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Britain is among the least lockdown sceptical of 20 European countries – politicalbetting.com
Britain is among the least lockdown sceptical of 20 European countries – politicalbetting.com
% who think the health risk from coronavirus is overstated: ?? 46%?? 41%?? 38%?? 36%?? 36%?? 33%?? 32%?? 32%?? 30%?? 27%?? 24%?? 23%?? 21%?? 21%?? 21%?? 20%?? 17%?? 16%?? 15%?? 14%https://t.co/2WMOTlhJRx pic.twitter.com/AAVsYgwy5l
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I shall repost for added schmaltz:
I find Scott and HYUFD "useful", indeed, I find them beyond useful. I find their opinions valuable, cherishable, precious, and more
Because they give me an insight into a Remainer centrist ex Tory brain, and a true Tory unionist brain.
Likewise NPXMP shows me what an old eurocommie Labour loyalist ex-MP thinks, Roger tells me what a rich old europhile lefty in France thinks, Stuart Dickson tells me what a fierce expat blood n soil Scot Nat in Sweden thinks (plus he gives persuasive insights into Swedish life), TSE tells me what a sort-of ex Tory failed Muslim geeky Liverpool football fan thinks, kle tells me what a man who rarely tells us what he really thinks thinks, Pagan2 tells us what an aspiring working class native Cornish speaking linguistic-ceolacanth thinks, kinabalu tells us about his birthday, Robert Smithson tells us what a car park entrepreneur Tory Brexiteer based in Santa Monica thinks, Carnyx tells us what an urbane Scot Nat classicist with a yearning for an Athenian villa thinks, Cyclefree tells us what a newly Cumbrian lawyer with firm views of Islam, restaurants, feminism and Europe thinks, Dura Ace tells us what a greenie anti vaxxing suicidal ex-army affluent motorhead with a remarkable vocabulary thinks...
On and on. I could mention 50 more. So. Preserve. Don't ban anyone. This site is an amazing resource of human wisdom, bigotry, insight, foolishness, knowledge, wittiness, comedy, charm, madness, friendliness and entertaining inanity. Also good for bets.
Hats off to the Smithsons pere et fils. This site should have a Grade 1listing on the internet. I am entirely serious. Malcolm G would be the unsightly medieval "garderobe" toilet that must also be kept, for authenticity
They might want you to think that this is merely because the withdrawal has undone all their purported good work.
But the truth is that it is having the futility and pointlessness of everything that has gone before so brutally exposed, that they are finding especially difficult to bear.
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.
"Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
That alone should encourage the crew.
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true."
The crew was complete: it included a Boots—
A maker of Bonnets and Hoods—
A Barrister, brought to arrange their disputes—
And a Broker, to value their goods. [...]
**Resolve in future to be more distinctively annoying.**
The flags are visible via the main site but via vanilla they appear as ??
I'll ask Robert to see if this is something that can be fixed.
Random Restaurants
Every hour or so it posts four photos of, yes, a random restaurant, harvested from the Net. Sometimes you get mad selfies or bizarre photos of beds, often you get photos of quite sad food
And yet it is a brilliant insight into daily life around the world - it goes everywhere, from Africa to Alaska, from Bali to Bromsgrove, and in its own way it tells you more about daily life in tiny corners of the world than any number of TV documentaries
Also, people really like chicken and chips
"Geeta's Bar & Restaurant; Unnamed Road, Gbarnga, Liberia https://google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJX41L-waKpg8R4PGPMZNSFrE"
https://twitter.com/_restaurant_bot/status/1429388408577794052?s=20
They need to be relegated for such a kit.
This point is backed by Professor James Wood, of Cambridge University. “I think there is very strong evidence for this being caused by natural spillovers but that argument simply does not suit some political groups. They promote the idea that Covid-19 was caused by a lab leak because such a claim deflects attention from increasing evidence that indicates biodiversity loss, deforestation and wildlife trade – which increase the dangers of natural spillovers – are the real dangers that we face from pandemics.”
In other words, fiddling with viruses in laboratories is not the dangerous activity. The real threat comes from the wildlife trade, bulldozing rainforests and clearing wildernesses to provide land for farms and to gain access to mines. As vegetation and wildlife are destroyed, countless species of viruses and the bacteria they host are set loose to seek new hosts, such as humans and domestic livestock. This has happened with HIV, Sars and very probably Covid-19.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/22/the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-is-more-about-politics-than-science
You're interesting - but somewhat inscrutable (to me). That is a compliment!
https://twitter.com/RealBobMortimer/status/1429431304551022594
Though this reply said it reminds of them of the Midland Bank colour scheme/logo.
https://twitter.com/IanConningham/status/1429432794502115333
Have any of the prominent early C21st warmongers done a mea culpa, or is it at best 'it was the right thing to do imperfectly carried out'? I think even Christopher Hitchens (for whom I have a regard) stuck with it to the end.
Former Chief of the General Staff Lord Dannatt on evacuation of Afghan interpreters: “Many of us have been pleading with the government in the last two or three years and more vociferously in the last month or two to get this aspect of it right...”#bbcwtw
“...because our reputation will be trashed, our moral position compromised and in future conflicts people will be very wary about potentially coming to work with us.”
“When 45 senior military retired officers including many ex chief of defence staff write an open letter to the PM, Foreign Secretary, Home Sec, Defence Sec- [on interpreters] and it’s not really taken seriously then I think there’s a gap in who’s listening to whom in govt atm.”
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1429426363065409538
Neither I nor as far as I know anyone else has denigrated anyone who takes part in economic migration.
Personally I welcome immigration but I think it should be on a level playing field. I don't see why those travelling 2000 miles should be any harsher treated than those travelling 200. Do you think they should be?
Its rude to falsely claim that other people are calling people ghastly when nobody is. A pox on those who need to tilt at windmills because they can't win an argument by being intellectually honest.
Covid-19 response minister Chris Hipkins said the variant "changes the game considerably" and makes existing protections "look less adequate".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58297895
Super maximal lockdown incoming?
Personal bugbear. Can we get away from the idea that the virus 'targets' anyone. It really doesn't. Exposure of a dose capable of infecting a particular person in the right location within the body either happens or does not. It is a stochastic event. We can lower the chances of that happening by our behaviours, general health and vaccine status.
Iraq 2003 should never have happened.
Yes, I read that article and felt similarly. It is abundantly clear the evidence now points heavily to lab leak, everybody knows this. Yet that same Guardian journalist has been writing anti-lab-leak articles for 16 months, and quoting the same anti-lab-leak scientists. He can’t just turn around and say Sorry that was all shit, we were all wrong
It throbs with nostalgic regret and denial, and, even as the fire dies out, a desperate attempt at rekindling the embers.
And then at the end, an attempt to rewrite inevitable history: even if it did come from the lab (oh god it didn’t, did it??) this is all about our bad treatment of animals, nothing to do with science
Sending vans to immigrant areas saying "GO HOME" was evil and I called that out. But what's happening now to demonise immigrants? That was a very specific example I objected to at the time.
Should be extremely simple for you to give some examples of this fictional demonisation if its happening. Lets see some example of what you consider to be "demonisation".
Unless of course its a figment of a fevered imagination in which case you won't have any examples. Because its not real.
Incidentally only recently caught up with Generation Kill, a miniseries on a USMC battalion in Iraq from 2008, David Simon from The Wire was involved. Worth a watch if other tv options are exhausted.
It wants to be in power, sure, but the coalition it has built post-2016 continues to have people who are united by what they're against (the EU) than what they're for. One strand thinks that we need to go more global, more migration (as long as they have the money or talent). If the Fens become a series of dormitories for Cambridge, that's fine if it increases GDP per head. The other thinks we need to go more local, the great human gains come from people staying in their hometowns. Money is worth less than community ties. One strand thought that the problem with Europe was that its thinking was too small, the other that it was too big.
Other events have drowned that out for the last eighteen months, but the question of What are we going to do with the complete control of migration now we have it? hasn't gone away.
https://twitter.com/DougDodsonENews/status/1412849588646580227
https://www.newsweek.com/teletubbies-reveal-covid-vaccination-twitter-memes-reaction-1607945
Denis MacShane
@DenisMacShane
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1974 as producer on BBC R4 World Tonight I did survey of editorial staff and 22 out of 23 voted Liberal
@amolrajan @bbcnickrobinson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox7FKgwD2E0
Oliver Johnson
@BristOliver
Thread: A year ago today we saw the lowest ever recorded number of COVID hospital admissions in England. The 22nd August 2020 figure was 25. I expect 22nd August 2021 will be around 800: that's five doublings higher, and I don't think that's good news, to say the least.
https://twitter.com/BristOliver/status/1429397533428695040
Personally I strongly believe we should immediately stop ALL deforestation across the world but this kind of baseless claim really doesn't help that message.
The country that spent most of the first year of the pandemic claiming that lockdowns were not the way to proceed and then suffered as a consequence is now almost the least lockdown sceptic of the whole of Europe.
But to me, the biggest risk from the research lies not in the work done in the lab, but in the virus hunting resulting in all these uncharacterized, unknown viruses being actively taken out of the wildlife ecosystems and concentrated in labs within human population centres.
One graph is of those who think lockdowns don't work (do more harm than good) - in Sweden that number is 15%, 3rd from bottom . The other graph is those who think the Covid risks are overstated - in Sweden that number is 14% - the lowest out of those polled.
Neither shows them in the bottom half of those thinking lockdowns don't work. Exactly the reverse in fact.
@BallouxFrancois
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Anecdotes about someone vaccinated getting infected by COVID, and feeling poorly for a couple of days should be presented as 'good news' stories, and a triumph of science, not as portents of the Apocalypse.
Yikes!
The data on which we are basing your covid assumptions is completely flawed, say some named health professionals.
Now I stress these are not TSE approved health professionals, nor have they been vetted by experts such as Alistair 100,00 cases. So caveat emptor, naturally.
These are health professionals we can disregard, because, well, they are nutters obviously. Whereas the doctors we listen to, like Susan Michie and that Pagel woman, are completely above reproach.
Andy Cook has done all the research for us anyway, and there's no point in arguing.
(Hills have required more ID from me otherwise I would be taking it)