Incomplete and/or distorted by the holiday effects, presumably? Some of the UK numbers that BigG has just quoted down thread are badly backdated as they're reported at the speed of the slowest c… (View Post)

There's also the small matter of whether or not the extra restrictions are accomplishing anything useful. Certainly the Welsh case rate isn't that far behind England's and the rate of … (View Post)

At the end of all this, we may very well find that the only NPIs that did much good were (1) social isolation (not the 2m rule and such limited measures, just straightforwardly going nowhere near peo… (View Post)

It might've had a chance of working if the British Isles were in the middle of the Atlantic and all of our imports therefore arrived by air or sea. As discussed ad nauseam last year, it's t… (View Post)

Classic something-must-be-done-ism - which, to be fair, is what we've also been practicing in the UK. I think that most of us would probably concur that, even if we assume that attempting to sup… (View Post)