The number one target for any public health campaign, now that smoking has been marginalised, should be obesity. (View Post)

Difficult to say. Some people are quite excited about using this to promote a permanent cultural shift in attitudes to respiratory illnesses - basically, to try to break the culture of presenteeism a… (View Post)

Once again, the rolling average case rate is down by about five in just a single day (84.4 per 100k yesterday, 79.7 per 100k today.) The number of local authority areas with rates over 200 per 100k i… (View Post)

This is also why people are choosing to put up with restrictions for a bit longer - because they believe that they're finite and have some confidence in the Government. We've seen what happ… (View Post)

The Chinese restrictions are, of course, qualitatively different. The UK Government wants to stop people going on sunshine holidays and bringing exotic varieties of Plague back with them. The Chinese… (View Post)