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How the UK by some margin leads the way in Europe on vaccination – politicalbetting.com
How the UK by some margin leads the way in Europe on vaccination – politicalbetting.com
We all know what a huge political issue vaccinations has become in Europe over the past few months and the above table from Politico shows country-by-country how many have actually been jabbed.
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Anyhow, I see that on the list of Santander closures is the branch here in Bingley. The last vestige of the Bradford and Bingley leaves the town.
Those with confidence in the UK: "we'd also have gone outside the EU had we been members"
Those with no confidence in the UK: "we'd have succumbed to the EU jackboot had we been members and fallen in with their scheme."
If we stay at 500k per day, there’s 140 days until everyone’s been done twice. First week in August, just in time to start on the schoolkids.
The EU has a large Covid solidarity fund, which benefits the countries with the biggest per capita death tolls. We would have been "entitled" to a decent share of that, and boy, we would have taken it, eagerly.
Even if we had at the same time gone it alone on vaccines (dubious), once it became obvious we had more jabs and were racing ahead, the rest of the EU would have said Oi, you took our money, now share the vaccines.
Morally incontestable. Of course we would yield. And rightly so.
Ergo, even if we'd pursued a solo vax route (I am doubtful) we'd have been forced to share them, anyway
There’s a Dutch salvage crew on the way, but getting heavy equipment alongside will take time. The sheer size of the thing makes it very difficult to offload cargo, but it will have fuel and possibly some ballast which can be removed to lighten the load.
They’re currently backing out with tugs the last two ships that were behind to the south, so they should soon be able to get at her from both sides. Not an easy job at all, good luck to them!
When you read the process some countries have to go through to get vaccines rolled out - and compare it to what having a centralised health service can accomplish - I suspect even if we had been in the EU procurement process (and had been given the opportunity to buy "fair shares", not necessarily a given) we'd still have been leading the pack. My jab was very efficient - took less time than the queue on the phone to arrange it.
What has been the experience of posters in the US, which is also doing well, but does not have centralised medicine?
And the public 'knows' who 'created' the NHS; Labour
(It was on a Liberal base, but that's forgotten.)
Assuming she still doesn’t float with no fuel and no cargo, they’ll have to shore her up underwater and dig her out with dredgers, it will take weeks if not months.
When you say ‘fragments’, she’s 400m long, 59m wide and weighs 220,000,000kg. When not run aground, she’s one of the largest ships afloat.
The real concern is that she breaks her back during the recovery, given she’s grounded at bow and stern, but not in the middle.
One other alternative would be to dam the canal either side of her, and pump in enough water to float her. Again, that will take weeks.
There might be a reason for that. Its good that at the moment the left wants to add no more data to that set.
One of the replies states:
https://twitter.com/manofmysteries1/status/1375018264556941314
The person seems aptly named
https://twitter.com/CruiseGuide/status/1375055138847653889?s=20
So, if we assume that the vaccine is 75% effective at preventing infection and assume that the effect of the vaccine is simple* we can construct the following table
*the vaccine effect is simply a multiple on the original R number.
Being on international committees is a rather strange retirement hobby but it means that others don't waste time doing it.
If the vaccine is 75% more effective, but then in the 25% chance you get the infection still you are more likely to be asymptomatic and less likely to infect people even though you are asymptomatically infected, then that will reduce R further.
Labour needs a message that is wider than that.
You'd think that the reality distortion would have to be punctured eventually, but clearly he has a relationship with his supporters that is beyond my ken. So how to judge when and why this might happen?
I read Sinopharm was a bit pants, like, only 50-60% effective.
Piquant
Also, right now R would pop up back to 1.88 post lockdown free-for-all therefore we need to get to 80%+ by the middle of June??
Yes, a diversionary channel would have to be for much smaller vessels, rather than the full canal width, unless they have a couple of years to spare.
Here's what the canal cross section looks like, the incident ship has a draught of 16m and from photos is clearly well aground at the bow end.
https://twitter.com/marcelvandenber/status/1374821546225762308
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374480234632736769
The more I look, the more I don't think she floats at all, no matter how much weight they take out. They either need to dredge the bank or dam the canal.
So track and trace, isolating hotspots etc. may well continue.
In that case I find the chart quite encouraging
We would have gone with the EU scheme but because our politicians are shit, not because the UK is feeble
But its population coverage with a 75% efficacy assumption. That seems a really low efficacy assumption, since those who get infected but are asymptomatic are going to be less likely to infect others.
Yes, to try and beat this thing, using vaccinations, we need to get every adult vaccinated. Adults are 80% of the population..... If we can vaccinate the children as well, that would be a massive help.
In truth I think this counter-factual is valueless. We are presuming Britain voted Remain - once you change history that much there are so many imponderables you're in a parallel universe. Who is prime minister? What has happened in Scotland? Is Jeremy Corbyn president of China? Why are we all covered in KY lube? And so on
All about how she's fighting the good fight, and the Government are doing "nothing".
I want to point out that (a) the Government isn't doing nothing, and are moving as fast as they can to NetZero by 2050, (b) yes, they could do even more, and if she has suggestions for faster improvements - e.g. better subsidies for ground/air-source heat pumps, or solar panels - then she'd have more impact in writing to her MP, (c) the XR target of NetZero by 2025 is totally unrealistic as the infrastructure can't be delivered that fast and it would destroy the economy and millions of jobs, (d) her "tactics" have alienated hundreds of thousands of ordinary working people who try and get to work every day to earn a crust and turned them off XR, and, (e) the solution to climate change is global over China, India and the USA, with new technological solutions like Nuclear Fusion and renewables, and not hippie virtue-signalling at everyone else's expense in Britain, but.. it's too emotional a subject for her, so I've written nothing and decided to fume on here instead.
Needless to say she works in London and votes Labour.
Then you really have fun...
Israel has vaxxed her way to an R of 0.55, while opening her economy.
https://twitter.com/ofalafel/status/1375027132947165185?s=21
https://twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1375023950334459904
Personally, I am dead against. It is a massive, Ever Given-sized Trojan Horse for tracking our movements in general.
From what I could glean, his particular beef was the Bristol protestors, but I inferred that it extended to all shrill left wing voices.
Now, you might reasonably say this seems a tad unfair on SKS etc. But in the mind if this fella at least a vote for Labour is a vote endorsing students attacking police stations, tearing down of statues, white guilt, EU vaccine madness and all the other fringe views which travel alongside Labour.
A tad unfair perhaps. SKS has tried to rid the Labour Party of some if its more Corbyny elements. But many people don't pay that much attention and easily conflate the two. My thesis is that the Tories do best when the left is at its maddest.
So we will introduce tracking of individual movements via some kind of app and ID/Covid status system because 5% of people refuse to be vaccinated?
Madness.
The government have lost their minds.
Hope the 1922 backbenchers kill this freedom killing idea dead before it gets more life.
Any word from the Liberals? Massive State intrusion.
There's a range from people who think about environmental issues all day every day whilst composting their own poop and decrying the stain of humanity on mother Gaia, to those who deny the need to do anything and also like to club baby seals for fun to boot.
Plenty of people in that range are persuadable to major action, but if the extreme activists treat pretty impressive accomplishments and plans as doing nothing, well, it brings people down.
Why bother to do anything if even those major things are treated like nothing?
Arguably Labour madder than ever, but they forced a hung Parliament.
There's clearly something about Johnson that other politicians don't have.
2. That's the point, isn't it - most restrictions do almost nothing and we could abandon them with almost no impact (e.g. Reopen restaurants). If we have to keep nightclubs closed until the bitter end I can see why - but mist elements of lockdown achieve little.
So by say September all adults will have been offered and the vast vast majority will have taken the offer.
Of course pubs will have been open for months by then, so why we need to introduce some covid app that gives you a certificate for entry to the pub at that late stage is beyond me.
Understandably they don't trust any vaccine provided by the Chinese government.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51081501_Radiological_investigations_at_the_Taiga_nuclear_explosion_site_Site_description_and_in_situ_measurements