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I'm not concerned about infection rates in London. We've had these rapid rises for both the Alpha and Delta variants but the hospitalisation rates, while wobbling up and down, stay very constant over time and death rates remain low. That last fact calls into question their contention that...

Having read it through, what I derive is that there's not much point in a future continuous path of vaccinations that are only effective against the disappearing variants, not the rapidly appearing replacement variants. The best defence is likely to be learning to live with it, acceptance that...

They aren't fast enough! .

Yes, because they 've paid exactly the same tax and national insurance for that bed. It's as much theirs as anyone elses. But an invalid argument. Most of the 100+ killed on bikes each year were wearing a helmet, all of them in London most years. Because death by head injury is so rare...

But that is Soundwave's choice and one he is entitled to. See the lower half of my latest post to see the real villains. .

Agreed, as I did say, protection against symptomatic infection. I've seen no evidence of this, only statements, including by the makers, that they do not prevent one getting infected and passing on the virus. I've made the point before that the vaccinated person is inherently more dangerous...

Probably due to the balance of fear of this very infectious pandemic against the harm done by the protection attempts. I can't see that balance changing while new infectious variants continue to appear, stoking up the fear each time. .

The vaccines only offer protection against symptomatic infection, not against catching and spreading Covid-19. Even if you are vaccinated, you can still be infected with COVID-19 and pass it on to others. So Soundwave is no more of an infection threat than a vaccinated person. Nor does...

You credit him with too much. Boris buses have been and are a costly disaster. Due to be scrapped at 12 years old, a tiny fraction of the life of the RT (35 years) and RM buses (30 years). And the bike hire scheme was inherited from Ken Livingstone when he lost that mayoral election...

A good recipe for all manner of ills. .

No it isn't, it's 1 in 458, barely over a third of the risk you quote. .

POLLY had never left, keeping a watching brief, when prodded he (yes, he is he) reappears. .

That London is already a long way to achieving. .

Agreed, the sample to derive a death rate has to be large enough to include a realistic cross section of the population to represent all. And I don't think many of the comparisons with other countries are valid when their difference can be so great. .

How many times must I say I'm not looking at the world, just my city and my country. And as I've just posted, 1.7% kill rate, not your 3% or 2.2% but much lower. And as for all the local factors such as diet and age, they can be self cancelling as well as additive, especially in such a huge...

Indeed, electric car racing will never be entertaining or popular. Imagine the Touring Car racing scene when they are all electric only. Nobody would watch. .

No, we should stick to known and well understood rules. 250 watts and no power when pedalling stops. ;) Sinclair nearly got there with the C5. .

That is an incredibly silly reply when we know that Covid-19 affects so few. The numbers killed are far too few to both reverse London's intrinsic likelyhood of far more deaths and even reduce them. Over the entire Covid two years, 0.17% of the population suffering Covid death. Death rates in...

Now you are being silly. "My area" is bigger than many Europen countries, far too big a sample to dismiss so lightly. There is no other hypothesis for the outcome. The only one possible is that the huge scale of the initial infections, estimated at the time by many experts as certainly 25% of...

I'll leave you to have an argument with the upright walking skeletons. ;) .