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Contagion – the 2011 Matt Damon movie that’s said to be driving Hancock’s COVID strategy – political
Contagion – the 2011 Matt Damon movie that’s said to be driving Hancock’s COVID strategy – politicalbetting.com
There’s a great piece in the Guardian on the influence that the 2011 Matt Damon movie, Contagion, has had on the government’s approach to COVID – a story that was first covered by SkyNews.
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We are going to have to say that no-one leaves or enters this country without proof of vaccination.
If the French anti-vaxxers don't want to take the vaccine, that's up to them but they cannot enter our country if so.
Vaccination is not a 100% guarantee against Covid and the unvaccinated could become a reserve for the spread of mutant strains.
hmmmm...
If the virus continues to mutate and spread I think we are going to have to have tighter rules on what you can and cannot do if you choose not to be vaccinated. Certain occupations should require practitioners to vaccinated, travel, hotels, employers may all have to empowered to require vaccination.
But the farsighted focus on the vaccine from the early days - and the "brave" (and right) decision to veto Oxford partnering with Merck and insisting upon a British outfit instead of an American one Trump could put controls on - was undoubtedly a masterstroke a long time in the making.
It isn't over until the fat lady sings, but it does feel with this vaccine like she is very much warming up her vocal chords. Fingers crossed we can put this bastard bug behind us soon.
Next you'll be saying that Howard Webb wasn't always impartial.
All of which might just transpire. 😬
Top trolling from BBC News at 10.
Straight from long piece by Fergus Walsh on how effective the AZ/Oxford vaccine is... to an update on how the French refuse to use it for anyone over 65.
Ok - one was an own goal. Bednarek will want to forget this one - og and red card, eh?
1) There will be a minority of employers who are anti-vaxxers in the UK. Similarly, there will be lots of employers who aren't especially bothered about checking. There would also be general apathy from lots of the public.
2) After a short while (I suspect more than a year but less than two) no-one in the developed world will pay a blind bit of notice to covid regulations because we'll be substantially back to normal.
Many of us (me included) thought it was so ridiculous it was probably a hoax. Scotland is not North Korea, etc. And yet I did notice none of the PB Nats actually denied it, which was curious.
Turns out: it's true
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/schools-family/1941916/school-lessons-featuring-snp-logo-and-independence-campaign-politically-biased/
The propaganda has now been withdrawn, with this excuse from the Office of Josef Goebbels, sorry, the makers:
"However, we recognise that including the SNP logo in this resource and not including the political party of Donald Dewar was not consistent and so we have now amended this.”
LOL! Whatever happened to Mike Reid ?
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You will not be able to fly without a vaccine passport. Airlines that guarantee this ("we demand vaccine passports! You are safer with us!") will have a HUGE advantage over those that don't. Ergo, it will happen.
I hope nobody had him as their captain.
I had the good sense to bench him this week.
Bastard even managed to send off another two Arsenal players without even being in present at the match.
Say a set of stars that has collapsed.
Is it not the case that Ursula Minima is still available?
Ish.
I actively avoid Ryanair because I find their general approach to customer service unattractive. I am a rarity amongst my mates.
https://democracy.towerhamlets.gov.uk/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=604
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He established and still part-owns an EXTREMELY successful media conglomerate. £££££££. So, he's done OK
Obtaining trade deal lite by the back door might end up suiting the Government much better than years of tortuous negotiations (infinitely complicated by all kinds of special interest pleading in Congress) to try to seal a full-fat bilateral accord?
For the moment he is entitled to his adulation, if only, as he is the incumbent. We are also entitled to an explanation of the 100,000 fatalities on his watch, if only, as he is the incumbent.
I genuinely don't see how he blags his way out of the economic situation once the "spaffing" of public money on income protection schemes stops. He has lady luck on his side, so maybe everything, across the world, will be fine, and we carry on with business as normal...but how? Paying last July and January's self assessment bill last week was an unpleasant experience in itself.
I don't see any bilateral US-UK trade deal. It isn't really in our interest.
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1356689724660981767
He established and still part-owns an EXTREMELY successful media conglomerate. £££££££. So, he's done OK
And a creative genius to boot.
https://youtu.be/lYOBZ3Seeio
Very very few. A proof of vaccination will be required to fly, in the end, by virtually all airlines, I suspect. The few airlines that don't will be *brave* and probably go under because they will be known as the Plague Airlines where you can still get the bug.
He will sing you a calypso, if you ask him necely.
Maybe.
Also, 22 nasty bits of the original CPTPP (or whatever it is) deal that were America's priorities, the rest of the group dropped when America decided to not to join. So the ideal situation is that the die is now cast, and America can take or leave membership (without putting its crap bits back on the table).
That's the choice
People still have unprotected sex, despite the risks of horrific disease.
I bet travel writers, such as SeanT formerly of this parish, wouldn't be put off by what will be a decreasingly small risk of illness from travel on public transport.
For patients - charged cost of care.
They will give real reassurance, they are possibly the only way you will get the masses back into planes. Remember, most people exaggerate threats, not the opposite. Sure, the super rich, super smart or super young will either disregard risk, or cleverly avoid it, but they are not the majority, by any means. Look at the massive support for total lockdown.
Vax visas are coming, in some form
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/search?q=twinkl
https://youtu.be/lYOBZ3Seeio
Mike Reid has lived on, way after his broadcasting career bombed...as Smashy and/or Nicey. Indeed isn't that Smashy and Nicey in the above Union Flag picture?
This whole trial really does seem to have buggered up the over 55s part, but the immune responses do look good.
Bags of fun
Breakfast show on Radio One
Has anybody seen Mike Read?
He's 73. Tempus fugit.
(Mike Reid with an i rather than an a was the comedian who played Frank Butcher in Eastenders. He died more than ten years ago.)
(If I were a Euro-drug regulator, which I'm obviously not, I'd be taking this and saying "had we had this last week, we could have all saved ourselves a lot of trouble". And then use my country's share of the 40 million doses to jab my country's share of 40 million people once instead of twice in quick succession.)
Any news on David ‘Kid’ Jensen?
Data Incoming.
And Lega Nord + FdI is about 40%, and M5S + PD is about 40%. And then you have the communists, the greens, and the remnants of FI.
Basically, it's a f*cking mess, and nobody will have enough support to actually do anything because every party is protecting some vested interests.
You can take risks for yourself. Taking risks where the risks are borne by others is a very different matter. Society is allowed to say that, if you do, there are limits on what you can and cannot do. Specifically, a country should be allowed to say that vaccination is a condition of entry. Having a communicable disease has long been a bar for entry (see the US and Canada and TB) so this is not some new development.
https://twitter.com/jjz1600/status/1356689851668713473?s=21
I believe he is enduring Parkinson's but battling on. A better quality of Radio 1 legend than Reid.
* By equal I'm talking about enforcement systems. The ISDS tribunals are all heavily skewed towards the US, and I simply can't see CPTPP rewritten to make it so America ran dispute resolution.