Swab-Seq: A high-throughput platform for massively scaled up SARS-CoV-2 testing https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.04.20167874v1 The rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is due to the high rates of transmission by individuals who are asymptomatic at the time of transmission. Frequent, widespread testing of the asymptomatic population for SARS-CoV-2 is essential to suppress viral transmission and is a key element in safely reopening society. Despite increases in testing capacity, multiple challenges remain in deploying traditional reverse transcription and quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) tests at the scale required for population screening of asymptomatic individuals. We have developed SwabSeq, a high-throughput testing platform for SARS-CoV-2 that uses next-generation sequencing as a readout. SwabSeq employs sample-specific molecular barcodes to enable thousands of samples to be combined and simultaneously analyzed for the presence or absence of SARS-CoV-2 in a single run. Importantly, SwabSeq incorporates an in vitro RNA standard that mimics the viral amplicon, but can be distinguished by sequencing. This standard allows for end-point rather than quantitative PCR, improves quantitation, reduces requirements for automation and sample-to-sample normalization, enables purification-free detection, and gives better ability to call true negatives. We show that SwabSeq can test nasal and oral specimens for SARS-CoV-2 with or without RNA extraction while maintaining analytical sensitivity better than or comparable to that of fluorescence-based RT-qPCR tests. SwabSeq is simple, sensitive, flexible, rapidly scalable, inexpensive enough to test widely and frequently, and can provide a turn around time of 12 to 24 hours...
Well he was pardoned by Trump IIRC, I'd be grateful.
I've heard both uses frequently. It's a mistake to jump on Trump for every minor slip, because it devalues the important criticisms. "He causes thousands of deaths by incompetence and actual bad advice, and, what's more, he possibly mispronounces Thailand".
Obviously I'll take your word for it, but I literally have never heard someone pronounce it Thighland.
You literally have.
Pedantry compels me to say that I didn't hear Trump, I've only read about it.
I apologise for my pitiful attempt to out-pedant you.
In Connecticut it's pronounced θeɪmz not tɛmz. Somebody once told me that was the original English pronunciation but that "fact" has the whiff of sub-QI bullshit about it.
Clear experimental evidence that viable virus is present in aerosols, using an air sampling method less likely to degrade captured virus (a problem up until now):
Viable SARS-CoV-2 in the air of a hospital room with COVID-19 patients https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.03.20167395v1.full.pdf …Our virus isolation work provides direct evidence that SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols can be viable and thus pose a risk for transmission of the virus. Furthermore, we show a clear progression of virus-induced cytopathic effects in cell culture, and demonstrate that the recovered virus can be serially propagated. Moreover, we demonstrate an essential link: the viruses we isolated in material collected in four air sampling runs and the virus in a newly admitted symptomatic patient in the room were identical. These findings strengthen the notion that airborne transmission of viable SARS-CoV-2 is likely and plays a critical role in the spread of COVID-19…
It is not surprising but the survey confirms only a 7% loss of trust according to Sky
LOL @ "only"
It's ridiculously tiny for the so-called 'Biggest Scandal Of The Century', not to mention the ten thousand retweets that accompanied it!
The mere fact that it is still rolling three months on, suggests it might have been rather a big deal.
It is for some but I expect HMG to see real popularity problems as job loses mount.
With the spike in covid both here and abroad, largely due to social gatherings I expect that attendances at public events including football, pubs and music venues will be outlawed for at least six months and maybe longer
I also expect serious problems over schools re-opening and WFH destroying city centres.
Indeed as I have said, Boris is not the PM we need in this crisis and I am neutral on conservative v labour but it does seem to me a GNU will be needed at sometime in the near future with a new PM and Starmer as deputy
What timeframe are you thinking of? Am I right in remembering you arguing for New Year, once BoJo has got his version of Brexit over the line?
Incidentally, how much of the underpinning of the current Conservative lead is the "Brexit is in peril. Defend it with all your might" vote? What happens to that in January?
For those anticipating the A Level debacle next week... a change to the appeals arrangement, schools can now appeal on behalf of a whole cohort that the grades awarded are unfair - individuals still can’t appeal their grades other than for alleged technical errors. For example, a school can claim that year-on-year improvements over the past should have been assumed to have continued this year or special circumstances mean this year’s cohort would have performed above and beyond expectations. Essentially, Government wanting to diffuse the backlash on Thursday and pass the buck to schools.
It is not surprising but the survey confirms only a 7% loss of trust according to Sky
LOL @ "only"
It's ridiculously tiny for the so-called 'Biggest Scandal Of The Century', not to mention the ten thousand retweets that accompanied it!
The mere fact that it is still rolling three months on, suggests it might have been rather a big deal.
It is for some but I expect HMG to see real popularity problems as job loses mount.
With the spike in covid both here and abroad, largely due to social gatherings I expect that attendances at public events including football, pubs and music venues will be outlawed for at least six months and maybe longer
I also expect serious problems over schools re-opening and WFH destroying city centres.
Indeed as I have said, Boris is not the PM we need in this crisis and I am neutral on conservative v labour but it does seem to me a GNU will be needed at sometime in the near future with a new PM and Starmer as deputy
What timeframe are you thinking of? Am I right in remembering you arguing for New Year, once BoJo has got his version of Brexit over the line?
Incidentally, how much of the underpinning of the current Conservative lead is the "Brexit is in peril. Defend it with all your might" vote? What happens to that in January?
Ideally in the early new year but difficult to see it.
I think the conservative lead is probably the trust they usually enjoy over the economy and the destruction Corbyn did to the Labour brand
If Boris no deals I have no idea of the consequences but it needs to be avoided if at all possible
Clear experimental evidence that viable virus is present in aerosols, using an air sampling method less likely to degrade captured virus (a problem up until now):
Viable SARS-CoV-2 in the air of a hospital room with COVID-19 patients https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.03.20167395v1.full.pdf …Our virus isolation work provides direct evidence that SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols can be viable and thus pose a risk for transmission of the virus. Furthermore, we show a clear progression of virus-induced cytopathic effects in cell culture, and demonstrate that the recovered virus can be serially propagated. Moreover, we demonstrate an essential link: the viruses we isolated in material collected in four air sampling runs and the virus in a newly admitted symptomatic patient in the room were identical. These findings strengthen the notion that airborne transmission of viable SARS-CoV-2 is likely and plays a critical role in the spread of COVID-19…
Confirmation of what we already knew.
If you are in a pub and one of the customers is infected, there is a very good chance that you will get it. One metre, two metres, ten metres. Still at risk.
Just look at Aberdeen.
Oh, and I can post from my laptop for the first time in ages. Hurrah!
For those anticipating the A Level debacle next week... a change to the appeals arrangement, schools can now appeal on behalf of a whole cohort that the grades awarded are unfair - individuals still can’t appeal their grades other than for alleged technical errors. For example, a school can claim that year-on-year improvements over the past should have been assumed to have continued this year or special circumstances mean this year’s cohort would have performed above and beyond expectations. Essentially, Government wanting to diffuse the backlash on Thursday and pass the buck to schools.
Will we still get pictures of girls (and one boy for pc reasons) jumping in the air on seeing their A-level results?
Clear experimental evidence that viable virus is present in aerosols, using an air sampling method less likely to degrade captured virus (a problem up until now):
Viable SARS-CoV-2 in the air of a hospital room with COVID-19 patients https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.03.20167395v1.full.pdf …Our virus isolation work provides direct evidence that SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols can be viable and thus pose a risk for transmission of the virus. Furthermore, we show a clear progression of virus-induced cytopathic effects in cell culture, and demonstrate that the recovered virus can be serially propagated. Moreover, we demonstrate an essential link: the viruses we isolated in material collected in four air sampling runs and the virus in a newly admitted symptomatic patient in the room were identical. These findings strengthen the notion that airborne transmission of viable SARS-CoV-2 is likely and plays a critical role in the spread of COVID-19…
Confirmation of what we already knew.
If you are in a pub and one of the customers is infected, there is a very good chance that you will get it. One metre, two metres, ten metres. Still at risk.
Just look at Aberdeen.
Oh, and I can post from my laptop for the first time in ages. Hurrah!
Does this only apply in pubs or do we need to get PB teachers mic'd up so they don't have to risk infecting the front row of class 3b in order to be heard at the back?
OT I've had this new phone less than a week and have just received my first phishing text (purporting to be from HMRC).
Damn: I've just doxxed myself as being not-Liam Fox.
The Government have set up a department to try and make some headway into the scams and phishing emails (not sure about tests).
If you get an obvious phishing email then you forward it to
report@phishing.gov.uk
You get a the following reply:
"Thank you for sending on your suspicious message.
Timely alerts from people like you help us to act quickly and protect many more people from being affected.
As of 30/06/20 the number of reports received stand at more than 1,173,000 with the removal of 4,590 scams and 11,543 URLs.
Thank you for your continued support
Our investigations may take some time. Whilst the NCSC is unable to inform you of the outcome of its review, we can confirm that we do act upon every message received.
We’ll analyse the content of the suspect email and any websites it links to where appropriate.
If we discover activity that we believe is malicious, we may: • seek to block the address the email came from, so it can no longer send emails • work with website hosting companies to remove links to malicious websites • raise awareness of commonly reported suspicious emails and methods used (via partners)"
For the sake of about 5 seconds to forward the email to them it seems like a worthwhile thing to me.
Clear experimental evidence that viable virus is present in aerosols, using an air sampling method less likely to degrade captured virus (a problem up until now):
Viable SARS-CoV-2 in the air of a hospital room with COVID-19 patients https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.03.20167395v1.full.pdf …Our virus isolation work provides direct evidence that SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols can be viable and thus pose a risk for transmission of the virus. Furthermore, we show a clear progression of virus-induced cytopathic effects in cell culture, and demonstrate that the recovered virus can be serially propagated. Moreover, we demonstrate an essential link: the viruses we isolated in material collected in four air sampling runs and the virus in a newly admitted symptomatic patient in the room were identical. These findings strengthen the notion that airborne transmission of viable SARS-CoV-2 is likely and plays a critical role in the spread of COVID-19…
Confirmation of what we already knew.
If you are in a pub and one of the customers is infected, there is a very good chance that you will get it. One metre, two metres, ten metres. Still at risk.
Just look at Aberdeen.
Oh, and I can post from my laptop for the first time in ages. Hurrah!
Ten meters, less so, but agreed. Important paper, though, since as far as I'm aware, it's the time they've succeeded in culturing the virus from aerosol. It's not easy to so so, as in some respects the virus is quite fragile, and common sampling methods tend to degrade it - whereas it gets a (mechanically) very soft landing when inhaled.
It is not surprising but the survey confirms only a 7% loss of trust according to Sky
LOL @ "only"
It's ridiculously tiny for the so-called 'Biggest Scandal Of The Century', not to mention the ten thousand retweets that accompanied it!
The mere fact that it is still rolling three months on, suggests it might have been rather a big deal.
It is for some but I expect HMG to see real popularity problems as job loses mount.
With the spike in covid both here and abroad, largely due to social gatherings I expect that attendances at public events including football, pubs and music venues will be outlawed for at least six months and maybe longer
I also expect serious problems over schools re-opening and WFH destroying city centres.
Indeed as I have said, Boris is not the PM we need in this crisis and I am neutral on conservative v labour but it does seem to me a GNU will be needed at sometime in the near future with a new PM and Starmer as deputy
Not going to happen, the Tories have a majority of 80 and this is not WW2, the last time we had a GNU
Trunp will sadly be re-elected. Biden is piling up huge votes in the safe Democrat areas California 67- 29, New York, Washington. North East etc, that gives him a large national lead but it is close in the marginal areas that would get Trump home again. I suspect Biden could win the national vote by 4-7% and still lose on the State by State count, it is a bizarre system for a country that prides itself on being the "greatest Democracy in the world"
It's really *not* close in the marginal states, the tipping point on the current polling is PA which is currently at Biden +6. That's not the kind of lead that's impossible to overturn, but it's not close.
Florida or Wisconsin are the tipping points, Michigan and Pennsylvania only get Biden to 268 plus the Hillary states or 269 plus Nebraska 02
In Connecticut it's pronounced θeɪmz not tɛmz. Somebody once told me that was the original English pronunciation but that "fact" has the whiff of sub-QI bullshit about it.
Since it is derived from the Latin Tamesis, that strikes me as improbable.
OT I've had this new phone less than a week and have just received my first phishing text (purporting to be from HMRC).
Damn: I've just doxxed myself as being not-Liam Fox.
The Government have set up a department to try and make some headway into the scams and phishing emails (not sure about tests).
If you get an obvious phishing email then you forward it to
report@phishing.gov.uk
You get a the following reply:
"Thank you for sending on your suspicious message.
Timely alerts from people like you help us to act quickly and protect many more people from being affected.
As of 30/06/20 the number of reports received stand at more than 1,173,000 with the removal of 4,590 scams and 11,543 URLs.
Thank you for your continued support
Our investigations may take some time. Whilst the NCSC is unable to inform you of the outcome of its review, we can confirm that we do act upon every message received.
We’ll analyse the content of the suspect email and any websites it links to where appropriate.
If we discover activity that we believe is malicious, we may: • seek to block the address the email came from, so it can no longer send emails • work with website hosting companies to remove links to malicious websites • raise awareness of commonly reported suspicious emails and methods used (via partners)"
For the sake of about 5 seconds to forward the email to them it seems like a worthwhile thing to me.
How many millions of people do they have analysing these? If I forwarded only the ones I got, I’d swamp them.
Clear experimental evidence that viable virus is present in aerosols, using an air sampling method less likely to degrade captured virus (a problem up until now):
Viable SARS-CoV-2 in the air of a hospital room with COVID-19 patients https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.03.20167395v1.full.pdf …Our virus isolation work provides direct evidence that SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols can be viable and thus pose a risk for transmission of the virus. Furthermore, we show a clear progression of virus-induced cytopathic effects in cell culture, and demonstrate that the recovered virus can be serially propagated. Moreover, we demonstrate an essential link: the viruses we isolated in material collected in four air sampling runs and the virus in a newly admitted symptomatic patient in the room were identical. These findings strengthen the notion that airborne transmission of viable SARS-CoV-2 is likely and plays a critical role in the spread of COVID-19…
Confirmation of what we already knew.
If you are in a pub and one of the customers is infected, there is a very good chance that you will get it. One metre, two metres, ten metres. Still at risk.
Just look at Aberdeen.
Oh, and I can post from my laptop for the first time in ages. Hurrah!
And if you are a professional footballer do not go with other team mates to a pub and put a risk, as in this case, the Scottish Premier league
In Connecticut it's pronounced θeɪmz not tɛmz. Somebody once told me that was the original English pronunciation but that "fact" has the whiff of sub-QI bullshit about it.
Since it is derived from the Latin Tamesis, that strikes me as improbable.
Except that the Romans may have latinised an existing name, and Latin doesn't natively do th (it is always a transliteration of Greek).
Which suggests this will be the closest Presidential re election vote since WW2
No it does not. That does not follow.
I strongly expect this will not be as close as 2004. It may not even be as close as 2012.
Trump's approval is below Bush's in 2004 or Obama's in 2012 who both won but above Bush Snr' s in 1992 or Carter's in 1980 who both lost which suggests it could still be very close
In Connecticut it's pronounced θeɪmz not tɛmz. Somebody once told me that was the original English pronunciation but that "fact" has the whiff of sub-QI bullshit about it.
Since it is derived from the Latin Tamesis, that strikes me as improbable.
Except that the Romans may have latinised an existing name, and Latin doesn't natively do th (it is always a transliteration of Greek).
Thame's my thoughts on the matter, anyway.
In Welsh, where the parent word would have come from in that case, it’s Tafwys. So still a hard T.
Moreover, that’s hardly relevant to a river in Connecticut, which was presumably not named before the Roman conquest of Britannia!
Some of those mispronounciations are bad, but not all of them. For all I know, he might always have said minion-apolis, and plosma is surely just an accent.
But I have to admit I find Totali-Terry-ism hilarious. Be very afraid of Terry Gilliam going into politics.
It is not surprising but the survey confirms only a 7% loss of trust according to Sky
LOL @ "only"
It's ridiculously tiny for the so-called 'Biggest Scandal Of The Century', not to mention the ten thousand retweets that accompanied it!
The mere fact that it is still rolling three months on, suggests it might have been rather a big deal.
It is for some but I expect HMG to see real popularity problems as job loses mount.
With the spike in covid both here and abroad, largely due to social gatherings I expect that attendances at public events including football, pubs and music venues will be outlawed for at least six months and maybe longer
I also expect serious problems over schools re-opening and WFH destroying city centres.
Indeed as I have said, Boris is not the PM we need in this crisis and I am neutral on conservative v labour but it does seem to me a GNU will be needed at sometime in the near future with a new PM and Starmer as deputy
Not going to happen, the Tories have a majority of 80 and this is not WW2, the last time we had a GNU
It is very similar to WW2 in many ways in so far as the destruction to economies has only just begun and it looks as if a lot worse is to come, changing everything we used to know and understand about politics and economics.
Clear experimental evidence that viable virus is present in aerosols, using an air sampling method less likely to degrade captured virus (a problem up until now):
Viable SARS-CoV-2 in the air of a hospital room with COVID-19 patients https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.03.20167395v1.full.pdf …Our virus isolation work provides direct evidence that SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols can be viable and thus pose a risk for transmission of the virus. Furthermore, we show a clear progression of virus-induced cytopathic effects in cell culture, and demonstrate that the recovered virus can be serially propagated. Moreover, we demonstrate an essential link: the viruses we isolated in material collected in four air sampling runs and the virus in a newly admitted symptomatic patient in the room were identical. These findings strengthen the notion that airborne transmission of viable SARS-CoV-2 is likely and plays a critical role in the spread of COVID-19…
Confirmation of what we already knew.
If you are in a pub and one of the customers is infected, there is a very good chance that you will get it. One metre, two metres, ten metres. Still at risk.
Just look at Aberdeen.
Oh, and I can post from my laptop for the first time in ages. Hurrah!
And if you are a professional footballer do not go with other team mates to a pub and put a risk, as in this case, the Scottish Premier league
Is that what happened? I though all professional football players had to sign that they remain isolated. Those players should at least be suspended, and the pubs which have had to close would probably have a good case to sue the football club(s) for damages.
If this is accurate, the care, or lack of it for infected US service people is beyond negligent.
It would vary greatly depending on location and service. Fort Benning has long been known as "Camp Kill Yourself".
On my USN exchange on CVN-70 the rates got very good medical care. For some of them it would be the first time in their lives. On a 6 month deployment the ship's oral surgeon did over 3,000 surgeries and extracted 1,300 rotten teeth on a crew of just over 5,000!
Which suggests this will be the closest Presidential re election vote since WW2
No it does not. That does not follow.
I strongly expect this will not be as close as 2004. It may not even be as close as 2012.
Trump's approval is below Bush's in 2004 or Obama's in 2012 who both won but above Bush Snr' s in 1992 or Carter's in 1980 who both lost which suggests it could still be very close
No that's a logical fallacy.
Bush 2004 was a very narrow victory for Bush - and he's less popular than that.
Carter 1980 was a massive landslide for Reagan, while Bush Snr 1992 was an electoral vote landslide for Clinton.
So he's less popular than a narrowly elected President, but more popular than landslide defeats. The idea that means it will be close therefore is a logical fallacy - its entirely possible it will be a heavy but not landslide defeat.
Bush Snr got 168 electoral votes, Dubya Bush got 286 electoral votes.
More than 168 but less than 286 is a wide range of possibilities which does not automatically mean it will be close. In fact its hard to be close if he's getting less than 286.
Clear experimental evidence that viable virus is present in aerosols, using an air sampling method less likely to degrade captured virus (a problem up until now):
Viable SARS-CoV-2 in the air of a hospital room with COVID-19 patients https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.03.20167395v1.full.pdf …Our virus isolation work provides direct evidence that SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols can be viable and thus pose a risk for transmission of the virus. Furthermore, we show a clear progression of virus-induced cytopathic effects in cell culture, and demonstrate that the recovered virus can be serially propagated. Moreover, we demonstrate an essential link: the viruses we isolated in material collected in four air sampling runs and the virus in a newly admitted symptomatic patient in the room were identical. These findings strengthen the notion that airborne transmission of viable SARS-CoV-2 is likely and plays a critical role in the spread of COVID-19…
Confirmation of what we already knew.
If you are in a pub and one of the customers is infected, there is a very good chance that you will get it. One metre, two metres, ten metres. Still at risk.
Just look at Aberdeen.
Oh, and I can post from my laptop for the first time in ages. Hurrah!
And if you are a professional footballer do not go with other team mates to a pub and put a risk, as in this case, the Scottish Premier league
Is that what happened? I though all professional football players had to sign that they remain isolated. Those players should at least be suspended, and the pubs which have had to close would probably have a good case to sue the football club(s) for damages.
Which suggests this will be the closest Presidential re election vote since WW2
No it does not. That does not follow.
I strongly expect this will not be as close as 2004. It may not even be as close as 2012.
Trump's approval is below Bush's in 2004 or Obama's in 2012 who both won but above Bush Snr' s in 1992 or Carter's in 1980 who both lost which suggests it could still be very close
No that's a logical fallacy.
Bush 2004 was a very narrow victory for Bush - and he's less popular than that.
Carter 1980 was a massive landslide for Reagan, while Bush Snr 1992 was an electoral vote landslide for Clinton.
So he's less popular than a narrowly elected President, but more popular than landslide defeats. The idea that means it will be close therefore is a logical fallacy - its entirely possible it will be a heavy but not landslide defeat.
Bush Snr got 168 electoral votes, Dubya Bush got 286 electoral votes.
More than 168 but less than 286 is a wide range of possibilities which does not automatically mean it will be close. In fact its hard to be close if he's getting less than 286.
If Trump holds all his 2016 states bar Michigan and Pennsylvania he is re elected by the narrowest of margins, that is still a possibility though it would be an even closer EC vote than Bush v Gore 2000 with Florida again likely decisive
In Connecticut it's pronounced θeɪmz not tɛmz. Somebody once told me that was the original English pronunciation but that "fact" has the whiff of sub-QI bullshit about it.
Since it is derived from the Latin Tamesis, that strikes me as improbable.
Except that the Romans may have latinised an existing name, and Latin doesn't natively do th (it is always a transliteration of Greek).
Thame's my thoughts on the matter, anyway.
In Welsh, where the parent word would have come from in that case, it’s Tafwys. So still a hard T.
Moreover, that’s hardly relevant to a river in Connecticut, which was presumably not named before the Roman conquest of Britannia!
The river is presumably named after the proper Thames (given that it is in New London) and I assume the argument is that all English speakers said Thems in those days, we changed and the Connecticutians stuck with the original. So the CT name dates as far back as the English one does.
It is not surprising but the survey confirms only a 7% loss of trust according to Sky
LOL @ "only"
It's ridiculously tiny for the so-called 'Biggest Scandal Of The Century', not to mention the ten thousand retweets that accompanied it!
The mere fact that it is still rolling three months on, suggests it might have been rather a big deal.
It is for some but I expect HMG to see real popularity problems as job loses mount.
With the spike in covid both here and abroad, largely due to social gatherings I expect that attendances at public events including football, pubs and music venues will be outlawed for at least six months and maybe longer
I also expect serious problems over schools re-opening and WFH destroying city centres.
Indeed as I have said, Boris is not the PM we need in this crisis and I am neutral on conservative v labour but it does seem to me a GNU will be needed at sometime in the near future with a new PM and Starmer as deputy
What timeframe are you thinking of? Am I right in remembering you arguing for New Year, once BoJo has got his version of Brexit over the line?
Incidentally, how much of the underpinning of the current Conservative lead is the "Brexit is in peril. Defend it with all your might" vote? What happens to that in January?
Ideally in the early new year but difficult to see it.
I think the conservative lead is probably the trust they usually enjoy over the economy and the destruction Corbyn did to the Labour brand
If Boris no deals I have no idea of the consequences but it needs to be avoided if at all possible
Boris is going to 'No Deal', maybe he personally doesn't want to (who knows what he really thinks?), but Cummings does as does my MP, Suella, and a lot of his cabinet.
Some of those mispronounciations are bad, but not all of them. For all I know, he might always have said minion-apolis, and plosma is surely just an accent.
But I have to admit I find Totali-Terry-ism hilarious. Be very afraid of Terry Gilliam going into politics.
And on the other hand, "I'm announcing that my administrationizshit" was, for once, honest.
If this is accurate, the care, or lack of it for infected US service people is beyond negligent.
It would vary greatly depending on location and service. Fort Benning has long been known as "Camp Kill Yourself".
On my USN exchange on CVN-70 the rates got very good medical care. For some of them it would be the first time in their lives. On a 6 month deployment the ship's oral surgeon did over 3,000 surgeries and extracted 1,300 rotten teeth on a crew of just over 5,000!
In Connecticut it's pronounced θeɪmz not tɛmz. Somebody once told me that was the original English pronunciation but that "fact" has the whiff of sub-QI bullshit about it.
Since it is derived from the Latin Tamesis, that strikes me as improbable.
Except that the Romans may have latinised an existing name, and Latin doesn't natively do th (it is always a transliteration of Greek).
Thame's my thoughts on the matter, anyway.
In Welsh, where the parent word would have come from in that case, it’s Tafwys. So still a hard T.
Moreover, that’s hardly relevant to a river in Connecticut, which was presumably not named before the Roman conquest of Britannia!
The river is presumably named after the proper Thames (given that it is in New London) and I assume the argument is that all English speakers said Thems in those days, we changed and the Connecticutians stuck with the original. So the CT name dates as far back as the English one does.
More likely they pronounced it as written, and came up with a soft ‘th’ sound as a result. The Americans do try to phoneticise everything.
Of course, there are others that did undoubtedly go the other way - Berkeley springs to mind.
If it had been pronounced to sound like ‘the’ it would almost certainly have been Anglicised as Yames, which would have been interesting.
Some of those mispronounciations are bad, but not all of them. For all I know, he might always have said minion-apolis, and plosma is surely just an accent.
But I have to admit I find Totali-Terry-ism hilarious. Be very afraid of Terry Gilliam going into politics.
Well, I suppose Brazil is already tending towards TotaliTerryism...
Which suggests this will be the closest Presidential re election vote since WW2
No it does not. That does not follow.
I strongly expect this will not be as close as 2004. It may not even be as close as 2012.
Trump's approval is below Bush's in 2004 or Obama's in 2012 who both won but above Bush Snr' s in 1992 or Carter's in 1980 who both lost which suggests it could still be very close
No that's a logical fallacy.
Bush 2004 was a very narrow victory for Bush - and he's less popular than that.
Carter 1980 was a massive landslide for Reagan, while Bush Snr 1992 was an electoral vote landslide for Clinton.
So he's less popular than a narrowly elected President, but more popular than landslide defeats. The idea that means it will be close therefore is a logical fallacy - its entirely possible it will be a heavy but not landslide defeat.
Bush Snr got 168 electoral votes, Dubya Bush got 286 electoral votes.
More than 168 but less than 286 is a wide range of possibilities which does not automatically mean it will be close. In fact its hard to be close if he's getting less than 286.
If Trump holds all his 2016 states bar Michigan and Pennsylvania he is re elected by the narrowest of margins, that is still a possibility though it would be an even closer EC vote than Bush v Gore 2000 with Florida again likely decisive
Biden can win even if FLA remains Republican.
If FLA switches to Democrat though, it is hard to imagine that the swing won't pick up the 9 extra EC votes in other states needed for Biden to win. So from the Republican point of view Florida is a must win.
Which suggests this will be the closest Presidential re election vote since WW2
No it does not. That does not follow.
I strongly expect this will not be as close as 2004. It may not even be as close as 2012.
Trump's approval is below Bush's in 2004 or Obama's in 2012 who both won but above Bush Snr' s in 1992 or Carter's in 1980 who both lost which suggests it could still be very close
No that's a logical fallacy.
Bush 2004 was a very narrow victory for Bush - and he's less popular than that.
Carter 1980 was a massive landslide for Reagan, while Bush Snr 1992 was an electoral vote landslide for Clinton.
So he's less popular than a narrowly elected President, but more popular than landslide defeats. The idea that means it will be close therefore is a logical fallacy - its entirely possible it will be a heavy but not landslide defeat.
Bush Snr got 168 electoral votes, Dubya Bush got 286 electoral votes.
More than 168 but less than 286 is a wide range of possibilities which does not automatically mean it will be close. In fact its hard to be close if he's getting less than 286.
If Trump holds all his 2016 states bar Michigan and Pennsylvania he is re elected by the narrowest of margins, that is still a possibility though it would be an even closer EC vote than Bush v Gore 2000 with Florida again likely decisive
Its a possibility. Its also a possibility that the roulette table will spin 13 a dozen times in a row. I wouldn't recommend staking your income on that though.
You said it "will be close", that does not follow. Could be and will be are two very different things, he could easily lose heavily and still do better than Carter.
If I was to say it will be the weather somewhere is warmer than than North Pole but colder than Britain in November that would not mean that the temperature is moderate.
Some of those mispronounciations are bad, but not all of them. For all I know, he might always have said minion-apolis, and plosma is surely just an accent.
But I have to admit I find Totali-Terry-ism hilarious. Be very afraid of Terry Gilliam going into politics.
Well, I suppose Brazil is already tending towards TotaliTerryism...
OT I've had this new phone less than a week and have just received my first phishing text (purporting to be from HMRC).
Damn: I've just doxxed myself as being not-Liam Fox.
The Government have set up a department to try and make some headway into the scams and phishing emails (not sure about tests).
If you get an obvious phishing email then you forward it to
report@phishing.gov.uk
You get a the following reply:
"Thank you for sending on your suspicious message.
Timely alerts from people like you help us to act quickly and protect many more people from being affected.
As of 30/06/20 the number of reports received stand at more than 1,173,000 with the removal of 4,590 scams and 11,543 URLs.
Thank you for your continued support
Our investigations may take some time. Whilst the NCSC is unable to inform you of the outcome of its review, we can confirm that we do act upon every message received.
We’ll analyse the content of the suspect email and any websites it links to where appropriate.
If we discover activity that we believe is malicious, we may: • seek to block the address the email came from, so it can no longer send emails • work with website hosting companies to remove links to malicious websites • raise awareness of commonly reported suspicious emails and methods used (via partners)"
For the sake of about 5 seconds to forward the email to them it seems like a worthwhile thing to me.
Is that only for phishing emails claiming to be from HMRC or does it apply to eg phishing emails claiming to be from RBS etc?
Wemyss Bay to Rothesay. Have told him that Furlough has saved our company
So if we find he quotes this random businessman he met on the Wemyss Bay to Rothesay ferry who told him how wonderful furlough was, he’s telling the truth and it was you?
Well, at least you had something nice to say to him. I hope he was duly amiable.
In Connecticut it's pronounced θeɪmz not tɛmz. Somebody once told me that was the original English pronunciation but that "fact" has the whiff of sub-QI bullshit about it.
Since it is derived from the Latin Tamesis, that strikes me as improbable.
Except that the Romans may have latinised an existing name, and Latin doesn't natively do th (it is always a transliteration of Greek).
Thame's my thoughts on the matter, anyway.
In Welsh, where the parent word would have come from in that case, it’s Tafwys. So still a hard T.
Moreover, that’s hardly relevant to a river in Connecticut, which was presumably not named before the Roman conquest of Britannia!
The river is presumably named after the proper Thames (given that it is in New London) and I assume the argument is that all English speakers said Thems in those days, we changed and the Connecticutians stuck with the original. So the CT name dates as far back as the English one does.
More likely they pronounced it as written, and came up with a soft ‘th’ sound as a result. The Americans do try to phoneticise everything.
Of course, there are others that did undoubtedly go the other way - Berkeley springs to mind.
If it had been pronounced to sound like ‘the’ it would almost certainly have been Anglicised as Yames, which would have been interesting.
Launceston, Tasmania is apparently Lawn cess ton, as written, when the Cornish version is Lawnston to English people who think they know how to say it, and Lanson or Larnson to locals.
Wemyss Bay to Rothesay. Have told him that Furlough has saved our company
So if we find he quotes this random businessman he met on the Wemyss Bay to Rothesay ferry who told him how wonderful furlough was, he’s telling the truth and it was you?
Well, at least you had something nice to say to him. I hope he was duly amiable.
Another clown that will come up , hide somewhere for the day, never meet a member of the public or especially the government and run back to England. Wonder if moothie and her new lapdog will be there to lick his butt.
Wemyss Bay to Rothesay. Have told him that Furlough has saved our company
So if we find he quotes this random businessman he met on the Wemyss Bay to Rothesay ferry who told him how wonderful furlough was, he’s telling the truth and it was you?
Well, at least you had something nice to say to him. I hope he was duly amiable.
Another clown that will come up , hide somewhere for the day, never meet a member of the public or especially the government and run back to England. Wonder if moothie and her new lapdog will be there to lick his butt.
Another clown that will come up , hide somewhere for the day, never meet a member of the public or especially the government and run back to England. Wonder if moothie and her new lapdog will be there to lick his butt.
Well, he’s already met @RochdalePioneers. So he’s met at least some members of the public, even if not Scottish ones.
Wemyss Bay to Rothesay. Have told him that Furlough has saved our company
So if we find he quotes this random businessman he met on the Wemyss Bay to Rothesay ferry who told him how wonderful furlough was, he’s telling the truth and it was you?
Well, at least you had something nice to say to him. I hope he was duly amiable.
Some of those mispronounciations are bad, but not all of them. For all I know, he might always have said minion-apolis, and plosma is surely just an accent.
But I have to admit I find Totali-Terry-ism hilarious. Be very afraid of Terry Gilliam going into politics.
And on the other hand, "I'm announcing that my administrationizshit" was, for once, honest.
Which suggests this will be the closest Presidential re election vote since WW2
No it does not. That does not follow.
I strongly expect this will not be as close as 2004. It may not even be as close as 2012.
Trump's approval is below Bush's in 2004 or Obama's in 2012 who both won but above Bush Snr' s in 1992 or Carter's in 1980 who both lost which suggests it could still be very close
No that's a logical fallacy.
Bush 2004 was a very narrow victory for Bush - and he's less popular than that.
Carter 1980 was a massive landslide for Reagan, while Bush Snr 1992 was an electoral vote landslide for Clinton.
So he's less popular than a narrowly elected President, but more popular than landslide defeats. The idea that means it will be close therefore is a logical fallacy - its entirely possible it will be a heavy but not landslide defeat.
Bush Snr got 168 electoral votes, Dubya Bush got 286 electoral votes.
More than 168 but less than 286 is a wide range of possibilities which does not automatically mean it will be close. In fact its hard to be close if he's getting less than 286.
If Trump holds all his 2016 states bar Michigan and Pennsylvania he is re elected by the narrowest of margins, that is still a possibility though it would be an even closer EC vote than Bush v Gore 2000 with Florida again likely decisive
I agree I can still see Biden winning comfortably by up to 6% nationally including narrowly winning Florida, Arizona and North Carolina but I'm still cautious about those 3 states.
I see Trump winning 45% or so nationally not much down on the 46.1% he got last time but people may be more motivated to vote against him.
I have the likely order of 'swing states' as something like MI>PA>WI>FL>AZ>NC>OH>GA>IA>TX
Which suggests this will be the closest Presidential re election vote since WW2
No it does not. That does not follow.
I strongly expect this will not be as close as 2004. It may not even be as close as 2012.
Trump's approval is below Bush's in 2004 or Obama's in 2012 who both won but above Bush Snr' s in 1992 or Carter's in 1980 who both lost which suggests it could still be very close
No that's a logical fallacy.
Bush 2004 was a very narrow victory for Bush - and he's less popular than that.
Carter 1980 was a massive landslide for Reagan, while Bush Snr 1992 was an electoral vote landslide for Clinton.
So he's less popular than a narrowly elected President, but more popular than landslide defeats. The idea that means it will be close therefore is a logical fallacy - its entirely possible it will be a heavy but not landslide defeat.
Bush Snr got 168 electoral votes, Dubya Bush got 286 electoral votes.
More than 168 but less than 286 is a wide range of possibilities which does not automatically mean it will be close. In fact its hard to be close if he's getting less than 286.
If Trump holds all his 2016 states bar Michigan and Pennsylvania he is re elected by the narrowest of margins, that is still a possibility though it would be an even closer EC vote than Bush v Gore 2000 with Florida again likely decisive
I agree I can still see Biden winning comfortably by up to 6% nationally including narrowly winning Florida, Arizona and North Carolina but I'm still cautious about those 3 states.
I see Trump winning 45% or so nationally not much down on the 46.1% he got last time but people may be more motivated to vote against him.
I have the likely order of 'swing states' as something like MI>PA>WI>FL>AZ>NC>OH>GA>IA>TX
Wemyss Bay to Rothesay. Have told him that Furlough has saved our company
So if we find he quotes this random businessman he met on the Wemyss Bay to Rothesay ferry who told him how wonderful furlough was, he’s telling the truth and it was you?
Well, at least you had something nice to say to him. I hope he was duly amiable.
We also talked about the wonders of Teesside!
Short conversation then?
Teesside is an interesting subject.
Isn't it the place with the maddest Mayor in the country?
Wemyss Bay to Rothesay. Have told him that Furlough has saved our company
So if we find he quotes this random businessman he met on the Wemyss Bay to Rothesay ferry who told him how wonderful furlough was, he’s telling the truth and it was you?
Well, at least you had something nice to say to him. I hope he was duly amiable.
We also talked about the wonders of Teesside!
Short conversation then?
Teesside is an interesting subject.
Isn't it the place with the maddest Mayor in the country?
Least accessible airport by rail despite there being a station with same name?
Now Pope’s out, which sounds like an uncharacteristic stand on gay rights by the Catholic hierarchy, England are going to face a huge deficit even though they’ve just scraped past the follow on.
Wemyss Bay to Rothesay. Have told him that Furlough has saved our company
So if we find he quotes this random businessman he met on the Wemyss Bay to Rothesay ferry who told him how wonderful furlough was, he’s telling the truth and it was you?
Well, at least you had something nice to say to him. I hope he was duly amiable.
We also talked about the wonders of Teesside!
Short conversation then?
Teesside is an interesting subject.
Isn't it the place with the maddest Mayor in the country?
Least accessible airport by rail despite there being a station with same name?
Another clown that will come up , hide somewhere for the day, never meet a member of the public or especially the government and run back to England. Wonder if moothie and her new lapdog will be there to lick his butt.
Well, he’s already met @RochdalePioneers. So he’s met at least some members of the public, even if not Scottish ones.
He chatted to people out on the rear deck. Scottish couple on nearby seats, also not Tories, also hugely impressed by what he's done so far.
Which suggests this will be the closest Presidential re election vote since WW2
No it does not. That does not follow.
I strongly expect this will not be as close as 2004. It may not even be as close as 2012.
Trump's approval is below Bush's in 2004 or Obama's in 2012 who both won but above Bush Snr' s in 1992 or Carter's in 1980 who both lost which suggests it could still be very close
No that's a logical fallacy.
Bush 2004 was a very narrow victory for Bush - and he's less popular than that.
Carter 1980 was a massive landslide for Reagan, while Bush Snr 1992 was an electoral vote landslide for Clinton.
So he's less popular than a narrowly elected President, but more popular than landslide defeats. The idea that means it will be close therefore is a logical fallacy - its entirely possible it will be a heavy but not landslide defeat.
Bush Snr got 168 electoral votes, Dubya Bush got 286 electoral votes.
More than 168 but less than 286 is a wide range of possibilities which does not automatically mean it will be close. In fact its hard to be close if he's getting less than 286.
If Trump holds all his 2016 states bar Michigan and Pennsylvania he is re elected by the narrowest of margins, that is still a possibility though it would be an even closer EC vote than Bush v Gore 2000 with Florida again likely decisive
I agree I can still see Biden winning comfortably by up to 6% nationally including narrowly winning Florida, Arizona and North Carolina but I'm still cautious about those 3 states.
I see Trump winning 45% or so nationally not much down on the 46.1% he got last time but people may be more motivated to vote against him.
I have the likely order of 'swing states' as something like MI>PA>WI>FL>AZ>NC>OH>GA>IA>TX
How many needed to win Electoral College
Just the 1st 3 - the Rust Belt - does it for Biden assuming he doesn't lose any.
My EC spread for Trump right now is 185/195.
Info only - not taking bets - but I will update it weekly so that people know what's going on.
Which suggests this will be the closest Presidential re election vote since WW2
No it does not. That does not follow.
I strongly expect this will not be as close as 2004. It may not even be as close as 2012.
Trump's approval is below Bush's in 2004 or Obama's in 2012 who both won but above Bush Snr' s in 1992 or Carter's in 1980 who both lost which suggests it could still be very close
No that's a logical fallacy.
Bush 2004 was a very narrow victory for Bush - and he's less popular than that.
Carter 1980 was a massive landslide for Reagan, while Bush Snr 1992 was an electoral vote landslide for Clinton.
So he's less popular than a narrowly elected President, but more popular than landslide defeats. The idea that means it will be close therefore is a logical fallacy - its entirely possible it will be a heavy but not landslide defeat.
Bush Snr got 168 electoral votes, Dubya Bush got 286 electoral votes.
More than 168 but less than 286 is a wide range of possibilities which does not automatically mean it will be close. In fact its hard to be close if he's getting less than 286.
If Trump holds all his 2016 states bar Michigan and Pennsylvania he is re elected by the narrowest of margins, that is still a possibility though it would be an even closer EC vote than Bush v Gore 2000 with Florida again likely decisive
I agree I can still see Biden winning comfortably by up to 6% nationally including narrowly winning Florida, Arizona and North Carolina but I'm still cautious about those 3 states.
I see Trump winning 45% or so nationally not much down on the 46.1% he got last time but people may be more motivated to vote against him.
I have the likely order of 'swing states' as something like MI>PA>WI>FL>AZ>NC>OH>GA>IA>TX
I think Trump's national vote share will be up on 2016. But Biden's will be up more.
If Trump's vote share is down on 2016 it is GOP apocalypse scenario time.
Which suggests this will be the closest Presidential re election vote since WW2
No it does not. That does not follow.
I strongly expect this will not be as close as 2004. It may not even be as close as 2012.
Trump's approval is below Bush's in 2004 or Obama's in 2012 who both won but above Bush Snr' s in 1992 or Carter's in 1980 who both lost which suggests it could still be very close
No that's a logical fallacy.
Bush 2004 was a very narrow victory for Bush - and he's less popular than that.
Carter 1980 was a massive landslide for Reagan, while Bush Snr 1992 was an electoral vote landslide for Clinton.
So he's less popular than a narrowly elected President, but more popular than landslide defeats. The idea that means it will be close therefore is a logical fallacy - its entirely possible it will be a heavy but not landslide defeat.
Bush Snr got 168 electoral votes, Dubya Bush got 286 electoral votes.
More than 168 but less than 286 is a wide range of possibilities which does not automatically mean it will be close. In fact its hard to be close if he's getting less than 286.
If Trump holds all his 2016 states bar Michigan and Pennsylvania he is re elected by the narrowest of margins, that is still a possibility though it would be an even closer EC vote than Bush v Gore 2000 with Florida again likely decisive
I agree I can still see Biden winning comfortably by up to 6% nationally including narrowly winning Florida, Arizona and North Carolina but I'm still cautious about those 3 states.
I see Trump winning 45% or so nationally not much down on the 46.1% he got last time but people may be more motivated to vote against him.
I have the likely order of 'swing states' as something like MI>PA>WI>FL>AZ>NC>OH>GA>IA>TX
I think Trump's national vote share will be up on 2016. But Biden's will be up more.
If Trump's vote share is down on 2016 it is GOP apocalypse scenario time.
I'm not sure how Trump gets a higher vote share, he's lost a lot of suburban white women voters and not picked up any others. Wouldn't be surprised if he ends up with 43%.
Trunp will sadly be re-elected. Biden is piling up huge votes in the safe Democrat areas California 67- 29, New York, Washington. North East etc, that gives him a large national lead but it is close in the marginal areas that would get Trump home again. I suspect Biden could win the national vote by 4-7% and still lose on the State by State count, it is a bizarre system for a country that prides itself on being the "greatest Democracy in the world"
It's really *not* close in the marginal states, the tipping point on the current polling is PA which is currently at Biden +6. That's not the kind of lead that's impossible to overturn, but it's not close.
Florida or Wisconsin are the tipping points, Michigan and Pennsylvania only get Biden to 268 plus the Hillary states or 269 plus Nebraska 02
The 538 numbers give Biden a slightly bigger lead in Wisconsin than PA (7.4% vs 6%); I can't remember which was closer in 2016 but there wasn't much in it.
But the point remains either way: Biden has a slightly bigger lead nationally than in (whichever of those is) the tipping point state, but it's not a monster gap, and neither is "close" on current polling.
I'm not sure how Trump gets a higher vote share, he's lost a lot of suburban white women voters and not picked up any others. Wouldn't be surprised if he ends up with 43%.
He could do better with conservatives - there are quite a few people out there who were never-Trump-ish in 2016 and went Hillary, Libertarian or Stay Home who are now behind their leader.
Alternatively voters on the Dem side might stay home over the rona / fail to get their postal votes counted / get arrested on the way to the polls, which would increase Trump's share without him needing to add any voters.
Another clown that will come up , hide somewhere for the day, never meet a member of the public or especially the government and run back to England. Wonder if moothie and her new lapdog will be there to lick his butt.
Well, he’s already met @RochdalePioneers. So he’s met at least some members of the public, even if not Scottish ones.
That is a world record for a Tory in Scotland I must admit. Still disgraceful they do not meet Scottish government and pretend they are giving us charity when it is our own money. Still an erchie in my mind if not the worst of them.
Another clown that will come up , hide somewhere for the day, never meet a member of the public or especially the government and run back to England. Wonder if moothie and her new lapdog will be there to lick his butt.
Well, he’s already met @RochdalePioneers. So he’s met at least some members of the public, even if not Scottish ones.
He chatted to people out on the rear deck. Scottish couple on nearby seats, also not Tories, also hugely impressed by what he's done so far.
They never spend much time in the central belt despite its population share, they are very island-centric. Puzzling, that.
Which suggests this will be the closest Presidential re election vote since WW2
No it does not. That does not follow.
I strongly expect this will not be as close as 2004. It may not even be as close as 2012.
Trump's approval is below Bush's in 2004 or Obama's in 2012 who both won but above Bush Snr' s in 1992 or Carter's in 1980 who both lost which suggests it could still be very close
No that's a logical fallacy.
Bush 2004 was a very narrow victory for Bush - and he's less popular than that.
Carter 1980 was a massive landslide for Reagan, while Bush Snr 1992 was an electoral vote landslide for Clinton.
So he's less popular than a narrowly elected President, but more popular than landslide defeats. The idea that means it will be close therefore is a logical fallacy - its entirely possible it will be a heavy but not landslide defeat.
Bush Snr got 168 electoral votes, Dubya Bush got 286 electoral votes.
More than 168 but less than 286 is a wide range of possibilities which does not automatically mean it will be close. In fact its hard to be close if he's getting less than 286.
If Trump holds all his 2016 states bar Michigan and Pennsylvania he is re elected by the narrowest of margins, that is still a possibility though it would be an even closer EC vote than Bush v Gore 2000 with Florida again likely decisive
I agree I can still see Biden winning comfortably by up to 6% nationally including narrowly winning Florida, Arizona and North Carolina but I'm still cautious about those 3 states.
I see Trump winning 45% or so nationally not much down on the 46.1% he got last time but people may be more motivated to vote against him.
I have the likely order of 'swing states' as something like MI>PA>WI>FL>AZ>NC>OH>GA>IA>TX
I think Trump's national vote share will be up on 2016. But Biden's will be up more.
If Trump's vote share is down on 2016 it is GOP apocalypse scenario time.
I'm not sure how Trump gets a higher vote share, he's lost a lot of suburban white women voters and not picked up any others. Wouldn't be surprised if he ends up with 43%.
Other Candidates in 2016 got 6%. It is realistic that Trumps vote share stays the same but Biden gets a higher share than Clinton did.
I stronlgy disagree with Alastair though that a Trump voteshare of 45% means a Democrat land slide.
OT I've had this new phone less than a week and have just received my first phishing text (purporting to be from HMRC).
Damn: I've just doxxed myself as being not-Liam Fox.
The Government have set up a department to try and make some headway into the scams and phishing emails (not sure about tests).
If you get an obvious phishing email then you forward it to
report@phishing.gov.uk
You get a the following reply:
"Thank you for sending on your suspicious message.
Timely alerts from people like you help us to act quickly and protect many more people from being affected.
As of 30/06/20 the number of reports received stand at more than 1,173,000 with the removal of 4,590 scams and 11,543 URLs.
Thank you for your continued support
Our investigations may take some time. Whilst the NCSC is unable to inform you of the outcome of its review, we can confirm that we do act upon every message received.
We’ll analyse the content of the suspect email and any websites it links to where appropriate.
If we discover activity that we believe is malicious, we may: • seek to block the address the email came from, so it can no longer send emails • work with website hosting companies to remove links to malicious websites • raise awareness of commonly reported suspicious emails and methods used (via partners)"
For the sake of about 5 seconds to forward the email to them it seems like a worthwhile thing to me.
Is that only for phishing emails claiming to be from HMRC or does it apply to eg phishing emails claiming to be from RBS etc?
Any phishing. TV licencing is the big one at the moment. Nut they are happy to get banks etc as well.
Another clown that will come up , hide somewhere for the day, never meet a member of the public or especially the government and run back to England. Wonder if moothie and her new lapdog will be there to lick his butt.
Well, he’s already met @RochdalePioneers. So he’s met at least some members of the public, even if not Scottish ones.
That is a world record for a Tory in Scotland I must admit. Still disgraceful they do not meet Scottish government and pretend they are giving us charity when it is our own money. Still an erchie in my mind if not the worst of them.
You were just complaining that they spend all their time cooped up and not meeting the people, and now you are complaining about the reverse?
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Swab-Seq: A high-throughput platform for massively scaled up SARS-CoV-2 testing
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.04.20167874v1
The rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is due to the high rates of transmission by individuals who are asymptomatic at the time of transmission. Frequent, widespread testing of the asymptomatic population for SARS-CoV-2 is essential to suppress viral transmission and is a key element in safely reopening society. Despite increases in testing capacity, multiple challenges remain in deploying traditional reverse transcription and quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) tests at the scale required for population screening of asymptomatic individuals. We have developed SwabSeq, a high-throughput testing platform for SARS-CoV-2 that uses next-generation sequencing as a readout. SwabSeq employs sample-specific molecular barcodes to enable thousands of samples to be combined and simultaneously analyzed for the presence or absence of SARS-CoV-2 in a single run. Importantly, SwabSeq incorporates an in vitro RNA standard that mimics the viral amplicon, but can be distinguished by sequencing. This standard allows for end-point rather than quantitative PCR, improves quantitation, reduces requirements for automation and sample-to-sample normalization, enables purification-free detection, and gives better ability to call true negatives. We show that SwabSeq can test nasal and oral specimens for SARS-CoV-2 with or without RNA extraction while maintaining analytical sensitivity better than or comparable to that of fluorescence-based RT-qPCR tests. SwabSeq is simple, sensitive, flexible, rapidly scalable, inexpensive enough to test widely and frequently, and can provide a turn around time of 12 to 24 hours...
Viable SARS-CoV-2 in the air of a hospital room with COVID-19 patients
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.03.20167395v1.full.pdf
…Our virus isolation work provides direct evidence that SARS-CoV-2 in aerosols can be viable and thus pose a risk for transmission of the virus. Furthermore, we show a clear progression of virus-induced cytopathic effects in cell culture, and demonstrate that the recovered virus can be serially propagated. Moreover, we demonstrate an essential link: the viruses we isolated in material collected in four air sampling runs and the virus in a newly admitted symptomatic patient in the room were identical. These findings strengthen the notion that airborne transmission of viable SARS-CoV-2 is likely and plays a critical role in the spread of COVID-19…
Damn: I've just doxxed myself as being not-Liam Fox.
Incidentally, how much of the underpinning of the current Conservative lead is the "Brexit is in peril. Defend it with all your might" vote? What happens to that in January?
I think the conservative lead is probably the trust they usually enjoy over the economy and the destruction Corbyn did to the Labour brand
If Boris no deals I have no idea of the consequences but it needs to be avoided if at all possible
If you are in a pub and one of the customers is infected, there is a very good chance that you will get it. One metre, two metres, ten metres. Still at risk.
Just look at Aberdeen.
Oh, and I can post from my laptop for the first time in ages. Hurrah!
https://twitter.com/mlksmommy/status/1291385631550169090
https://twitter.com/mlksmommy/status/1291385639800311809
https://twitter.com/mlksmommy/status/1291385640530182151
If you get an obvious phishing email then you forward it to
report@phishing.gov.uk
You get a the following reply:
"Thank you for sending on your suspicious message.
Timely alerts from people like you help us to act quickly and protect many more people from being affected.
As of 30/06/20 the number of reports received stand at more than 1,173,000 with the removal of 4,590 scams and 11,543 URLs.
Thank you for your continued support
Our investigations may take some time. Whilst the NCSC is unable to inform you of the outcome of its review, we can confirm that we do act upon every message received.
We’ll analyse the content of the suspect email and any websites it links to where appropriate.
If we discover activity that we believe is malicious, we may:
• seek to block the address the email came from, so it can no longer send emails
• work with website hosting companies to remove links to malicious websites
• raise awareness of commonly reported suspicious emails and methods used (via partners)"
For the sake of about 5 seconds to forward the email to them it seems like a worthwhile thing to me.
Important paper, though, since as far as I'm aware, it's the time they've succeeded in culturing the virus from aerosol. It's not easy to so so, as in some respects the virus is quite fragile, and common sampling methods tend to degrade it - whereas it gets a (mechanically) very soft landing when inhaled.
I strongly expect this will not be as close as 2004. It may not even be as close as 2012.
Thame's my thoughts on the matter, anyway.
34 needed to save the follow on.
Moreover, that’s hardly relevant to a river in Connecticut, which was presumably not named before the Roman conquest of Britannia!
But I have to admit I find Totali-Terry-ism hilarious. Be very afraid of Terry Gilliam going into politics.
This is an earthquake through pre conceived ideas
On my USN exchange on CVN-70 the rates got very good medical care. For some of them it would be the first time in their lives. On a 6 month deployment the ship's oral surgeon did over 3,000 surgeries and extracted 1,300 rotten teeth on a crew of just over 5,000!
Bush 2004 was a very narrow victory for Bush - and he's less popular than that.
Carter 1980 was a massive landslide for Reagan, while Bush Snr 1992 was an electoral vote landslide for Clinton.
So he's less popular than a narrowly elected President, but more popular than landslide defeats. The idea that means it will be close therefore is a logical fallacy - its entirely possible it will be a heavy but not landslide defeat.
Bush Snr got 168 electoral votes,
Dubya Bush got 286 electoral votes.
More than 168 but less than 286 is a wide range of possibilities which does not automatically mean it will be close. In fact its hard to be close if he's getting less than 286.
https://twitter.com/wisdencricket/status/1291649026664742912?s=21
Of course, there are others that did undoubtedly go the other way - Berkeley springs to mind.
If it had been pronounced to sound like ‘the’ it would almost certainly have been Anglicised as Yames, which would have been interesting.
If FLA switches to Democrat though, it is hard to imagine that the swing won't pick up the 9 extra EC votes in other states needed for Biden to win. So from the Republican point of view Florida is a must win.
You said it "will be close", that does not follow. Could be and will be are two very different things, he could easily lose heavily and still do better than Carter.
If I was to say it will be the weather somewhere is warmer than than North Pole but colder than Britain in November that would not mean that the temperature is moderate.
Well, at least you had something nice to say to him. I hope he was duly amiable.
Wonder if moothie and her new lapdog will be there to lick his butt.
I see Trump winning 45% or so nationally not much down on the 46.1% he got last time but people may be more motivated to vote against him.
I have the likely order of 'swing states' as something like MI>PA>WI>FL>AZ>NC>OH>GA>IA>TX
He's just not very good in the long form game.
When did England last have a decent keeper?
Isn't it the place with the maddest Mayor in the country?
Apart from, briefly, Chris Read and Warren Hegg.
Now Pope’s out, which sounds like an uncharacteristic stand on gay rights by the Catholic hierarchy, England are going to face a huge deficit even though they’ve just scraped past the follow on.
No batsmen left. Just Buttler and the bowlers.
They got the balance of this side wrong.
My EC spread for Trump right now is 185/195.
Info only - not taking bets - but I will update it weekly so that people know what's going on.
If Trump's vote share is down on 2016 it is GOP apocalypse scenario time.
Simon Calder looking fit and well on the BBC.
Isn't he planning a trip to Brazil or something?
But the point remains either way: Biden has a slightly bigger lead nationally than in (whichever of those is) the tipping point state, but it's not a monster gap, and neither is "close" on current polling.
https://twitter.com/florian_krammer/status/1291699161365086209
Alternatively voters on the Dem side might stay home over the rona / fail to get their postal votes counted / get arrested on the way to the polls, which would increase Trump's share without him needing to add any voters.
I stronlgy disagree with Alastair though that a Trump voteshare of 45% means a Democrat land slide.
election Mich. Jul 25-30, 2020
B+ EPIC-MRA
600 LV
Biden 51%
Biden +11
Trump 40%
Jorgensen 3%
Freiekörperkulture: literally translates as Free Body Culture.
Of course the best ever England (wicket) keeper was Alan Knot, but that's over 40 years ago now.