If he is proved correct — huge pinch of salt, touch wood, cross my fingers — he deserves a lot of credit. I'd forgive him pretty much anything if he got ending lockdown right. (View Post)

What really gets me is the sheer number of people who seemed to think that because the trial used a 3 week interval, in order to get the trial done quickly, that must be the optimal and even the only… (View Post)

I disagree that speed is less of an issue now. Speed matters just as much now, because the sooner we finish our first round of vaccination the sooner we can start the booster programme. Ideally we wa… (View Post)

Taking the ridiculous point to the extreme if a country vaccinated its entire population tomorrow that would be best as they'd have the highest numbers, that the entire population had been unpro… (View Post)

It's a quite stupid comparison, because the whole point of vaccinating fast was to get protection sooner, not to end up a higher total later. So it's about the area under the line of the gr… (View Post)