On topic, I wouldn't expect Boris to get back to his April peak, which was a freak number resulting from the 9/11 effect where when a leader massively fails and causes lots of voters to die, the… (View Post)

Life *was* going on, parliament were meeting perfectly adequately over the internet. Getting the prevalence "fairly low" isn't enough if you go back to exact same habits that caused it… (View Post)

So I'm back to scratching my head about why the British government is so terrible at governmenting. Initially I thought they were just slow to update their mental models of the world, so when th… (View Post)

Give them a tablet to order with on the wifi, shorely? Inevitably if you're trying to reopen while still containing the virus there are going to be some edge cases where sadly the place can'… (View Post)

Protecting vulnerable people is a sensible-sounding idea but is there any location anywhere that has managed to pull it off while letting the virus spread? If you have no practical plan to do it, let… (View Post)