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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The statement on 12th March by the Chinese official, was a RESPONSE to earlier comments by US senator Tom Cotton in late February on FOX who speculated that as Wuhan had a high grade biological sciences labs, it could have been the source. On 25 February, a senior Chinese Scientist made the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Unfortunately for you the slit eyed people are telling the truth. Moreover they only released this after a sequence of lies and innuendo from Pres. Trump . How do I know they are telling the truth?. Look to US CDC websites, look at the video record of statements. The original transcripts and...
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    How Long Before People Tire of Lockdown?

    Seriously ,i would not think the social distancing thing matters when a cyclist is overtaking a pedestrian. The dangerous exposure is supposed to be15 minutes within 2 metres of an emitter person. Now on a bike, let alone an ebike, if you are with 2 metres for a second I would be surprised...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Fellow traveler perhaps?
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Actually it is the 90 miles direct over sea journey from Blackpool Lancashire and Liverpool which worries me more. And yes thanks for asking, but I usually do toast it.. Today being Saturday , it is customary for 2 poached eggs +ketchup, 2 slices toasted, and ample tea. Weekdays is 1 boiled...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Ok. Blue shirts ... Spanish Fascists eg Franco Brown Shirts ..German Fascists eg NAZI Black Shirts ...Italian Fascists and slightly later British Fascists Of those groups the Spanish persisted until Francos death 1970?.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Exactly.. all our local shops are working that way. No browsing, but there are taped markings on the street and people respond to this. Many shops have made arrangements with local van drivers . The breadshop goes a little further.. My favourite a multi grain Low GI is in high demand, so I...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Read up History ...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The definition of essential is arbitrary. A single light bulb or a fuse or a tap washer is essential . Even a screwdriver might be if you are locked out of the toilet..
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Difficult sentence construction there. Are they suggesting that their President escaped from an animal market or Lab?... It would explain a lot.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Non sequitur par excellence... Perhaps an explanatory note?.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    On this topic BS we are more in agreement than disagreement. Distance beats masks always ..the Maths shows it. But if one is confined into the same restricted volume of air, a mask will provide some protection. A fresh simple fabric cotton mask eg tee shirt will reduce virus transmission by...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No. We did not develop immunity to the black death or to smallpox..we eliminated them. The challenge is to do the same for CV19. The big problem with CV19 is its sneakyness... . Infectious before evident symptoms . Interestingly one of the telltale symptoms in China appears missing in Irish...
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    Motor drag

    I have now experience of three bikes an early model geared hub ,a Bosch Active and now my wifes new geared hub . The early model 2007 certainly felt with motor drag. The Bosch 2016 was the most expensive of the three ,but is also the most natural experience. ..and if the motor is off, it is...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    There is a very simple solution for that also.. trusted visitors only, and quarantine for the rest
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I would not be as pessimistic as that. The future starts now. Isolate, identify clusters , then irradicate that cluster . It could be done, geographically parish or ward by ward . But lockdown without the identification of carriers is just delaying
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And having a long drawn out multiple cycle quasi lockdown won't?. Read the rest of it... The time to act was at the start,and to act decisively. And no I do disagree, the problem with the tube is the volume of air is extremely limited. Buses have windows, ques are in the open air. Restricted...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    It is 1.529 times 13917 ..
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Somebody is being economic with the truth here.. the statement should read .. " death rate 70% higher than admitted". The number being 1.7 times the reported number.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No.. read my answer. Was your niece a Kiwi?. Non nationals were not let in at all. The answer was the lockdown and quarantine, and the insistence that the contagion would not spread, by contact tracing. As you might be aware there are two major Islands in NZ, and the majority of their cases was...