But then people like Whitty, Vallance, SAGE and Independent SAGE wouldn't be relevant any more. And costs for the whole COVID industry except vaccine makers would be stranded. Did you think of a… (View Post)

I'm afraid it is one of those words where the popular meaning ("increasing scarily fast") has been completely divorced from the academic one ("changing by a power ratio"). (View Post)

Yes it seems to be all over Europe, in Australasia and the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Delta_variant#/media/File:B.1.1.617_sequences_by_country_as_of_21_April_2021.svg And those coun… (View Post)

The government bizarrely and pointlessly undermined the success of its own world-beating vaccine programme by saying that in the spring that it was lockdown that kept deaths down, not vaccinations. G… (View Post)

Yes, the biggest lesson I've taken from the last year is that most people in this country will trade all their freedom for a tiny bit of extra safety without any hesitation. That and the cult of… (View Post)