Don't know about Iran - but the affected areas of China went into lockdown when they had only 17 deaths. The UK had 422 when we started. So it does make some sense that we would have more deaths… (View Post)

Betting post... I reckon Dems to be popular vote winner (2020) at 1.65 is value. That equates to a 60% chance, but I think it's much higher. Biden has led in virtually every head to head matchup… (View Post)

Yes - how dare the independent give over their opinion column to an academic/nurse specializing in mental health? Who do they think they are? It's very good advice to reduce your alcohol consump… (View Post)

On testing, I'm a little confused as to why the progress has been slow. The efforts of various journalists have not managed to enlighten me. Roche and others have tests that can be done 800+ tim… (View Post)

I think you're misreading that chart. We spend slightly more than Germany on private healthcare (2% of GDP vs. 1.7% of GDP), but much less on public healthcare (7.9% of GDP vs 9.3% of GDP). (View Post)