Incredibly, the votes in Maricopa County, Ariz. are still being reviewed!!!
Apparently, the latest includes the ballots being examined for bamboo fibers - "a nod to the conspiracy theory that fake ballots had been shipped over from Asia."
AZN holds up very well, particuarly as a much higher % of the AZN vaccinees were male. the percentage of deaths among all PCR positive post-vaccination COVID-19 cases among recipients of the Sinopharm vaccine was 0.46% (i.e, 112 deaths) versus 0.15% for Pfizer/BioNtech (i.e., 3 deaths) and 0.03% for AZ/Covishield (1 death) (Table 1). This trend was consistent for all COVID-19 events, i.e., infection, hospitalization, ICU admission and death (Tables 1)....
Note that the Chinese vaccines still deliver a strong measure of protection versus non vaccination, despite being poorer than the western comparators.
So AZ doing great, just as the company begins to wonder whether it is worth continuing after all the negative responses over blood clotting and it now not being used for half the population and so on.
I said on this pages many moons ago that I reckoned AZ would end up being the best vaccine. My only reasoning was that when I had it, it kicked like mule. It's some good shit.
AZN holds up very well, particuarly as a much higher % of the AZN vaccinees were male. the percentage of deaths among all PCR positive post-vaccination COVID-19 cases among recipients of the Sinopharm vaccine was 0.46% (i.e, 112 deaths) versus 0.15% for Pfizer/BioNtech (i.e., 3 deaths) and 0.03% for AZ/Covishield (1 death) (Table 1). This trend was consistent for all COVID-19 events, i.e., infection, hospitalization, ICU admission and death (Tables 1)....
Note that the Chinese vaccines still deliver a strong measure of protection versus non vaccination, despite being poorer than the western comparators.
Golly - as time and the research continues AZT looks better and better - especially remembering the price and ease of administration. I wonder if Macron is ready to change his view as to its quasi-effectiveness. We were told he keeps up with all the research......
AZN holds up very well, particuarly as a much higher % of the AZN vaccinees were male. the percentage of deaths among all PCR positive post-vaccination COVID-19 cases among recipients of the Sinopharm vaccine was 0.46% (i.e, 112 deaths) versus 0.15% for Pfizer/BioNtech (i.e., 3 deaths) and 0.03% for AZ/Covishield (1 death) (Table 1). This trend was consistent for all COVID-19 events, i.e., infection, hospitalization, ICU admission and death (Tables 1)....
Note that the Chinese vaccines still deliver a strong measure of protection versus non vaccination, despite being poorer than the western comparators.
So AZ doing great, just as the company begins to wonder whether it is worth continuing after all the negative responses over blood clotting and it now not being used for half the population and so on.
I said on this pages many moons ago that I reckoned AZ would end up being the best vaccine. My only reasoning was that when I had it, it kicked like mule. It's some good shit.
Macron has a lot to answer for. Hoping the French kick him out on his arse next year.
Incredibly, the votes in Maricopa County, Ariz. are still being reviewed!!!
Apparently, the latest includes the ballots being examined for bamboo fibers - "a nod to the conspiracy theory that fake ballots had been shipped over from Asia."
AZN holds up very well, particuarly as a much higher % of the AZN vaccinees were male. the percentage of deaths among all PCR positive post-vaccination COVID-19 cases among recipients of the Sinopharm vaccine was 0.46% (i.e, 112 deaths) versus 0.15% for Pfizer/BioNtech (i.e., 3 deaths) and 0.03% for AZ/Covishield (1 death) (Table 1). This trend was consistent for all COVID-19 events, i.e., infection, hospitalization, ICU admission and death (Tables 1)....
Note that the Chinese vaccines still deliver a strong measure of protection versus non vaccination, despite being poorer than the western comparators.
Golly - as time and the research continues AZT looks better and better - especially remembering the price and ease of administration. I wonder if Macron is ready to change his view as to its quasi-effectiveness. We were told he keeps up with all the research......
Quite a few caveats about over interpreting the data, though, as vaccines were not all administered at the same time, and it was in no way a fully controlled trial.
Still, real world, the vaccine seems pretty decent.
Don't judge me but I have £156 in Dogecoin with Binance. Obviously that is an amount I could afford to lose.
But the question is, should I be transferring it before I risk not being able to sell or get money *from* Binance (HSBC have banned transfers *to* them).
Don't judge me but I have £156 in Dogecoin with Binance. Obviously that is an amount I could afford to lose.
But the question is, should I be transferring it before I risk not being able to sell or get money *from* Binance (HSBC have banned transfers *to* them).
Get the fuck off of Binance as soon as possible.
Yeah pretty much every UK bank is/soon will be blocking transfers from Binance.
Get out as quickly as possible*.
I think Monzo and Revolut might be the only options soon and I cannot them doing that for much longer.
*Note this is not to be construed as financial or investment advice.
AZN holds up very well, particuarly as a much higher % of the AZN vaccinees were male. the percentage of deaths among all PCR positive post-vaccination COVID-19 cases among recipients of the Sinopharm vaccine was 0.46% (i.e, 112 deaths) versus 0.15% for Pfizer/BioNtech (i.e., 3 deaths) and 0.03% for AZ/Covishield (1 death) (Table 1). This trend was consistent for all COVID-19 events, i.e., infection, hospitalization, ICU admission and death (Tables 1)....
Note that the Chinese vaccines still deliver a strong measure of protection versus non vaccination, despite being poorer than the western comparators.
Golly - as time and the research continues AZT looks better and better - especially remembering the price and ease of administration. I wonder if Macron is ready to change his view as to its quasi-effectiveness. We were told he keeps up with all the research......
Tattoos and piercings are just direction signs, on the long road to suicide
I dislike both of them, but if people choose to have them it's their decision of course. The only problem is when tattoos inevitably go out of fashion in a few years' time they'll expect the rest of us to pay for their removal on the NHS. The same thing happened with breast implants.
You will never stop will you? Like the T1000 or whatever it was. Do you live in a constant rage, scouring the internet for negative things to post? I truly hope you have a happy life away from the web.
Tattoos and piercings are just direction signs, on the long road to suicide
I think you write these posts because you live a very lonely life full of absolutely nothing. You don't have any real life friends and you get off by baiting people on the Internet.
AZN holds up very well, particuarly as a much higher % of the AZN vaccinees were male. the percentage of deaths among all PCR positive post-vaccination COVID-19 cases among recipients of the Sinopharm vaccine was 0.46% (i.e, 112 deaths) versus 0.15% for Pfizer/BioNtech (i.e., 3 deaths) and 0.03% for AZ/Covishield (1 death) (Table 1). This trend was consistent for all COVID-19 events, i.e., infection, hospitalization, ICU admission and death (Tables 1)....
Note that the Chinese vaccines still deliver a strong measure of protection versus non vaccination, despite being poorer than the western comparators.
So AZ doing great, just as the company begins to wonder whether it is worth continuing after all the negative responses over blood clotting and it now not being used for half the population and so on.
I said on this pages many moons ago that I reckoned AZ would end up being the best vaccine. My only reasoning was that when I had it, it kicked like mule. It's some good shit.
They should appoint me to the FCA as head of Cryptocurrency regulation.
The UK financial regulator has conceded it is “not capable” of properly supervising Binance despite the “significant risk” posed by the cryptocurrency exchange’s products, which allow consumers to take supercharged bets.
In a supervisory notice two months after starting a crackdown on the exchange, the Financial Conduct Authority — one of the most influential financial watchdogs in the world — repeated its grave concerns over Binance’s governance and products.
But it added that Binance’s UK affiliate had “refused” to respond to some of its basic queries, leaving it with few avenues to oversee the sprawling group, which has no fixed headquarters yet offers its services around the world.
The statement underscores the scale of the challenge facing authorities in tackling potential risks to consumers buying often unregulated products through nimble cryptocurrency businesses, which can often circumvent national bans by giving users access to facilities based overseas.
“This is of particular concern in the context of the firm’s membership of a global group which offers complex and high-risk financial products, which pose a significant risk to consumers,” the FCA said in the notice published on its website. The company did not immediately comment on the notice.
The UK authority said one of Binance’s London-based affiliates, which is registered with the watchdog as an investment company, had supplied insufficient information on the broader group’s products offered in the UK, the global exchange’s business or wider products offered on Binance.com, which sits outside the FCA’s purview. That meant Cayman Islands-incorporated Binance “was not capable of being effectively supervised”, it said.
The one that is concerning me is the number of crypto products now offering high interest rate savings (6-8%) accounts....they smell very much like a pyramid scheme / will only work as long as crypto continues to go up in value.
It is a Ponzi scheme.
I will just have to buy a cryptopunk NFT for $200k instead.....
Last month I authored a report on NFTs.
It started off with several conventional money laundering real life examples.
Then I concluded with the observation that NFTs make that money laundering so much easier and legitimate.
I noted that the American legal authorities have observed that the people who are using NFTs a lot are America drug lords.
One them reportedly paid several million dollars for an obscure tweet NFT.
And here I am writing obscure tweets every day for free. I'm just a sucker.
You will never stop will you? Like the T1000 or whatever it was. Do you live in a constant rage, scouring the internet for negative things to post? I truly hope you have a happy life away from the web.
I know we've forgotten about COVID but things are not looking rosy in Scotland
Yep... does look like schools really are a big driver of new cases.
We should at the very least be doing everything we can to make them safer whilst open. Better ventilation, masks, outdoor learning etc.
These are all pretty low cost interventions to be honest, which could have a very big payoff.
Hang on, I was told it wasn't schools last week... Really, really need to see what a 'case' is. How many are being picked up as asymptomatic? Must be a major component, or why weren't these cases picked up a week ago?
Every major regional paper has published some version of “labour shortage!” complete with a restaurant owner quote along the line of “we might have to increase wages”.
They should appoint me to the FCA as head of Cryptocurrency regulation.
The UK financial regulator has conceded it is “not capable” of properly supervising Binance despite the “significant risk” posed by the cryptocurrency exchange’s products, which allow consumers to take supercharged bets.
In a supervisory notice two months after starting a crackdown on the exchange, the Financial Conduct Authority — one of the most influential financial watchdogs in the world — repeated its grave concerns over Binance’s governance and products.
But it added that Binance’s UK affiliate had “refused” to respond to some of its basic queries, leaving it with few avenues to oversee the sprawling group, which has no fixed headquarters yet offers its services around the world.
The statement underscores the scale of the challenge facing authorities in tackling potential risks to consumers buying often unregulated products through nimble cryptocurrency businesses, which can often circumvent national bans by giving users access to facilities based overseas.
“This is of particular concern in the context of the firm’s membership of a global group which offers complex and high-risk financial products, which pose a significant risk to consumers,” the FCA said in the notice published on its website. The company did not immediately comment on the notice.
The UK authority said one of Binance’s London-based affiliates, which is registered with the watchdog as an investment company, had supplied insufficient information on the broader group’s products offered in the UK, the global exchange’s business or wider products offered on Binance.com, which sits outside the FCA’s purview. That meant Cayman Islands-incorporated Binance “was not capable of being effectively supervised”, it said.
The one that is concerning me is the number of crypto products now offering high interest rate savings (6-8%) accounts....they smell very much like a pyramid scheme / will only work as long as crypto continues to go up in value.
It is a Ponzi scheme.
I will just have to buy a cryptopunk NFT for $200k instead.....
Last month I authored a report on NFTs.
It started off with several conventional money laundering real life examples.
Then I concluded with the observation that NFTs make that money laundering so much easier and legitimate.
I noted that the American legal authorities have observed that the people who are using NFTs a lot are America drug lords.
One them reportedly paid several million dollars for an obscure tweet NFT.
And here I am writing obscure tweets every day for free. I'm just a sucker.
If you're a sucker then get yourself onto OnlyFans and you'll be raking it in.
Tattoos and piercings are just direction signs, on the long road to suicide
I think you write these posts because you live a very lonely life full of absolutely nothing. You don't have any real life friends and you get off by baiting people on the Internet.
Sad. Very sad.
That is maybe the most surreally amusing response to a comment I've ever received. Thankyou. And well done
Non-Fungible meaning that they cannot be changed or merged/split, each token has the same unique properties for all time. Unlike, for example, money. If you deposit £10 into a bank account of £100, and then withdraw £10 from it later do you have the same £10 you deposited or a different £10? There's no way to say, because money is (intentionally) fungible.
NFTs aren't, so that there is a form of (artificial) scarcity. If I make 10 NFTs of my best PoliticalBetting column (Lessons from the Veepstakes, I reckon, or possibly Fighting the Last War) and sell them to my fans* then there will only ever be a single #1 Edition NFT, a single #2 Edition NFT, and so on.
Tattoos and piercings are just direction signs, on the long road to suicide
I don't particularly like them, but that is a particularly obnoxious post.
No it's not obnoxious, it is true. They are forms of self harm. There is a statistical relationship between an above average number of tatts and piercings, and suicide
"In a large sample of individuals who belong to a website for body modification, having body modifications (e.g., piercings, tattoos, scarification and surgical procedures) was associated with a higher incidence of prior suicidality (i.e., suicidal ideation and attempted suicide)"
I spy a week on week fall in cases for England. London specifically has seen falling cases for at least 5 days now. We have a window of opportunity over the next 6-8 weeks to ramp up a third dose programme for all of groups 1-6 and then groups 7-12 in November and early December.
The Israeli data looks bloody brilliant as it pushes infection *prevention* even against Delta back up above 90% even among older people. If we have a 35m booster shot programme which covers groups 1-12 we could well hit herd immunity just before Christmas judging on the data coming from Israel. That's how potent it is.
Anyone who has contact with the Saj should advise him to overrule the JCVI and have the booster programme recommend everyone in groups 1-6 in September and October and then 7-12 optionally in November and December in the run up to Christmas. The JCVI seems to have been overrun with timid fools.
Just watched Raab interviewed about his holibobs on Sky. He said: "The sea was actually closed". How does that work? It reminded me that during lockdown last year our local marina authority stuck a notice on every bench saying: "This bench is closed".
I know we've forgotten about COVID but things are not looking rosy in Scotland
Yep... does look like schools really are a big driver of new cases.
We should at the very least be doing everything we can to make them safer whilst open. Better ventilation, masks, outdoor learning etc.
These are all pretty low cost interventions to be honest, which could have a very big payoff.
Hang on, I was told it wasn't schools last week... Really, really need to see what a 'case' is. How many are being picked up as asymptomatic? Must be a major component, or why weren't these cases picked up a week ago?
It's also worth considering that 99% of kids are going to get it sooner or later. Unless the kids drive another huge wave of infections in the community, lots of them all getting it isn't that big a problem.
The ONS antibodies data doesn't cover under 16s, so it's difficult to be sure what level of immunity kids already have, but it's quite likely to be a substantial proportion - I wouldn't be shocked if its reached 50% with antibodies by now. One can hazard a bit of a guess from the 16-25 age group, which had a substantially higher proportion with antibodies than had been vaccinated (although obviously as the vaccination program continues, the gap is reducing).
Tattoos and piercings are just direction signs, on the long road to suicide
Wouldn't dream of having a tatt, but what a peculiar and tasteless comment to make.
As offensive as your regular autism commentaries that offend me so much.
As I have just shown below, I am simply stating a scientific truth, but in a concise way
In what way is this a commentary on the Redfield and Wilton poll being an outlier?
I was unaware of the PB law that says every comment must be on-topic, and refer to the subject of the header. If this law exists, it must be the most ignored law on the internet
I made that comment because I was interested to see how people would react to a little-known but uncomfortable truth. A kind of intelligence test, I guess. I now have my answer
I keep seeing these 'she' references about Trudeau - was [s]he having a 'blonde moment'? If so marginally that when he blacked up that time? All a little bit weird>
Just watched Raab interviewed about his holibobs on Sky. He said: "The sea was actually closed". How does that work? It reminded me that during lockdown last year our local marina authority stuck a notice on every bench saying: "This bench is closed".
The government is set to refuse Fifa’s request to grant exemptions for Premier League players wanting to travel to red list countries to play for their national team during the international break.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino has contacted Prime Minister Boris Johnson appealing for him to issue special exemptions for nearly 60 players who have been told by their clubs they will not be released for international duty.
All 20 Premier League clubs held an emergency meeting on Tuesday and agreed to block the release of players to red list countries, due to the requirement to quarantine for 10 days on their return, causing a major row between the league and the world governing body.
She's offered to do a hostage exchange. Carrie says the Taliban can have Dilyn in exchange for Pen Farthing's entire stock of dogs. Boris is reportedly in favour.
One of the greatest false prophecies in the history of modern Britain.
"Five years from now Britain will be flourishing as never before and people will look back and wonder why we didn't do this long before” - Daniel Hannan on Brexit in 2016.
One of the greatest false prophecies in the history of modern Britain.
"Five years from now Britain will be flourishing as never before and people will look back and wonder why we didn't do this long before” - Daniel Hannan on Brexit in 2016.
Tattoos and piercings are just direction signs, on the long road to suicide
Wouldn't dream of having a tatt, but what a peculiar and tasteless comment to make.
As offensive as your regular autism commentaries that offend me so much.
As I have just shown below, I am simply stating a scientific truth, but in a concise way
In what way is this a commentary on the Redfield and Wilton poll being an outlier?
Quite right, this must be the first time ever we've gone off topic below the line.
Hardly anyone ever stays on topic (I have the off-topic points to prove my own guilt) but there is one poster who craftily hijacks the agenda with some completely tangential posts and on a regular basis.
You will never stop will you? Like the T1000 or whatever it was. Do you live in a constant rage, scouring the internet for negative things to post? I truly hope you have a happy life away from the web.
Scotty is out there. He can't be reasoned with, he can't be bargained with. He doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear and he absolutely will not stop.
Off topic… but may I thank whoever it was a few days ago who recommended The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk… just a few chapters in and overwhelmed by the sheer brutality of life in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran as regimes have changed over the past decades… puts current events into context and lays bare the involvement of US, British and Russian intelligence services in facilitating some of the worst leaders to attain and stay in power… none of which is to absolve the barbarity of the local actors…
Tattoos and piercings are just direction signs, on the long road to suicide
Wouldn't dream of having a tatt, but what a peculiar and tasteless comment to make.
As offensive as your regular autism commentaries that offend me so much.
As I have just shown below, I am simply stating a scientific truth, but in a concise way
In what way is this a commentary on the Redfield and Wilton poll being an outlier?
Quite right, this must be the first time ever we've gone off topic below the line.
Hardly anyone ever stays on topic (I have the off-topic points to prove my own guilt) but there is one poster who craftily hijacks the agenda with some completely tangential posts and on a regular basis.
I can't help being interesting, sorry
Also, what I have just pointed out is actually valuable information. If you have a friend, child, cousin, acquaintance who is getting a lot of tatts and/or piercings, be just a little bit concerned. It is a potential marker for something bad down the line
One of the greatest false prophecies in the history of modern Britain.
"Five years from now Britain will be flourishing as never before and people will look back and wonder why we didn't do this long before” - Daniel Hannan on Brexit in 2016.
I think you've done it Scott. I think this, your 56,298th repetitive and relentless retweet on the subject of Brexit, has persuaded me that Brexit is a disaster. All that work you did over 5 years was not in vain.
Tattoos and piercings are just direction signs, on the long road to suicide
Wouldn't dream of having a tatt, but what a peculiar and tasteless comment to make.
As offensive as your regular autism commentaries that offend me so much.
As I have just shown below, I am simply stating a scientific truth, but in a concise way
In what way is this a commentary on the Redfield and Wilton poll being an outlier?
I was unaware of the PB law that says every comment must be on-topic, and refer to the subject of the header. If this law exists, it must be the most ignored law on the internet
I made that comment because I was interested to see how people would react to a little-known but uncomfortable truth. A kind of intelligence test, I guess. I now have my answer
No, but most of realise that it is only sporting to give the topic a go at least now and again….
Tattoos and piercings are just direction signs, on the long road to suicide
Wouldn't dream of having a tatt, but what a peculiar and tasteless comment to make.
As offensive as your regular autism commentaries that offend me so much.
As I have just shown below, I am simply stating a scientific truth, but in a concise way
In what way is this a commentary on the Redfield and Wilton poll being an outlier?
Quite right, this must be the first time ever we've gone off topic below the line.
Hardly anyone ever stays on topic (I have the off-topic points to prove my own guilt) but there is one poster who craftily hijacks the agenda with some completely tangential posts and on a regular basis.
I can't help being interesting, sorry
Also, what I have just pointed out is actually valuable information. If you have a friend, child, cousin, acquaintance who is getting a lot of tatts and/or piercings, be just a little bit concerned. It is a potential marker for something bad down the line
Any valuable information on what to do if we see them falling into a path of narcissism, alcoholism, drug use and fantasy double lives?
Tattoos and piercings are just direction signs, on the long road to suicide
Wouldn't dream of having a tatt, but what a peculiar and tasteless comment to make.
As offensive as your regular autism commentaries that offend me so much.
As I have just shown below, I am simply stating a scientific truth, but in a concise way
In what way is this a commentary on the Redfield and Wilton poll being an outlier?
Quite right, this must be the first time ever we've gone off topic below the line.
Hardly anyone ever stays on topic (I have the off-topic points to prove my own guilt) but there is one poster who craftily hijacks the agenda with some completely tangential posts and on a regular basis.
I can't help being interesting, sorry
Also, what I have just pointed out is actually valuable information. If you have a friend, child, cousin, acquaintance who is getting a lot of tatts and/or piercings, be just a little bit concerned. It is a potential marker for something bad down the line
Rather depends, doesn’t it?
I find inks of husbands/wives/children’s names a lovely thing to do. A signal of commitment, if anything.
Tattoos and piercings are just direction signs, on the long road to suicide
Wouldn't dream of having a tatt, but what a peculiar and tasteless comment to make.
As offensive as your regular autism commentaries that offend me so much.
As I have just shown below, I am simply stating a scientific truth, but in a concise way
In what way is this a commentary on the Redfield and Wilton poll being an outlier?
Quite right, this must be the first time ever we've gone off topic below the line.
Hardly anyone ever stays on topic (I have the off-topic points to prove my own guilt) but there is one poster who craftily hijacks the agenda with some completely tangential posts and on a regular basis.
I can't help being interesting, sorry
Also, what I have just pointed out is actually valuable information. If you have a friend, child, cousin, acquaintance who is getting a lot of tatts and/or piercings, be just a little bit concerned. It is a potential marker for something bad down the line
Any valuable information on what to do if we see them falling into a path of narcissism, alcoholism, drug use and fantasy double lives?
Tattoos and piercings are just direction signs, on the long road to suicide
Wouldn't dream of having a tatt, but what a peculiar and tasteless comment to make.
As offensive as your regular autism commentaries that offend me so much.
As I have just shown below, I am simply stating a scientific truth, but in a concise way
In what way is this a commentary on the Redfield and Wilton poll being an outlier?
Quite right, this must be the first time ever we've gone off topic below the line.
Hardly anyone ever stays on topic (I have the off-topic points to prove my own guilt) but there is one poster who craftily hijacks the agenda with some completely tangential posts and on a regular basis.
I can't help being interesting, sorry
Also, what I have just pointed out is actually valuable information. If you have a friend, child, cousin, acquaintance who is getting a lot of tatts and/or piercings, be just a little bit concerned. It is a potential marker for something bad down the line
Rather depends, doesn’t it?
I find inks of husbands/wives/children’s names a lovely thing to do. A signal of commitment, if anything.
Perhaps with children, with husbands and wives it is more a signal of poor long term understanding of odds!
One of the greatest false prophecies in the history of modern Britain.
"Five years from now Britain will be flourishing as never before and people will look back and wonder why we didn't do this long before” - Daniel Hannan on Brexit in 2016.
I think you've done it Scott. I think this, your 56,298th repetitive and relentless retweet on the subject of Brexit, has persuaded me that Brexit is a disaster. All that work you did over 5 years was not in vain.
Now you can rest, your mission accomplished
I am not sure that you are getting this relentless thing.
I know we've forgotten about COVID but things are not looking rosy in Scotland
Yep... does look like schools really are a big driver of new cases.
We should at the very least be doing everything we can to make them safer whilst open. Better ventilation, masks, outdoor learning etc.
These are all pretty low cost interventions to be honest, which could have a very big payoff.
Hang on, I was told it wasn't schools last week... Really, really need to see what a 'case' is. How many are being picked up as asymptomatic? Must be a major component, or why weren't these cases picked up a week ago?
It's also worth considering that 99% of kids are going to get it sooner or later. Unless the kids drive another huge wave of infections in the community, lots of them all getting it isn't that big a problem.
The ONS antibodies data doesn't cover under 16s, so it's difficult to be sure what level of immunity kids already have, but it's quite likely to be a substantial proportion - I wouldn't be shocked if its reached 50% with antibodies by now. One can hazard a bit of a guess from the 16-25 age group, which had a substantially higher proportion with antibodies than had been vaccinated (although obviously as the vaccination program continues, the gap is reducing).
50% seems high - the number of adults with infection acquired antibodies across the UK is only in the low-20s, so I'd be surprised if it was much more than 30%.
From TMS: "There are four people, dressed as seagulls, running around the stand, chasing someone dressed as chips. They all leap on him at the end. Only at the cricket, and only in England".
One of the greatest false prophecies in the history of modern Britain.
"Five years from now Britain will be flourishing as never before and people will look back and wonder why we didn't do this long before” - Daniel Hannan on Brexit in 2016.
I'm not entirely sure that it's fair to call him out for not predicting a global pandemic. Arguably he should have forseen that we have only just actually left, because the remainers spent 4 years trying to overturn the result, but as he's a democrat, he probably thought better of them than that.
That said - my sector is currently in an economic boom the size of which I've never seen before. Brexit has imposed some costs, but nothing noticeable. I genuinely don't think I know of a single Brexit downside in my personal life. So other than Covid (which is nothing to do with Brexit), for me I'm pretty much saying he's right. It hasn't caused all the disasters predicted, and already we are seeing little wins where the government is removing stupid rules which were mostly about harmonisation with the EU (eg they are consulting on streamlining the driving test process for HGVs so you don't need to take a test in a rigid, then another in an artic, you just do you artic test).
Tattoos and piercings are just direction signs, on the long road to suicide
Wouldn't dream of having a tatt, but what a peculiar and tasteless comment to make.
As offensive as your regular autism commentaries that offend me so much.
As I have just shown below, I am simply stating a scientific truth, but in a concise way
In what way is this a commentary on the Redfield and Wilton poll being an outlier?
Quite right, this must be the first time ever we've gone off topic below the line.
Hardly anyone ever stays on topic (I have the off-topic points to prove my own guilt) but there is one poster who craftily hijacks the agenda with some completely tangential posts and on a regular basis.
I can't help being interesting, sorry
Also, what I have just pointed out is actually valuable information. If you have a friend, child, cousin, acquaintance who is getting a lot of tatts and/or piercings, be just a little bit concerned. It is a potential marker for something bad down the line
Rather depends, doesn’t it?
I find inks of husbands/wives/children’s names a lovely thing to do. A signal of commitment, if anything.
Indeed. One or two tatts can be lovely. Also sexy, if done well, in the right place
However there is scientific evidence of a threshold where persistent tattooing indicates deeper psychological disturbance. It seems to be around four or five tattoos (or piercings) - once you go above that: warning signs flash
What got me interested in this recently is that I've been watching Anthony Bourdain, that genius writer/TV presenter
In the final seasons of his show he gets more and more tattoos. And of course, tragically, he committed suicide during the filming of the 12th season of Parts Unknown
I keep seeing these 'she' references about Trudeau - was [s]he having a 'blonde moment'? If so marginally that when he blacked up that time? All a little bit weird>
Tattoos and piercings are just direction signs, on the long road to suicide
I think you write these posts because you live a very lonely life full of absolutely nothing. You don't have any real life friends and you get off by baiting people on the Internet.
There's now a definite upward trend to Scotland's healthcare numbers.
There is. Its troubling, especially with the schools having gone back last week. I don't think that we have any real choices though. We now need to rely on the vaccines and get on with life, even if (across the UK) deaths are now exceeding 150 a day. How high do we think that we can just bear this before real pressure comes to take more defensive action again? The days when deaths were in single figures seem a long way off. Its disappointing.
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Apparently, the latest includes the ballots being examined for bamboo fibers - "a nod to the conspiracy theory that fake ballots had been shipped over from Asia."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/opinion/arizona-results-trump-republicans.html
* in small town Pennsylvania
Another reason for the delay is that Maricopa's Election Board is defying subpoenas to release certain evidence to the audit.
Still, real world, the vaccine seems pretty decent.
Shops could see Christmas food shortages over driver issues, Tesco chairman warns.
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/shops-could-see-christmas-food-shortages-tesco-warns
Get out as quickly as possible*.
I think Monzo and Revolut might be the only options soon and I cannot them doing that for much longer.
*Note this is not to be construed as financial or investment advice.
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1430374164674879491
Though there are signs that number of new infections might have peaked ?
https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/identical-first-inning-totals-for-both-teams-in-a-test-292372
(I'm joking, I love them both.)
Anyone up for having a PB meet on the Penzance to Aberdeen train?
14 hour train journey for us to discuss things like AV and Scottish independence?
Sad. Very sad.
We should at the very least be doing everything we can to make them safer whilst open.
Better ventilation, masks, outdoor learning etc.
These are all pretty low cost interventions to be honest, which could have a very big payoff.
Friend of Farthing Dominic Dyer told Mail Plus: "Mr Johnson's wife Carrie 'most certainly had something to do with the change'"
https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1430528636180963329?s=20
Really, really need to see what a 'case' is. How many are being picked up as asymptomatic? Must be a major component, or why weren't these cases picked up a week ago?
Conservatives ahead in 3 of the 5 most recent surveys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2021_Canadian_federal_election#Campaign_period
https://twitter.com/DuncanWeldon/status/1430550386746826759?s=20
Oh wait, not that kind of sucker.
Non-Fungible meaning that they cannot be changed or merged/split, each token has the same unique properties for all time. Unlike, for example, money. If you deposit £10 into a bank account of £100, and then withdraw £10 from it later do you have the same £10 you deposited or a different £10? There's no way to say, because money is (intentionally) fungible.
NFTs aren't, so that there is a form of (artificial) scarcity. If I make 10 NFTs of my best PoliticalBetting column (Lessons from the Veepstakes, I reckon, or possibly Fighting the Last War) and sell them to my fans* then there will only ever be a single #1 Edition NFT, a single #2 Edition NFT, and so on.
*(Each of whom could have 5 to themselves)
What, you want to get off? In Scotland?
Although we did also conduct our most ever tests in a day, and the positivity rate is lower than it was yesterday.
https://twitter.com/TravellingTabby/status/1430532685731074048?s=20
"In a large sample of individuals who belong to a website for body modification, having body modifications (e.g., piercings, tattoos, scarification and surgical procedures) was associated with a higher incidence of prior suicidality (i.e., suicidal ideation and attempted suicide)"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16572532/
"College Women With At Least Four Tattoos Have Higher Self-Esteem But Increased Risk For Suicide"
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/109891/20151124/college-women-with-at-least-four-tattoos-have-higher-self-esteem-but-increased-risk-for-suicide.htm
The Israeli data looks bloody brilliant as it pushes infection *prevention* even against Delta back up above 90% even among older people. If we have a 35m booster shot programme which covers groups 1-12 we could well hit herd immunity just before Christmas judging on the data coming from Israel. That's how potent it is.
Anyone who has contact with the Saj should advise him to overrule the JCVI and have the booster programme recommend everyone in groups 1-6 in September and October and then 7-12 optionally in November and December in the run up to Christmas. The JCVI seems to have been overrun with timid fools.
As offensive as your regular autism commentaries that offend me so much.
"Once you pay Danegeld, you will never be rid of the Dane"
The mistakes of 2015 continue...
https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1430555824250892292?s=20
wtf does she think she’s doing?
The ONS antibodies data doesn't cover under 16s, so it's difficult to be sure what level of immunity kids already have, but it's quite likely to be a substantial proportion - I wouldn't be shocked if its reached 50% with antibodies by now.
One can hazard a bit of a guess from the 16-25 age group, which had a substantially higher proportion with antibodies than had been vaccinated (although obviously as the vaccination program continues, the gap is reducing).
I made that comment because I was interested to see how people would react to a little-known but uncomfortable truth. A kind of intelligence test, I guess. I now have my answer
The government is set to refuse Fifa’s request to grant exemptions for Premier League players wanting to travel to red list countries to play for their national team during the international break.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino has contacted Prime Minister Boris Johnson appealing for him to issue special exemptions for nearly 60 players who have been told by their clubs they will not be released for international duty.
All 20 Premier League clubs held an emergency meeting on Tuesday and agreed to block the release of players to red list countries, due to the requirement to quarantine for 10 days on their return, causing a major row between the league and the world governing body.
https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/government-fifa-premier-league-quarantine-exemptions-international-break-1167773
Sadly for the Brexit faithful it takes zero effort to find stories about how shit it is.
I sat down at my computer for a moment, and that Tweet was at the top of my timeline.
Maybe I just got lucky.
Or maybe, despite your best efforts, the stories about Brexit problems are frequent, relentless, and increasing.
Maybe you would see them too if you took your head out of your ass?
"Five years from now Britain will be flourishing as never before and people will look back and wonder why we didn't do this long before” - Daniel Hannan on Brexit in 2016.
https://twitter.com/brexit_sham/status/1430119648901672973/video/1
Would it be better if we have no vacancies and mass unemployment?
Fill the empty void where Boris Johnson's ideas should be.
Very apt.
Also, what I have just pointed out is actually valuable information. If you have a friend, child, cousin, acquaintance who is getting a lot of tatts and/or piercings, be just a little bit concerned. It is a potential marker for something bad down the line
No changes because first poll this parlaiment form this pollster.
Now you can rest, your mission accomplished
Which is apt because that is what you get when you buy one.
I find inks of husbands/wives/children’s names a lovely thing to do. A signal of commitment, if anything.
From TMS: "There are four people, dressed as seagulls, running around the stand, chasing someone dressed as chips. They all leap on him at the end. Only at the cricket, and only in England".
Arguably he should have forseen that we have only just actually left, because the remainers spent 4 years trying to overturn the result, but as he's a democrat, he probably thought better of them than that.
That said - my sector is currently in an economic boom the size of which I've never seen before. Brexit has imposed some costs, but nothing noticeable.
I genuinely don't think I know of a single Brexit downside in my personal life.
So other than Covid (which is nothing to do with Brexit), for me I'm pretty much saying he's right. It hasn't caused all the disasters predicted, and already we are seeing little wins where the government is removing stupid rules which were mostly about harmonisation with the EU (eg they are consulting on streamlining the driving test process for HGVs so you don't need to take a test in a rigid, then another in an artic, you just do you artic test).
However there is scientific evidence of a threshold where persistent tattooing indicates deeper psychological disturbance. It seems to be around four or five tattoos (or piercings) - once you go above that: warning signs flash
What got me interested in this recently is that I've been watching Anthony Bourdain, that genius writer/TV presenter
In the final seasons of his show he gets more and more tattoos. And of course, tragically, he committed suicide during the filming of the 12th season of Parts Unknown
The tatts were a red light, there