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In practice, the difference is that an awful lot of people will continue the kind of informal social distancing that they began before the official lockdown. Shops, bars, restaurants, gyms etc. will … (View Post)

Boris seems to be edging closer to the winning strategy: assert control over the situation with an effective system of testing and tracing, sufficient to restore public confidence in the safety of pu… (View Post)

This is a good point. I'm baffled by how many batty schemes people want to come up with, when the simple course of action is to test widely, trace and test the contacts of anyone who tests positive, … (View Post)

This would be very unpopular, if the polling is anything to go by. I'm just baffled by the defeatism of it, though. We seem to be caught between two defeatist factions: "the virus is so hard to … (View Post)

Early in the crisis, it was observed that deaths in Wuhan and Lombardy rose steadily as infections rose, then appeared to spike when hospitals were overwhelmed. The theory was that COVID cases were d… (View Post)