I have always assumed that the government would forget the lessons of the pandemic, but I had also assumed that that would only happen once the pandemic was over, not whilst it was still raging. (View Post)

If anything the currently known case numbers suggest that England should close the border with Scotland. As Scotland's per capita cases are far higher than England's. Of course it wouldn�… (View Post)

AZ is not a 'traditional' vaccine, viral-vector vaccines are just as 'new' as mRNA vaccines. In both cases the technology dates back to the 1970s but only very recently have they … (View Post)

The kind of poeple who would do a cost-benefit analysis of deflecting a civilization-ending asteroid. (View Post)

From what I've read on this masks, and certainly ordinary cloth and surgical masks, have a very marginal effect on the order of a change of the reproduction rate by as little as 0.1. So any effe… (View Post)