid in England by 17 Dec.
Foxy then said, well we have a woman in her twenties in ICU.
Of course, both of those are true statements.
Yet many people afford more weight to the ICU anecdote, which is clearly unwise.
Yet they do.
Surely a sample of 300 is too small to draw any definite conclusions from? But if you must, one in 300 for both seems ok to me.
It certainly won't stop me from having the jab, when it's offered.....[Drums fingers.]
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2021/jan/28/uk-covid-live-coronavirus-boris-johnson-scotland-nicola-sturgeon-vaccine-travel-quarantine-latest-updates
Do it Boris. Don’t listen to the rabid anti Christian ravers on PB. Their only religion is frothed up hatred of EU, that’s not Brexit is it?
Once vulnerable people in UK have been jabbed, share it Boris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JOpPNra4bw
This way you get the raw data.
It is very, very easy to jump to conspiracy theory conclusions about what is happening.
And some on PB are down the square yelling in outrage in support of this headline as we speak.
Trial by combat*.
*No actual combat included, implied, referenced or conceived of. No Sir. May contain nutters. May contain nutters. May contain new-fascists.
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But my beef is less with the tabulation than with the idiot who cited it to the journalist, and the journalist who didn't examine the data.
The Telegraph really is a crappy paper these days.
Presumably you mean by that people who believe in science rather than superstition?
Richard Tice, Toby Young and the great Sir Graham Brady agin lockdown.
I think there is a fair bit of political posturing by those in the Commission who can't forget how to be politicians but I also suspect that calmer heads in the bureaucracy will eventually prevail.
What Johnson needs to do is exactly what he has been doing which is play it down, make conciliatory and neutral noises and keep his cabinet and MPs in line. For once he is on the right side of this argument and he can stay there by making sure it is between AZ and the EU and not between the UK and the EU.
From case data
From hospitalisation data
We certainly have a far higher proportion of (previously) healthy under forties in ICUs and who have passed through ICUs than the proportion in the death figures.
For all agreement (whether moral or nonmoral) and for nonmoral disagreement, facts foster respect just as well as experiences.
I remember the exchange on the death rate for under forties. I was much more persuaded by the facts than the anecdote, but I realise that some others weren't.
Moral and political disagreements are not about the facts of the matters but much more about feelings fed by personal experiences and upbringing. And that's fine by me. There is no objective truth.
But I agree that non-moral disagreements are better resolved by facts than personal anecdotes when there are facts of the matter and objective truth.
https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1342751465274806273?s=20
Either the shares are suspended, so that no-one can trade them - or they’re not, in which case anyone should be able to. Closing the market to some investors, while keeping it open to others, is manipulation.
And then when a newspaper uses something milder than the government's own rhetoric in another situation you wet your nappy?
Not summer yet, but nice to think about.
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Project_Orion/zo7VOAAACAAJ?hl=en
https://www.ted.com/talks/george_dyson_the_story_of_project_orion/transcript?language=en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njM7xlQIjnQ (see 07:54 onwards for a model craft using high explosive
(Not to be confused with the current US space project of that name.)
There's a definite tilt on that 85+ line.
The vaccine biting?
Next few days, with the Shagster tiring, Mark will be measuring his punches and going in for the kill.
Ah, the road not taken.
I liked the design for a true interstellar Orion - it would have taken all the nuclear weapons ever made, to get it to 5% of C, to a nearby star, decelerate and then return.
I suspect our DuraAce would have complained about poor acceleration, though.
https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/1354834682563719169?s=20