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  1. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Wasn't expecting that. You caught me on my blini side. :)
  2. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Did you see on Masterchef the other week - one of the preliminary intro sessions, the chefs had to prepare a yoghurt flatbread. Yours look much nicer than theirs did.
  3. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    A number of people, albeit small, have had three (or more) vaccines due to other issues. (E.g. immunosuppressive medicines.) I can't see anyone ensuring they are not counted as being boosted. Even if the numbers are small, it is yet another way in which faith in statistics withers.
  4. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Doesn't work for the PM. So much crap comes out of his mouth...
  5. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Diversion by trivia: Boris Johnson has named returning the crown stamps to pint glasses and scrapping a ban on selling goods in pounds and ounces on his list of the “key successes” of Brexit this year. (Just ignore the definition of the pound weight, "the pound shall be 0.45359237 kilogram...
  6. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    To you all
  7. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    It would be quite extraordinary for this to be true, exactly 88%, for every combination of vaccines that have been received by UK residents. Maybe the differences are not huge, but if they cannot present clear figures by vaccine combination, I reserve judgement.
  8. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I see: The UK has approved Pfizer’s Covid-19 pill for patients over the age of 18 years who have mild to moderate infection and are at high risk of their illness worsening, Reuters reports. Now, your starter for ten, if you divide the number of people with Covid by the available doses, what...
  9. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I was expecting it to be 26th May.
  10. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Lack of trust might now be the top issue. Followed by the impact of the (potentially) huge numbers affected all at the same time.
  11. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    One of the problems we have had throughout is extreme variation - from almost nothing in Ceredigion to high by almost any standards in Newport, Swansea. Llanelli, etc.
  12. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Sajid Javid speaks against Drakeford - but it is England that has run out of lateral flow tests and is borrowing from Wales: The number of people with Covid in hospitals in Wales has increased to 446 - 49% higher than last week, the Welsh government has said. It has also announced that from...
  13. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    A lot ended up on Guernsey.
  14. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Nothing like diverting attention: Navy to dismantle sunken warship on Thames holding unstable explosives MoD reportedly warns of ‘mass damage and potential loss of life’ if ordnance on SS Richard Montgomery triggered...
  15. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Confirmation of lies had already occurred - he had opened his gob.
  16. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Independent front page for tomorrow has piccie captioned: Boris Johnson, visiting a vaccine centre yesterday, urged people to use lateral flow tests despite shortages. Perhaps he'd like to explain how? Probably not.
  17. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    We assume it is Omicron but, without testing, we simply cannot know. New variants could be appearing all the time...
  18. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Isn't that ignoring the difference between hospital and ICU? (Not saying the figures make sense but number in ICU is a subset of number in hospital.
  19. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Source of an awful lot of lies in the past few years has been Downing Street...
  20. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    At least last I read, NI, S & W all have tests available, while E has severe supply issues. The NYE events that require tests might yet be undermined in E.