Another straw in the wind to make of what you will: Labour has now spoken to EVERY Batley and Spen voter for whom we have phone numbers. I resumed phoning this evening and after a few (including 2 don't-know to Labour switchers, yay) I got the message that everyone had now been called.
This has to be a lot more than the Galloway effort. I think it's now really come down to a Tory-Labour battle and Galloway is marginalised.
"Labour has now spoken to EVERY Batley and Spen voter for whom we have phone numbers."
Dr P - this seems improbable unless you have a fantastically short list of phone numbers.
Not only improbable but impossible. Personally I dont answer a call from an unknown number and I doubt I am the only one
I always answer; sometimes with an imprecation!
Whatever for if its a legitimate call they will leave a message. In my experience 90% of unknown numbers don't
There is this strange idea that asking the young to make sacrifices for the old in time of crisis is somehow unusual.
Ladies and gentlemen, can I bring to your attention conscription? That is, forcing the young to take time out from education and life, to get trained as a soldier and to go into battle for theit country, so an external menace can be defeated.
It seems to me that CV19 is not a million miles different to a war. A pathogen has come to disrupt our lived and potentially to kill and to injure, and to affect our way of life.
A small number of people (might) bear a slightly higher risk from vaccination than they would do from the disease. But in return everyone benefits from stamping out the disease completely.
We all agree conscription is necessary under certain circumstances, why should it not be the same with vaccination?
The comparison is even closer. Being a guinea pig was a recognised role for conscientious objectors to conscription, of course. And I don't mean the Mengele kind of guinea pig.
Crikey! Scientists back then had all the fun That's both apalling and very interesting in the things that were learned. Fascinating that the author was involved as a scientist and that one (at least) of the 'volunteers' went into science afterwards. I also like the desert-dry reference to the Declaration of Helsinki preventing similar studies in future - I can't work out whether the author sees that as a bad or a good thing.
I was fortunate enough to have a brilliant surgeon for my youthful health problems. He was at the end of a long and successful career, but I was surprised to discover that, in the 1950s, he had done experiments on volunteer servicemen. The tests were to examine heat effects and would, to modern eyes, not be allowed. He was fairly frank about it.
Not to mention the experiment on human subjects with chemical weapons, at Porton Down, which went on into the '70s, I think.
That was actually directly to do with defence, so it's quite a good comparison for covid!
There was a rather distressing book published on the experiments. I can't remember the details now, but IIRC the question of informed consent was rather skated over - perhaps an element of being volunteered too. It wasn't formally wartime, either, so they were doing it on professional squaddies.
An interesting - essentially an alternate form of 'acceptable' National Service.
It seemed to me that it would be worthwhile to try and find out how any of the surviving volunteers, who would now be over 80, felt today about the experiments.
One of these, Norman Proctor, now aged 92, helped me to trace survivors among the 23 volunteers known to him.
Of these, 17 were known to have died, three were untraced, and three replied to my short questionnaire. Those who replied all thought that the experiments had been very worthwhile and stated that they would have volunteered again if required. From the beginning, in 1940, the volunteers had made it clear that they were not willing to take part in any experiments in which the main object was to assist in providing answers to purely military questions. They required that the research should be such that the answers should be of benefit to the general population.
OT some high-end estate agents must be required viewing for burglars as they point out ludicrously expensive but portable items in probably empty homes for sale.
Another straw in the wind to make of what you will: Labour has now spoken to EVERY Batley and Spen voter for whom we have phone numbers. I resumed phoning this evening and after a few (including 2 don't-know to Labour switchers, yay) I got the message that everyone had now been called.
This has to be a lot more than the Galloway effort. I think it's now really come down to a Tory-Labour battle and Galloway is marginalised.
"Labour has now spoken to EVERY Batley and Spen voter for whom we have phone numbers."
Dr P - this seems improbable unless you have a fantastically short list of phone numbers.
Not only improbable but impossible. Personally I dont answer a call from an unknown number and I doubt I am the only one
I always answer; sometimes with an imprecation!
Whatever for if its a legitimate call they will leave a message. In my experience 90% of unknown numbers don't
The hospital system always shows as caller ID withheld, for confidentiality reasons but around 75% or more pick up when we phone patients.
Another straw in the wind to make of what you will: Labour has now spoken to EVERY Batley and Spen voter for whom we have phone numbers. I resumed phoning this evening and after a few (including 2 don't-know to Labour switchers, yay) I got the message that everyone had now been called.
This has to be a lot more than the Galloway effort. I think it's now really come down to a Tory-Labour battle and Galloway is marginalised.
"Labour has now spoken to EVERY Batley and Spen voter for whom we have phone numbers."
Dr P - this seems improbable unless you have a fantastically short list of phone numbers.
Not only improbable but impossible. Personally I dont answer a call from an unknown number and I doubt I am the only one
I always answer; sometimes with an imprecation!
Whatever for if its a legitimate call they will leave a message. In my experience 90% of unknown numbers don't
The hospital system always shows as caller ID withheld, for confidentiality reasons but around 75% or more pick up when we phone patients.
Yes but Nick was claiming 100% call answering and I am sure as i stated if its not answered you leave a message
Spanish flu was a State secret in most countries when it began. I doubt we want to go that far. The focus on cases was understandable at first when we had no idea of the CFR, the %age of asymptomatic cases, how it was transmitted, how best to treat it, and, quite frankly, when we didn't know that a lot of us might not survive at all. There has been very little attempt by the media, government or health authorities to move away from this crude measure, or to educate the wider public.
There was a bit of a war going on.
Which is why we know it as Spanish flu as Spain was a neutral country used to allow the story to be reported at all.
Sometimes its an education talking to those on PB. Revision of the obvious seems unnecessary though.
Batley and Spen could be the ideal place to set up a driving school based on what's going on behind the GB News roving reporter. Have Kelloggs been giving out driving licences free in boxes of Cornflakes?
There must be something better to do than watch GB News on a night without soccerball.
"I secretly harbour racist views, I don't think Asians drive well" ."
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies is investing $850m in vaccines plants across the USA and Billingham - it looks like $450m of it will be in Billingham.
Oh, another $450m of private money finding its way to Northern England.
It’s almost as if the government are courting investment in vaccine production, just as a large bloc of nations nearby spent three months threatening a manufacturer of vaccines, in the middle of a pandemic.
The inflation is definitely coming, so much pent-up demand in the economy, and a similar pattern all around the world. The first countries back to something approaching normal, are going to go gangbusters.
The inflation is definitely coming, so much pent-up demand in the economy, and a similar pattern all around the world. The first countries back to something approaching normal, are going to go gangbusters.
Naturally, there's pent up demand but there's only so many holidays, restaurant tables and the like on offer so demand outstrips supply and you can guess the rest.
It explains the house price surge which is enhanced by the desire to "flee" London and SE commuter land and enjoy a new hybrid working existence with a home office overlooking a Scottish loch or in one of the Conservative heartlands of the north and midlands.
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
39.8 °C in Victoria BC. 42.7 in Port Alberni. And 49 + in BC Interior. These are extraordinary temperatures for a place with a normally middle England climate.
It's a real warning and should be seen as such.
130 people, mostly elderly, have died in Vancouver during this heatwave. British Columbia isn't like California and is unprepared for heat of this scale.
As are we.
5-10 consecutive days of temperatures above 40c in London are, in my view, likely in the next 10-20 years - how prepared are we in terms of demands on the power grid and the likelihood of dozens if not scores of deaths among elderly people who cannot deal with the heat and associated humidity?
70,000 are estimated to have perished in the 2003 European heatwave - 14,000 died in France which has slightly more experience of heat than the UK.
The Met Office have recently announced a new category of severe weather - Extreme Heat - for the national severe weather warning system.
It's likely that we'd have several days' notice of a dangerous heatwave. What I'm not sure of is what could be done in response. I guess rescheduling things to make sure you don't have to be outside during the middle of the day is one thing.
In terms of longer term preparation there's a lot that needs to be done to make the rail network more resilient. Its performance in summer 2019 in response to the heat then was abysmal.
They can control inflation with mass unemployment or interest rate rises. End furlough and put them all on the dole. They had nearly 2 years of Netflix and now it is time to pay the price.
They can control inflation with mass unemployment or interest rate rises. End furlough and put them all on the dole. They had nearly 2 years of Netflix and now it is time to pay the price.
What sort of bastard thinks 2 years* of hard Netflix isn’t punishment enough?
The inflation is definitely coming, so much pent-up demand in the economy, and a similar pattern all around the world. The first countries back to something approaching normal, are going to go gangbusters.
Naturally, there's pent up demand but there's only so many holidays, restaurant tables and the like on offer so demand outstrips supply and you can guess the rest.
It explains the house price surge which is enhanced by the desire to "flee" London and SE commuter land and enjoy a new hybrid working existence with a home office overlooking a Scottish loch or in one of the Conservative heartlands of the north and midlands.
Inflation has always been too much money chasing too many goods (and people).
Good thing we haven't created shedloads of money at the same time as mucking around with our supplies of goods and people, eh?
The Gallywhacker is on his fifth (slightly exaggerated - looks more like 4) threat of legal action of the campaign, including one who has apologised, a 17 year old schoolgirl, and now the Local Council - who have removed some of his election posters for putting the Imprint in too small type.
39.8 °C in Victoria BC. 42.7 in Port Alberni. And 49 + in BC Interior. These are extraordinary temperatures for a place with a normally middle England climate.
It's a real warning and should be seen as such.
130 people, mostly elderly, have died in Vancouver during this heatwave. British Columbia isn't like California and is unprepared for heat of this scale.
As are we.
5-10 consecutive days of temperatures above 40c in London are, in my view, likely in the next 10-20 years - how prepared are we in terms of demands on the power grid and the likelihood of dozens if not scores of deaths among elderly people who cannot deal with the heat and associated humidity?
70,000 are estimated to have perished in the 2003 European heatwave - 14,000 died in France which has slightly more experience of heat than the UK.
The Met Office have recently announced a new category of severe weather - Extreme Heat - for the national severe weather warning system.
It's likely that we'd have several days' notice of a dangerous heatwave. What I'm not sure of is what could be done in response. I guess rescheduling things to make sure you don't have to be outside during the middle of the day is one thing.
In terms of longer term preparation there's a lot that needs to be done to make the rail network more resilient. Its performance in summer 2019 in response to the heat then was abysmal.
It's quite sobering to reflect exactly how high the temperatures are in BC. Victoria has 39.7 previous record high was 30.5. What on Earth would we do with a record smashed by 9°C +.? More than the trains would fail. Warning or no.
39.8 °C in Victoria BC. 42.7 in Port Alberni. And 49 + in BC Interior. These are extraordinary temperatures for a place with a normally middle England climate.
It's a real warning and should be seen as such.
130 people, mostly elderly, have died in Vancouver during this heatwave. British Columbia isn't like California and is unprepared for heat of this scale.
As are we.
5-10 consecutive days of temperatures above 40c in London are, in my view, likely in the next 10-20 years - how prepared are we in terms of demands on the power grid and the likelihood of dozens if not scores of deaths among elderly people who cannot deal with the heat and associated humidity?
70,000 are estimated to have perished in the 2003 European heatwave - 14,000 died in France which has slightly more experience of heat than the UK.
The Met Office have recently announced a new category of severe weather - Extreme Heat - for the national severe weather warning system.
It's likely that we'd have several days' notice of a dangerous heatwave. What I'm not sure of is what could be done in response. I guess rescheduling things to make sure you don't have to be outside during the middle of the day is one thing.
In terms of longer term preparation there's a lot that needs to be done to make the rail network more resilient. Its performance in summer 2019 in response to the heat then was abysmal.
Our eldest son and his wife live in North Vancouver and they have said it is just plain dangerous, and their air conditioning, even overnight, just blows hot air
Canada is the second coldest country on the planet, and even in the hottest summers they do not get temperatures anywhere near this
And my daughter in law is very worried about her 78 year old Mother who lives nearby
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
So, what new evidence is there that specifically excludes zoonosis?
Nothing, of course. Which is why I specifically did not exclude it.
I said natural zoonosis outside the lab is now regarded, by most, as less likely than a lab leak - whether accidental or deliberate, engineered or not. And polls show I am right (at least in the USA). Most agree with me
Meanwhile the weight of circumstantial evidence continues to pile on the lab leak side of the debate. The recent revelation of inexplicable Wuhan Lab data deletion, in Q3 2019, being one such
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
A sentence starting "Most Americans believe..." is not one that is really going to be a slam dunker in an argument.
It is - but perhaps not in the way its deployer might wish.
Edit: of course, this does not apply when the issue of popuilar belief itself is beign discussed, rather than the strict validity of the belief itself.
Apparently nearly 80% of Americans believe in at least one unscientifically proven idea! However, only 2.3% of respondents identified as flat earthers (which out of a population of 331M is still quite a lot of absolute loons!)
Fantastic! I love the quote at the end of the article: Two millennia of scientific consensus has it that the earth is spherical.
"The Flat Earth Society was set up by Samuel Shenton in 1956 in the English town of Dover and remains active today." Great place to see the ships disappear over the horizon.
The Met Office have recently announced a new category of severe weather - Extreme Heat - for the national severe weather warning system.
It's likely that we'd have several days' notice of a dangerous heatwave. What I'm not sure of is what could be done in response. I guess rescheduling things to make sure you don't have to be outside during the middle of the day is one thing.
In terms of longer term preparation there's a lot that needs to be done to make the rail network more resilient. Its performance in summer 2019 in response to the heat then was abysmal.
Yes, the forecasting system is much improved and we'd certainly get some warning though the severity and duration might still be open to some interpretation nearer the time.
"Plumes" of hot air from North Africa, via Iberia and France, are often forecast but rarely do more than clip the south east corner of England - we have, as you say, had recent experience of severe heat in 2019 and the point you make about transport infrastructure is wholly valid.
In addition, while some tube lines now have trains with aircon, most don't and in the deeper parts of the Central, Piccadilly and Northern lines, you can add 10c to the ambient outdoor temperatures so that would mean parts of the tube network at 50c or more which is fine until and unless the trains stop....
The road network is also vulnerable as is the electrical grid and water supplies given a huge spike in demand - can supermarkets supply enough cold drinks to keep people going?
No doubt we'll hear the usual "stiff upper lip" nonsense but the practical solution would be for people to stay home, hydrated and keep cool (and that includes children as well). Hopefully there's been plenty of co-ordinated thinking and planning so we will be ready when (and it is a when) it happens.
Over 70s and front line health workers to get third vaccine in the autumn
Yeah my manager told me this morning that preparations are underway at our Trust. Last year we got our flu campaign under way earlier and during a much quicker time frame in preparation for the Covid vaccine so if we are going to run Flu alongside the Covid vaccine it's going to be interesting times.
The extra admin we took on for Covid have been extended until Easter and we have made sure to keep in contact with our vaccinators so they are ready to go come the Autumn. We are anticipating a fair few more will come through our recruitment and Occupational Health clearing process.
I found it very rewarding work being at our vaccination hub and whilst part of me is sad that we are going to be needed again I have to say I am kind of looking forward to working there again in some ways. We developed a real camaraderie and spirit there as a team and I am looking forward to seeing some familiar faces.
Back of the fag packet indicates about 100,000 reported cases on the 21st July two days after freedom day.
Freedom Day will be a lot of folk off work day by the sounds of it.
I reckon we'll top out about 150,000 daily cases start of August then head downhill.
That's a fair bit higher than the actual peak in January 2021 (about 70k) or the inferred peak in Spring 2020 (God knows, but possibly not as high, since the deaths peak was lower). Now the cases now are a lot less harmful than before (because the old and hence most vulnerable are double jabbed) but a lot of them are still nasty. And some (albeit a lot fewer than before) are still fatal.
If the harm factor is a tenth of what it was before, that's about three doublings. If it's a hundredth, that's about seven doublings.
Is the UK really going to take this on the chin and let it wash over us? When we have access to working vaccines?
(Note that even if this works internally, it means that other nations are going to rightly treat us as Plague Island.)
It's quite sobering to reflect exactly how high the temperatures are in BC. Victoria has 39.7 previous record high was 30.5. What on Earth would we do with a record smashed by 9°C +.? More than the trains would fail. Warning or no.
Indeed, the UK record is 38.7c set in Cambridge barely two years ago. I doubt we'd go 9c higher in one go but could certainly imagine 42c in London (108 in old money) which would cause a lot of problems.
Over 70s and front line health workers to get third vaccine in the autumn
Yeah my manager told me this morning that preparations are underway at our Trust. Last year we got our flu campaign under way earlier and during a much quicker time frame in preparation for the Covid vaccine so if we are going to run Flu alongside the Covid vaccine it's going to be interesting times.
The extra admin we took on for Covid have been extended until Easter and we have made sure to keep in contact with our vaccinators so they are ready to go come the Autumn. We are anticipating a fair few more will come through our recruitment and Occupational Health clearing process.
I found it very rewarding work being at our vaccination hub and whilst part of me is sad that we are going to be needed again I have to say I am kind of looking forward to working there again in some ways. We developed a real camaraderie and spirit there as a team and I am looking forward to seeing some familiar faces.
I have already been asked if I would like a flu jab.*
Last year that was in October (and then it never happened).
*As I am not currently in a priority category I would have to pay for it.
The inflation is definitely coming, so much pent-up demand in the economy, and a similar pattern all around the world. The first countries back to something approaching normal, are going to go gangbusters.
Naturally, there's pent up demand but there's only so many holidays, restaurant tables and the like on offer so demand outstrips supply and you can guess the rest.
It explains the house price surge which is enhanced by the desire to "flee" London and SE commuter land and enjoy a new hybrid working existence with a home office overlooking a Scottish loch or in one of the Conservative heartlands of the north and midlands.
Inflation has always been too much money chasing too many goods (and people).
Good thing we haven't created shedloads of money at the same time as mucking around with our supplies of goods and people, eh?
Bugger.
Having to pay more money for lorry drivers won't help keep prices down. Otoh, it might be good for unemployment.
Over 70s and front line health workers to get third vaccine in the autumn
Yeah my manager told me this morning that preparations are underway at our Trust. Last year we got our flu campaign under way earlier and during a much quicker time frame in preparation for the Covid vaccine so if we are going to run Flu alongside the Covid vaccine it's going to be interesting times.
The extra admin we took on for Covid have been extended until Easter and we have made sure to keep in contact with our vaccinators so they are ready to go come the Autumn. We are anticipating a fair few more will come through our recruitment and Occupational Health clearing process.
I found it very rewarding work being at our vaccination hub and whilst part of me is sad that we are going to be needed again I have to say I am kind of looking forward to working there again in some ways. We developed a real camaraderie and spirit there as a team and I am looking forward to seeing some familiar faces.
I have already been asked if I would like a flu jab.*
Last year that was in October (and then it never happened).
*As I am not currently in a priority category I would have to pay for it.
Given the cost of even a day's cover, and the amount of snot in the average school, I'm baffled that schools don't pay for their staff to have a flu shot.
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
A sentence starting "Most Americans believe..." is not one that is really going to be a slam dunker in an argument.
It is - but perhaps not in the way its deployer might wish.
Edit: of course, this does not apply when the issue of popuilar belief itself is beign discussed, rather than the strict validity of the belief itself.
Apparently nearly 80% of Americans believe in at least one unscientifically proven idea! However, only 2.3% of respondents identified as flat earthers (which out of a population of 331M is still quite a lot of absolute loons!)
Fantastic! I love the quote at the end of the article: Two millennia of scientific consensus has it that the earth is spherical.
"The Flat Earth Society was set up by Samuel Shenton in 1956 in the English town of Dover and remains active today." Great place to see the ships disappear over the horizon.
That's because the earth isn't exactly flat but an inverted saucer with a tiny curve, but not so much that the sea falls off. The moon is flat.
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
Over 70s and front line health workers to get third vaccine in the autumn
Yeah my manager told me this morning that preparations are underway at our Trust. Last year we got our flu campaign under way earlier and during a much quicker time frame in preparation for the Covid vaccine so if we are going to run Flu alongside the Covid vaccine it's going to be interesting times.
The extra admin we took on for Covid have been extended until Easter and we have made sure to keep in contact with our vaccinators so they are ready to go come the Autumn. We are anticipating a fair few more will come through our recruitment and Occupational Health clearing process.
I found it very rewarding work being at our vaccination hub and whilst part of me is sad that we are going to be needed again I have to say I am kind of looking forward to working there again in some ways. We developed a real camaraderie and spirit there as a team and I am looking forward to seeing some familiar faces.
I have already been asked if I would like a flu jab.*
Last year that was in October (and then it never happened).
*As I am not currently in a priority category I would have to pay for it.
Given the cost of even a day's cover, and the amount of snot in the average school, I'm baffled that schools don't pay for their staff to have a flu shot.
Some companies certainly do that.
I didn't bother this year on the grounds that there was no flu, and catching Covid whilst having the jab was a non-zero probability.
Over 70s and front line health workers to get third vaccine in the autumn
Yeah my manager told me this morning that preparations are underway at our Trust. Last year we got our flu campaign under way earlier and during a much quicker time frame in preparation for the Covid vaccine so if we are going to run Flu alongside the Covid vaccine it's going to be interesting times.
The extra admin we took on for Covid have been extended until Easter and we have made sure to keep in contact with our vaccinators so they are ready to go come the Autumn. We are anticipating a fair few more will come through our recruitment and Occupational Health clearing process.
I found it very rewarding work being at our vaccination hub and whilst part of me is sad that we are going to be needed again I have to say I am kind of looking forward to working there again in some ways. We developed a real camaraderie and spirit there as a team and I am looking forward to seeing some familiar faces.
I have already been asked if I would like a flu jab.*
Last year that was in October (and then it never happened).
*As I am not currently in a priority category I would have to pay for it.
Given the cost of even a day's cover, and the amount of snot in the average school, I'm baffled that schools don't pay for their staff to have a flu shot.
Well, it would be through the school, but last year they wanted eight quid for it.
I would say that’s a bargain from a personal point of view. Certainly, as you say, a bargain for the school - £8 vs £200-odd a day supply.
The only thing that makes me feel slightly ambivalent is the thought that if I have the jab somebody in a more vulnerable category might miss out.
Equally, I believe it’s very rare to run out of flu jabs.
We could be in for a long night tomorrow. These are the previous declaration times in Batley and Spen, and none of these results was particularly close, ie. at least 3,500 majority. I don't have the declaration time for the previous by-election atm.
39.8 °C in Victoria BC. 42.7 in Port Alberni. And 49 + in BC Interior. These are extraordinary temperatures for a place with a normally middle England climate.
It's a real warning and should be seen as such.
130 people, mostly elderly, have died in Vancouver during this heatwave. British Columbia isn't like California and is unprepared for heat of this scale.
As are we.
5-10 consecutive days of temperatures above 40c in London are, in my view, likely in the next 10-20 years - how prepared are we in terms of demands on the power grid and the likelihood of dozens if not scores of deaths among elderly people who cannot deal with the heat and associated humidity?
70,000 are estimated to have perished in the 2003 European heatwave - 14,000 died in France which has slightly more experience of heat than the UK.
The Met Office have recently announced a new category of severe weather - Extreme Heat - for the national severe weather warning system.
It's likely that we'd have several days' notice of a dangerous heatwave. What I'm not sure of is what could be done in response. I guess rescheduling things to make sure you don't have to be outside during the middle of the day is one thing.
In terms of longer term preparation there's a lot that needs to be done to make the rail network more resilient. Its performance in summer 2019 in response to the heat then was abysmal.
In my part of the world, they have a mandated ‘midday break’ for three months in the summer, where it’s not allowed to work outside in the sun between the hours of 12:30 and 15:00. All the construction workers do split shifts in the summer. People who are working outdoors, such as lifeguards, have to be provided shade and water.
It's quite sobering to reflect exactly how high the temperatures are in BC. Victoria has 39.7 previous record high was 30.5. What on Earth would we do with a record smashed by 9°C +.? More than the trains would fail. Warning or no.
Indeed, the UK record is 38.7c set in Cambridge barely two years ago. I doubt we'd go 9c higher in one go but could certainly imagine 42c in London (108 in old money) which would cause a lot of problems.
That 9 C increase in Canada is remarkable. If you’d asked me what the previous record was I’d have said high 30s. I know they have a cold current up there, but even so it’s still on the edge of a big land mass.
We are very fortunate in this regard. When we broke our record from 2003 a few years ago it was on a day with fairly strong southerly winds. The recent dry summer never really got that hot.
39.8 °C in Victoria BC. 42.7 in Port Alberni. And 49 + in BC Interior. These are extraordinary temperatures for a place with a normally middle England climate.
It's a real warning and should be seen as such.
130 people, mostly elderly, have died in Vancouver during this heatwave. British Columbia isn't like California and is unprepared for heat of this scale.
As are we.
5-10 consecutive days of temperatures above 40c in London are, in my view, likely in the next 10-20 years - how prepared are we in terms of demands on the power grid and the likelihood of dozens if not scores of deaths among elderly people who cannot deal with the heat and associated humidity?
70,000 are estimated to have perished in the 2003 European heatwave - 14,000 died in France which has slightly more experience of heat than the UK.
The Met Office have recently announced a new category of severe weather - Extreme Heat - for the national severe weather warning system.
It's likely that we'd have several days' notice of a dangerous heatwave. What I'm not sure of is what could be done in response. I guess rescheduling things to make sure you don't have to be outside during the middle of the day is one thing.
In terms of longer term preparation there's a lot that needs to be done to make the rail network more resilient. Its performance in summer 2019 in response to the heat then was abysmal.
Our eldest son and his wife live in North Vancouver and they have said it is just plain dangerous, and their air conditioning, even overnight, just blows hot air
Canada is the second coldest country on the planet, and even in the hottest summers they do not get temperatures anywhere near this
And my daughter in law is very worried about her 78 year old Mother who lives nearby
Is it worth finding her mother an hotel for a few days, with air conditioning?
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
So, what new evidence is there that specifically excludes zoonosis?
Nothing, of course. Which is why I specifically did not exclude it.
I said natural zoonosis outside the lab is now regarded, by most, as less likely than a lab leak - whether accidental or deliberate, engineered or not. And polls show I am right (at least in the USA). Most agree with me
Meanwhile the weight of circumstantial evidence continues to pile on the lab leak side of the debate. The recent revelation of inexplicable Wuhan Lab data deletion, in Q3 2019, being one such
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
A sentence starting "Most Americans believe..." is not one that is really going to be a slam dunker in an argument.
It is - but perhaps not in the way its deployer might wish.
Edit: of course, this does not apply when the issue of popuilar belief itself is beign discussed, rather than the strict validity of the belief itself.
Apparently nearly 80% of Americans believe in at least one unscientifically proven idea! However, only 2.3% of respondents identified as flat earthers (which out of a population of 331M is still quite a lot of absolute loons!)
Fantastic! I love the quote at the end of the article: Two millennia of scientific consensus has it that the earth is spherical.
"The Flat Earth Society was set up by Samuel Shenton in 1956 in the English town of Dover and remains active today." Great place to see the ships disappear over the horizon.
That's because the earth isn't exactly flat but an inverted saucer with a tiny curve, but not so much that the sea falls off. The moon is flat.
If the moon is flat, wouldn't it become an ellipse as it moves away from us across the sky?
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
A sentence starting "Most Americans believe..." is not one that is really going to be a slam dunker in an argument.
It is - but perhaps not in the way its deployer might wish.
Edit: of course, this does not apply when the issue of popuilar belief itself is beign discussed, rather than the strict validity of the belief itself.
Apparently nearly 80% of Americans believe in at least one unscientifically proven idea! However, only 2.3% of respondents identified as flat earthers (which out of a population of 331M is still quite a lot of absolute loons!)
Fantastic! I love the quote at the end of the article: Two millennia of scientific consensus has it that the earth is spherical.
"The Flat Earth Society was set up by Samuel Shenton in 1956 in the English town of Dover and remains active today." Great place to see the ships disappear over the horizon.
That's because the earth isn't exactly flat but an inverted saucer with a tiny curve, but not so much that the sea falls off. The moon is flat.
If the moon is flat, wouldn't it become an ellipse as it moves away from us across the sky?
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
A sentence starting "Most Americans believe..." is not one that is really going to be a slam dunker in an argument.
It is - but perhaps not in the way its deployer might wish.
Edit: of course, this does not apply when the issue of popuilar belief itself is beign discussed, rather than the strict validity of the belief itself.
Apparently nearly 80% of Americans believe in at least one unscientifically proven idea! However, only 2.3% of respondents identified as flat earthers (which out of a population of 331M is still quite a lot of absolute loons!)
It isn't possible to live as a normal human being without scientifically unproven ideas. These include: freewill, all concepts of right and wrong, all affirmative beliefs about god or gods, all beliefs about their non existence, every political belief and preference people hold, that Trump is an unsatisfactory person, Middlesex being the best cricket team, that the law of gravity will still prevail next week, and a number of others.
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
A sentence starting "Most Americans believe..." is not one that is really going to be a slam dunker in an argument.
It is - but perhaps not in the way its deployer might wish.
Edit: of course, this does not apply when the issue of popuilar belief itself is beign discussed, rather than the strict validity of the belief itself.
Apparently nearly 80% of Americans believe in at least one unscientifically proven idea! However, only 2.3% of respondents identified as flat earthers (which out of a population of 331M is still quite a lot of absolute loons!)
Fantastic! I love the quote at the end of the article: Two millennia of scientific consensus has it that the earth is spherical.
"The Flat Earth Society was set up by Samuel Shenton in 1956 in the English town of Dover and remains active today." Great place to see the ships disappear over the horizon.
That's because the earth isn't exactly flat but an inverted saucer with a tiny curve, but not so much that the sea falls off. The moon is flat.
If the moon is flat, wouldn't it become an ellipse as it moves away from us across the sky?
It would be ova and above us.
But sometimes the moon is above us. Sometimes it is over on the horizon. And it is a circle no matter where it is. That requires a sphere.
39.8 °C in Victoria BC. 42.7 in Port Alberni. And 49 + in BC Interior. These are extraordinary temperatures for a place with a normally middle England climate.
It's a real warning and should be seen as such.
130 people, mostly elderly, have died in Vancouver during this heatwave. British Columbia isn't like California and is unprepared for heat of this scale.
As are we.
5-10 consecutive days of temperatures above 40c in London are, in my view, likely in the next 10-20 years - how prepared are we in terms of demands on the power grid and the likelihood of dozens if not scores of deaths among elderly people who cannot deal with the heat and associated humidity?
70,000 are estimated to have perished in the 2003 European heatwave - 14,000 died in France which has slightly more experience of heat than the UK.
The Met Office have recently announced a new category of severe weather - Extreme Heat - for the national severe weather warning system.
It's likely that we'd have several days' notice of a dangerous heatwave. What I'm not sure of is what could be done in response. I guess rescheduling things to make sure you don't have to be outside during the middle of the day is one thing.
In terms of longer term preparation there's a lot that needs to be done to make the rail network more resilient. Its performance in summer 2019 in response to the heat then was abysmal.
Our eldest son and his wife live in North Vancouver and they have said it is just plain dangerous, and their air conditioning, even overnight, just blows hot air
Canada is the second coldest country on the planet, and even in the hottest summers they do not get temperatures anywhere near this
And my daughter in law is very worried about her 78 year old Mother who lives nearby
Is it worth finding her mother an hotel for a few days, with air conditioning?
She does have air conditioning and her daughter is within half a mile, but thank you for your kind suggestion
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
A sentence starting "Most Americans believe..." is not one that is really going to be a slam dunker in an argument.
It is - but perhaps not in the way its deployer might wish.
Edit: of course, this does not apply when the issue of popuilar belief itself is beign discussed, rather than the strict validity of the belief itself.
Apparently nearly 80% of Americans believe in at least one unscientifically proven idea! However, only 2.3% of respondents identified as flat earthers (which out of a population of 331M is still quite a lot of absolute loons!)
Fantastic! I love the quote at the end of the article: Two millennia of scientific consensus has it that the earth is spherical.
"The Flat Earth Society was set up by Samuel Shenton in 1956 in the English town of Dover and remains active today." Great place to see the ships disappear over the horizon.
That's because the earth isn't exactly flat but an inverted saucer with a tiny curve, but not so much that the sea falls off. The moon is flat.
If the moon is flat, wouldn't it become an ellipse as it moves away from us across the sky?
It would be ova and above us.
But sometimes the moon is above us. Sometimes it is over on the horizon. And it is a circle no matter where it is. That requires a sphere.
So it shows the flat Earth theory is load of balls?
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
A sentence starting "Most Americans believe..." is not one that is really going to be a slam dunker in an argument.
It is - but perhaps not in the way its deployer might wish.
Edit: of course, this does not apply when the issue of popuilar belief itself is beign discussed, rather than the strict validity of the belief itself.
Apparently nearly 80% of Americans believe in at least one unscientifically proven idea! However, only 2.3% of respondents identified as flat earthers (which out of a population of 331M is still quite a lot of absolute loons!)
Fantastic! I love the quote at the end of the article: Two millennia of scientific consensus has it that the earth is spherical.
"The Flat Earth Society was set up by Samuel Shenton in 1956 in the English town of Dover and remains active today." Great place to see the ships disappear over the horizon.
That's because the earth isn't exactly flat but an inverted saucer with a tiny curve, but not so much that the sea falls off. The moon is flat.
If the moon is flat, wouldn't it become an ellipse as it moves away from us across the sky?
It would be ova and above us.
But sometimes the moon is above us. Sometimes it is over on the horizon. And it is a circle no matter where it is. That requires a sphere.
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
A sentence starting "Most Americans believe..." is not one that is really going to be a slam dunker in an argument.
It is - but perhaps not in the way its deployer might wish.
Edit: of course, this does not apply when the issue of popuilar belief itself is beign discussed, rather than the strict validity of the belief itself.
Apparently nearly 80% of Americans believe in at least one unscientifically proven idea! However, only 2.3% of respondents identified as flat earthers (which out of a population of 331M is still quite a lot of absolute loons!)
Fantastic! I love the quote at the end of the article: Two millennia of scientific consensus has it that the earth is spherical.
"The Flat Earth Society was set up by Samuel Shenton in 1956 in the English town of Dover and remains active today." Great place to see the ships disappear over the horizon.
That's because the earth isn't exactly flat but an inverted saucer with a tiny curve, but not so much that the sea falls off. The moon is flat.
If the moon is flat, wouldn't it become an ellipse as it moves away from us across the sky?
It would be ova and above us.
But sometimes the moon is above us. Sometimes it is over on the horizon. And it is a circle no matter where it is. That requires a sphere.
What if the disk is rotating?
Don't gravity waves distort its outline so it appears as a circle regardless of the angle of viewing? Like the speed of light is constant regardless of the motion of the observer?
39.8 °C in Victoria BC. 42.7 in Port Alberni. And 49 + in BC Interior. These are extraordinary temperatures for a place with a normally middle England climate.
It's a real warning and should be seen as such.
130 people, mostly elderly, have died in Vancouver during this heatwave. British Columbia isn't like California and is unprepared for heat of this scale.
As are we.
5-10 consecutive days of temperatures above 40c in London are, in my view, likely in the next 10-20 years - how prepared are we in terms of demands on the power grid and the likelihood of dozens if not scores of deaths among elderly people who cannot deal with the heat and associated humidity?
70,000 are estimated to have perished in the 2003 European heatwave - 14,000 died in France which has slightly more experience of heat than the UK.
The Met Office have recently announced a new category of severe weather - Extreme Heat - for the national severe weather warning system.
It's likely that we'd have several days' notice of a dangerous heatwave. What I'm not sure of is what could be done in response. I guess rescheduling things to make sure you don't have to be outside during the middle of the day is one thing.
In terms of longer term preparation there's a lot that needs to be done to make the rail network more resilient. Its performance in summer 2019 in response to the heat then was abysmal.
Our eldest son and his wife live in North Vancouver and they have said it is just plain dangerous, and their air conditioning, even overnight, just blows hot air
Canada is the second coldest country on the planet, and even in the hottest summers they do not get temperatures anywhere near this
And my daughter in law is very worried about her 78 year old Mother who lives nearby
Is it worth finding her mother an hotel for a few days, with air conditioning?
She does have air conditioning and her daughter is within half a mile, but thank you for your kind suggestion
We had a failed a/c unit a couple of summers ago - no question of trying to stay home, straight to the nearest hotel until they fixed it.
As others have said, the heat and humidity can very quickly turn serious for those not used to it.
On the subject of flat earth loonies, I do like Professor Dave explains.
This is his fourth and final word on the matter to prove that the earth isn't flat - the earlier three all use observations that can be done without any scientific equipment to prove the earth can't be flat and is a sphere.
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
A sentence starting "Most Americans believe..." is not one that is really going to be a slam dunker in an argument.
It is - but perhaps not in the way its deployer might wish.
Edit: of course, this does not apply when the issue of popuilar belief itself is beign discussed, rather than the strict validity of the belief itself.
Apparently nearly 80% of Americans believe in at least one unscientifically proven idea! However, only 2.3% of respondents identified as flat earthers (which out of a population of 331M is still quite a lot of absolute loons!)
Fantastic! I love the quote at the end of the article: Two millennia of scientific consensus has it that the earth is spherical.
"The Flat Earth Society was set up by Samuel Shenton in 1956 in the English town of Dover and remains active today." Great place to see the ships disappear over the horizon.
That's because the earth isn't exactly flat but an inverted saucer with a tiny curve, but not so much that the sea falls off. The moon is flat.
If the moon is flat, wouldn't it become an ellipse as it moves away from us across the sky?
It would be ova and above us.
But sometimes the moon is above us. Sometimes it is over on the horizon. And it is a circle no matter where it is. That requires a sphere.
So it shows the flat Earth theory is load of balls?
On the topic of heat. This is a ‘village’ in Darfur Ethiopia. We are about to climb a volcano at night (way too hot by day)
My main memory of this place is the heat. It was about 45C as the sun set around 7pm, and didn’t go much lower. Zero air con. Hardly any water. Indescribably horrible. I drank good Ethiopian wine to stay sane
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
A sentence starting "Most Americans believe..." is not one that is really going to be a slam dunker in an argument.
It is - but perhaps not in the way its deployer might wish.
Edit: of course, this does not apply when the issue of popuilar belief itself is beign discussed, rather than the strict validity of the belief itself.
Apparently nearly 80% of Americans believe in at least one unscientifically proven idea! However, only 2.3% of respondents identified as flat earthers (which out of a population of 331M is still quite a lot of absolute loons!)
Fantastic! I love the quote at the end of the article: Two millennia of scientific consensus has it that the earth is spherical.
"The Flat Earth Society was set up by Samuel Shenton in 1956 in the English town of Dover and remains active today." Great place to see the ships disappear over the horizon.
That's because the earth isn't exactly flat but an inverted saucer with a tiny curve, but not so much that the sea falls off. The moon is flat.
If the moon is flat, wouldn't it become an ellipse as it moves away from us across the sky?
It would be ova and above us.
But sometimes the moon is above us. Sometimes it is over on the horizon. And it is a circle no matter where it is. That requires a sphere.
So it shows the flat Earth theory is load of balls?
Isn't it the Copernicus Model of the Universe that is a load of balls (circling the sun)?
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
It was a massive mistake by Western elites to let China get rich. No country is perfect, but all autocracies are horrible.
Possibly the biggest foreign policy mistake by the West in decades, was to let China join the WTO. Of course no-one realised at the time, where we would end up.
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies is investing $850m in vaccines plants across the USA and Billingham - it looks like $450m of it will be in Billingham.
Oh, another $450m of private money finding its way to Northern England.
It’s almost as if the government are courting investment in vaccine production, just as a large bloc of nations nearby spent three months threatening a manufacturer of vaccines, in the middle of a pandemic.
Novavax again. Does anyone have any idea in which decade that might finally put in an appearance?
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
Equally though, the data has been recovered. (Ironically because they were storing everything with an American cloud provider who never deleted anything.)
And - if you read the Bloom analysis - has not contained a smoking gun. Given it was Bloom Labs that discovered the deletions, they hardly sound like they're paid up members of a cover up.
On the topic of heat. This is a ‘village’ in Darfur Ethiopia. We are about to climb a volcano at night (way too hot by day)
My main memory of this place is the heat. It was about 45C as the sun set around 7pm, and didn’t go much lower. Zero air con. Hardly any water. Indescribably horrible. I drank good Ethiopian wine to stay sane
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
A sentence starting "Most Americans believe..." is not one that is really going to be a slam dunker in an argument.
It is - but perhaps not in the way its deployer might wish.
Edit: of course, this does not apply when the issue of popuilar belief itself is beign discussed, rather than the strict validity of the belief itself.
Apparently nearly 80% of Americans believe in at least one unscientifically proven idea! However, only 2.3% of respondents identified as flat earthers (which out of a population of 331M is still quite a lot of absolute loons!)
Fantastic! I love the quote at the end of the article: Two millennia of scientific consensus has it that the earth is spherical.
"The Flat Earth Society was set up by Samuel Shenton in 1956 in the English town of Dover and remains active today." Great place to see the ships disappear over the horizon.
That's because the earth isn't exactly flat but an inverted saucer with a tiny curve, but not so much that the sea falls off. The moon is flat.
If the moon is flat, wouldn't it become an ellipse as it moves away from us across the sky?
It would be ova and above us.
But sometimes the moon is above us. Sometimes it is over on the horizon. And it is a circle no matter where it is. That requires a sphere.
So it shows the flat Earth theory is load of balls?
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
A sentence starting "Most Americans believe..." is not one that is really going to be a slam dunker in an argument.
It is - but perhaps not in the way its deployer might wish.
Edit: of course, this does not apply when the issue of popuilar belief itself is beign discussed, rather than the strict validity of the belief itself.
Apparently nearly 80% of Americans believe in at least one unscientifically proven idea! However, only 2.3% of respondents identified as flat earthers (which out of a population of 331M is still quite a lot of absolute loons!)
Fantastic! I love the quote at the end of the article: Two millennia of scientific consensus has it that the earth is spherical.
"The Flat Earth Society was set up by Samuel Shenton in 1956 in the English town of Dover and remains active today." Great place to see the ships disappear over the horizon.
That's because the earth isn't exactly flat but an inverted saucer with a tiny curve, but not so much that the sea falls off. The moon is flat.
If the moon is flat, wouldn't it become an ellipse as it moves away from us across the sky?
It would be ova and above us.
But sometimes the moon is above us. Sometimes it is over on the horizon. And it is a circle no matter where it is. That requires a sphere.
So it shows the flat Earth theory is load of balls?
Isn't it the Copernicus Model of the Universe that is a load of balls (circling the sun)?
39.8 °C in Victoria BC. 42.7 in Port Alberni. And 49 + in BC Interior. These are extraordinary temperatures for a place with a normally middle England climate.
It's a real warning and should be seen as such.
130 people, mostly elderly, have died in Vancouver during this heatwave. British Columbia isn't like California and is unprepared for heat of this scale.
As are we.
5-10 consecutive days of temperatures above 40c in London are, in my view, likely in the next 10-20 years - how prepared are we in terms of demands on the power grid and the likelihood of dozens if not scores of deaths among elderly people who cannot deal with the heat and associated humidity?
70,000 are estimated to have perished in the 2003 European heatwave - 14,000 died in France which has slightly more experience of heat than the UK.
The Met Office have recently announced a new category of severe weather - Extreme Heat - for the national severe weather warning system.
It's likely that we'd have several days' notice of a dangerous heatwave. What I'm not sure of is what could be done in response. I guess rescheduling things to make sure you don't have to be outside during the middle of the day is one thing.
In terms of longer term preparation there's a lot that needs to be done to make the rail network more resilient. Its performance in summer 2019 in response to the heat then was abysmal.
Our eldest son and his wife live in North Vancouver and they have said it is just plain dangerous, and their air conditioning, even overnight, just blows hot air
Canada is the second coldest country on the planet, and even in the hottest summers they do not get temperatures anywhere near this
And my daughter in law is very worried about her 78 year old Mother who lives nearby
Is it worth finding her mother an hotel for a few days, with air conditioning?
She does have air conditioning and her daughter is within half a mile, but thank you for your kind suggestion
We had a failed a/c unit a couple of summers ago - no question of trying to stay home, straight to the nearest hotel until they fixed it.
As others have said, the heat and humidity can very quickly turn serious for those not used to it.
27 falling from 30 degrees C forecast for Rome Saturday night (England vs Ukraine).
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
A sentence starting "Most Americans believe..." is not one that is really going to be a slam dunker in an argument.
It is - but perhaps not in the way its deployer might wish.
Edit: of course, this does not apply when the issue of popuilar belief itself is beign discussed, rather than the strict validity of the belief itself.
Apparently nearly 80% of Americans believe in at least one unscientifically proven idea! However, only 2.3% of respondents identified as flat earthers (which out of a population of 331M is still quite a lot of absolute loons!)
Fantastic! I love the quote at the end of the article: Two millennia of scientific consensus has it that the earth is spherical.
"The Flat Earth Society was set up by Samuel Shenton in 1956 in the English town of Dover and remains active today." Great place to see the ships disappear over the horizon.
That's because the earth isn't exactly flat but an inverted saucer with a tiny curve, but not so much that the sea falls off. The moon is flat.
If the moon is flat, wouldn't it become an ellipse as it moves away from us across the sky?
It would be ova and above us.
But sometimes the moon is above us. Sometimes it is over on the horizon. And it is a circle no matter where it is. That requires a sphere.
So it shows the flat Earth theory is load of balls?
On the topic of heat. This is a ‘village’ in Darfur Ethiopia. We are about to climb a volcano at night (way too hot by day)
My main memory of this place is the heat. It was about 45C as the sun set around 7pm, and didn’t go much lower. Zero air con. Hardly any water. Indescribably horrible. I drank good Ethiopian wine to stay sane
Which ones are you?
I think the guy second left has spotted my multiple identities
“I don’t want an 18 yr old taking a vaccine from which they probably won’t die, to protect them from catching Covid from which they probably won’t die”
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
On the topic of heat. This is a ‘village’ in Darfur Ethiopia. We are about to climb a volcano at night (way too hot by day)
My main memory of this place is the heat. It was about 45C as the sun set around 7pm, and didn’t go much lower. Zero air con. Hardly any water. Indescribably horrible. I drank good Ethiopian wine to stay sane
Which ones are you?
I think the guy second left has spotted my multiple identities
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
A sentence starting "Most Americans believe..." is not one that is really going to be a slam dunker in an argument.
It is - but perhaps not in the way its deployer might wish.
Edit: of course, this does not apply when the issue of popuilar belief itself is beign discussed, rather than the strict validity of the belief itself.
Apparently nearly 80% of Americans believe in at least one unscientifically proven idea! However, only 2.3% of respondents identified as flat earthers (which out of a population of 331M is still quite a lot of absolute loons!)
Fantastic! I love the quote at the end of the article: Two millennia of scientific consensus has it that the earth is spherical.
"The Flat Earth Society was set up by Samuel Shenton in 1956 in the English town of Dover and remains active today." Great place to see the ships disappear over the horizon.
That's because the earth isn't exactly flat but an inverted saucer with a tiny curve, but not so much that the sea falls off. The moon is flat.
If the moon is flat, wouldn't it become an ellipse as it moves away from us across the sky?
It would be ova and above us.
But sometimes the moon is above us. Sometimes it is over on the horizon. And it is a circle no matter where it is. That requires a sphere.
That's because the sun and moon are flat discs being pushed across the night sky by a scarab beetle; I thought everyone knew that?
If anyone is wondering why you would endure 45C at dusk with no air con followed by a 3 hour night-time hike up a volcano it’s because at the end you see this
If anyone is wondering why you would endure 45C at dusk with no air con followed by a 3 hour night-time hike up a volcano it’s because at the end you see this
If anyone is wondering why you would endure 45C at dusk with no air con followed by a 3 hour night-time hike up a volcano it’s because at the end you see this
That does look rather amazing.
That’s about a quarter of what you see. A lake of boiling, seething, erupting lava maybe a kilometre wide. When we arrived everyone just fell silent for about 20 minutes. Total, enraptured awe
I’ve travelled the entire world. Sirte Ale in Ethiopia is a top 3 travel experience
If anyone is wondering why you would endure 45C at dusk with no air con followed by a 3 hour night-time hike up a volcano it’s because at the end you see this
That does look rather amazing.
That’s about a quarter of what you see. A lake of boiling, seething, erupting lava maybe a kilometre wide. When we arrived everyone just fell silent for about 20 minutes. Total, enraptured awe
I’ve travelled the entire world. Sirte Ale in Ethiopia is a top 3 travel experience
Just for pleasure? Or is flint sourcing much more difficult than I realised?
the idiots assaulting and calling for horrible things to happen to Chris Witty....i didn't realise his father was murdered in public by terrorists when he was 17.
If anyone is wondering why you would endure 45C at dusk with no air con followed by a 3 hour night-time hike up a volcano it’s because at the end you see this
That does look rather amazing.
That’s about a quarter of what you see. A lake of boiling, seething, erupting lava maybe a kilometre wide. When we arrived everyone just fell silent for about 20 minutes. Total, enraptured awe
I’ve travelled the entire world. Sirte Ale in Ethiopia is a top 3 travel experience
Just for pleasure? Or is flint sourcing much more difficult than I realised?
Bit of both.
One amazing thing about sirte ale is how cheap it is - or was. You fly to Addis Ababa direct from london. £500 return? You pay a local company £300 and they will take you to the Danakil and the salt flats and the chemical desert and the volcano for 4 days, all inclusive
So you can get a mind-changing, soul-shattering, unbeatable global travel experience for the price of a week in Southend in a 3 star holiday inn
If anyone is wondering why you would endure 45C at dusk with no air con followed by a 3 hour night-time hike up a volcano it’s because at the end you see this
That does look rather amazing.
That’s about a quarter of what you see. A lake of boiling, seething, erupting lava maybe a kilometre wide. When we arrived everyone just fell silent for about 20 minutes. Total, enraptured awe
I’ve travelled the entire world. Sirte Ale in Ethiopia is a top 3 travel experience
the idiots assaulting and calling for horrible things to happen to Chris Witty....i didn't realise his father was murdered in public by terrorists when he was 17.
Yup in Greece.
People attacking Whitty and JVT are making me reevaluate my opposition to the death penalty.
If anyone is wondering why you would endure 45C at dusk with no air con followed by a 3 hour night-time hike up a volcano it’s because at the end you see this
That does look rather amazing.
That’s about a quarter of what you see. A lake of boiling, seething, erupting lava maybe a kilometre wide. When we arrived everyone just fell silent for about 20 minutes. Total, enraptured awe
I’ve travelled the entire world. Sirte Ale in Ethiopia is a top 3 travel experience
Which countries haven't you been to?
Most of sub-Saharan Africa. Central America. Central Asia - the stans
But I have been to almost everywhere I REALLY wanted to go. Which is nice. As travel is getting harder
I still really want to see Georgia and Armenia, however - I aim to do that this year
She didn't give a citation. But she IS very clever, top of her profession, not a fool that reads the Express
She's the sort that does tons of reading. I'm minded to believe that she has, at least, read that somewhere reputable; doesn't make it true, of course
But we can all see how frigging infectious Delta can be. It's almost as if it this virus was engineered to have maximum virulence, in a lab
Wait, I thought it was the original version that got leaked from a lab? If so, the lab version was a bit naff really, wasn't it, compared to Delta? So much for enhancement of function.
Or did the original version and Delta both come from the lab? That really would be careless (lose a virus once, shame on... shame on you, lose a virus... - you can't lose a virus again!)
At the risk of going around in more @Leon circles...
I don't think anyone believes natural zoonosis outside the lab is likely, not anymore
"Former State Dept officials tell @CBSNews significant info about the Wuhan lab was buried in government databases + didn’t reach their desks for nearly a year, as there is a new push to know the origins #COVID19 @CBS_Herridge reports on the lab leak theory"
It was a massive mistake by Western elites to let China get rich. No country is perfect, but all autocracies are horrible.
Possibly the biggest foreign policy mistake by the West in decades, was to let China join the WTO. Of course no-one realised at the time, where we would end up.
How would the world have been different, if they had not joined?
Taiwan - for example - is not a member of the WTO, and it doesn't seem to have affected its export led economy much.
the idiots assaulting and calling for horrible things to happen to Chris Witty....i didn't realise his father was murdered in public by terrorists when he was 17.
Yup in Greece.
People attacking Whitty and JVT are making me reevaluate my opposition to the death penalty.
That’s going a bit far. I mean, they may have been wrong on many important points but Whitty and JVT don’t deserve the death penalty.
Israel is negotiating with the United Kingdom to broker a COVID-19 vaccine swap deal, reports Channel 12 news.
According to the report, Israel is seeking to ship some of its Pfizer vaccines that are due to expire at the end of July to the UK. In exchange, it is hoping to receive an equivalent number of vaccines that the UK is slated to receive from Pfizer in September.
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Reading one piece in the BMJ where they talked to people who had taken part in one, all 3 said they would do it again.
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/35/3/556/735661
It seemed to me that it would be worthwhile to try and find out how any of the surviving volunteers, who would now be over 80, felt today about the experiments.
One of these, Norman Proctor, now aged 92, helped me to trace survivors among the 23 volunteers known to him.
Of these, 17 were known to have died, three were untraced, and three replied to my short questionnaire. Those who replied all thought that the experiments had been very worthwhile and stated that they would have volunteered again if required. From the beginning, in 1940, the volunteers had made it clear that they were not willing to take part in any experiments in which the main object was to assist in providing answers to purely military questions. They required that the research should be such that the answers should be of benefit to the general population.
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https://youtu.be/8zmRTSIEVt8
It’s almost as if the government are courting investment in vaccine production, just as a large bloc of nations nearby spent three months threatening a manufacturer of vaccines, in the middle of a pandemic.
https://english.elpais.com/society/2021-06-29/spain-rushes-to-vaccinate-younger-age-groups-as-coronavirus-cases-rise.html
It explains the house price surge which is enhanced by the desire to "flee" London and SE commuter land and enjoy a new hybrid working existence with a home office overlooking a Scottish loch or in one of the Conservative heartlands of the north and midlands.
It's likely that we'd have several days' notice of a dangerous heatwave. What I'm not sure of is what could be done in response. I guess rescheduling things to make sure you don't have to be outside during the middle of the day is one thing.
In terms of longer term preparation there's a lot that needs to be done to make the rail network more resilient. Its performance in summer 2019 in response to the heat then was abysmal.
They can control inflation with mass unemployment or interest rate rises. End furlough and put them all on the dole. They had nearly 2 years of Netflix and now it is time to pay the price.
*Actually, around 15 months.
Good thing we haven't created shedloads of money at the same time as mucking around with our supplies of goods and people, eh?
Bugger.
The Gallywhacker is on his fifth (slightly exaggerated - looks more like 4) threat of legal action of the campaign, including one who has apologised, a 17 year old schoolgirl, and now the Local Council - who have removed some of his election posters for putting the Imprint in too small type.
https://order-order.com/2021/06/30/galloway-threatens-his-fifth-legal-action-of-by-election-campaign/
Victoria has 39.7 previous record high was 30.5.
What on Earth would we do with a record smashed by 9°C +.? More than the trains would fail. Warning or no.
Canada is the second coldest country on the planet, and even in the hottest summers they do not get temperatures anywhere near this
And my daughter in law is very worried about her 78 year old Mother who lives nearby
https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab
It’s simply not true to say that evidence piles up in support of the lab leak hypothesis.
Great place to see the ships disappear over the horizon.
"Plumes" of hot air from North Africa, via Iberia and France, are often forecast but rarely do more than clip the south east corner of England - we have, as you say, had recent experience of severe heat in 2019 and the point you make about transport infrastructure is wholly valid.
In addition, while some tube lines now have trains with aircon, most don't and in the deeper parts of the Central, Piccadilly and Northern lines, you can add 10c to the ambient outdoor temperatures so that would mean parts of the tube network at 50c or more which is fine until and unless the trains stop....
The road network is also vulnerable as is the electrical grid and water supplies given a huge spike in demand - can supermarkets supply enough cold drinks to keep people going?
No doubt we'll hear the usual "stiff upper lip" nonsense but the practical solution would be for people to stay home, hydrated and keep cool (and that includes children as well). Hopefully there's been plenty of co-ordinated thinking and planning so we will be ready when (and it is a when) it happens.
The extra admin we took on for Covid have been extended until Easter and we have made sure to keep in contact with our vaccinators so they are ready to go come the Autumn. We are anticipating a fair few more will come through our recruitment and Occupational Health clearing process.
I found it very rewarding work being at our vaccination hub and whilst part of me is sad that we are going to be needed again I have to say I am kind of looking forward to working there again in some ways. We developed a real camaraderie and spirit there as a team and I am looking forward to seeing some familiar faces.
Which, given I work in a large multiethnic school in a poor area, I will take as a very encouraging sign if the government does go down that route.
If the harm factor is a tenth of what it was before, that's about three doublings. If it's a hundredth, that's about seven doublings.
Is the UK really going to take this on the chin and let it wash over us?
When we have access to working vaccines?
(Note that even if this works internally, it means that other nations are going to rightly treat us as Plague Island.)
Last year that was in October (and then it never happened).
*As I am not currently in a priority category I would have to pay for it.
No matter where the virus came from, the evidence of an initial cover-up is now incontestable
‘Chinese scientists have deleted crucial data from the earliest confirmed Covid patients’
https://twitter.com/mailonline/status/1407694318371053568?s=21
I didn't bother this year on the grounds that there was no flu, and catching Covid whilst having the jab was a non-zero probability.
I will bother this year.
I would say that’s a bargain from a personal point of view. Certainly, as you say, a bargain for the school - £8 vs £200-odd a day supply.
The only thing that makes me feel slightly ambivalent is the thought that if I have the jab somebody in a more vulnerable category might miss out.
Equally, I believe it’s very rare to run out of flu jabs.
2019 — 5:16am
2017 — 4:00am
2015 — 6:29am
2010 — 4:59am
https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/government/government-announces-start-of-midday-break-hours-as-temperatures-soar-1.1234034
We are very fortunate in this regard. When we broke our record from 2003 a few years ago it was on a day with fairly strong southerly winds. The recent dry summer never really got that hot.
The fact that my alarm is set for 5:59 is a pure coincidence.
As others have said, the heat and humidity can very quickly turn serious for those not used to it.
This is his fourth and final word on the matter to prove that the earth isn't flat - the earlier three all use observations that can be done without any scientific equipment to prove the earth can't be flat and is a sphere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ae_XdFEQDw
My main memory of this place is the heat. It was about 45C as the sun set around 7pm, and didn’t go much lower. Zero air con. Hardly any water. Indescribably horrible. I drank good Ethiopian wine to stay sane
Without offering any opinions on the hypothesis, I don’t think the phrase “most Americans think...” is quite what it once might have been.
And - if you read the Bloom analysis - has not contained a smoking gun. Given it was Bloom Labs that discovered the deletions, they hardly sound like they're paid up members of a cover up.
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/australia/queensland-premier-annastacia-palaszczuks-spectacular-vaccine-claim-on-abcs-730/news-story/b36e0df9341c7878fca305067b1a1fc1
“I don’t want an 18 yr old taking a vaccine from which they probably won’t die, to protect them from catching Covid from which they probably won’t die”
If anyone is wondering why you would endure 45C at dusk with no air con followed by a 3 hour night-time hike up a volcano it’s because at the end you see this
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/spain/
Also Finland, 355 today, last 7 days 129
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/finland/
Luxembourg also with a new 3rd wave record today.
I’ve travelled the entire world. Sirte Ale in Ethiopia is a top 3 travel experience
Now I’ve said that it will of course be five votes and six recounts.
One amazing thing about sirte ale is how cheap it is - or was. You fly to Addis Ababa direct from london. £500 return? You pay a local company £300 and they will take you to the Danakil and the salt flats and the chemical desert and the volcano for 4 days, all inclusive
So you can get a mind-changing, soul-shattering, unbeatable global travel experience for the price of a week in Southend in a 3 star holiday inn
People attacking Whitty and JVT are making me reevaluate my opposition to the death penalty.
But, realistically, he will probably get about 4-5000 votes.
But I have been to almost everywhere I REALLY wanted to go. Which is nice. As travel is getting harder
I still really want to see Georgia and Armenia, however - I aim to do that this year
Taiwan - for example - is not a member of the WTO, and it doesn't seem to have affected its export led economy much.
The UK started heading sharply upwards in mid to late May, and now it's the Continent's turn.
The El Pais article I linked to earlier is pretty good on what's going on in Spain right now.
According to the report, Israel is seeking to ship some of its Pfizer vaccines that are due to expire at the end of July to the UK. In exchange, it is hoping to receive an equivalent number of vaccines that the UK is slated to receive from Pfizer in September.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-negotiating-covid-vaccine-swap-deal-with-uk/