Struggling to buy in to the panic really. Flu circulates and mutates at very high volumes, and it doesn't spontaneously become a more or less new disease all that often, so different that all bu… (View Post)

He also said this variant is unlikely to evade T-cells, even if it does happen to evade current antibodies, so for the vaccinated you're looking at lots more colds but not much more hospital use. (View Post)

I went through a long phase of hating his smug face. Recently he'd been warming on me, but this is not his finest hour. (View Post)

Their cumulative deaths per million are at 1,812 to our 2,110 - they're lower, but substantial is being a bit generous. Germany is substantially less, the Czechs are substantially more. France i… (View Post)

How would the Macron treatment have worked any better in the UK than in France? I wouldn't want to swap places with them right now, even leaving aside that the French response to coersion seems … (View Post)