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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)

Early serological tests from Spain and France indicate that maybe 5% of the population has been infected. This would give us an infection fatality rate of 1.3-1.5%. This seems dangerous enough that &… (View Post)

Starmer has a tricky situation here. It would be hard to cause fireworks in a HoC that's mostly empty, and you could see that Boris was also doing much less playing to the gallery than usual. The lin… (View Post)