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The dramatic change in attitudes to sexuality on both sides of the Atlantic – politicalbetting.com
The dramatic change in attitudes to sexuality on both sides of the Atlantic – politicalbetting.com
Fascinating how our #sexuality is changing. We have just got virtually identical data for the #USA as we found in the #UK #fluid pic.twitter.com/18R0fYJUk2
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The president signed contracts totalling £9.46 million with four large consulting firms, despite France's traditional pride for the quality of its vast civil service
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9295341/How-consulting-giant-McKinsey-magnet-criticism-Frances-bungled-Covid-response.html
Just ONE PER CENT of the 15,000 people arriving in the UK everyday are going into hotel quarantine, reveals head of Border Force
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9294951/Just-150-people-entering-UK-quarantine-hotels-day.html
from case data
from hospitalisation data
Edit: reply to original tweet references https://kinseyinstitute.org/research/publications/historical-report-diversity-of-sexual-orientation.php which mentions a reanalysis of 50s data for which, in a college subsample "30% of males reported a homosexual experience to orgasm for the male or his partner". Not read the study, but that wouldn't be massively out of line with gen Z in this survey (if you equate that to same sex or both). Subsample claxon, obviously
The updated J&J single-dose vaccine data looks very good - very effective (better than 80%) efficacy from 28 days onwards against severe/critical Covid in all three regions where they ran the trials, including South Africa where most of the cases were the nasty variant version of the virus. Admittedly it's less effective against mild cases, especially in SA (but that's probably the same for the other jabs). Also it seems to work fine in the over-65s (albeit with relatively small sample sizes). It even had fewer adverse reactions than the mRNA jabs.
Looks near-certain to me that the FDA will approve it. It's cheap, single-dose, will be manufactured in large quantities in multiple locations, and doesn't require special refrigeration. This is going to be a major boost to reducing the toll of the virus around the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h82D5ZvcALM
Damn, just looked that up and discovered I'm a millennial! Does that mean I'm a snowflake? I'd always assumed I was generation X, that sounds cool
I'm a millennial by the way.
It's obvious. I can't believe you've baited me into looking this up. But you have, so I might as well lay it out.
In 2019, Labour got 32% of the vote vs Tories 46%.
Labour received the endorsement of the daily mirror, guardian, morning star. Total circulation = 650k.
The Tories got the endorsement of Express, Mail, Telegraph, Sun, Times, Evening Standard. Total circulation = 4.5m.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorsements_in_the_2019_United_Kingdom_general_election#Endorsements_for_parties
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom_by_circulation#2020_to_present
https://twitter.com/YvetteCooperMP/status/1364569891886489602?s=20
One interesting question is whether J&J will end up recommending a second dose once they've completed their trials on that. I suspect they will, but the main thing is that all of the four vaccines for which we have full trial data look very effective even with one dose, at least for a while.
The world just needs to get these jabs into arms ASAP.
Even taking out the 1/3 that are hauliers, which I don't think anybody wants to put in a quarantine hotel, that still leaves 10,000.
Its "airbridges" all over again....by the time you know you have a problem with a particular country, it is already too late.
You either do this policy properly or don't bother at all.
https://twitter.com/HTScotPol/status/1364619151755644929?s=20
The Scottish government has quite a track record of ignoring votes in Holyrood....
Which certainly wasn't the case until fairly recently.
That seems a totally piddly amount.
More generally, endorsements are binary - papers pretty much have to pick one or the other, assuming they view staying neutral (or worse, picking another party than the main two) as a cop-out. But just putting the Sun's million plus circulation into a right-wing bucket just because in a forced choice between Corbyn and Johnson, they picked the latter, seems like an overreaction. Their general editorial line will be far more nuanced than that.
https://twitter.com/emilysheffield/status/746303490755039232?s=20
Aren't we running a mixed mode trial? Is it Pfizer / AZ only, or does it include J&J?
In the 2nd column here. I think the middle categories are more a female thing, though open to correction from the breakdown. I think it's very normal for women in particular to express same-sex attraction (exclusively or otherwise). The 7-14% figures for lesbian & gay are high compared to other evidence of up to 5%, including among marriage-age cohorts; not sure 10% of people are closeted yet choosing to come out to Ipsos MORI. Gen Z is so online and philosophically idealist; some of them would reject these categories as binary hate speech.
https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/news/worlds-first-covid-19-vaccine-alternating-dose-study-launches-uclh
Unless you are using a very wide definition indeed of 'fashion'.
‘£302 million pounds are going into school bodge its.‘
Otherwise, this is completely vacuous (and dishonest).
Sounds sensible.
Something is very wrong somewhere.
Gay liberation was a very long process, not just an event that happened in 1967. Never mind the fact that discrimination and violence against gay people still hasn't ended - the environment in which lesbians and gays had to live for at least the thirty years after the initial, very limited, decriminalisation of gay sex was pretty wretched. It got progressively better, but only very gradually.
I'd contend that one of the consequences of incrementally improving conditions for homosexual people is that many others who would otherwise have stuck only with opposite sex relationships - for fear of ridicule or worse - have been progressively encouraged to explore and experiment, rather than sticking to previously accepted social norms, and in many cases have discovered that they rather like swinging both ways. I've long believed that human sexuality exists along a spectrum, and the notion that people must be either entirely gay or entirely straight is as ludicrous as the ancient prejudice that all must be straight and being gay is some kind of affliction.
If the eventual endpoint of this evolution is that the group floating in the middle ends up being larger than either of the segments of the population that are purely attracted to one gender, then perhaps this shouldn't come as such a big surprise?
A quite remarkable coincidence.
Equally it is true that the oldies were influenced in the youth in their opposite direction, although that was a long time ago.
https://twitter.com/davidrwilson/status/1363172651028602889
The tiny tweak behind COVID-19 vaccines
https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/tiny-tweak-behind-COVID-19/98/i38
Prepandemic coronavirus research by Jason McLellan and Barney Graham led to a trick for stabilizing the prefusion form of spike proteins
Otherwise, the situation is such a complete muddle it’s difficult to know what to do for the best. The obvious solution would be to increase capacity through using supply teachers and office spaceS to create smaller classes with more spaces in them, but that isn’t simple or straightforward.
The real mistakes were made back in October with the refusal to consider blended learning and the legal threats to make sure that couldn’t happen.
Ultimately, any attempts to sort that mess out will merely be tinkering at the edges.
Edit - another thing the government could do is stop parroting this lie that all pupils in all schools are going back on the 8th. They’re not, and it’s causing immense confusion and upset.
(edit - link upthread; 4th Feb)
I'm a little annoyed that no-one has the gumption to run a trial on the masks - e.g. ask some schools to use them and others not. At least try to get some real work data.
Keep up the good work - we do appreciate it.
‘About this requirement for all children to wear a classroom.’
Perhaps not his fault, but a serious deficit in a politician. And it's not as though there are any countervailing positives.
Since there is no agreed definition of "woke" from its opponents, quite often it becomes "modern stuff I don't approve of."
Which can encompass a heck of a lot.
At the end of the day most of us have relationships with those on a similar level of attractiveness and who we share similar personality traits with and get on with
You get at least 12% of people self-identifying as heterosexual while expressing some level of same-sex attraction. You also get about 3% of people self-identifying as gay or lesbian, which is at the low end of other figures.
Finally, the survey is online people and seems to cut off at age 75, excluding up to 10% of the adult population in the oldest cohorts - so you can stack the overall numbers a little in the baby-boomer direction.
I hope I’m wrong because that’s ludicrous. But that’s what they’re trying to do to us.