Frankly that is a stupid comment. Quantity is meaningless. The FSA had 4,000 staff and lots of regulation to enforce. It was completely bloody useless. (View Post)

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)