From the header, isn't it a bit early to declare that covid "isn't seasonal" when we haven't yet got a full year of experience with it? (View Post)

Better still, swab everybody as they enter the *departure* airport, and avoid one person infecting others on the plane over who then in the first few hours of their infection would likely show up as … (View Post)

Maybe it's the civil service's grand plan to appear to be doing what Cummings wants while actually changing nothing of importance :-) (View Post)

Think of it as a kind of "risk budget" -- say going down the pub has a risk of 4 (utterly arbitrary numbers for sake of example), and going down the local shop without a mask a risk of 2. S… (View Post)

It does seem like it would have been an easier 'sell' to frame it as "we can start to open up and do more things, and the tradeoff is that we'll all have to wear masks in most pub… (View Post)