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Until the YouGov CON 13% lead is supported by other polling then it should be treated as an outlier

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  • TimTTimT Posts: 6,468
    The US to be swimming in vaccines within 2 months - 500m vaccines on the way:

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/03/09/covid-19-vaccine-us-surplus-april-coronavirus/4595458001/
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 44,101

    Am I the only one who watched Piers Morgan and Susannah Reid's interview of Thomas Markle on GMB this morning?
    I would need to be shot , chopped up and put in a bag before I would watch those two complete arses.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 79,234
    Bloody hell

    https://twitter.com/UKCovid19Stats/status/1369334678574993409

    87 positives out of nowhere on the Isle of Man.
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 19,161

    And so it begins.

    How many days before we are being told the roadmap is on hold due to a spike in cases?

    https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1369301855348666376

    Whitty and Vallance made a point of saying explicitly, at the briefing with the unlockdown plan, that they would expect an increase in cases when the schools go back and that alone would not cause a delay.
  • TimTTimT Posts: 6,468
    Pulpstar said:

    Mail headline: Palace 'fears Harry and Meghan will NAME Royal
    Checks story: 1,2,3,..... 15 photos of Prince Charles !

    It's funny, the moment I read about that part of the interview, I heard a Prince Charles voice in my head saying the words ...
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,795
    kle4 said:

    I love the marathon/sprint analogy, used to claim going faster is a bad thing essentially (until they have gone faster). People still run fast in a marathon, in fact they go as fast as they possibly can. If they could physically sprint a marathon they would.
    Some of them do! Amazing to think that the top male marathon runners average a mile about every four and a half minutes. That's absolutely mind-blowing to me.
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,822

    And going back in dribs and drabs while pubs are closed won't have the debauchery associated with Freshers Week.

    Possibly not, but they've got a lot of debauchery to catch up on.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,810
    edited March 2021
    Cookie said:

    I'm a lockdown sceptic, and I didn't really find much to complain about in what Chris Whitty said. It was pretty factual - 'the modelling shows another surge' etc. Now we might disbelieve the modelling, but he wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't report what it was saying.

    And I wouldn't expect deaths to go down to zero. The point is to see deaths in the right context.

    Exactly. It joins the flu. There's a touch of paranoia around imo. Perhaps understandably given the strange experience we're living through. It's affecting us all in different ways. Certainly is me. I've forgotten many of the social niceties. Feeling a bit "wild".
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 44,101
    Floater said:

    Well, she would say that or it would stink even more. ( I keep notes on all meetings other than those ........ )

    But someone who does not minute meetings that really need to be minuted should surely be for the bin?
    Should have been long ago. Given they had to order a search of the civil service documents as they had not been handing over the evidence, she had to be recalled after forgetting meetings under oath , so she could admit she now remembered them and yet still could not recall the content etc.
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,422
    Pulpstar said:

    Bloody hell

    https://twitter.com/UKCovid19Stats/status/1369334678574993409

    87 positives out of nowhere on the Isle of Man.

    Very similar to Guernsey at the end of January - and like Guernsey prompt lockdown. Guernsey now has 4 cases and no new cases for 10 days.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,594

    Some of them do! Amazing to think that the top male marathon runners average a mile about every four and a half minutes. That's absolutely mind-blowing to me.
    Oh indeed. I was speaking equivalently - it's faster than many people sprint, but for them they could still, over short periods (like right at the end) go faster than through most of the race.

    That people speed up at the end of a marathon/10000m whatever is pretty mindblowing. I know why 100m is more of a spectacle, but it doesn't wow like the long distance guys for me.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 83,526
    edited March 2021
    Pulpstar said:

    Mail headline: Palace 'fears Harry and Meghan will NAME Royal
    Checks story: 1,2,3,..... 15 photos of Prince Charles !

    I presume it is totally coincidental that he basically doesn't talk to his dad at all now.

    If it was him, it would be quite surprising it was said an intentionally racist way, unlike some Royals.

    As Charles has always made a big thing of his much more modern outlook e.g. all the eco stuff, and then after that long running Guardian legal battle, we got what he privately writes to the government and it was all stuff like demanding answers over what they intend to do about to help protect the lesser spotted newt that plays an important role in some Amazonian tribe continued existence.

    I think even the Guardian were embarrassed about how "right on" some of the stuff was.
  • BluestBlueBluestBlue Posts: 4,556
    dixiedean said:

    Precisely. He's an arsehole without a clear ideology. Enabling him to bestride the gulf of professional arseholery like a Colossus. With both left and right able to point and shout "What a massive arsehole!" in unison. Whilst occasionally thinking sometimes he has a grain of a point. (Despite being an arsehole).
    Clever positioning.
    Unfortunately for us, this pinnacle of proctanthropy always seems to be positioned directly overhead...
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 19,161
    Pulpstar said:

    Mail headline: Palace 'fears Harry and Meghan will NAME Royal
    Checks story: 1,2,3,..... 15 photos of Prince Charles !

    Might explain why he wasn't returning Harry's phone calls, if they'd fallen out over him being called racist.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,594
    I try not to get offended by crass metaphors - open that door and it tirns out a lot of people will be guily - so it has to be a high bar.
  • OmniumOmnium Posts: 11,482
    malcolmg said:

    I would need to be shot , chopped up and put in a bag before I would watch those two complete arses.
    I'd happily be shot, chopped up, and put in a bag if you found me watching them.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,548

    OK so what she's complaining about is only if the test is done at school - and the schools are doing the tests this week, then they go to home tests and the new rule applies?

    Sounds irritating but still better to have most kids at school even if a few stay at home. Its progress.
    Definitely progress. We can agree on that.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,219
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  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    I presume it is totally coincidental that he basically doesn't talk to his dad at all now.

    If it was him, it would be quite surprising it was said an intentionally racist way, unlike some Royals.

    As Charles has always made a big thing of his much more modern outlook e.g. all the eco stuff, and then after that long running Guardian legal battle, we got what he privately writes to the government and it was all stuff like demanding answers over what they intend to do about to help protect the lesser spotted newt that plays an important some Amazonian tribe continued existence.
    Given the similarities between the poor way Meghan has been treated and the poor way Diana was, there would be a certain poetry if Charles were at fault for both.

    And he's meant to be our future King "long to rule over us" 😕
  • The poll was done immediately after the budget. Nothing more to say.

    RedfieldWilton was done on the 8th March
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,867
    Pulpstar said:

    Mail headline: Palace 'fears Harry and Meghan will NAME Royal
    Checks story: 1,2,3,..... 15 photos of Prince Charles !

    The way the picture's are framed on the home page William and Kate are on the right and left hand sides with Charles and Camilla in the center and Camilla IN FRONT of Charles ;)
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  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,594
    It's the 'We're really stupid' defence, last refuge of many a political figure.

    It can be true, many people act very stupidly, but you don't admit to being really bad at your jobs like that if you have any other defence available.
  • John Swinney to face a no confidence vote tomorrow
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,219
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  • TimTTimT Posts: 6,468

    Europe aren't treating vaccination like a marathon, either. More like dressage.
    LOL. A typical Grand Prix dressage test takes around 6 minutes to complete. It just seems like an eternity to anyone who does not ride dressage.
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    edited March 2021
    Age related data scaled too 100k population per age group

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  • BBC

    41,000 complaints to Ofcom re Piers Morgan comments today
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 54,219
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  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,810

    39% is actually an amazingly high number for re-join, considering we'd be re-joining on massively worse terms, from our standpoint, than those we had when we left. And never mind the years of grinding and divisive negotiation required. I'd like to see a poll on how many people would like to magically wish Brexit away - no regrets, no surrender, no blame, no guilt, no recriminations. It just never happened. I reckon it would be 80-20 in favour of Remain.
    That is higher than I'd have guessed, yes. But I'm not sure about your 80/20 to do a Bobby and wake up in the shower. I'd put it at 40/60. That 40 being so close to 39 as to perhaps be the same people. People like you. People like me. Good people. :smile:
  • justin124justin124 Posts: 11,527
    I am surprised by that - having been impressed by her Covid interviews.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,705
    kinabalu said:

    Exactly. It joins the flu. There's a touch of paranoia around imo. Perhaps understandably given the strange experience we're living through. It's affecting us all in different ways. Certainly is me. I've forgotten many of the social niceties. Feeling a bit "wild".
    I fully expect the timetable to be stuck to. My point earlier was that everyone has their red lines and one person's "Surely they will open up earlier given the stats" is another's "Best to wait a few more months to be sure". Both scenarios should be in anyone's analysis.

    I give extension as no more than a 15-1 shot and I'll have a fiver with you on it as you kindly offered.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,939

    BBC

    41,000 complaints to Ofcom re Piers Morgan comments today

    Is that up or down on the usual?
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 65,029
    edited March 2021
    Breaking

    Buckingham Palace saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Megan
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,594

    Breaking

    Buckingham Palace saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Megan

    I'm more concerned that a building has become sentient enough to express emotion.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,705
    edited March 2021
    TimT said:

    LOL. A typical Grand Prix dressage test takes around 6 minutes to complete. It just seems like an eternity to anyone who does not ride dressage.
    One year at Burghley a friend and I finally found somewhere nice and quiet to sit and chat and were happily doing so for some time before we noticed the looks of death from those around us. At which point we realised that we had inadvertently wandered into the dressage arena.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,810
    dixiedean said:

    Precisely. He's an arsehole without a clear ideology. Enabling him to bestride the gulf of professional arseholery like a Colossus. With both left and right able to point and shout "What a massive arsehole!" in unison. Whilst occasionally thinking sometimes he has a grain of a point. (Despite being an arsehole).
    Clever positioning.
    That's spot on. The notion of him running as a populist politician is not ludicrous.
  • Alphabet_SoupAlphabet_Soup Posts: 3,591
    edited March 2021
    kinabalu said:

    Yes, and there were many like you. Leavers, really, but too wussy to vote for it. This is why 52/48 does not sum up the result. It wasn't, in truth, that close. The true mood of the nation was clear Leave. It was a mood landslide.
    I felt on balance that the benefits of international cooperation outweighed the loss of sovereignty and I was disappointed that a small majority felt differently. And I agree with the view that many of them were misled about the likely gains and will eventually come to realise this. But rejoining isn't the answer. The omelette has been cooked.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,594
    Someone is in line for a royal spanking, I presume the main punishment for family.
  • kle4 said:

    I'm more concerned that a building has become sentient enough to express emotion.
    Maybe Sky should have added statement
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 24,273

    Given the similarities between the poor way Meghan has been treated and the poor way Diana was, there would be a certain poetry if Charles were at fault for both.

    And he's meant to be our future King "long to rule over us" 😕
    How about a hybrid monarchy? Only the top 10 in the line of succession and over 18 can stand, but beyond that is just directly elected.
  • Buckingham Palace statement continues

    The issues are concerning and will be addressed privately
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,422
    edited March 2021
    https://twitter.com/AllieHBNews/status/1369341089765863424?s=20

    To the uncharitable:
    "full extent" - "they didn't tell us"
    "recollections may vary" - "liars"
    "addressed by the family privately" - "we're not taking part in this circus"
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,594

    How about a hybrid monarchy? Only the top 10 in the line of succession and over 18 can stand, but beyond that is just directly elected.
    I see no flaws whatsover in a system which puts royals against each other over the succession, history has shown that works out fine.

    I'd go the other route, Ottoman it and have all but the heir...taken care of, at their accession.
  • BluestBlueBluestBlue Posts: 4,556
    kle4 said:

    I'm more concerned that a building has become sentient enough to express emotion.
    Sky News seems to have succumbed to the 'pathetic palacey'...
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,810
    kle4 said:

    I've said before I have a weird respect for Piers Morgan. I've been aware of him as a person for nearly 20 years and in all that time it seems as though everyone hates him, yet he's managed to have what appears to be a successful and diverse career in that time.
    Glad you put the "weird" in there. It makes all the difference. The post would not work without it. As it is, weirdly, it does.
  • Alphabet_SoupAlphabet_Soup Posts: 3,591
    edited March 2021

    How about a hybrid monarchy? Only the top 10 in the line of succession and over 18 can stand, but beyond that is just directly elected.
    I commend the ancient rules for the succession of Welsh princes. No namby pamby primogeniture. Distant cousins slug it out and the cruellest bastard wins, thereby producing a leader that everyone can look up to (or else).
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,867
    I don't think that's going to cut the mustard!

    At this point I'd say whoever made the comment about Archie's skin colour needs to admit it and get their version of events out there.

    It's going to come out in the end anyway. These things always do...
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,867

    BBC

    41,000 complaints to Ofcom re Piers Morgan comments today

    I wonder whether Piers Morgan is about to go out in a "blaze of glory" moment on GMB and then join GB News?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,594
    Quite. It definitely has a lawyer vibe to it (not that that is a surprise) - keep it short and say no more than necessary (remember Trump's belated 'call' condemnation of the coup rioters?)

    'Saddened to learn' - We dispute that you raised this
    'Recollections vary' - We don't accept the allegations
    'Will be addressed' - but it's serious enough we have to say we are doing something

    Back covering, sure, but it is actually correct that this be dealt with privately - this is a family dispute, ultimately, albeit a very high profile family. A resolution of any kind is not likely, but isn't helped by further escalation in public.

  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,422
    Domestic cruises in the UK could resume from 17 May, according to the maritime minister.

    The All Party Parliamentary Maritime and Ports Group said that Robert Courts MP made the announcement in a meeting on Monday.


    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56336787
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 19,161

    https://twitter.com/AllieHBNews/status/1369341089765863424?s=20

    To the uncharitable:
    "full extent" - "they didn't tell us"
    "recollections may vary" - "liars"
    "addressed by the family privately" - "we're not taking part in this circus"

    I was thinking, "full extent" could be said to be, "we ignored it at the time".
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,422
    rcs1000 said:

    It's amazing how many people still don't get this.

    If only someone had recognised this early...
    But can the states distribute them & do enough (Republicans) want them?
  • kle4 said:
    Greens entering dangerous waters with May just round the corner
  • TimTTimT Posts: 6,468
    TOPPING said:

    One year at Burghley a friend and I finally found somewhere nice and quiet to sit and chat and were happily doing so for some time before we noticed the looks of death from those around us. At which point we realised that we had inadvertently wandered into the dressage arena.
    My daughter rides both Eventing (3 Star) and Dressage (Grand Prix), so I am not allowed to make dressage jokes at home.
  • MortimerMortimer Posts: 14,188
    Thats an idea. Don't ban foreign flights, just make them temporarily eyewateringly expensive.
  • EndillionEndillion Posts: 4,976

    I commend the ancient rules for the succession of Welsh princes. No namby pamby primogeniture. Distant cousins slug it out and the cruellest bastard wins, thereby producing a leader that everyone can look up to (or else).
    As a compromise, I am totally up for the restoration of the Witenagemot, and with it an elective monarchy.

    The Queen has been on the throne for ages. She must have accumulated enough Prestige* to do this by now.

    *I may or may not have spent more time than is healthy playing Crusader Kings recently.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,810
    edited March 2021
    Stocky said:

    The talk at the time was specifically of a "two week circuit breaker".

    See:

    www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4038
    Thanks. Yes, I remember that. But it kind of supports my point. That was one specific instance. If a circuit breaker was defined as being 2 weeks you'd only need to refer to it as a circuit breaker. The "two week" bit would be gratuitous.

    If the discussion was about that specific instance rather than in general, ok, fair enough, but I saw the statement "lockdowns work, circuit breakers don't" and it sounded like a proposed iron law.

    But anyway. I sense a torrid no-score draw.
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 39,823
    rcs1000 said:

    It's amazing how many people still don't get this.

    If only someone had recognised this early...
    That doesn't specifically help Europe though as the US will likely prefer to use its spare capacity to counter Chinese vaccine diplomacy in APAC and over here our spare capacity has basically already been pledged to developing nations eligible for foreign aid.

    The issue Europe has is that it underinvested from April 2020 until January 2021 and now they have got 9 months of catching up to do relative to the UK or US who both invested very heavily in domestic production and domestic supply chains to support independent manufacturing.

    I don't see either the US or UK using bought spare capacity to bail out the EU, which leaves them playing catch up with their own domestic manufacturing. Something they may struggle to attract private investment for now that their export bans have been realised so it's all going to have to come from the public purse.
  • TimTTimT Posts: 6,468
    rcs1000 said:

    It's amazing how many people still don't get this.

    If only someone had recognised this early...
    I was going to reference you in posting this, but forgot your exact tag. Should have just said Robert
  • MaxPBMaxPB Posts: 39,823
    @rcs1000 I remember you were asking about when Novavax will gain approval in the UK, I saw some research today that said the rolling review process is scheduled to update in the final week of March and deliveries of the vaccine will commence in the second week of April.
  • GIN1138 said:

    I wonder whether Piers Morgan is about to go out in a "blaze of glory" moment on GMB and then join GB News?
    Maybe. But ITV is still a serious soap box in a way GB News just isn't going to be. That's why he gets 41k complaints, whereas he wouldn't get a fraction of that on, say, Al Jazeera or even Sky, let alone GB News.

    There's a big calculation for those leaving the BBC or ITV. You might get a five year contract with a very nice number at the bottom of it. But where do you go from there? You spend that period very well remunerated but drifting into irrelevance. These places are first jobs for emerging talents, but graveyards for old hands. Maybe he doesn't care - he'd be 60 in five years and might be eyeing the size of the final pay cheque - but I suspect otherwise.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,810
    MattW said:

    The famous Drakeford one was 2 weeks, iirc.
    Yes, that one was. But is that the only circuit breaker executed by anybody during the pandemic? Quite a claim to fame for Mark Drakeford if that's the case. Future pub quiz question.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 44,101

    John Swinney to face a no confidence vote tomorrow

    Greens will save him , they will be on a promise.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,295
    "The figures offer yet more proof that Covid is much deadlier than flu, which kills around 0.1 per cent of everyone infected. Not everyone in England has even had coronavirus, meaning the true infection fatality rate (IFR) of the illness will be much higher. No10's top scientists believe the overall IFR is around 0.5 per cent but the disease is a lot deadlier to the elderly."

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9326909/Nearly-0-4-people-living-two-Essex-boroughs-died-Covid-pandemic-began.html
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 127,062
    Classy statement from Buckingham Palace
  • WhisperingOracleWhisperingOracle Posts: 9,938
    edited March 2021
    HYUFD said:
    Yes. It reminds me of the Queen at her conciliatory best from the Covid broadcast.
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 20,176
    The comments from the Royal Family seem sensible and measured to me.
  • EndillionEndillion Posts: 4,976
    Nice ambiguity there as to whether it's the allegations that are concerning, or the fact/way they've been made.
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,422
    HYUFD said:
    It will be interesting to see how the Sussexes reply.....last time they had to have a bit of snark......
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 20,176
    HYUFD said:
    Unlike your comments on the matter
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,400
    MaxPB said:

    That doesn't specifically help Europe though as the US will likely prefer to use its spare capacity to counter Chinese vaccine diplomacy in APAC and over here our spare capacity has basically already been pledged to developing nations eligible for foreign aid.

    The issue Europe has is that it underinvested from April 2020 until January 2021 and now they have got 9 months of catching up to do relative to the UK or US who both invested very heavily in domestic production and domestic supply chains to support independent manufacturing.

    I don't see either the US or UK using bought spare capacity to bail out the EU, which leaves them playing catch up with their own domestic manufacturing. Something they may struggle to attract private investment for now that their export bans have been realised so it's all going to have to come from the public purse.
    With all due respect, I think you're still missing the scale of the increase in vaccine production, and that fact that the producers of vaccines are private companies.

    Don't forget Novavax is manufacturing with an Indian partner, Moderna with a Swiss one, and J&J is also announcing non-US manufacturing partners in the coming weeks. CureVac has signed up Bayer and Novartis to manufacture for it. Plus there's the billion doses each from Pfizer and AZ this year.

    Let's put this in context for a second, the Lonza plant in Switzerland alone will be producing close to a million doses a day from the end of April.

    You are also seeing European countries go beyond the EU now. Denmark and Austria have struck deals with Israel to pick up their excess doses, to example.

    The EU will be functionally done by the end of summer, because the doses exist, and these are rich countries that can afford to write checks.
  • Richard_NabaviRichard_Nabavi Posts: 30,822
    TOPPING said:

    One year at Burghley a friend and I finally found somewhere nice and quiet to sit and chat and were happily doing so for some time before we noticed the looks of death from those around us. At which point we realised that we had inadvertently wandered into the dressage arena.

    Dressage richly deserves its reputation as the most tedious spectacle known to mankind. It's also quite baffling: the contestants enter the arena and do their stuff, and then the judges put up scores presumably based on some criteria, but what these criteria might be is completely unfathomable. I did once attend a rodeo in Texas, which works on the same principle and is equally baffling, but it was much more entertaining, seeing as the exercises involve things like the rider leaping off the horse at high speed on to a steer, rather than having the horse lift its left foot six inches.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 53,674

    Given the similarities between the poor way Meghan has been treated and the poor way Diana was, there would be a certain poetry if Charles were at fault for both.

    And he's meant to be our future King "long to rule over us" 😕
    Not if we were to become a republic :innocent:
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,810

    The proposed SAGE circuit break was explicitly for 2 weeks. As Wales tried and it didn't work.

    See the Times article Andy linked to that started this discussion.
    Yes, I get it now. I was fooled by the way you put it - Lockdowns Work. Circuit breakers Don't.

    Like that was a law of science or something. But it was just you being you. It's fine.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 83,526
    Its a very brief statement from the palace.
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 20,176

    Its a very brief statement from the palace.

    Less is more, at least that's what I tell my girlfriend.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    MaxPB said:

    That doesn't specifically help Europe though as the US will likely prefer to use its spare capacity to counter Chinese vaccine diplomacy in APAC and over here our spare capacity has basically already been pledged to developing nations eligible for foreign aid.

    The issue Europe has is that it underinvested from April 2020 until January 2021 and now they have got 9 months of catching up to do relative to the UK or US who both invested very heavily in domestic production and domestic supply chains to support independent manufacturing.

    I don't see either the US or UK using bought spare capacity to bail out the EU, which leaves them playing catch up with their own domestic manufacturing. Something they may struggle to attract private investment for now that their export bans have been realised so it's all going to have to come from the public purse.
    I imagine it will depend upon how big of a cheque the EU are prepared to write?
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,795
    kle4 said:

    Oh indeed. I was speaking equivalently - it's faster than many people sprint, but for them they could still, over short periods (like right at the end) go faster than through most of the race.

    That people speed up at the end of a marathon/10000m whatever is pretty mindblowing. I know why 100m is more of a spectacle, but it doesn't wow like the long distance guys for me.
    Andy_JS said:

    "The figures offer yet more proof that Covid is much deadlier than flu, which kills around 0.1 per cent of everyone infected. Not everyone in England has even had coronavirus, meaning the true infection fatality rate (IFR) of the illness will be much higher. No10's top scientists believe the overall IFR is around 0.5 per cent but the disease is a lot deadlier to the elderly."

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9326909/Nearly-0-4-people-living-two-Essex-boroughs-died-Covid-pandemic-began.html

    “No10's top scientists believe the overall IFR is around 0.5 per cent but the disease is a lot deadlier to the elderly.”

    This ‘explanatory’ paragraph makes me wonder whether it’s the reader, or the writer, that needs a course in basic statistics.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 127,062

    Unlike your comments on the matter
    I can say what I really think, they have to take the moral high ground but some subtle digs there too 'recollections may vary' for example
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,594
    edited March 2021

    Unlike your comments on the matter
    HYUFD is a loyal, determined footsoldier, they're allowed to be a bit rough around the edges compared to the senior commanders.

    Honestly it's not a particularly classy statement, it's careful.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 44,101

    Its a very brief statement from the palace.

    Short and classy unlike the tacky US 2 hour whinge fest.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 127,062

    It will be interesting to see how the Sussexes reply.....last time they had to have a bit of snark......
    They have had their five minutes and this statement was well crafted enough to be seen to be taking the allegations seriously without admitting guilt they cannot really say much in response
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