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Other three? Other fourteen!!! The Coastal Member States of the European Union (EU) consist of the 22 Member States with a sea border: (BE) Belgium, (BG) Bulgaria, (DK) Denmark, (DE) Germany, (EE) Estonia, (IE) Ireland, (EL) Greece, (ES) Spain, (FR) France, (HR)...

??? There are more than 8 coastal EU countries.

Brinkmanship or stupidity?

But the way it is expressed shows utter failure to connect. It is so obvious that we have ALL had more than enough about Covid-19, it simply doesn't need to be said. Certainly not in that semi-patronising way.

Isn't it the lack of suitably qualified people that finally precludes exploiting them to their fullest extent? We might have hoped that, for example, nurses who maybe lacked ICU training could have been educated in the gap between waves?

Another element of "wonderful timing", though by a private company, not HMG this time. Note that this is likely to affect far more than coronavirus testing. I checked and even home testing kits and consumables (e.g. for diabetes) appear widely unavailable at present. NHS coronavirus tests...

If infection/hospitalisation rates continue to rise, we can expect Nightingales to be needed and fill up. If they are not able to work (due to lack of staff?) they will obviously be completely unsuccessful. Stuffed Nightingales for Christmas? Or Turkeys?

But not if Musk is there!

What a horrible image...

Just heard Johnson on news saying (approximately) "I don't know about you but I've had more than enough of this virus..." Can he be so stupid as to think that makes any sort of point whatsoever? Other than pointedly return the answer "yes".

The resurrection shuffle? Put out your tongue Put your hand in the air Make a V-sign You just don't care

A full article on the "Excel loses cases" issues available here: What a Hancock-up: Excel spreadsheet blunder blamed after England under-reports 16,000 COVID-19 cases https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/05/excel_england_coronavirus_contact_error/

Well, there's a surpise. I'd never have thought of it... NHS faces drug shortages as Brexit stockpile used in Covid crisis NHS Provider in England said Brexit could conjure ‘perfect storm’ of problems in winter I care very much about the medicines I (and partner) take. Mine are manufactured in...

And there was I thinking that the phrase "the local bike" was rather insulting. :)

Be prepared for some very cold winters - even in the face of global warming. Boris Johnson to unveil plan to power all UK homes with wind by 2030 PM vows to make Britain world leader in low-cost clean power with ‘Build Back Greener’ drive

When I first heard the name, I thought ProudBoys sounded, well, gay. Obviously, I soon realised how wrong I was. And I seem not to be the only one to think that! LGBT Twitter users tease far-right group by taking over Proud Boys hashtag Images of gay life posted under #ProudBoys hashtag...

Sounds like a way of countering those who would refuse a vaccine. Ya Booh - you wouldn't be offered one anyway!

Apparently, a CSV opened in, or imported into, Excel. Hitting the row limit and the remaining lines just being dropped. As I said before, an end of file marker, or record count record, (used sensibly) would have picked that up. More or less 1970s batch data processing fundamentals.

True. But even a record count at the end of a file would have highlighted that as an issue. Do we assume the file format has absolutely no terminator? Mind, I agree it surely can't be a fundamental OS limit.

The BBC is explaining missing cases like this: UK's 16,000 missing cases 'caused by file size issue' For the last two days, the UK has seen extraordinarily high daily recorded figures for confirmed coronavirus cases as Public Health England scrambled to catch up with 15,841 infections which...