Isn't the issue that we don't differentiate between high risk and low risk activities with capital? I've just remortgaged my house to put the cash into a management buyout of the struggling firm for … (View Post)

Except pretty much everyone knows that this doesn't have any effect on covid at-all, other than to shaft the hospitality sector (again). (View Post)

On the social care thing, does anyone know the average lifetime cost of social care for an individual? To my mind it's fair to socialise the costs of care so that it averages out across the populatio… (View Post)

Isn't the sensible option for old age social care some form of insurance system? As I understand it, the problem is that the cost of being old is essentially pretty random. You may be perfectly fit a… (View Post)

Where on earth do you get that from? The January peak was about 60k cases a day, which led to a peak in admissions of about 4250 cases a day. That's 1 in 14 cases requiring admission. Currently cases… (View Post)