The Brexit referendum result suggests that it's more effective if you start rallying public support for your cause well before the referendum is officially declared (as UKIP did), rather than le… (View Post)

Maybe I'm misreading it, but that tweet doesn't seem to be saying children have lower infectivity -- it just says they're more likely to be asymptomatic. So a child could catch covid a… (View Post)

But it's always the case that events come along that the government must react to which nobody foresaw and which were mentioned in no manifesto, even if they're usually not as all-consuming… (View Post)

Sounds politically unlikely to me :-) I think that the effects of the 2-week lag between actions and outcomes will kick in in the opposite direction. On the up-curve, each new measure or imposition i… (View Post)

It's only a checkup, so if you're not comfortable going (and you aren't having any actual pain/other problems that might indicate a need for something to be done) I'd just phone t… (View Post)