You really don't get it, do you? This isn't some minor political kerfuffle about fisheries policy in 2003 or whatever. There has never, in my lifetime, been a more important moment for the … (View Post)

We have a lazy (if charismatic) hand-waver in charge at a time when a grasp of the detail would be rather useful. Depressing. (View Post)

Stop gaslighting. The view that Britain acted slowly, that it's been reactive rather than proactive, that care homes were a big problem, that testing was very slow to ramp up... none of these ar… (View Post)

The big mistake this makes is to think that the only behavioural change in early March was that people started washing their hands. In fact, the level of concern was such that people had substantiall… (View Post)

Absolutely right. I'm not saying both procedures in Chinese (and other labs) and the operation of wet markets aren't valid issues in the aftermath of this. But it's also very obvious i… (View Post)