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One thing we thankfully haven’t seen in the UK – a political divide on being vaccinated – politicalb
One thing we thankfully haven’t seen in the UK – a political divide on being vaccinated – politicalbetting.com
I have just discovered this polling from a few days back on vaccination take-up in the US which I find to be quite remarkable.
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Get fucked Andrew Wakefield.
Lee Hurst, Matt Le Tissier, and Naomi Wolf, Naomi Wolf, can you hear me? your antivax stuff took one hell of a beating.
The main hotspots are Falmouth (120 cases across 4 MSOAs, 342 per 100k), St. Ives (63 cases, 482 per 100k) and Newquay (55 cases, 210 per 100k), with pretty low rates elsewhere. Proper hotspots those.
Make of that what you will.
That was rhetorical, american PBers.
The 29% of Republicans who won't get vaccinated will be the type in the South and West Virginia etc who are diehard Trumpers and don't trust the Federal Government on anything
For insomniacs:
Polls have now closed throughout the Chesham and Amersham constituency and seven council seats across England and Scotland.
But what about an election night show?
http://twitch.tv/britainelects from 11pm. By-elections and boundary changes.
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1405631365882814469?s=20
https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2021/04/19/we-need-to-talk-about-antivaxxer-gopers/
An indescribably moving thread, on Twitter, as people discover dead lovers, parents, pets, still alive on Google streetview
https://twitter.com/dindata/status/1405528759877308416?s=21
This has made me weep. Not denying it
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/17/revealed-link-westminster-school-cambridge/ (£££)
Depends what you mean by that.
Given Labour voters are younger, more urban and more BAME then its almost certain that a far lower proportion of Labour voters will get vaccinated than Conservative.
The Dominic Cummings I knew at university should never have been handed the reins of power
As a student he was argumentative, awkward and arrogant - it isn't much of a surprise to see him throwing his toys out of the pram now
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/17/dominic-cummings-knew-university-should-never-have-handed-reins/ (£££)
‘There’s nothing worse than unpredictability’: Was Dominic Cummings unfit to lead from the start?
A maverick who marched to the beat of his own drum was never going to be a calm leader in a crisis
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/17/nothing-worse-unpredictability-dominic-cummings-unfit-lead-start/ (£££)
Conservative 1.15
LibDem 6.6
Another notable thing is that the hotspots in Leeds and maybe Durham and Liverpool are in student areas.
I was in the pub earlier with other old people and we didn't like it if someone didn't have a mask.
Playing russian roulette with their health lol
https://youtu.be/KHJbSvidohg
Though 70% of Cambridge students and 68% of Oxford students are now state educated
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2020-09-03/proportion-of-state-school-pupils-at-cambridge-reaches-record-high
https://cherwell.org/2021/05/11/oxford-university-state-school-admission-intake-reaches-record-high-of-68-6/#:~:text=The data broadly suggests an,admitted between 2016 and 2020.
Indeed, people argue about how smart he is and how useful, with some thinking he is very good, but the question on that second one is about fitness to lead, which is quite distinct from whether he is smart or effective at other things.
Some people aren't leaders of men (and women). And given some of his comments he might agree that that is not where his strengths are.
Perhaps you should be cowering at home while yearning for higher infection numbers.
Of course if Ronaldo wants to drink water he should try Dasani from Coca Cola.
https://eu.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2021/05/25/rand-pauls-statement-covid-19-vaccine-reprehensible/7415947002/
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/07/politics/ron-johnson-vaccine-misinformation-fact-check/index.html
All the people I know who had been infected or suspected they had been infected were keen to get vaccinated.
How many would be there this year is another matter.
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1405637377754796032?s=19
I'm looking for politicians who are openly recommending those not previously infected not to be vaccinated.
https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/amersham/19381390.chesham-amersham-by-election---latest-updates-throughout-night/
10:27pm
Since the Chesham and Amersham seat was created in 1974, there have only ever been TWO MPs.
The first was Conservative Ian Gilmour, who held the seat from its creation until he retired in 1992. He died in 2007.
The second was Conservative Dame Cheryl Gillan, who held the seat from 1992 until she tragically passed away in April from cancer.
Sad certainly but its not like a 30 year dying from cancer of anyone getting struck by lightning.
They're not 'soaring'.
Any sensible look at the graphs by date of infection has them reaching a peak and already declining where they did so first.
We'll look back in a couple of weeks time and see the peak was, ooh, about the 14th.
Anyway, presumably your vaxxed by now? So you can afford to take a rather more relaxed view over whether people are marked or not.
They want to wait a bit to see what happens to those who took the vaccine, if they start dropping dead then perhaps the vaccine is not a good idea.
The trials and approvals were rushed through in a few months.
People have died due to blood clots linked to the Astra Zenica vaccine.
We have no idea at all about long term side effects of the vaccine.
All this for a disease that 99%+ of people survive.
There is little evidence on how these vaccines affect things like unborn children.
There is enormous social pressure to have the vaccine and, by the looks of things, legal compulsion in certain sectors.
It is totally unprecedented and may feel to some people like the start of some dystopian science fiction film.
I took the vaccine, personally. But it was something that I thought very carefully about. People should have the right to opt out on the understanding that they are taking their chances with Covid.
Incidentally had his first jab today.
To me it looks like Moderna and BioNTech/Pfizer are extremely good vaccines that have leveraged a novel technology. Novavax is second best in terms of antibody response and AZ is best in terms of its t-cell response. I think there is room in the market for all 5 of them (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, AZ and Novavax) each targeting a different part of the market. AZ for people aged 60+ looks like a slam dunk to me as it gets a good antibody response, doesn't have any side effects in the old and it seems to give very, very good long term immunity with t-cells. I think Moderna and Pfizer make sense in the young where you want a faster acting vaccine which will reduce spread and Novavax needs to be approved so we can see what real world efficacy is like rather than modelling it from trial data and antibody prevalence but in the early data it seems to do very well against variants.
From the front page of The Times.
The government is going to let UEFA let in thousands of people into the UK for the Euros without having to quarantine.
Surely they should get the best, most able, students they can, irrespective of their background.
The percentage of state school pupils at Oxbridge is now about right ie 2/3, the same as the percentage of top A grade A Levels that go to state school pupils
All this for a disease that 99%+ of people survive.
This is the disconnect I don't understand - long covid is a VERY VERY real. Around 7% of kids get it (Figures from ITV) - it'll be just as high in adults, and the older & more unfit you are the more likely an adverse outcome becomes...
"Long term side effects of the vaccine" - I don't know a single person with any side effects other than feeling ropey for a few days; there simply don't look to be any. We'd have heard tales relating to adverse birth/obstretric outcomes from the USA if there were any; btw evidence is emerging Covid can knock your sperm count lower...
The shear volume of adverse outcomes from Covid is astounding, I heard on the radio about a surgeon who is incontinent now because covid has shot the nerve endings in his bladder. The tales are long and plentiful and people are NOT making it up.
Why is the bar for Covid set at survival and the bar for vaccination set so much higher. It's very very transmissible, unless you're planning on living like a hermit for the next 50 years you WILL encounter it. Why on earth would you not want to get the very best protection that vaccination offers compared to encountering Covid as a novel virus ?
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I'm hardly enamoured of private schools and private school dominance, I just don't know how one measures 'the best potential'.
It’s possible that ministers have spotted the regional trends that show positive tests peaking before tailing off, but I doubt it.
Probably very badly timed guff by the Mail. Ignore.
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