Denmark is doing roughly as well as the South West of England, by number of cases and deaths. They have similar populations, and similar population densities. Studying what happened in Germany, thoug… (View Post)

That's how most charitable giving works, though, be that the commercial operations that run the chuggers for the big charities (who take an obscene amount) to the enormous admin costs of most ch… (View Post)

I used to be deeply annoyed by the waste at the weekly parties in the Oxfam office next door to where I worked. And JustGiving being located in the Blue Fin building, competing with City developer sa… (View Post)

So, he predicts that Italy is going to miraculously drop to nothing over the next week, and Spain will follow a week later. The US is going to be down to nothing a week or two behind that, and no-one… (View Post)

It's about 0.5m deaths a year in the UK. And if it got as bad as ~1m UK deaths from this virus, I should imagine that *very many* of those 0.5m "regular" deaths would now be "from… (View Post)