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)

Storm Arwen and the Omicron virus. Those are good names. (View Post)

SARS escaped the same lab in China TWICE. A big flu epidemic in the 70s was almost certainly a lab escape from Russia as well. More generally serious lab accidents involving chemical, biological, and… (View Post)

I will never under any circumstances vote Conservative again if we have another lockdown due to a government cock-up. (View Post)

Whether or not these railway plans make sense I really don't understand the politics of what is being done, the Tories will be getting beaten up with this debacle all the way through to the next… (View Post)