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off tangent , but whatever, I am noting that our local shops have a lot more Belgian , Dutch even French goods , than last year. This offsets the general reduction in UK based stuff. ... So not so bad. I am somewhat addicted to Maldron salt flakes ...they go well on Chips and popcorn, and it...

"As for marriage, don't get me started." ..... don't get me wrong, but perhaps you are leaving it rather late to get started.

Sorry Zlatan, life means life!!!.

No... but the problem is that the 90% who have not got covid yet are all susceptible, even if partially vaccinated and even if fully vaccinated. Moreover even the 10% who have previously been infected are not guaranteed immunity. The Delta variant carries a punch. The only figure we can both...

You really really need to listen to some Townes Van Zant..a Texan Folk singer and writer, who worked with Nanci Griffith... Perhaps his" Waiting around to die" will cheer you up.

Flecc,.. where are you creating your statistics from?. According to Worldometer, and based on the UKs figures , 10% of the UK population have had CV19 and 2 in every thousand of the general UK population has died of it. That is 2% of those who have got CV19 have died from it.

Sorry .. decimal point misplaced .. but if anything makes the point more clearly...and the fact that it reduced by 16% last year due to lockdowns etc , makes the CV19 number even more stark. Whether people isolate themselves because of government dictate , or do so voluntarily by self modified...

Flecc, that logic seems perverse to me. We stay indoors during a hurricane , precisely because it is a dangerous short duration event. We don't have to put ourselves at unnecessary risk. If as you and I hope, the CV19 plague is if short duration, then that is what we do. If in the other hand...

The data is to an extent known. But it is being messed up by the emergence of variants.. that means that clean then now analyses are corrupted by variants. But lets deal with what are known. Vaccination in Ireland is at about 80% ..with the least number of vaccinated in the lower age cohort. Eg...

They will not. The UK CA mark is a dead duck. Any Asian economy will be looking at UL or CE.for imports Europe will be looking at CE. In a market of 7000 Million, the production capacity of 66 Million really does not scale.

Why would they?. The only way is with money or the threat of withholding it .. which is what the EU is doing

Zlatan if the UK actually went for multiple seat constituencies and PR, you would have much weaker central Government..( eg less arrogance), but much more representative representation and they would be constantly listening to their clients.

Nice... But to die within 28 days of a positive test,, you must first have a positive test. Anyway the 28 day rule was bunkum by May 2020,whatever sense it made in March and April 2020. I really suspect some Holiday effect at play

..To add on to the previous list. While a comparable set of figures from NI to GB for the last 6 months is not yet available.. there are comparisons which can be made from 2020 figures.. The 2020 historical data has 16% of NI total production going to Rest of UK or GB, 16% going as exports to...

From the Irish Times .... Imports from Northern Ireland to the Republic have risen by 77 per cent since the UK left the EU at the start of the year, while the value of exports from the Republic to the North has risen by 43 per cent, according to fresh Central Statistics Office (CSO) data. The...

In our population of 5.5 million we have infection rates creeping up towards .. 1500 pd on 7 day average and less than 1 death per day ,. . Our hospital numbers are creeping up also with 50 in ICU. ,So a few more deaths are inevitable. The figures in NI are about 4 times worse per capita...

In Ireland 78.3% of the population aged over 16 are now fully vaccinated!. The youngsters in the sub 16 year group are flocking to the vaccination stations. I suspect that your UK figures are skewed by summer holidays

Typical ..The mother always trapped doing housework.

Well I have had 4 . Each was in advance of and linked with hospital procedures. However my view is that Tests should be discontinued, and resources devoted to vaccination. There must be competition between making vaccines and administering them and collecting the materials including vials...

Delighted to hear this.