The longer the EU row goes on the better it is for Hancock and Johnson – politicalbetting.com
The latest research on the effectiveness of the AZC/Oxford vaccine reinforces the kudos for Hancock in getting early supplies and being a media savvy politician it was he who was the minister doing the round of morning media appearance.
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They stated the scientific community divided over 3 week vs 3 month gap...ok, on Pfizer right, no, no mention of that....new paper says 3 month doesn't lower efficacy..grrrhhhh...no it finds it is optimal range...and in conclusion, this paper suggests government gamble might be right....no it says nothing about Pfizer.
And zero mention of amazing results in terms of no hospitalisations.
i mean FFS...and this is from their supposed health correspondent.
This confusion (media favourite word) is worse than stuff like peoppe died yesterday reports.
https://twitter.com/DrAlexGeorge/status/1356867176561532928?s=19
https://twitter.com/lisaocarroll/status/1356911827721080838
(In base 6)
https://twitter.com/TomMcTague/status/1356911825980432384?s=20
I think the problem some on the left have is they reject "the nation" as "the collective".
"Why can't UK copy Australia and 'batten down hatches' to stop COVID?
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said the UK could not "close down" its borders to tackle coronavirus in the same way as countries such as Australia.
He told the Commons Transport Select Committee: "People say 'why don't we just close down and then we'll be safe?'
"But, of course, we wouldn't be safe, because we are an island nation - unlike Australia or something which is an entire continent - and that means that we need to get medicines in, we need to get food in, we need to get our raw materials in, sometimes we have to move people around, scientists and others."
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-covid-news-latest-updates-in-coronavirus-lockdown-12205059
Used in precisely the same way as Just William talking about jammie dodgers.
Occasionally VEB gets activated.
"We are going to thkweem and thkweem and thkweem until you are sick."
This is a circle which can't be squared yet for Labour.
I expect that metric to last until the UK starts doing second doses at scale.....
https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1356872414114828288?s=20
https://twitter.com/leonardocarella/status/1356733812915511300?s=20
Or, more succinctly...
On the other hand, it highlights the completely unworkable "solution" which they insisted on for Northern Ireland. Who knew that placing a border down the Irish Sea and making Norniron unionists at best semi-detached from the rest of the UK might not be a good idea?
Oh yes, thats right. Boris Johnson knew. "No British Prime Minister, especially a Tory one, would ever do such a thing". Perhaps he should have a word with himself.
More accurately its politically far harder for us to do this than Australia / New Zealand which are a long distance away or the IoM / channel islands that are far smaller.
You go further though into hating your own compatriots. You should be banished to Hartlepool until you can get over your irrationality.
https://twitter.com/breeallegretti/status/1356904251864330240?s=20
Any government would be effected by it , and how it handles the debt once the pandemic is eventually under control.
You watch in 6 weeks when UK smashing the 2nd doses, he will pick something else.
https://twitter.com/lookner/status/1356782078579396609
https://twitter.com/IanWishart/status/1356919494229303297?s=20
https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1273169395515351040
What are the other options?
"Chair: Carol’s question was, is there a particular time that you are looking forward at, to anticipate a need for a surge?
Baroness Harding: I defer to the clinical experts on that rather than think that it is my job to know the answer to that question."
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She does not think it is her job to know when the increases for testing were likely to happen. Absolutely fine to defer to the experts as to when the demand might be, nonsensical that you can be responsible for testing and have no interest or understanding of what the demand will be.
The Treasury has enough problems working out where to get lost Business Rates revenue from now the High Street is dead and offices aren't as necessary as they were a year ago.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-orthodox-jews-london-b1796482.html
A perfect attitude for winning seats in the World Parliament (which, er, doesn't exist) and losing them in the UK Parliament (which does).
Some advanced data from the publicly available UK dataset:
First wave:
Older cohorts - 40% drop in peak hospitalisation rate after 20 days.
Younger cohorts - 60% drop in peak hospitalisation rate after 20 days.
Second wave:
Older cohorts - 34% drop in peak hospitalisation rate after 20 days.
Younger cohorts - 28% drop in peak hospitalisation rate after 20 days.
The younger cohorts are coming down almost exactly as expected on the basis of Kent COVID having a 50% higher transmission rate. If older people were following the same reduction we'd have seen a reduction of just 13-16% in the hospitalisation rate by now, we actually have a 34% drop. Vaccines are making a huge difference and in the next two weeks it should become even clearer as the hospitalisation rate for old people drops even faster.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-admin-us-troops-afghanistan-amid-escalating-violence/story?id=75547504&cid=social_twitter_abcn
We are going to have fun in the next year - companies will start demanding COVID vaccinations, as condition of employment. People will be arguing in court this is against their rights
https://twitter.com/gorbalsgoebbels/status/1356921629792759810?s=20
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-400-wedding-stamford-hill-covid-rules-b900761.html
But just as the Brexit Referendum required most of us to make a forced choice between leave and remain, neither of which most wanted as most wanted a reformed EU, perhaps NI needs to have a forced choice and to grow up. Stage one of the forced choice would be to grant NI independent status with HM as head of state but being neither in UK or RI, and then for NI and no-one else to determine its future. The UN can have a mandate to protect its peace. Can the NI possibly grow up until it learns, like a stroppy 20 something, to leave home, get a job and make tough choices without relying on mum and dad?
Bit like saying sailors know how to go about doing deals for aircraft carriers.
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This is grim in the circumstances, but also oddly expressed. Time to become a Christian man...
'Even after adjusting for socio-economic factors, data from Public Health England shows that Jewish men are twice as likely to die from Covid-19 than Christian men in the UK.'
She should be good at that.
A comparison with say orthodox Islamic families in Bradford may be instructive.
Basically, it's a right pickle and no mistaking, missus.
One had relevant expertise; the other didn't.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9218431/Captain-Sir-Tom-Moore-tested-negative-coronavirus-testing-positive-stay-hospital.html
Worth noting that the report Roger links to relates to (as far as I can tell) the ultra-orthodox community specifically, which is a fairly small and self-contained part of the wider community. Although it's pretty clear that the findings are applicable to both, albeit to differing extents.
Vaccination is not against anyone's beliefs and if someone does not want to have one then they need to accept the consequences for themselves of their actions. Not seek to pass those consequences onto others.
The Orthodox Jewish community is behaving disgracefully in flouting the regulations in this way. I really don't see why they should be treated as exempt from the rules or their enforcement.
It only exists because of Brexit.
Who do you blame for that?
In the cost benefit analysis for vaccines, rapid results means trillions of dollars, globally.
And you can vaccinate the entire globe for a few tens of billions.
Haggling was utterly pointless.
The solution (long-term) will have to be an SPS arrangement/derogation for *the whole* of the British Isles.
It makes no sense to have free movement of people in the CTA, but no free movement of animals and plants, when the British/Irish farming system is effectively one and has all the same standards and rules anyway.
Don't care about the Captain - can quite understand why a free holiday at age 100 would appeal. But as a more general point, were foreign holidays permitted?
https://twitter.com/joannaccherry/status/1356721676021608449?s=20
The latest AZ study from last night is absolutely incredible and it was done in the background of the Brazil variant for around half the cohort so to come out at 82% efficacy against any symptoms, a two thirds reduction in infection and a 100% reduction in severe symptoms, hospitalisation and death is the best news we've had since the start of this. A $4 vaccine will save millions of lives.
The Ultra Ultra You Bet We are More Ultra types glory in their resistance to... reality pretty much.
It's worth pointing out that in Judaism, as in Islam, there are ancient, ancient rulings in the scholarship that when it comes to clash between religion rules and preserving life, preserving life should come first.
So, ironically, the hard core characters are breaking the rules here.
Personal note : I'm half Jewish.
Liz Truss used to advocate it too.
But yes it will be a bigger issue for him. Because he already has a patriotism issue and frankly Liz Truss does not.
When you lose the benefit of the doubt it becomes harder to avoid tough questions.
And the tables
https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/pdqzw72qoe/InternalResults_Favourabilitty_210125.pdf
Of course, he will try - but he won't be believed.
It's not a mistake Blair (or even Brown) would have ever made.
What gives you the right to trash a religions views, other than arrogance and intolerance of other peoples views
If they want go believe in their God who are you to make snide remarks about something they hold dear
I am not Jewish and have no reason to defend them but it tires me when I see such prejudice
In this time of crisis coming together and witnessing the good news of Jesus is the only way we can bring redemption to the world (I paraphrase but only in detail not intent).