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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The Corona virus is not evolving , it is mutating There is as yet no pressure towards evolution
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. and of course there was systematic semi starvation over the preceding 4 years
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Life expectancy was 47 for males and 50 females just before WW1. Now with EU membership etc . It is nearly double.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    That is the problem ..lack of knowledge. But until December ,We did have a very good handle on it. When testing is producing a 1% positive rate, you know you are winning, and the infection rate , hospital admission rates are all in synch. When it gets to 5% , one is all over the shop.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Zlatan, your daughter as a front line emergency worker should have been in the first tier. That should include Firefighters, Paramedics, Police .. A&E staff and that would include my son who works in police command and control. The importance of all of them having them properly vaccinated ...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    "The basic case fatality rate 1.25% still holds true." .. the Worldometer figure is 3%. And has remained depressingly so since about July. This figure is based on close on 100M Confirmed Cases, 2.1M deaths and 70M recorded as recovered.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    My problem with the UK Government is that they have lost credibility. And it is an attitude I understand is shared by a lot of UK citizens. I have much more faith with and in the Irish Government and civil service . The sequence of U turns, backtracking, solo runs since last March done by...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Name the insulting ones. Now in this post I have not called anyone anything, you are making an inference. But getting back to the major point, a number of us were very clear that the proposal / decision of your CMO etc to delay the second jab was a bad idea. We were not questioning his...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Even someone very thick would figure out that I don't respond to personal attacks.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Agreed. And if you look back at everyone of my postings on the topic it was to follow the science* *Science a systematic investigation using experiments and measurements , made in as objective a fashion as possible.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    ..what you you think those of us with older and wiser heads have been saying?
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Man in his late 70s gets the officially licensed dose!. Really nothing to see here move on. The real scandal is not giving the 2nd Jab at the interval specified by the drugs designers.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    .. interesting. Once on the old Twilight Zone TV series of the 1960 s they dealt with this topic. I think the episode was called ." Death takes a holiday". It starts in a typical American town where the local newspaper realises that they have not published a death notice for a few days...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Thank God!
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Unless one is an octopus, we usually replace them one at a time. Hint in the model I had, one had to remove the Air intake assembly first . Now if I was a pedantic person, I would say there are 4 bulbs in the cluster, but since that is impossible, I will refrain
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    OG .. on one level he is correct . Masks are a very poor substitute for social distancing . And that is the very simple message he should have been selling.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Since I have given myself the flu jab, ..it is no big deal to self medicate. Putting it in context, it is much harder replacing the headlamp bulb in an Audi.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    OG . I have referred to this before. In the dying weeks of the Obama administration, Biden visited a family connection, even closer than Ballina. The Finnegan Pub near Templeton Beach on the Cooley Peninsula, 20 miles from me here. This was , I believed, what he expected to be his swansong...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Your track record is not brilliant on this topic. Which group would you bet on?. The team who spent 9 months intense work with access to immunoassay on an hourly basis and whose results were used to satisfy the EMA ,the UK equivalent, the FDA or the guys who have had a few weeks engagement. ...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Science says 2 jabs 21 days apart!. .. Is that simple enough?.