I think a decent chunk of it is from the non-elderly and non-vulnerable who have been encouraged to inaccurately equate “almost certainly won’t actually kill you” with “hey, you’re unaffected!” I’ve … (View Post)

Okay, fair's fair: We saw Alistair Haimes' name raised earlier, and I've just found out that he has written this: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lockdown-sceptics-should-support-t… (View Post)

When we talk about averages, we have mean, median, and mode, of course. Mean: add them all up and divide by how many "them" there were Median: Order "them" numerically and pick th… (View Post)

Um. I may be missing the point, but if a health service that can barely cope with a normal winter runs into a one-in-a-century pandemic reaching a crescendo over winter, surely "No big deal"… (View Post)

Indeed. Regardless of the impossibility of protecting the vulnerable while allowing the epidemic to rage freely around the community, ignoring the vast death tolls amongst even the younger demographi… (View Post)