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  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,829

    https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/2020-presidential-election-voting-and-registration-tables-now-available.html#:~:text=APRIL 29, 2021 — The 2020,by the U.S. Census Bureau.
    ...The estimates presented in this table package may differ from those based on administrative data or exit polls due to factors such as survey nonresponse, vote misreporting and methodological issues related to question wording and survey administration....
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,607
    kle4 said:

    You need to calm the f*ck down, take your own advice and read what I wrote.

    Your post and the one which followed it led me to reflect on a tangential point of my own. It was not a criticism of you or your post and did not say as much.

    Why should not one person's thoughts serve as staging for another, separate point by another? I welcomed the discussion and it led me to think about something related but different.

    So f*ck you. Amazing how you just personified the very point you wanted to criticise about self righteousness.

    Not everything is about you. Nor do you own a discussion or a reply to a post which was not even yours. Just because it was in a thread with yours didn't make it a criticism of you.

    So vain.
    Oh, and TheJezziah, that's a criticism of you btw. Since you just invented one in your imagination to whinge about clearly you need help to identify an actual criticism of you.
  • SelebianSelebian Posts: 9,266
    Maffew said:

    I thought Neil Ferguson had avoided the doom porn and for most of this year was saying once vaccination is complete we're pretty much done in the UK and would just have to live with flu-level outbreaks.
    I'd assumed Ferguson was implicated by involvement (presumably?) in the Imperial model included in the SAGE forecasts. Wasn't the doomiest of doomy models, but well, those SAGE and ex-SAGE types are all in the conspiracy, aren't they? :innocent:
  • FishingFishing Posts: 5,516
    dixiedean said:

    Thought you lived near Leon, Sean T and Lady G?
    That's at least 3...
    Ethnically- and gender-diverse too. Proof that the Tories don't only appeal to white males.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 55,197
    kle4 said:

    Oh, and TheJezziah, that's a criticism of you btw. Since you just invented one in your imagination to whinge about clearly you need help to identify an actual criticism of you.
    I would respectfully suggest you take some of your own advice and calm down. There's no need for this.
  • felixfelix Posts: 15,180
    dixiedean said:

    Well indeed. Analogous to Tyne and Wear. Massive swings to the Tories all this century has left 12 out of 12 Labour seats much more efficiently won.
    I do think my home town seat of Sunderland central could go blue for the first time since 1963!
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 127,141
    edited May 2021
    felix said:

    I actually doubt your last point and wrt the Home counties not sure they would win much in a GE here - potential to make the Tory vote even more efficient.
    Tory seats like Wycombe, Watford, Hastings and Rye, Milton Keynes (both), Reading West, Southampton Itchen, Worthing East and Shoreham and Crawley are all in the Home Counties and the top 100 Labour target seats.

    Though yes it is mainly the LDs who are the Tories opponents in the South East
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,957
    There hasn't been a single poll of Greater Manchester I notice.
    Burnham has out performed the Labour Party there before.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    MaxPB said:

    Cases now dropping like a stone WoW, deaths almost down to zero. Yet here we are sitting in the cold drinking beer while the nice warm pubs are still closed off.

    The scientists have made doom porn modelling an art form. I'm still waiting for those idiots who said we'd have a third wave worse than the second wave to retract their idiot model. Their agenda is laughably transparent and it's time for them to be forced into printing retractions.

    We have very clearly hit herd immunity already.

    Today's death figures are 4 as well. That's fewer than can die in a single car accident that wouldn't reach the news, it quite possibly also is entirely made up of people dying with Covid (or dying within 28 days of having had Covid) not dying from Covid.
  • contrariancontrarian Posts: 5,818
    Nigelb said:

    ...The estimates presented in this table package may differ from those based on administrative data or exit polls due to factors such as survey nonresponse, vote misreporting and methodological issues related to question wording and survey administration....
    I never claimed it was accurate, merely that the apparent discrepancy is being used to fuel the (bogus) narrative of a 'stolen' election.
  • CookieCookie Posts: 14,838
    AlistairM said:

    Hospital admissions are a week behind and haven't been updated in a few days. No mention of this on the site. Wondering what is happening. Maybe the numbers are too good/bad?
    Hospital admissions have been a week behind/slow to update for some weeks or months now. No conspiracy there, I don't think!

    I also think Ferguson at least and perhaps others HAVE updated their model, using new assumptions (i.e. reflecting real-world vaccine efficacy). I was amongst those bemoaning that they hadn't, but I think they now have. So we now have to target our ire at those further up the chain not budging.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,607
    edited May 2021
    DavidL said:

    I would respectfully suggest you take some of your own advice and calm down. There's no need for this.
    Yes, I agree, but I would hope 2 posts and done on the subject would be acceptable as far as indulgences go. I shall not say another word on the matter, to the pleasure of all, but expressing displeasure across 2 posts is hardly excessive by PB standards I dare say. Im not a robot, everybody has an off moment.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 121,694

    https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/2020-presidential-election-voting-and-registration-tables-now-available.html#:~:text=APRIL 29, 2021 — The 2020,by the U.S. Census Bureau.
    Thanks, your assertion last night was wrong then.

    The 154m Census number is based on those that definitively reported having voted, you forget the 36m that didn't respond.

    As the Census bureau notes.

    The estimates presented in this table package may differ from those based on administrative data or exit polls due to factors such as survey nonresponse, vote misreporting and methodological issues related to question wording and survey administration.
  • eekeek Posts: 29,757
    dixiedean said:

    There hasn't been a single poll of Greater Manchester I notice.
    Burnham has out performed the Labour Party there before.

    Were any of the mayoral elections not forgone conclusions?
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,306
    ping said:

    I agree. Starmer’s picking up votes in blue-remainia, isn’t he?

    Labour could put in a surprisingly good performance in Chesham & Amersham.
    The LDs will mop up there.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,607
    dixiedean said:

    There hasn't been a single poll of Greater Manchester I notice.

    Unaccountable lapse. The precise scale of victory has to be worth at least one poll.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,957
    felix said:

    I do think my home town seat of Sunderland central could go blue for the first time since 1963!
    Well yes. There is a tipping point, where votes become more and more efficiently distributed. And then suddenly they aren't at all.
    Labour 2005 to 2010 springs to mind.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,829

    I never claimed it was accurate, merely that the apparent discrepancy is being used to fuel the (bogus) narrative of a 'stolen' election.
    As are the public pronouncements of many leading Republican politicians, most of whom must be aware that they are peddling lies.
    Which is of rather more concern.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,276
    Cookie said:

    Hospital admissions have been a week behind/slow to update for some weeks or months now. No conspiracy there, I don't think!

    I also think Ferguson at least and perhaps others HAVE updated their model, using new assumptions (i.e. reflecting real-world vaccine efficacy). I was amongst those bemoaning that they hadn't, but I think they now have. So we now have to target our ire at those further up the chain not budging.
    The hospital admissions data isn't generally updated on weekends and bank holidays...
  • SeaShantyIrish2SeaShantyIrish2 Posts: 17,559

    https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/2020-presidential-election-voting-and-registration-tables-now-available.html#:~:text=APRIL 29, 2021 — The 2020,by the U.S. Census Bureau.
    For what it's worth, Wikipedia says total votes cast in 2020 for US President = 158,383,403

    Which IF you assume 1% falloff (ballots cast with NOT vote for President) would bump up total turnout to about 160m.

    Compared with US census ESTIMATE of 155m (as Contrarian rightly says).

    Note that the Wiki number is based on actual votes cast as reported by election authorities, while the Census number is based on survey responses.

    Hence the gap is NOT ipso facto prima facie evidence of fraud.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 121,694
    dixiedean said:

    At least one member of the far right certainly was depressingly active.
    Yup.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 55,197
    dixiedean said:

    There hasn't been a single poll of Greater Manchester I notice.
    Burnham has out performed the Labour Party there before.

    KIng of the North! King of the North!
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,607
    edited May 2021
    eek said:

    Were any of the mayoral elections not forgone conclusions?
    Well Tees, West of England and West Midlands seemed up in the air on the basis of the results last time not needing much change to be competitive this time, but from the looks of it at least 2 of those are actually certs. Street and Houchen have been name dropped here, but West of England's chap not so much.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,891
    Maffew said:

    I thought Neil Ferguson had avoided the doom porn and for most of this year was saying once vaccination is complete we're pretty much done in the UK and would just have to live with flu-level outbreaks.
    Got a lot of respect for Neil Ferguson. His ‘500,000 deaths’ quote - which received much derision on here - turned out to be bang on: as a reasonable worst case scenario for UK Covid with no mitigation

    He then got death threats for a year. Now he’s willing to dial down the doom

    Contrast with the flailing figure of Jonathan ‘masks are dangerous because my friend in China says so’ Van Tam
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,568
    dixiedean said:

    At least one member of the far right certainly was depressingly active.
    Looked at these guys' Social profile back in March, looks like the group FB and Twitter had gone pretty quiet during COVID, and their councillor was ploughing a bit of a lone furrow in Dewsbury East (weaving a rough homemade rug?) doing traditional councillor things like staring at potholes (OK, perhaps he had been ploughing a furrow after all). Looks like this year's ward candidate now has the page for pictures of him standing on streets campaigning.

    An announced candidate for last year's elections in Dewsbury West was also flagged, but though she later turned up in the Yorkshire Post for a lot of community work during COVID, her Heavy Woollen affiliation was no longer mentioned there.

    I am left wondering whether they have been somewhat diminished as a local political force. Let's see on Thursday.
  • contrariancontrarian Posts: 5,818
    edited May 2021

    Thanks, your assertion last night was wrong then.

    The 154m Census number is based on those that definitively reported having voted, you forget the 36m that didn't respond.

    As the Census bureau notes.

    The estimates presented in this table package may differ from those based on administrative data or exit polls due to factors such as survey nonresponse, vote misreporting and methodological issues related to question wording and survey administration.
    So much for the immense betting implications then.

    With respect I did not make any claims about the veracity of the document, merely that the apparent discrepancy is being used by figures on the right to keep the 'stolen' election narrative going.

    I know you and almost everybody on here would not like to face up to the fact that more than 70% of republican voters still don't think Biden got enough legit votes to win. But its true, they don't. And stuff like this is used to keep that notion going.

  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,891
    Nigelb said:

    Talking absolute shite, IMO.
    (It's not impossible that the virus escaped from a lab, but the stuff about the spike being 'mucked about with' is just rubbish.)
    Of course it came from the lab.

    Was it mucked about with? My guess is no, but this New York article plausibly says Yes

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,276
    UK cases by specimen date

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    UK case summary

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    UK Hospitals

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  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,957
    Off topic. My High School mates from Canada are now proudly showing off their vaccine photos and side effects.
    So they are 6 weeks behind us.
  • Labour needs to follow the Biden approach.

    Undo some of the 2019 losses that are now marginals and then pickup seats in the south. The analysis I posted this morning suggested they could pickup 26 on a good night.

    They need a swing of around 5% to get their 50th target seat, which would be progress going into 2029.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,276
    UK deaths

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  • contrariancontrarian Posts: 5,818

    For what it's worth, Wikipedia says total votes cast in 2020 for US President = 158,383,403

    Which IF you assume 1% falloff (ballots cast with NOT vote for President) would bump up total turnout to about 160m.

    Compared with US census ESTIMATE of 155m (as Contrarian rightly says).

    Note that the Wiki number is based on actual votes cast as reported by election authorities, while the Census number is based on survey responses.

    Hence the gap is NOT ipso facto prima facie evidence of fraud.
    With respect, I never claimed it was evidence of anything.

    My point was some are trying to weaponise it to keep a narrative going.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,276
    UK R

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  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,838
    dixiedean said:

    Thought you lived near Leon, Sean T and Lady G?
    That's at least 3. There may be many more...
    :smile: - Good point. But I tend to ignore "them" (for all sorts of reasons).
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,645
    MaxPB said:

    Cases now dropping like a stone WoW, deaths almost down to zero. Yet here we are sitting in the cold drinking beer while the nice warm pubs are still closed off.

    The scientists have made doom porn modelling an art form. I'm still waiting for those idiots who said we'd have a third wave worse than the second wave to retract their idiot model. Their agenda is laughably transparent and it's time for them to be forced into printing retractions.

    Totally agree, and I see Neil Ferguson now thinks the NHS won't be overwhelmed. TBH the way cases are down and vaccines are up, I don't really expect a third wave in any meaningful sense (hospital/death).
    While I am chaffing for the next restrictions to be lifted, and think they should have been already, its only another 13 days.
    I will be seriously pissed off if mask wearing stays after June though.
  • pingping Posts: 3,805
    My local gp is now inviting 35-40years olds in for the jab
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,276
    Age related data

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  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,767
    DavidL said:

    I would respectfully suggest you take some of your own advice and calm down. There's no need for this.
    I didn't know there had been a vacancy for site policeman, David?
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,276
    edited May 2021
    Age related data scaled to 100K population per age group

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    Vaccinations

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  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    Given the tiny number of deaths now it must be quite possible that some if not all of these so-called Coronavirus deaths are naturally occurring deaths of people who by pure coincidence tested positive within last 28 days?

    That wasn't true all pandemic, though its certainly been a factor which is why the real death toll is tens of thousands fewer than the 'official' one. But it must surely be a real factor now?
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,568
    Pro_Rata said:

    Looked at these guys' Social profile back in March, looks like the group FB and Twitter had gone pretty quiet during COVID, and their councillor was ploughing a bit of a lone furrow in Dewsbury East (weaving a rough homemade rug?) doing traditional councillor things like staring at potholes (OK, perhaps he had been ploughing a furrow after all). Looks like this year's ward candidate now has the page for pictures of him standing on streets campaigning.

    An announced candidate for last year's elections in Dewsbury West was also flagged, but though she later turned up in the Yorkshire Post for a lot of community work during COVID, her Heavy Woollen affiliation was no longer mentioned there.

    I am left wondering whether they have been somewhat diminished as a local political force. Let's see on Thursday.
    And the initial answer is - they are standing only in the ward they hold (one candidate for one seat), and the Dewsbury West lass is now standing purely as an Independent, not as a Heavy Woollen.

    Got to wonder if this is a grouping still capable of 15% in a by-election?
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,767

    UK cases by specimen date

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    Far k'nell. Turtles zeros all the way down.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,276
    CFR

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  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,869
    If you’re an MP for La République en Marche, a flag in the background isn’t sufficient.

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  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,276
    edited May 2021
    TOPPING said:

    Far k'nell. Turtles zeros all the way down.
    Similar to what we had last summer....
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,838
    edited May 2021
    RobD said:

    .

    Are there really seats where the Tory vote is zero? Even in seats like East Ham they manage ~15%.
    No, not yet. I think we can have a crack at it round here though. Can you imagine if we pulled it off at the next GE? Talk about your badge of honour! - and a great boost for house prices as people in more "diverse" areas hear about it and want a piece.
  • SeaShantyIrish2SeaShantyIrish2 Posts: 17,559

    I never claimed it was accurate, merely that the apparent discrepancy is being used to fuel the (bogus) narrative of a 'stolen' election.
    Yes, but note that 99.46% of the argument behind the "Biden stole the election from Trump" argument is based on similar misunderstanding (too often willful) of the basic numbers.

    Unholy alliance of statistical ignorance and political ideology. Which is NOT confined to Trumpsky & minions. But they are leading poster children for this nexus at the moment.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 55,197
    TOPPING said:

    I didn't know there had been a vacancy for site policeman, David?
    What made you think that it would be advertised @TOPPING ? Its disappointing when an interesting debate falls away into personal abuse. Anyway @kle4 , who is normally very civilised, took it in the right spirit.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,767
    DavidL said:

    What made you think that it would be advertised @TOPPING ? Its disappointing when an interesting debate falls away into personal abuse. Anyway @kle4 , who is normally very civilised, took it in the right spirit.
    I wanted to know what the perks were.

    And yes wrt @kle4: "no you fuck off" was about the right spirit.

    But it would be a huge shame if @TheJezziah were to be inhibited in his posting.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    Similar to what we had last summer....
    But now we're at Herd Immunity so we can keep it, that wasn't the case then.
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 14,013
    DavidL said:

    So the scores on the doors for SKS are likely to be:

    Overall council seats, a bit of a wash, not much change either way.
    Hartlepool a loss.
    London a clear win, probably not on the first count.
    Scotland small progress
    Wales small retreat, not nearly as bad as it looked a month ago
    West Midlands Mayor, a bit of a thumping.
    Teeside Mayor probably a loss.
    Greater Manchester Mayor, a clear win.

    It's not a great scorecard, is it? More of a C- than a C+ I would say.

    Looks more like a D- to me, and if so SKS can join Peppermint Patty in Peanuts who always gets one as well. I see the bookies are suggesting a likelihood that SKS will step down during or before 2023 - which has a double pronged likelihood - he may step down by then because he is onto a loser, or (IMHO) he could well have lost or failed to win an election by the end of 2023 - with 2022 not impossible.

    However I don't think Hartlepool is lost for Labour yet

  • BromBrom Posts: 3,760
    kle4 said:

    Well Tees, West of England and West Midlands seemed up in the air on the basis of the results last time not needing much change to be competitive this time, but from the looks of it at least 2 of those are actually certs. Street and Houchen have been name dropped here, but West of England's chap not so much.
    I think he's a newcomer. Previous West of England Tory Mayor is stepping down and didnt seem to have much of a profile.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 55,197
    TOPPING said:

    I wanted to know what the perks were.

    And yes wrt @kle4: "no you fuck off" was about the right spirit.

    But it would be a huge shame if @TheJezziah were to be inhibited in his posting.
    They're fantastic. You get to post any time you want, for free. And I agree.
  • SeaShantyIrish2SeaShantyIrish2 Posts: 17,559

    If you’re an MP for La République en Marche, a flag in the background isn’t sufficient.

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    IF the Survation poll is even halfway correct, would expect that plenty of Tory politicos will be following this dude's lead.

    With a big pix of Boris in the background, substituting the Union Jack and ditching the Starry Rag.
  • NerysHughesNerysHughes Posts: 3,375

    The hospital admissions data isn't generally updated on weekends and bank holidays...
    There really is hardly anyone in hospital with Covid
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,607
    edited May 2021
    TOPPING said:

    I wanted to know what the perks were.

    And yes wrt kle4: "no you fuck off" was about the right spirit.

    But it would be a huge shame if TheJezziah were to be inhibited in his posting.
    Actual last word, I hugely welcome Jezziah's viewpoints, as it's relatively rare here and needs to be heard, for better and ill.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 55,197

    If you’re an MP for La République en Marche, a flag in the background isn’t sufficient.

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    It's a weird picture of Macron. Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough is the posture.
  • contrariancontrarian Posts: 5,818

    Yes, but note that 99.46% of the argument behind the "Biden stole the election from Trump" argument is based on similar misunderstanding (too often willful) of the basic numbers.

    Unholy alliance of statistical ignorance and political ideology. Which is NOT confined to Trumpsky & minions. But they are leading poster children for this nexus at the moment.
    Indeed but it is effective and helps explain (amongst other things) the result of the Texas special election and why Romney got so badly treated at his own convention. And why leading republicans such as Liz Cheney are finding life difficult. And why the republicans are horribly divided.


  • pingping Posts: 3,805
    edited May 2021
    algarkirk said:

    Looks more like a D- to me, and if so SKS can join Peppermint Patty in Peanuts who always gets one as well. I see the bookies are suggesting a likelihood that SKS will step down during or before 2023 - which has a double pronged likelihood - he may step down by then because he is onto a loser, or (IMHO) he could well have lost or failed to win an election by the end of 2023 - with 2022 not impossible.

    However I don't think Hartlepool is lost for Labour yet

    That poll would have to be seriously wrong.

    I think the tories have it.

    Should be <1/10, perhaps even as short as 1/16.

    I’m nursing a moderate loss on that market :(
  • sarissasarissa Posts: 2,108
    DavidL said:

    I think that they will get 2, 1 in the NE and 1 in Highland. An embarrassingly poor performance for the former FM.

    The other thing to bear in mind is that Scottish Tories are used to having really crap leaders. Until Ruth came along it was the norm. Didn't stop them voting.
    Speaking as a disgruntled Joanna Cherry supporter, don't write off their chances in Lothian - especially with carpetbagger Campbell at the top of the regional list. I know it's a Green stronghold, but in the absence of Andy Wightman there may be a route through, especially if the Edinburgh Central/West/South tactical voting from 2016 is repeated.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,829

    ....
    I know you and almost everybody on here would not like to face up to the fact that more than 70% of republican voters still don't think Biden got enough legit votes to win. But its true, they don't. And stuff like this is used to keep that notion going.

    On the contrary, we're quite happy to discuss it.
    However, we would like you to face up to the fact that (1) registered Republicans constitute only a third of the electorate, so you're only talking about one in five voters, and (2) the main reason they persist in that belief is that their leaders persist in lying about the election.
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 14,013
    kinabalu said:

    No, not yet. I think we can have a crack at it round here though. Can you imagine if we pulled it off at the next GE? Talk about your badge of honour! - and a great boost for house prices as people in more "diverse" areas hear about it and want a piece.
    Tories get 10% of the vote in Labour's safest seat (Walton) and Labour get 13% in the Tory's safest (S Holland). Nowhere near extinction time yet.

  • sarissasarissa Posts: 2,108

    Any London Mayoral turnout markets ?

    45.3% in 2016..

    1% of 2.6 million votes for Count Binface is all I ask....
  • nico679nico679 Posts: 6,277
    The JCVI have gone very quiet on whether they’re going to put more restrictions on AZ related to under 40s .

    They were supposed to make a decision last week . Are they waiting for after the elections on Thursday ? Have no 10 pressurized them into waiting ? Seems rather strange that some under 40s are being asked to make appointments and there’s still no decision from the JCVI.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 18,645

    Similar to what we had last summer....
    Yes, but with added immunity (mostly vaccination, plus quite a lot of prior infection).
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,276
    AlistairM said:

    Hospital admissions are a week behind and haven't been updated in a few days. No mention of this on the site. Wondering what is happening. Maybe the numbers are too good/bad?
    To know what is really going on, we wouldn't need to see the differential between the unvaccinated and vaccinated.

    This data is not being published by PHE - so we wait fro the next study that is being done within the NHS....

    My guesstimate is that we now have 2 epidemics - the one among the vaccinated, which is low level, pretty much no deaths and hospitalisations and another among the unvaccinated, which is bumping along, hence hospital admission still being a thing -

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    The reason it is 2 epidemics, is that (as far as we know), the vaccinations reduce transmission, but not as much as they reduce death and hospitalisation. So, for the very near future, we are going to see COVID circulating - we almost certainly haven't reached the stage where R is below 1 without any measures. Yet.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 121,694
    In 2014 a couple of days before the Heywood and Middleton by election a Ashcroft poll had Labour winning it by 19%, the actual result a 2% majority for Labour.

    #ConstituencyPollingIsDifficult
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,829
    DavidL said:

    It's a weird picture of Macron. Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough is the posture.
    And why is it on an easel ?
    Has he just finished a painting-by-numbers Macron ?

    Very odd.
  • SeaShantyIrish2SeaShantyIrish2 Posts: 17,559
    Speaking of COVID, found out yesterday that my apartment manger contracted it last October. Was very sick but recovered; she's maybe 40 and (it appears) in good health otherwise.

    She doesn't know how or where she got it. But her job consists of managing several apartment buildings, she's always going in and out of apartments, dealing with tenants and other workers, schlepping around town all the time.

    Thus are greater risk that say yours truly, who works (sporadically) at home and has mostly stayed in except for grocery shopping and solitary walks.

    She's been vaccinated now, just one jab cause she'd already had the crud. Said her reaction was more than ordinary - "my immune system went a little crazy" - but she soon felt fine and now looks fit as a fiddle. Though of course long-term there could well be consequences, hopefully not serious.

    Hearing about this yesterday made me both sad and mad. Sad at the situation, mad at the "leaders" who made a bad situation worse.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,767

    In 2014 a couple of days before the Heywood and Middleton by election a Ashcroft poll had Labour winning it by 19%, the actual result a 2% majority for Labour.

    #ConstituencyPollingIsDifficult

    I've backed Lab at 5s (6bf).

    Why? No idea apart from if we Brits are as bloody-minded as we are supposed to be it will be a matter of honour to give the incumbents a shock in case anyone is being taken for granted.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,838
    algarkirk said:

    Tories get 10% of the vote in Labour's safest seat (Walton) and Labour get 13% in the Tory's safest (S Holland). Nowhere near extinction time yet.
    True. But there's 3 years to go till the GE and with the contempt that this government has for educated, left/liberal metropolitans I think "Zero Tory" is a feasible stretch goal for London NW3.
  • CursingStoneCursingStone Posts: 421
    edited May 2021

    In 2014 a couple of days before the Heywood and Middleton by election a Ashcroft poll had Labour winning it by 19%, the actual result a 2% majority for Labour.

    #ConstituencyPollingIsDifficult

    A seat that the conservatives came third in at the byelection behind UKIP on 12% of the vote... A seat the Cons won in 2019. #ukipgatewayvote
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 55,197
    sarissa said:

    Speaking as a disgruntled Joanna Cherry supporter, don't write off their chances in Lothian - especially with carpetbagger Campbell at the top of the regional list. I know it's a Green stronghold, but in the absence of Andy Wightman there may be a route through, especially if the Edinburgh Central/West/South tactical voting from 2016 is repeated.
    It's hard to predict but I don't think that there is any chance of the SNP getting a single list MSP in Lothian. They didn't last time and Edinburgh Central is a probable pick up for them. It will be interesting to see what happens to the Green vote without Wightman. Some of it may well go to Alba.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,306

    Given the tiny number of deaths now it must be quite possible that some if not all of these so-called Coronavirus deaths are naturally occurring deaths of people who by pure coincidence tested positive within last 28 days?

    That wasn't true all pandemic, though its certainly been a factor which is why the real death toll is tens of thousands fewer than the 'official' one. But it must surely be a real factor now?

    +1
  • SeaShantyIrish2SeaShantyIrish2 Posts: 17,559
    For whatever reason, PB is proving to be a bear to load on my humble PC this AM (here in Seattle). Whereas New York Times, no problem.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,276
    Nigelb said:

    And why is it on an easel ?
    Has he just finished a painting-by-numbers Macron ?

    Very odd.
    Two flags plus a portrait of The Leader*? Dura Ace will spontaneously combust....

    *Maybe he has a portrait of Petain on the flip side?
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 20,177
    edited May 2021
    felix said:

    I do think my home town seat of Sunderland central could go blue for the first time since 1963!
    I'm not convinced. Sunderland Central is a university seat after all and is being gentrified, albeit slowly (believe it or not). It also contains the more middle class metropolitan liberal elite parts of Sunderland.

    Plus Sunderland/Tyne and Wear generally hasn't exactly been given a ton of Tory red meat to chew on like Teesside.

    The council elections on Thursday should be informative.
  • BromBrom Posts: 3,760
    TOPPING said:

    I've backed Lab at 5s (6bf).

    Why? No idea apart from if we Brits are as bloody-minded as we are supposed to be it will be a matter of honour to give the incumbents a shock in case anyone is being taken for granted.
    Labour are definitely value now. Without the Mayoral vote this would be a toss up IMO. It'll almost certainly be a lot closer than the Survation poll but with so many postal votes in already you can see why Boris would be confident.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    nico679 said:

    The JCVI have gone very quiet on whether they’re going to put more restrictions on AZ related to under 40s .

    They were supposed to make a decision last week . Are they waiting for after the elections on Thursday ? Have no 10 pressurized them into waiting ? Seems rather strange that some under 40s are being asked to make appointments and there’s still no decision from the JCVI.

    Meanwhile the AZ vaccine is being used for under 40 rollout which has already begun. That's the one I was given on Saturday morning.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 55,197
    Nigelb said:

    And why is it on an easel ?
    Has he just finished a painting-by-numbers Macron ?

    Very odd.
    French.
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,568
    I was tracking West Yorkshire hospital COVID admissions (across the 5 major Acute trusts that, approximately, cover the area) just to see if any local holdback was needed:

    w/e 11/4 - 121
    w/e 18/4 - 80
    w/e 25/4 - 65

    If this is reflected across the higher incidence areas, at current I'd say May 17th release is on, in full.
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 18,379
    Cookie said:

    Hospital admissions have been a week behind/slow to update for some weeks or months now. No conspiracy there, I don't think!

    I also think Ferguson at least and perhaps others HAVE updated their model, using new assumptions (i.e. reflecting real-world vaccine efficacy). I was amongst those bemoaning that they hadn't, but I think they now have. So we now have to target our ire at those further up the chain not budging.
    And to be fair, a lot of what's happened is that the vaccines have turned out to be even more effective than we could reasonably have hoped. Go boffins.

    Challenge now is to go from 1 billion doses to 16 billion.

    (And I think nudging the mid-May unlocking may well be more trouble than it's worth, though it's definitely worth looking at the June one again. After all, the Macron plan for France is to get rid of a lot of restrictions at the end of June. And whilst I am fairly confident that the vaccination lag between UK and EU will close up a fair bit in late May and June, reopening that soon will also need a degree of confidence where the UK has been cautious.)
  • SeaShantyIrish2SeaShantyIrish2 Posts: 17,559
    Nigelb said:

    On the contrary, we're quite happy to discuss it.
    However, we would like you to face up to the fact that (1) registered Republicans constitute only a third of the electorate, so you're only talking about one in five voters, and (2) the main reason they persist in that belief is that their leaders persist in lying about the election.
    Caveat - "Republican voters" are WAY more than "registered Republicans" for several reasons, for example states such as my own beloved WA that do NOT have party registration.

    The Republican voters Contrarian is referring to, are folks who voted for Republican President & nominee Trumpsky. Of which 70% equates to approx. one in three voters.
  • StockyStocky Posts: 10,280

    Given the tiny number of deaths now it must be quite possible that some if not all of these so-called Coronavirus deaths are naturally occurring deaths of people who by pure coincidence tested positive within last 28 days?

    That wasn't true all pandemic, though its certainly been a factor which is why the real death toll is tens of thousands fewer than the 'official' one. But it must surely be a real factor now?

    Yes but on the other hand many will have died of Covid outside of 28 days which will not be in figures. I've kind of accepted that one balances the other.

    Only 4 today - on a murder Tuesday. (Unless bank holiday moves that back to Wednesday?)
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    To know what is really going on, we wouldn't need to see the differential between the unvaccinated and vaccinated.

    This data is not being published by PHE - so we wait fro the next study that is being done within the NHS....

    My guesstimate is that we now have 2 epidemics - the one among the vaccinated, which is low level, pretty much no deaths and hospitalisations and another among the unvaccinated, which is bumping along, hence hospital admission still being a thing -

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    The reason it is 2 epidemics, is that (as far as we know), the vaccinations reduce transmission, but not as much as they reduce death and hospitalisation. So, for the very near future, we are going to see COVID circulating - we almost certainly haven't reached the stage where R is below 1 without any measures. Yet.
    And yet the ONS survey last week showed a 40% reduction in cases in the community.

    I see no evidence R would be meaningfully above 1 now.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,276
    Andy_JS said:

    +1
    The hospital admissions and deaths are consistent with each other

    The real question is the ratios of unvaccinated vs first shot (+21 days) vs both shots (+21 days)
  • CursingStoneCursingStone Posts: 421
    Brom said:

    Labour are definitely value now. Without the Mayoral vote this would be a toss up IMO. It'll almost certainly be a lot closer than the Survation poll but with so many postal votes in already you can see why Boris would be confident.
    I'll bite at 10 on betfair. Will bump £50 on it...
  • SelebianSelebian Posts: 9,266
    edited May 2021
    Nigelb said:

    And why is it on an easel ?
    Has he just finished a painting-by-numbers Macron ?

    Very odd.
    Reminds me of Margritte's The Human Condition. Can we be sure it is a painting and not actually Macron hiding (partially) behind an easel? He's short, right? Add a bit of perspective...
  • CursingStoneCursingStone Posts: 421

    I'm not convinced. Sunderland Central is a university seat after all and is being gentrified, albeit slowly (believe it or not). It also contains the more middle class metropolitan liberal elite parts of Sunderland.

    Plus Sunderland/Tyne and Wear generally hasn't exactly been given a ton of Tory red meat to chew on like Teesside.

    The council elections on Thursday should be informative.
    I have lived in Pennywell, was like a series of scenes off Shameless.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,703
    TOPPING said:

    I didn't know there had been a vacancy for site policeman, David?
    Oh no - not a PCC election here on PB. How do I spoil my ballot?
  • nico679nico679 Posts: 6,277

    Meanwhile the AZ vaccine is being used for under 40 rollout which has already begun. That's the one I was given on Saturday morning.
    Well maybe the JCVI won’t bother making a decision but they seemed adamant that they had to clarify the situation before the general under 40s role out begins .
  • CursingStoneCursingStone Posts: 421
    kinabalu said:

    True. But there's 3 years to go till the GE and with the contempt that this government has for educated, left/liberal metropolitans I think "Zero Tory" is a feasible stretch goal for London NW3.
    The contempt is nowhere near as high as it needs to be. The swamp needs to be drained, but it seems highly unlikely .
  • FloaterFloater Posts: 14,207
    Lets just think about this - 10 years plus into a tory government - after austerity, covid cock ups and recent revelations - but Labour look set to lose Hartlepool in a by-election........

    Labour need to change - but not in a way Jezziah would want.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,607
    Selebian said:

    Reminds me of Margritte's The Human Condition. Can we be sure it is a painting and not actually Macron hiding (partially) behind an easel? He's short, right? Add a bit of perspective...
    No, he cannot be short as he's taller than me.
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 20,177
    kinabalu said:

    True. But there's 3 years to go till the GE and with the contempt that this government has for educated, left/liberal metropolitans I think "Zero Tory" is a feasible stretch goal for London NW3.
    I think the bantz of being the only Tory in NW3 would be too strong to resist so you'll get a few thousand votes on that basis alone.
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 20,177
    Floater said:

    Lets just think about this - 10 years plus into a tory government - after austerity, covid cock ups and recent revelations - but Labour look set to lose Hartlepool in a by-election........

    Labour need to change - but not in a way Jezziah would want.

    I'm not sure if you've realised but there's no austerity. We're currently clearing the equivalent of the Amazon Magic Money Rain Forest
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