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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ... Your brain crazed antivaxxer, is more likely to pull the mask off the nurse and plant a big wet kiss...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No.. both . Learning is what happens by the individual , whether at playground, School, behind the bicycle shed , in the pub the workplace or the football field. Education is the directed activity by the teacher to get learning happening.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Not going to get embroiled in this but a colleague of mine had a slogan on the wall of his office ..." If you think Education is expensive , try Ignorance"
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No !. slate and marble would be preferred materials in this vintage, and yes they were the intended to be imposing .. Early Victorian or late Georgian mantle pieces were big ... Think the cabinet room in Number 10. But yes the mechanism is probably of French manufacture ...in that I have seen...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    On the contrary , the fan sucks air into a leaky bag via the filter. Since the bag is now slightly above room pressure it will stop potentially virus laden air seeping in a 12v fan running at half voltage will provide about 40 cfm into a static head of a few mm of water pressure. And drawing...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    An existential angst Satre would be squirming in his tomb
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The cost of manufacturing would be very low .. I designed multiple ones of these in my head .but too lazy and old to do anything else... . standard HEPA filter from vacuum cleaner , 12v ex computer dc fan ,and 5v volt lithium Ion phone charger battery pack...the fans just run slower
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    It would be a bloody big bin.. this thing is heavy as is two hand staggeringly heavy.Carved Slate is very dense. But that is my dilemma. The face is rather attractive in an ornate way. The housing is about 50cm by 40cm , when it actually works the chimes at 15 minute intervals were pleasant...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Different definition of ICU?. Perhaps . . I would make a few comments . The UK has been the Western European epicentre for Delta , and distance from the UK slows the time of peak infection rates. And it is Delta which is doing the bulk of the killing still.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No.. I don't think it is insane either... . Actually I am in a bit of a quandary... . I acquired an old mid Victorian slate mantle clock ..I am convinced it was a wedding gift to my Great Grandfather . Mid 1860s The escapement is visible from the front . Anyway it sort of worked..in that it...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Neither am I a subscriber, the library has the subscription, so it is free to me. I have had a paid subscription for the Irish Times ...which is also available free on this pressreader and I have Readly 10£ a month , which gives a wide selection of the popular magazines, and a limited...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I don't know how things are in the UK, but my local library here in Ireland, has links to global systems and using my library reference number, and an android app called Pressreader , I have access to a hundred lifetimes worth of newspapers..including the all aforementioned heavies and...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Unless 10% of those Londoners went home to Manchester bto die.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Bikini?
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Unlike you I have zero sympathy for the UK Government ,in this as in plenty of other topics. Regarding the Pandemic they have given a Masterclass in how to maximize damage to minimal effect. I am convinced it will become a case study in years to come in Project Management and Public Health...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Fair point ... Last year we went to get our free flu vaccine at a town pharmacy. ..my wife first and then myself. I noticed she had not been swabbed , and queried it .. the chemist said it was no longer policy.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Flecc... The verified facts are in the tables as presented by our unlikely source GIJoe. .. See his table ..about 3 pages back showing the ratio of hospitalised over the last numbers of months in the UK as a function of vaccine status and compared to general population data. I have remained...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Well that is what propaganda actually is. Propaganda need not be lies.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Except that in all these cases the underlying cause was /is arterial blood flow. There was no possible way that a lay person can get these correct, not even blood pressure measurements will be definite. A stool test might help eliminate some causes of the burping, blood tests the iodine...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Nobody is competent to be their own physician.. that is an axiom. But even lay people can figure out that there is a problem with others ... The number of minor and serious ailments in children recognised by parents is legion. The big problem is that lay people will home in on an obvious...