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For many years a regular feature on PB was nighthawks – an overnight open thread. For some reason we stopped doing it and I am bringing it back following calls by a couple of longstanding PBers.
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Like the USA
Will they be canned as not appropriate to the present circumstance?
Will there be many with a pandemic theme?
Why did it go? Some of the finest pbCOM moments have been played out here....
Hmm...
It's what the nation needs in these dark times.....
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/03/30/the-us-just-signed-a-450-million-coronavirus-vaccine-contract-with-johnson--johnson
Nearly a $1bn to be spent, but don't get your hopes up, they haven't even really started yet.
I thought Andy Burnham's measured approach to the Tories is the right tone...to things like HS2 and now Covid 19....
If Andy Burnham had won in 2015.......the last 5 years of British politics would have been profoundly different....for the Tories too...
Makes me even more angry with Corbyn et al....
'Wibbly wobbly Tory bottoms.'
'Cameron. Pledge a referendum on EU membership. NOW!'
'Osborne has to go.'
'That Michael Crick really is a...'
Edit. Oh and very welcome back.
https://twitter.com/Coldwar_Steve/status/1244680613283745792?s=20
Fire Up The Quattro I'm going back to 2010!
Not quite an antibody test, but better than nowt.
Ed Balls the best choice in 2010?
But that is a very cautious layman's interpretation and could be very wide of the mark.
We just have to hope the levels requiring ICU remain manageable and presumably treatment regimes will improve as medical teams learn what works best.
I was going to vote Burnham until he joined YC and L4%K in dropping opposition to austerity.
This death is a somewhat horrible one. Currently the hospital system is coping after seeing 1400 deaths. We are talking about a scale of need that is 100 times bigger. The effect on the healthcare system is unimaginable.
We need a vaccine. Failing that we need to isolate the infected from the uninfected and the vulnerable from everyone else. And we need to test, test and test.
I mean Owen Smith. Near enough.
Electric cars can't come soon enough.
https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2020/03/rise-bio-surveillance-state
Stay safe comrades.
Damn I’m getting old!
I am not going to criticise the government as I am sure that there must be much work going on that we are not aware of, particularly from experts. I just don’t understand what the long-term strategy is - saving the NHS is all very well - but in the end isn’t the strategy the same as it’s always been - “herd immunity” but just over a long time frame. I wish I knew what the strategy is for at risk people other than just hiding them away.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/30/uk-police-guidelines-coronavirus-lockdown-enforcement-powers-following-criticism-lord-sumption
In a few weeks we're going to see near economic oblivion due to this virus and lock-down.
No government in their right mind will want to see a repeat of this in the next one hundred years... And despite the current poll rating I still the the Tories are done for at the next election as no government will survive this levels of economic catastrophe.
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That is not to say we won't get one for COVID-19 but those talking with near certainty of one being developed any time soon are perhaps being over optimistic.
And it would utterly destroy them; it's not a long-term option.
Both are in in their 80s - they would happily take their chances to experience a bit of libery and social contact. It's as much as we can do to get them to accept a short-term isolation.
And what does the “testing” actually achieve? Not saying it’s wrong or unnecessary but what is it for, exactly?
https://www7.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2015/05/26/pb-nighthawks-is-now-open-55/
Ah, happy days - May 2015. Comments include commiserations to one Nick Palmer ex-(2)- MP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweating_sickness
The least successful leadership candidate in Labour history
We do need more detail though. Chloe Smith's written statement is here:
https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2020-03-24/HCWS183/
https://www7.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2018/05/24/it-is-time-we-thought-about-another-pb-gathering/