7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
If the surge doesn't happen I'd be very happy. If a short delay to further easing helps that so much the better.
Check your privilege – 50,000 brides facing 'socially distanced' weddings...
God you are an idiot at times. I have had one AZN jab, 67 with high BP and other health issues. I must wait till the end of July for the second. So, not to put too fine a point on it, you can shove your brides where the sun doesn't shine. Moron.
I thought you lived in Spain? In which case, the weddings / 21 June / 19 July consequences don't affect you?
He lives in Spain, and is two months away from his vaccine immunity - as the country indicates it’s desparate to attract millions of unvaccinated teens and twenties from all over Europe to party in nightclubs.
If I were 67 and facing this, I’d be sh!t-scared too.
Sure, and I get that that, and I sympathise. That's shit. But it's not relevant to the effects on weddings in the UK is it? So maybe calling me a 'moron' was a teensy bit unfair?
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
It seems much more likely to me that the delta variant is hitting the parameters of the unvaxxed, multigenerational households that it was seeded in and is finding spread in the more general population with their highish levels of vaccination more difficult. I certainly hope so.
I think that's spot on: if there are six of you who live in a three bedroom terrace, and one of you returned from India with Delta, then all of you will get it. And if little Ahmed went around to his friends house, then that'll be 12 people who now have Delta.
In less dense, less intergenerational, more vaccinated communities, spread is much much lower.
If tomorrow's numbers are still at the 7,500 level we can all breath an enormous sigh of relief.
I hope you're right. But where I live, cases have risen from virtually nothing to 250 in the last week, and you'd struggle to find many folk from the Indian diaspora, or multi-generational households, down here.
Grolsch join the ban - shame I used to drink that beer - no longer.
What exactly do they have against Farage? Or is it the same as my beer-drinking acquaintances who refuse to step into a Wetherspoons because Tim Martin is a "gammon"?
It’s an organised Twitter pile-on, from a group called - ironically - Stop Funding Hate.
Has been planned for weeks, to immediately target anyone and everyone associated with GB News.
Obviously, Farage has never appeared on ITV, Channel 4 or the BBC.
Sad that so many are so coususe, but I assume that will be that many believe the government scientists know best, when cases start dropping, they may change there minds.
North West continues to look as if it's flattened out.
It's a massive "if", but if the rate by which the cases growth is increasing continues to drop the way it has been, we could max out around the 21st of June on reported cases, which would be a colossal coincidence. (At 7000-7500 cases per day for England; 8500-9000 cases per day for the entire UK). That would equate to something in the region of 250-300 hospitalisations per day for England (300-350 for the UK) and a maximum hospital occupancy of around 1800-2200 for England; 2000-2500 for the UK.
Totally a SWAG figure, if that, but I'd take that right now for the peak.
On those numbers, one possible scenario is we face a series of 'socially distanced' weddings, with bridesmaids in facemasks, and no dancing, with positive tests falling from a very low base.
Grolsch join the ban - shame I used to drink that beer - no longer.
What exactly do they have against Farage? Or is it the same as my beer-drinking acquaintances who refuse to step into a Wetherspoons because Tim Martin is a "gammon"?
It’s an organised Twitter pile-on, from a group called - ironically - Stop Funding Hate.
Has been planned for weeks, to immediately target anyone and everyone associated with GB News.
Obviously, Farage has never appeared on ITV, Channel 4 or the BBC.
Quite - just what is different in this case ......
I don’t know what GB News are doing, but posting 360p videos on YouTube, complete with the stutters of their own broadcast website it was being ripped from, is a major screwup.
I’m available to help them, remotely, for a bargain £1k a day.
It is bewildering. Over the lockdown I have learned, from a standing start, as a reasonably technophobic 50+ yo, to do the cameras and sound mixing of religious services broadcast live over several platforms and recorded for later use. All interactive with real time chat facility. It is quite laughably easy for one person with almost no knowledge these days.
Yes, absolutely. I’ve set up the same for dozens of executives forced to work from home in the last 18 months. They all wanted their WFH rooms to look like Joe Rogan’s podcast studio - well maybe not the red one!
Actual broadcast TV is an order of magnitude more difficult, but GBN seem to have really missed the mark technically.
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
It seems much more likely to me that the delta variant is hitting the parameters of the unvaxxed, multigenerational households that it was seeded in and is finding spread in the more general population with their highish levels of vaccination more difficult. I certainly hope so.
I think that's spot on: if there are six of you who live in a three bedroom terrace, and one of you returned from India with Delta, then all of you will get it. And if little Ahmed went around to his friends house, then that'll be 12 people who now have Delta.
In less dense, less intergenerational, more vaccinated communities, spread is much much lower.
If tomorrow's numbers are still at the 7,500 level we can all breath an enormous sigh of relief.
I hope you're right. But where I live, cases have risen from virtually nothing to 250 in the last week, and you'd struggle to find many folk from the Indian diaspora, or multi-generational households, down here.
Are you in Cornwall ?
Cases up 1250% in St Ives is of interest. G7 superspreader event ?
I don’t know what GB News are doing, but posting 360p videos on YouTube, complete with the stutters of their own broadcast website it was being ripped from, is a major screwup.
I’m available to help them, remotely, for a bargain £1k a day.
It is bewildering. Over the lockdown I have learned, from a standing start, as a reasonably technophobic 50+ yo, to do the cameras and sound mixing of religious services broadcast live over several platforms and recorded for later use. All interactive with real time chat facility. It is quite laughably easy for one person with almost no knowledge these days.
The lack of glossiness is quite refreshing, paradoxically.
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
It seems much more likely to me that the delta variant is hitting the parameters of the unvaxxed, multigenerational households that it was seeded in and is finding spread in the more general population with their highish levels of vaccination more difficult. I certainly hope so.
I think that's spot on: if there are six of you who live in a three bedroom terrace, and one of you returned from India with Delta, then all of you will get it. And if little Ahmed went around to his friends house, then that'll be 12 people who now have Delta.
In less dense, less intergenerational, more vaccinated communities, spread is much much lower.
If tomorrow's numbers are still at the 7,500 level we can all breath an enormous sigh of relief.
I hope you're right. But where I live, cases have risen from virtually nothing to 250 in the last week, and you'd struggle to find many folk from the Indian diaspora, or multi-generational households, down here.
Are you in Cornwall ?
Cases up 1250% in St Ives is of interest. G7 superspreader event ?
No, Brighton. Could be a delayed effect of a manic Bank Holiday, perhaps.
Sad that so many are so coususe, but I assume that will be that many believe the government scientists know best, when cases start dropping, they may change there minds.
There is an absolute axiomatic obsession with 'cases' positive tests. So you are possibly right about that.
Grolsch join the ban - shame I used to drink that beer - no longer.
What exactly do they have against Farage? Or is it the same as my beer-drinking acquaintances who refuse to step into a Wetherspoons because Tim Martin is a "gammon"?
It’s an organised Twitter pile-on, from a group called - ironically - Stop Funding Hate.
Has been planned for weeks, to immediately target anyone and everyone associated with GB News.
Obviously, Farage has never appeared on ITV, Channel 4 or the BBC.
Quite - just what is different in this case ......
Those who skirt the OFCOM impartiality guidelines to the left, are sh!t-scared of someone skirting those same guidelines to the right.
A large mob of lefties decided, before GBN ever broadcast anything, that they were going to be a British “Fox News”, totally partial and uncritical of the government. Which, of course, has turned out to be bollocks. They’re screaming abuse at the government today.
Jacob Rees-Mogg warns Cabinet colleagues against 'never-ending' restrictions.... will they listen?
JRM has talked a lot before about collective cabinet responsibility and even backbench loyalty. That he thinks you have to really pick your battles. If not over this then what?
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
If the surge doesn't happen I'd be very happy. If a short delay to further easing helps that so much the better.
Check your privilege – 50,000 brides facing 'socially distanced' weddings...
God you are an idiot at times. I have had one AZN jab, 67 with high BP and other health issues. I must wait till the end of July for the second. So, not to put too fine a point on it, you can shove your brides where the sun doesn't shine. Moron.
I thought you lived in Spain? In which case, the weddings / 21 June / 19 July consequences don't affect you?
He lives in Spain, and is two months away from his vaccine immunity - as the country indicates it’s desparate to attract millions of unvaccinated teens and twenties from all over Europe to party in nightclubs.
If I were 67 and facing this, I’d be sh!t-scared too.
I totally understand his concern: Spain has also lagged a lot of its peers for vaccine rollout.
But it's also pretty much Pfizer only now, and is doing 1.25% of its adult population a day now. @felix is unlucky to have gotten AZN first, which means he's stuck with a big dosing gap, while his younger peers will be getting Pfizer.
I suspect Spain will have a modest wave in the tourist hotspots, but don't forget that tourist season is still about a month away, and any growth will hit a wall of vaccinations.
Grolsch join the ban - shame I used to drink that beer - no longer.
What exactly do they have against Farage? Or is it the same as my beer-drinking acquaintances who refuse to step into a Wetherspoons because Tim Martin is a "gammon"?
It’s an organised Twitter pile-on, from a group called - ironically - Stop Funding Hate.
Has been planned for weeks, to immediately target anyone and everyone associated with GB News.
Obviously, Farage has never appeared on ITV, Channel 4 or the BBC.
Quite - just what is different in this case ......
Statement from Kopparberguk
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We want to make it clear to everyone that our ad ran on this channel without our knowledge or consent. Kopparberg is a drink for everyone and we have immediately suspended our ads from this channel pending further review of its content
I don’t know what GB News are doing, but posting 360p videos on YouTube, complete with the stutters of their own broadcast website it was being ripped from, is a major screwup.
I’m available to help them, remotely, for a bargain £1k a day.
It is bewildering. Over the lockdown I have learned, from a standing start, as a reasonably technophobic 50+ yo, to do the cameras and sound mixing of religious services broadcast live over several platforms and recorded for later use. All interactive with real time chat facility. It is quite laughably easy for one person with almost no knowledge these days.
The lack of glossiness is quite refreshing, paradoxically.
"Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever BY FREDDIE SAYERS"
"Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever BY FREDDIE SAYERS"
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
It seems much more likely to me that the delta variant is hitting the parameters of the unvaxxed, multigenerational households that it was seeded in and is finding spread in the more general population with their highish levels of vaccination more difficult. I certainly hope so.
I think that's spot on: if there are six of you who live in a three bedroom terrace, and one of you returned from India with Delta, then all of you will get it. And if little Ahmed went around to his friends house, then that'll be 12 people who now have Delta.
In less dense, less intergenerational, more vaccinated communities, spread is much much lower.
If tomorrow's numbers are still at the 7,500 level we can all breath an enormous sigh of relief.
I hope you're right. But where I live, cases have risen from virtually nothing to 250 in the last week, and you'd struggle to find many folk from the Indian diaspora, or multi-generational households, down here.
Are you in Cornwall ?
Cases up 1250% in St Ives is of interest. G7 superspreader event ?
No, Brighton. Could be a delayed effect of a manic Bank Holiday, perhaps.
You can check local authority data on genomes here:
"Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever BY FREDDIE SAYERS"
"Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever BY FREDDIE SAYERS"
Grolsch join the ban - shame I used to drink that beer - no longer.
What exactly do they have against Farage? Or is it the same as my beer-drinking acquaintances who refuse to step into a Wetherspoons because Tim Martin is a "gammon"?
It’s an organised Twitter pile-on, from a group called - ironically - Stop Funding Hate.
Has been planned for weeks, to immediately target anyone and everyone associated with GB News.
Obviously, Farage has never appeared on ITV, Channel 4 or the BBC.
Quite - just what is different in this case ......
Statement from Kopparberguk
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We want to make it clear to everyone that our ad ran on this channel without our knowledge or consent. Kopparberg is a drink for everyone and we have immediately suspended our ads from this channel pending further review of its content
Grolsch join the ban - shame I used to drink that beer - no longer.
What exactly do they have against Farage? Or is it the same as my beer-drinking acquaintances who refuse to step into a Wetherspoons because Tim Martin is a "gammon"?
It’s an organised Twitter pile-on, from a group called - ironically - Stop Funding Hate.
Has been planned for weeks, to immediately target anyone and everyone associated with GB News.
Obviously, Farage has never appeared on ITV, Channel 4 or the BBC.
Quite - just what is different in this case ......
Those who skirt the OFCOM impartiality guidelines to the left, are sh!t-scared of someone skirting those same guidelines to the right.
A large mob of lefties decided, before GBN ever broadcast anything, that they were going to be a British “Fox News”, totally partial and uncritical of the government. Which, of course, has turned out to be bollocks. They’re screaming abuse at the government today.
Didn't you know Tory governments should only be attacked from the left. They aren't locking down hard enough.
To imagine someone saying they're locking down too hard - the horrors.
Grolsch join the ban - shame I used to drink that beer - no longer.
What exactly do they have against Farage? Or is it the same as my beer-drinking acquaintances who refuse to step into a Wetherspoons because Tim Martin is a "gammon"?
It’s an organised Twitter pile-on, from a group called - ironically - Stop Funding Hate.
Has been planned for weeks, to immediately target anyone and everyone associated with GB News.
Obviously, Farage has never appeared on ITV, Channel 4 or the BBC.
Quite - just what is different in this case ......
Statement from Kopparberguk
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We want to make it clear to everyone that our ad ran on this channel without our knowledge or consent. Kopparberg is a drink for everyone and we have immediately suspended our ads from this channel pending further review of its content
"Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever BY FREDDIE SAYERS"
"our ad ran on this channel without our knowledge or consent" wait what GB News has free advertising ?
No they will have block booked a load of advertising through some 3rd party...it is how brands have ended up having their ads run on unsavoury websites.
"Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever BY FREDDIE SAYERS"
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
It seems much more likely to me that the delta variant is hitting the parameters of the unvaxxed, multigenerational households that it was seeded in and is finding spread in the more general population with their highish levels of vaccination more difficult. I certainly hope so.
I think that's spot on: if there are six of you who live in a three bedroom terrace, and one of you returned from India with Delta, then all of you will get it. And if little Ahmed went around to his friends house, then that'll be 12 people who now have Delta.
In less dense, less intergenerational, more vaccinated communities, spread is much much lower.
If tomorrow's numbers are still at the 7,500 level we can all breath an enormous sigh of relief.
I hope you're right. But where I live, cases have risen from virtually nothing to 250 in the last week, and you'd struggle to find many folk from the Indian diaspora, or multi-generational households, down here.
Are you in Cornwall ?
Cases up 1250% in St Ives is of interest. G7 superspreader event ?
No, Brighton. Could be a delayed effect of a manic Bank Holiday, perhaps.
You can check local authority data on genomes here:
In Brighton & Hove Alpha is flat, Delta taking off
Thanks. That does suggest that Delta is taking off miles away from where it was originally seeded. I just don't think it's confined to multicultural/mixed-generation type communities - it's clearly spreading far and wide, but hopefully without fatal consequences.
"Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever BY FREDDIE SAYERS"
"Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever BY FREDDIE SAYERS"
"Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever BY FREDDIE SAYERS"
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
It seems much more likely to me that the delta variant is hitting the parameters of the unvaxxed, multigenerational households that it was seeded in and is finding spread in the more general population with their highish levels of vaccination more difficult. I certainly hope so.
I think that's spot on: if there are six of you who live in a three bedroom terrace, and one of you returned from India with Delta, then all of you will get it. And if little Ahmed went around to his friends house, then that'll be 12 people who now have Delta.
In less dense, less intergenerational, more vaccinated communities, spread is much much lower.
If tomorrow's numbers are still at the 7,500 level we can all breath an enormous sigh of relief.
I hope you're right. But where I live, cases have risen from virtually nothing to 250 in the last week, and you'd struggle to find many folk from the Indian diaspora, or multi-generational households, down here.
Are you in Cornwall ?
Cases up 1250% in St Ives is of interest. G7 superspreader event ?
No, Brighton. Could be a delayed effect of a manic Bank Holiday, perhaps.
You can check local authority data on genomes here:
In Brighton & Hove Alpha is flat, Delta taking off
Thanks. That does suggest that Delta is taking off miles away from where it was originally seeded. I just don't think it's confined to multicultural/mixed-generation type communities - it's clearly spreading far and wide, but hopefully without fatal consequences.
There is a tantalising prospect that, at this rate, week-on-week positive tests might actually start to fall by 21 June.
Which would be simultaneously comedic, ironic and tragic. What would happen if that were to occur?
Of course, it might not happen. Probably won't. But the numbers, as they are, suggest that it's not an outlandish prospect that @BigRich could prove correct – that Boris should simply have delayed 72 hours, and opened up on Thursday 24 June, leaving the first weekend free...
What would happen if they started falling on or around 21 June?
There is a tantalising prospect that, at this rate, week-on-week positive tests might actually start to fall by 21 June.
Which would be simultaneously comedic, ironic and tragic. What would happen if that were to occur?
Of course, it might not happen. Probably won't. But the numbers, as they are, suggest that it's not an outlandish prospect that @BigRich could prove correct – that Boris should simply have delayed 72 hours, and opened up on Thursday 24 June, leaving the first weekend free...
What would happen if they started falling on or around 21 June?
What would happen? It wouldn't make any difference.
I may be missing something here - but if I read the Kopparberg thread correctly, it was initially someone tweeting them congratulating them for advertising on GB news which led to this. Or something. I may be missing some layers of irony or nuance. https://twitter.com/KopparbergUK/status/1404465568497950723
There is a tantalising prospect that, at this rate, week-on-week positive tests might actually start to fall by 21 June.
Which would be simultaneously comedic, ironic and tragic. What would happen if that were to occur?
Of course, it might not happen. Probably won't. But the numbers, as they are, suggest that it's not an outlandish prospect that @BigRich could prove correct – that Boris should simply have delayed 72 hours, and opened up on Thursday 24 June, leaving the first weekend free...
What would happen if they started falling on or around 21 June?
What would happen? It wouldn't make any difference.
Nothing would happen then? We'd keep ploughing on with restrictions?
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
If the surge doesn't happen I'd be very happy. If a short delay to further easing helps that so much the better.
Check your privilege – 50,000 brides facing 'socially distanced' weddings...
God you are an idiot at times. I have had one AZN jab, 67 with high BP and other health issues. I must wait till the end of July for the second. So, not to put too fine a point on it, you can shove your brides where the sun doesn't shine. Moron.
I thought you lived in Spain? In which case, the weddings / 21 June / 19 July consequences don't affect you?
I do not appreciate being told to 'check my privilege' and I was unaware there was a ban on commenting from other countries. You'd better tell OGH junior. Your wittering on about brides day in and day out is enough to try the patience of a saint and that I do not claim to be.
There is a tantalising prospect that, at this rate, week-on-week positive tests might actually start to fall by 21 June.
Which would be simultaneously comedic, ironic and tragic. What would happen if that were to occur?
Of course, it might not happen. Probably won't. But the numbers, as they are, suggest that it's not an outlandish prospect that @BigRich could prove correct – that Boris should simply have delayed 72 hours, and opened up on Thursday 24 June, leaving the first weekend free...
What would happen if they started falling on or around 21 June?
What would happen? It wouldn't make any difference.
Fairly sure they will be falling. You can only tell for sure retrospectively. But I reckon in six days' time it'll be looking fairly likely that we're on our way back down again, and in thirteen days' time it will be obvious that the peak passed well before the 21st. All the hardest hit authorities will be well past their respective peaks by next week, and the less-hard-hit will be showing no signs of following anything like the same trajectory.
And it will make not the slightest bit of difference. Other justifications for further and longer lockdown will be found.
I may be missing something here - but if I read the Kopparberg thread correctly, it was initially someone tweeting them congratulating them for advertising on GB news which led to this. Or something. I may be missing some layers of irony or nuance. https://twitter.com/KopparbergUK/status/1404465568497950723
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
If the surge doesn't happen I'd be very happy. If a short delay to further easing helps that so much the better.
Check your privilege – 50,000 brides facing 'socially distanced' weddings...
God you are an idiot at times. I have had one AZN jab, 67 with high BP and other health issues. I must wait till the end of July for the second. So, not to put too fine a point on it, you can shove your brides where the sun doesn't shine. Moron.
I thought you lived in Spain? In which case, the weddings / 21 June / 19 July consequences don't affect you?
He lives in Spain, and is two months away from his vaccine immunity - as the country indicates it’s desparate to attract millions of unvaccinated teens and twenties from all over Europe to party in nightclubs.
If I were 67 and facing this, I’d be sh!t-scared too.
lol now that is madness, opening up fully before 65+ are fully vaxxed. It also shows just how well our rollout is doing compared to the EU despite the recent PR disaster.
It is worrying - luckily I live in an area with exceptionally few cases right now but we do get a lot of Spanish tourists in July and August - and clearly there are many hundreds of thousands in the same position as me - perhaps bridezilla Anabobazine thinks we should all be 'checking our privilege'.
There is a tantalising prospect that, at this rate, week-on-week positive tests might actually start to fall by 21 June.
Which would be simultaneously comedic, ironic and tragic. What would happen if that were to occur?
Of course, it might not happen. Probably won't. But the numbers, as they are, suggest that it's not an outlandish prospect that @BigRich could prove correct – that Boris should simply have delayed 72 hours, and opened up on Thursday 24 June, leaving the first weekend free...
What would happen if they started falling on or around 21 June?
What would happen? It wouldn't make any difference.
Nothing would happen then? We'd keep ploughing on with restrictions?
I'm about 60% sure now that restrictions are an end, not a means. So yes. Probably.]
I will be happy and relieved to be proved wrong, but I think the fight is already lost.
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
If the surge doesn't happen I'd be very happy. If a short delay to further easing helps that so much the better.
Check your privilege – 50,000 brides facing 'socially distanced' weddings...
God you are an idiot at times. I have had one AZN jab, 67 with high BP and other health issues. I must wait till the end of July for the second. So, not to put too fine a point on it, you can shove your brides where the sun doesn't shine. Moron.
I thought you lived in Spain? In which case, the weddings / 21 June / 19 July consequences don't affect you?
I do not appreciate being told to 'check my privilege' and I was unaware there was a ban on commenting from other countries. You'd better tell OGH junior. Your wittering on about brides day in and day out is enough to try the patience of a saint and that I do not claim to be.
Give him a bit of slack - it’s one particular wedding. Sometimes you have to allow for people to feel extremely strongly about things close to them. Like cyclefree (no offence intended, or taken I hope CF...)
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
If the surge doesn't happen I'd be very happy. If a short delay to further easing helps that so much the better.
Check your privilege – 50,000 brides facing 'socially distanced' weddings...
God you are an idiot at times. I have had one AZN jab, 67 with high BP and other health issues. I must wait till the end of July for the second. So, not to put too fine a point on it, you can shove your brides where the sun doesn't shine. Moron.
I thought you lived in Spain? In which case, the weddings / 21 June / 19 July consequences don't affect you?
He lives in Spain, and is two months away from his vaccine immunity - as the country indicates it’s desparate to attract millions of unvaccinated teens and twenties from all over Europe to party in nightclubs.
If I were 67 and facing this, I’d be sh!t-scared too.
lol now that is madness, opening up fully before 65+ are fully vaxxed. It also shows just how well our rollout is doing compared to the EU despite the recent PR disaster.
It is worrying - luckily I live in an area with exceptionally few cases right now but we do get a lot of Spanish tourists in July and August - and clearly there are many hundreds of thousands in the same position as me - perhaps bridezilla Anabobazine thinks we should all be 'checking our privilege'.
You seemed to be commenting on the situation in the UK, which is irrelevant to you, hence my response. As I have said, I have every sympathy with your position but weddings in the UK don't affect you in Spain!
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
If the surge doesn't happen I'd be very happy. If a short delay to further easing helps that so much the better.
Check your privilege – 50,000 brides facing 'socially distanced' weddings...
God you are an idiot at times. I have had one AZN jab, 67 with high BP and other health issues. I must wait till the end of July for the second. So, not to put too fine a point on it, you can shove your brides where the sun doesn't shine. Moron.
I thought you lived in Spain? In which case, the weddings / 21 June / 19 July consequences don't affect you?
He lives in Spain, and is two months away from his vaccine immunity - as the country indicates it’s desparate to attract millions of unvaccinated teens and twenties from all over Europe to party in nightclubs.
If I were 67 and facing this, I’d be sh!t-scared too.
I totally understand his concern: Spain has also lagged a lot of its peers for vaccine rollout.
But it's also pretty much Pfizer only now, and is doing 1.25% of its adult population a day now. @felix is unlucky to have gotten AZN first, which means he's stuck with a big dosing gap, while his younger peers will be getting Pfizer.
I suspect Spain will have a modest wave in the tourist hotspots, but don't forget that tourist season is still about a month away, and any growth will hit a wall of vaccinations.
Ironically my partner - 15 years younger gets his second Pfizer tomorrow! To be fair I'm not overly worried given the stats where I live but there are many thousands who are in greater danger.
"Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever BY FREDDIE SAYERS"
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
If the surge doesn't happen I'd be very happy. If a short delay to further easing helps that so much the better.
Check your privilege – 50,000 brides facing 'socially distanced' weddings...
God you are an idiot at times. I have had one AZN jab, 67 with high BP and other health issues. I must wait till the end of July for the second. So, not to put too fine a point on it, you can shove your brides where the sun doesn't shine. Moron.
I thought you lived in Spain? In which case, the weddings / 21 June / 19 July consequences don't affect you?
I do not appreciate being told to 'check my privilege' and I was unaware there was a ban on commenting from other countries. You'd better tell OGH junior. Your wittering on about brides day in and day out is enough to try the patience of a saint and that I do not claim to be.
Given it's the only change of note forthcoming on 21 June, it's the key issue to discuss. It's hardly trivial – it affects 50,000 weddings. Absolutely stupid rules over 'social distancing' are wrecking them. My anger is not with you personally, but a general point about people supporting restrictions that have no impact on them personally.
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
If the surge doesn't happen I'd be very happy. If a short delay to further easing helps that so much the better.
Check your privilege – 50,000 brides facing 'socially distanced' weddings...
God you are an idiot at times. I have had one AZN jab, 67 with high BP and other health issues. I must wait till the end of July for the second. So, not to put too fine a point on it, you can shove your brides where the sun doesn't shine. Moron.
I thought you lived in Spain? In which case, the weddings / 21 June / 19 July consequences don't affect you?
He lives in Spain, and is two months away from his vaccine immunity - as the country indicates it’s desparate to attract millions of unvaccinated teens and twenties from all over Europe to party in nightclubs.
If I were 67 and facing this, I’d be sh!t-scared too.
I totally understand his concern: Spain has also lagged a lot of its peers for vaccine rollout.
But it's also pretty much Pfizer only now, and is doing 1.25% of its adult population a day now. @felix is unlucky to have gotten AZN first, which means he's stuck with a big dosing gap, while his younger peers will be getting Pfizer.
I suspect Spain will have a modest wave in the tourist hotspots, but don't forget that tourist season is still about a month away, and any growth will hit a wall of vaccinations.
Ironically my partner - 15 years younger gets his second Pfizer tomorrow! To be fair I'm not overly worried given the stats where I live but there are many thousands who are in greater danger.
Spain has a reputation for a well run health system, and has not (historically) has the degree of vaccine scepticism as France; yet it seems to be lagging quite badly. Do you know why?
And yet we were told that Starmer was highly intelligent, forensic and a unifier - they forgot the bit about pig ignorant when it comes to basic politics.
"Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever BY FREDDIE SAYERS"
There is a tantalising prospect that, at this rate, week-on-week positive tests might actually start to fall by 21 June.
Which would be simultaneously comedic, ironic and tragic. What would happen if that were to occur?
Of course, it might not happen. Probably won't. But the numbers, as they are, suggest that it's not an outlandish prospect that @BigRich could prove correct – that Boris should simply have delayed 72 hours, and opened up on Thursday 24 June, leaving the first weekend free...
What would happen if they started falling on or around 21 June?
If my prediction that cases are fulling on or before 21 June (By specimen date and mid point of 7 day average) is not correct, then I will fully and profoundly apologise, and give OGH £100 as penance.
Or if others wish to suggest alternatives, buy the first round at the first Post pandemic PB Gettogether perhaps?
(as its by specimen date will need to leave it a week to confirm the trend.)
What's that you say? You can't possibly wait until "The British General Election of 2019" by Ford, Bale, Jennings and Surridge comes out in the autumn, and you want a four-page #GE2019 summary by one of the authors right here, right now? OK, then......
The 2019 general election left Labour a long, long way behind. Indeed, it might have finished even further behind had a few more Leave voters in seats it managed to keep hold of not plumped for the Brexit Party rather than the Conservatives. Given Nigel Farage’s departure from politics, this is not likely to be an option available to those voters next time round, which could be worth between ten and twenty additional seats for the Conservatives. The Conservatives are also likely to be the main beneficiaries of the forthcoming parliamentary boundary review aimed at equalising the size of constituencies. Consequently, barring a severe economic downturn, or a highly-negative retrospective verdict on Johnson’s handling of the pandemic, or else a messy break-up of the UK occasioned by a vote for Scottish independence, it is very difficult to imagine Labour – even if it fights a far better campaign than it did in 2019 – winning in 2023 or 2024.
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
If the surge doesn't happen I'd be very happy. If a short delay to further easing helps that so much the better.
Check your privilege – 50,000 brides facing 'socially distanced' weddings...
God you are an idiot at times. I have had one AZN jab, 67 with high BP and other health issues. I must wait till the end of July for the second. So, not to put too fine a point on it, you can shove your brides where the sun doesn't shine. Moron.
I thought you lived in Spain? In which case, the weddings / 21 June / 19 July consequences don't affect you?
I do not appreciate being told to 'check my privilege' and I was unaware there was a ban on commenting from other countries. You'd better tell OGH junior. Your wittering on about brides day in and day out is enough to try the patience of a saint and that I do not claim to be.
Given it's the only change of note forthcoming on 21 June, it's the key issue to discuss. It's hardly trivial – it affects 50,000 weddings. Absolutely stupid rules over 'social distancing' are wrecking them. My anger is not with you personally, but a general point about people supporting restrictions that have no impact on them personally.
it is one of the best things about democracy. It allows choice by those with enough detachment to be rational.
And yet we were told that Starmer was highly intelligent, forensic and a unifier - they forgot the bit about pig ignorant when it comes to basic politics.
When I follow the Labour uncut link I also get a lot of advertising about kitchen knives (I have been contemplating buying one of the expensive Japanese ones). Clearly explicable, but amusing.
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
If the surge doesn't happen I'd be very happy. If a short delay to further easing helps that so much the better.
Check your privilege – 50,000 brides facing 'socially distanced' weddings...
God you are an idiot at times. I have had one AZN jab, 67 with high BP and other health issues. I must wait till the end of July for the second. So, not to put too fine a point on it, you can shove your brides where the sun doesn't shine. Moron.
I thought you lived in Spain? In which case, the weddings / 21 June / 19 July consequences don't affect you?
I do not appreciate being told to 'check my privilege' and I was unaware there was a ban on commenting from other countries. You'd better tell OGH junior. Your wittering on about brides day in and day out is enough to try the patience of a saint and that I do not claim to be.
Given it's the only change of note forthcoming on 21 June, it's the key issue to discuss. It's hardly trivial – it affects 50,000 weddings. Absolutely stupid rules over 'social distancing' are wrecking them. My anger is not with you personally, but a general point about people supporting restrictions that have no impact on them personally.
Social distancing in pubs? Restaurants? Performance venues? Sports stadia? There's at least 50,000 extra people who would love to cram into Wembley on Friday.
Weddings are not the be all and end all here. Just one of many things affected, and I agree with you on this part, probably unnecessarily.
Disclaimer: I had 6 people present at my wedding and I went back to work in the afternoon.
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
If the surge doesn't happen I'd be very happy. If a short delay to further easing helps that so much the better.
Check your privilege – 50,000 brides facing 'socially distanced' weddings...
God you are an idiot at times. I have had one AZN jab, 67 with high BP and other health issues. I must wait till the end of July for the second. So, not to put too fine a point on it, you can shove your brides where the sun doesn't shine. Moron.
I thought you lived in Spain? In which case, the weddings / 21 June / 19 July consequences don't affect you?
I do not appreciate being told to 'check my privilege' and I was unaware there was a ban on commenting from other countries. You'd better tell OGH junior. Your wittering on about brides day in and day out is enough to try the patience of a saint and that I do not claim to be.
Given it's the only change of note forthcoming on 21 June, it's the key issue to discuss. It's hardly trivial – it affects 50,000 weddings. Absolutely stupid rules over 'social distancing' are wrecking them. My anger is not with you personally, but a general point about people supporting restrictions that have no impact on them personally.
Social distancing in pubs? Restaurants? Performance venues? Sports stadia? There's at least 50,000 extra people who would love to cram into Wembley on Friday.
Weddings are not the be all and end all here. Just one of many things affected, and I agree with you on this part, probably unnecessarily.
Disclaimer: I had 6 people present at my wedding and I went back to work in the afternoon.
Wimbledon and Wembley are seriously lobbying for full outdoor crowds. Silverstone are close to a 150k sellout for the F1 on 18th July.
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
If the surge doesn't happen I'd be very happy. If a short delay to further easing helps that so much the better.
Check your privilege – 50,000 brides facing 'socially distanced' weddings...
God you are an idiot at times. I have had one AZN jab, 67 with high BP and other health issues. I must wait till the end of July for the second. So, not to put too fine a point on it, you can shove your brides where the sun doesn't shine. Moron.
I thought you lived in Spain? In which case, the weddings / 21 June / 19 July consequences don't affect you?
He lives in Spain, and is two months away from his vaccine immunity - as the country indicates it’s desparate to attract millions of unvaccinated teens and twenties from all over Europe to party in nightclubs.
If I were 67 and facing this, I’d be sh!t-scared too.
I totally understand his concern: Spain has also lagged a lot of its peers for vaccine rollout.
But it's also pretty much Pfizer only now, and is doing 1.25% of its adult population a day now. @felix is unlucky to have gotten AZN first, which means he's stuck with a big dosing gap, while his younger peers will be getting Pfizer.
I suspect Spain will have a modest wave in the tourist hotspots, but don't forget that tourist season is still about a month away, and any growth will hit a wall of vaccinations.
Ironically my partner - 15 years younger gets his second Pfizer tomorrow! To be fair I'm not overly worried given the stats where I live but there are many thousands who are in greater danger.
Spain has a reputation for a well run health system, and has not (historically) has the degree of vaccine scepticism as France; yet it seems to be lagging quite badly. Do you know why?
It is going quite quickly now but they got the sequencing badly muddled with all of the AZT scare stories. First they gave in to under 50s and not the oldies. Then they changed tack and gave it only to 60-65s. Then late in the day they gave it to 65-70s. There is no Spanish word for clusterfuck as such but I quite like 'puta perdida' because of the sonofabitch connotation!
If anything I'd have thought the advertisers on GB News might be more put off by the slightly weird way they letterbox the picture for adverts so they can continue to scroll the ticker, rather than put the ad full screen.
Interesting graphic from the Telegraph, who appear to be rapidly breaking off their support of the government...
That actually really annoyed me. They actually showed projections going into the future as well as the current data. And the Telegraph conveniently ignored the start of the second and first waves, which looked awfully similar.
Not sure about Telegraph breaking off support. They have featured a steady stream of commentators and opinion pieces on why lockdown isn't working and so on. See their Planet Normal podcast for example.
Talk Radio and the Telegraph have been the biggest pushers of anti-lockdown / faster opening of any of the mainstream media.
The mail seems to veer from lock me down harder and faster, to 10 mins later, running pieces saying why are the government locking down so hard, what about my uman rights.
It's a shame there haven't been more lockdown-critical voices from the left. Zoe Williams at the Guardian is the sole outrider, although Sadiq Khan has moved sharply against it in recent times.
Sadiq Khan. His opinion is worth about a row of beans..
"our ad ran on this channel without our knowledge or consent" wait what GB News has free advertising ?
No they will have block booked a load of advertising through some 3rd party...it is how brands have ended up having their ads run on unsavoury websites.
Yup, my friend had this, she's in charge of sponsorship and advertising and was asked by a concerned customer why they were advertising on pornographic websites.
Never did she expect to have with revenge porn in her day job.
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
If the surge doesn't happen I'd be very happy. If a short delay to further easing helps that so much the better.
Check your privilege – 50,000 brides facing 'socially distanced' weddings...
God you are an idiot at times. I have had one AZN jab, 67 with high BP and other health issues. I must wait till the end of July for the second. So, not to put too fine a point on it, you can shove your brides where the sun doesn't shine. Moron.
I thought you lived in Spain? In which case, the weddings / 21 June / 19 July consequences don't affect you?
I do not appreciate being told to 'check my privilege' and I was unaware there was a ban on commenting from other countries. You'd better tell OGH junior. Your wittering on about brides day in and day out is enough to try the patience of a saint and that I do not claim to be.
Given it's the only change of note forthcoming on 21 June, it's the key issue to discuss. It's hardly trivial – it affects 50,000 weddings. Absolutely stupid rules over 'social distancing' are wrecking them. My anger is not with you personally, but a general point about people supporting restrictions that have no impact on them personally.
Social distancing in pubs? Restaurants? Performance venues? Sports stadia? There's at least 50,000 extra people who would love to cram into Wembley on Friday.
Weddings are not the be all and end all here. Just one of many things affected, and I agree with you on this part, probably unnecessarily.
Disclaimer: I had 6 people present at my wedding and I went back to work in the afternoon.
Wimbledon and Wembley are seriously lobbying for full outdoor crowds. Silverstone are close to a 150k sellout for the F1 on 18th July.
Silverstone probably the most sensible of those as not many use public transport and a lot of the venue is outside, even if everyone does get stuck in traffic jams...
"Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever BY FREDDIE SAYERS"
A third jab, or a pill of some sort, certainly is inevitable.
You can expect mandatory masks on public transport and in shops until Spring 2022 minimum.
How is your confident, emphatic prediction of 10,000 daily positive tests by last Friday working out for you?
Don't count your chickens just yet old boy...
I'm not counting anything other than your very confident, yet completely wrong, predictions.
If cases end up being less than my predictions then fine it's a good outcome.
What I do want to see is that the reopening process is realistic and appropriate given the clear continuing threat of the Delta variant. Hopefully the additional 4 weeks will be sufficient to make the necessary further progress on vaccines etc, and when we get there no-one will be more pleased than me to see full reopening.
"our ad ran on this channel without our knowledge or consent" wait what GB News has free advertising ?
No they will have block booked a load of advertising through some 3rd party...it is how brands have ended up having their ads run on unsavoury websites.
Yup, my friend had this, she's in charge of sponsorship and advertising and was asked by a concerned customer why they were advertising on pornographic websites.
Never did she expect to have with revenge porn in her day job.
Isn’t this the old issue of the advertising targeting the individual not the websites?
Also the reverse when people start getting adverts for porn on respectable websites
Interesting graphic from the Telegraph, who appear to be rapidly breaking off their support of the government...
That actually really annoyed me. They actually showed projections going into the future as well as the current data. And the Telegraph conveniently ignored the start of the second and first waves, which looked awfully similar.
Not sure about Telegraph breaking off support. They have featured a steady stream of commentators and opinion pieces on why lockdown isn't working and so on. See their Planet Normal podcast for example.
Talk Radio and the Telegraph have been the biggest pushers of anti-lockdown / faster opening of any of the mainstream media.
The mail seems to veer from lock me down harder and faster, to 10 mins later, running pieces saying why are the government locking down so hard, what about my uman rights.
It's a shame there haven't been more lockdown-critical voices from the left. Zoe Williams at the Guardian is the sole outrider, although Sadiq Khan has moved sharply against it in recent times.
Sadiq Khan. His opinion is worth about a row of beans..
Yes, that's right. He's only the Mayor of London, the man with the second-biggest direct mandate in Europe.
"Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever BY FREDDIE SAYERS"
A third jab, or a pill of some sort, certainly is inevitable.
You can expect mandatory masks on public transport and in shops until Spring 2022 minimum.
They’re not really mandatory now, it’s by popular consent. Because all you need to do is say you’re exempt and that’s that.
Yeah, I have been on public transport (bus to my work place) twice a day more or less every single day since Covid began. I can only think of a couple of times when a driver has made a comment about mask wearing to someone not wearing one. They just don't want to deal with the hassle and I don't blame them.
If you say you are exempt they never question it.
Makes me laugh seeing more and more people using masks as chin warmers, masks full down but resting under their chin. Even with the older populace who are most vulnerable.
If they get rid of masks they get rid, honestly I think for a while I will keep wearing my ones for a while especially during certain times of the year like winter. I wear them all day at work, don't bother me one bit.
7th day in a row that reported cases are within 500 of 7650.
Remarkably flat considering we're told it's about to hit 250,000 in a few weeks.
It's a very sharp w-o-w fall in the inflation rate. Much more than I could ever hoped for. Into the 30s...
Just noise?
Right now there are members of SAGE modelling teams praying for a case surge. The evidence from Bolton, Bedford and Blackburn is they will be disappointed.
Once can only hope there is anyone left in Government to point out the nonsense and invoke the 2 week break clause on the extension of restrictions.
If the surge doesn't happen I'd be very happy. If a short delay to further easing helps that so much the better.
Check your privilege – 50,000 brides facing 'socially distanced' weddings...
God you are an idiot at times. I have had one AZN jab, 67 with high BP and other health issues. I must wait till the end of July for the second. So, not to put too fine a point on it, you can shove your brides where the sun doesn't shine. Moron.
I thought you lived in Spain? In which case, the weddings / 21 June / 19 July consequences don't affect you?
I do not appreciate being told to 'check my privilege' and I was unaware there was a ban on commenting from other countries. You'd better tell OGH junior. Your wittering on about brides day in and day out is enough to try the patience of a saint and that I do not claim to be.
Given it's the only change of note forthcoming on 21 June, it's the key issue to discuss. It's hardly trivial – it affects 50,000 weddings. Absolutely stupid rules over 'social distancing' are wrecking them. My anger is not with you personally, but a general point about people supporting restrictions that have no impact on them personally.
Social distancing in pubs? Restaurants? Performance venues? Sports stadia? There's at least 50,000 extra people who would love to cram into Wembley on Friday.
Weddings are not the be all and end all here. Just one of many things affected, and I agree with you on this part, probably unnecessarily.
Disclaimer: I had 6 people present at my wedding and I went back to work in the afternoon.
Wimbledon and Wembley are seriously lobbying for full outdoor crowds. Silverstone are close to a 150k sellout for the F1 on 18th July.
Silverstone probably the most sensible of those as not many use public transport and a lot of the venue is outside, even if everyone does get stuck in traffic jams...
However given the traffic you will take every infected person in a car and make a car-full of them.
"Sage scientist: Don’t rule out more delays Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever BY FREDDIE SAYERS"
A third jab, or a pill of some sort, certainly is inevitable.
You can expect mandatory masks on public transport and in shops until Spring 2022 minimum.
How is your confident, emphatic prediction of 10,000 daily positive tests by last Friday working out for you?
Don't count your chickens just yet old boy...
I'm not counting anything other than your very confident, yet completely wrong, predictions.
If cases end up being less than my predictions then fine it's a good outcome.
What I do want to see is that the reopening process is realistic and appropriate given the clear continuing threat of the Delta variant. Hopefully the additional 4 weeks will be sufficient to make the necessary further progress on vaccines etc, and when we get there no-one will be more pleased than me to see full reopening.
I'm not for a moment suggesting you want it to go on! I am merely noting your very emphatic, confident predictions that have proved wrong. You shouldn't be so sure of yourself, maybe...?
Sad that so many are so coususe, but I assume that will be that many believe the government scientists know best, when cases start dropping, they may change there minds.
"When will all legal limits on social contact be removed?" Prices at Smarkets: June 75 July 1.7 August or later 2.12
I wouldn't bet on or against any of those, but "not 19 July" would be tempting at the right price.
There is a tantalising prospect that, at this rate, week-on-week positive tests might actually start to fall by 21 June.
Which would be simultaneously comedic, ironic and tragic. What would happen if that were to occur?
Of course, it might not happen. Probably won't. But the numbers, as they are, suggest that it's not an outlandish prospect that @BigRich could prove correct – that Boris should simply have delayed 72 hours, and opened up on Thursday 24 June, leaving the first weekend free...
What would happen if they started falling on or around 21 June?
If my prediction that cases are fulling on or before 21 June (By specimen date and mid point of 7 day average) is not correct, then I will fully and profoundly apologise, and give OGH £100 as penance.
Or if others wish to suggest alternatives, buy the first round at the first Post pandemic PB Gettogether perhaps?
(as its by specimen date will need to leave it a week to confirm the trend.)
The level of vaccination has fallen from the pathetic to the derisory. As this is the plain and simple reason why Freedom day has been postponed is it possible that either the media or the Opposition might ask a question about it? What has gone wrong and what can we do about it?
The plain & simple reason is the delta variant.
Is it? If we’d had a higher rate of vaccination, we wouldn’t have delayed. Or so we are told. The delay is to second jab, remember?
Exactly. And the delta variant will either be here in July or more likely have been replaced by something even more infectious. It is the level of immunity from vaccination that is key.
What is the estimated % vaccination that will give herd immunity? A figure of 95% is quoted for measles which is far more infectious than SARS.
The problem is working out the *anti-transmission* effectiveness of the vaccines
We know they are very very effective against hospitalisation and death. They are less so against transmitting the virus.
Sad that so many are so coususe, but I assume that will be that many believe the government scientists know best, when cases start dropping, they may change there minds.
"When will all legal limits on social contact be removed?" Prices at Smarkets: June 75 July 1.7 August or later 2.12
I wouldn't bet on or against any of those, but "not 19 July" would be tempting at the right price.
If they’re still in place in June 2075 I will be very surprised. I would have expected a Revolution before about 2026.
"our ad ran on this channel without our knowledge or consent" wait what GB News has free advertising ?
No they will have block booked a load of advertising through some 3rd party...it is how brands have ended up having their ads run on unsavoury websites.
Yup, my friend had this, she's in charge of sponsorship and advertising and was asked by a concerned customer why they were advertising on pornographic websites.
Never did she expect to have with revenge porn in her day job.
Isn’t this the old issue of the advertising targeting the individual not the websites?
It’s also the fundamental problem for the GB news format as it currently exists.
The ad money doesn’t cover the costs of producing the content.
GB news would have had a fighting chance 20 years ago. Not now.
Bust within a year, I recon
Unless they can rapidly reinvent themselves as a kind of unilads outfit, pumping clips out to Facebook and getting millions of likes.
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Has been planned for weeks, to immediately target anyone and everyone associated with GB News.
Obviously, Farage has never appeared on ITV, Channel 4 or the BBC.
https://twitter.com/MacaesBruno/status/1404763176424677378/photo/1
"The racist legacy many birds carry"
Nice day for a white wedding!
Actual broadcast TV is an order of magnitude more difficult, but GBN seem to have really missed the mark technically.
They need to go live 1080p on YouTube, yesterday.
Cases up 1250% in St Ives is of interest. G7 superspreader event ?
'cases'positive tests. So you are possibly right about that.A large mob of lefties decided, before GBN ever broadcast anything, that they were going to be a British “Fox News”, totally partial and uncritical of the government. Which, of course, has turned out to be bollocks. They’re screaming abuse at the government today.
But it's also pretty much Pfizer only now, and is doing 1.25% of its adult population a day now. @felix is unlucky to have gotten AZN first, which means he's stuck with a big dosing gap, while his younger peers will be getting Pfizer.
I suspect Spain will have a modest wave in the tourist hotspots, but don't forget that tourist season is still about a month away, and any growth will hit a wall of vaccinations.
EDIT: Sorry just found it!
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We want to make it clear to everyone that our ad ran on this channel without our knowledge or consent. Kopparberg is a drink for everyone and we have immediately suspended our ads from this channel pending further review of its content
Susan Michie believes lockdown might not end in July — and facemasks could be here forever
BY FREDDIE SAYERS"
https://unherd.com/2021/06/susan-michie-dont-rule-out-more-delays/
"Why third jabs are inevitable
The variants are going to keep on circulating without another vaccine
BY TOM CHIVERS"
https://unherd.com/2021/06/why-third-jabs-are-inevitable/
Drop downs at the top of the page.
https://covid19.sanger.ac.uk/lineages/raw?lineage=B.1.617.2&latitude=53.604521&longitude=-2.090426&zoom=5.10&date=2021-06-05&uncertainty=1&lambda_type=area&area=E06000043
In Brighton & Hove Alpha is flat, Delta taking off
Just not the viewers of GBNews...
To imagine someone saying they're locking down too hard - the horrors.
I've backed the most likely result of 1-0 to Portugal at 4.8 on Betfair Exchange.
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/football/market/1.175538868
Pfizer is brilliant and AZ fantastic, on the same scale.
The bit I saw of it, it seemed amateur hour with too much focus on wokery based stories. Seems like they are competing with Talk Radio for that niche.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?areaType=region&areaName=East of England
I see nothing to get excited about there at all
Which would be simultaneously comedic, ironic and tragic. What would happen if that were to occur?
Of course, it might not happen. Probably won't. But the numbers, as they are, suggest that it's not an outlandish prospect that @BigRich could prove correct – that Boris should simply have delayed 72 hours, and opened up on Thursday 24 June, leaving the first weekend free...
What would happen if they started falling on or around 21 June?
Or something. I may be missing some layers of irony or nuance.
https://twitter.com/KopparbergUK/status/1404465568497950723
You can only tell for sure retrospectively. But I reckon in six days' time it'll be looking fairly likely that we're on our way back down again, and in thirteen days' time it will be obvious that the peak passed well before the 21st. All the hardest hit authorities will be well past their respective peaks by next week, and the less-hard-hit will be showing no signs of following anything like the same trajectory.
And it will make not the slightest bit of difference. Other justifications for further and longer lockdown will be found.
There was also someone who lasted about two posts. Had an innocuous name like “Colin” or something. Guess he wasn’t a fully worked out persona.
How the left eats itself, part 124.
http://labour-uncut.co.uk/2021/06/14/starmers-disastrous-pride/
I will be happy and relieved to be proved wrong, but I think the fight is already lost.
Given it's the only change of note forthcoming on 21 June, it's the key issue to discuss. It's hardly trivial – it affects 50,000 weddings. Absolutely stupid rules over 'social distancing' are wrecking them. My anger is not with you personally, but a general point about people supporting restrictions that have no impact on them personally.
@we_make_ripples
We're now up to FOUR advertisers who have pulled their ads from GB News:
Kopparberg
Grolsch
Nivea
Open University
Keep writing to their remaining advertisers!"
https://twitter.com/we_make_ripples/status/1404796956841545736
Or if others wish to suggest alternatives, buy the first round at the first Post pandemic PB Gettogether perhaps?
(as its by specimen date will need to leave it a week to confirm the trend.)
The 2019 general election left Labour a long, long way behind. Indeed, it might have finished even further behind had a few more Leave voters in seats it managed to keep hold of not plumped for the Brexit Party rather than the Conservatives. Given Nigel Farage’s departure from politics, this is not likely to be an option available to those voters next time round, which could be worth between ten and twenty additional seats for the Conservatives. The Conservatives are also likely to be the main beneficiaries of the forthcoming parliamentary boundary review aimed at equalising the size of constituencies. Consequently, barring a severe economic downturn, or a highly-negative retrospective verdict on Johnson’s handling of the pandemic, or else a messy break-up of the UK occasioned by a vote for Scottish independence, it is very difficult to imagine Labour – even if it fights a far better campaign than it did in 2019 – winning in 2023 or 2024.
http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/london/18014.pdf
Weddings are not the be all and end all here. Just one of many things affected, and I agree with you on this part, probably unnecessarily.
Disclaimer: I had 6 people present at my wedding and I went back to work in the afternoon.
The others are free to do as they chose, just as I am free to avide buying there goods.
However it is both revelling how much the 'left' fears an alternative to the BBC, and sad at the power they have to influence advertisers.
I'm also guessing GB News offered below market rates to advertise on their channels for the first month or so.
Terrible targeting. They’re wasting their money…
Never did she expect to have with revenge porn in her day job.
What I do want to see is that the reopening process is realistic and appropriate given the clear continuing threat of the Delta variant. Hopefully the additional 4 weeks will be sufficient to make the necessary further progress on vaccines etc, and when we get there no-one will be more pleased than me to see full reopening.
He's the Iberian Kieron Dyer.
Also the reverse when people start getting adverts for porn on respectable websites
If you say you are exempt they never question it.
Makes me laugh seeing more and more people using masks as chin warmers, masks full down but resting under their chin. Even with the older populace who are most vulnerable.
If they get rid of masks they get rid, honestly I think for a while I will keep wearing my ones for a while especially during certain times of the year like winter. I wear them all day at work, don't bother me one bit.
Prices at Smarkets:
June 75
July 1.7
August or later 2.12
I wouldn't bet on or against any of those, but "not 19 July" would be tempting at the right price.
The ad money doesn’t cover the costs of producing the content.
GB news would have had a fighting chance 20 years ago. Not now.
Bust within a year, I recon
Unless they can rapidly reinvent themselves as a kind of unilads outfit, pumping clips out to Facebook and getting millions of likes.