We (the whole world that is) have been incredibly lucky that this pandemic came along at a time when we could develop not just one but three, four or five viable vaccines, two of which appear to prov… (View Post)

I retract, retreat, fold, ignominiously. (View Post)

What the lockdown skeptics /also/ ignore that in this situation, your available medical staff are not some renewable resource that you can replenish at will. They are human beings subject to ordinary… (View Post)

What is it with people and this denial of how exponential growth works? Gove was right: with a doubling time of (for the sake of argument) 10 days and a lag between infection and hospital admissions … (View Post)

Yet only yesterday I saw a job advertised by an EU company that was right up my street, even encouraged applicants who wanted to work remotely, but no non-EU applicants could be accepted, including t… (View Post)