Quite. To take just one example: through the magic of moden medicine, someone with diabetes is no longer consigned to a guaranteed early & painful death but can live a full, productive and happy … (View Post)

Delta had a 0.2% case fatality rate in a vaccinated & partially previously infected population. Alpha, infecting a naive population had a much, much higher fatality rate. (Wikipedia claims 2.88% … (View Post)

Absolutely not. No first lockdown results in the NHS being completely swamped with cases. We barely coped as it was, with all the extra capacity the NHS threw together at short notice (with no direct… (View Post)

The great irony being, inevitably, that it’s mostly the Treasury’s fault that HS2 is so expensive in the first place. They create the very problem they complain about & then use that expense as a… (View Post)

A native french speaker won’t sound the t on the end of pret. (Also, it’s prêt à manger but the accents would just confuse I guess.) (View Post)