Nothing other than the vaccines matters. Social distancing, contact tracing, masks, isolation, quarantining are all basically irrelevant now. The NPIs will not stop Delta, but the vaccines will save … (View Post)

The behaviour of some of our European neighbours, not friends, regarding AZ has been almost as bad as some of the mad stuff Trump came out with about covid. The have blood on their hands. (View Post)

I think Labour would have done a worse job than the Tories tackling covid. Their instincts are simply wrong for such a crisis. They would get the state to do everything, join the EU vaccine scheme, t… (View Post)

I love it, it's one of the most enjoyable things about elections in the UK, that vast resevoir of quiet patriotic right-wing voters that gives the like of Corbyn a kicking. (View Post)

New Zealand started very well, but they are now in the position of having a still mostly vulnerable population with the virus much more transmissible and somewhat more harmful. They actually needed t… (View Post)