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No - had not heard of it, but... Many years ago, there was a product which was intended for use in hospitals. Dilute a red liquid with water and spray on all surfaces (walls, ceilings, floors, beds, furniture) in a room which had been occupied by someone with a nasty bug. Kills everything...

What about on a piece of uncooked chicken? Or a pie? Or whatever else they process at the food facilities which have significant outbreaks? And, of course, plastic money as most UK banknotes.

Well, how far up their backs did their arms have to go? Reacting to the UK CMO’s decision to lower the UK’s alert level from Level 4 to Level 3 Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: “The UK moving to a lower alert level is a big moment for the country, and a real testament to the British people’s...

If it is a two-horse race and you back both horses, the bookies will win. As usual.

There is sense - up to the point at which you expect people to wear them and keep them charged and, well, what do they do with them? Connect them to their phones so they know what is happening?

How many generations back? You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous (impassioned) God [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely mine], visiting (avenging) the iniquity (sin, guilt) of the fathers on the children [that is, calling the children to account...

Agreed - and the centralised model had already put off many.

Will it really take them until winter to change over? As I have facetiously said several times, just adopt the Latvian app... Guardian reported also: Government 'set to abandon contact tracing app in favour of alternative model', BBC reports According to the BBC’s technology correspondent Rory...

Just think, and imagine if we all sent our washing to Australia, and they sent their washing to us. The impact on trade figures would be phenomenal.

In good time for the second wave... to be fading and us awaiting a third wave? Lord Bethell, the health minister responsible for the coronavirus testing programme, told the Commons science committee today that the contact-tracing app being trialed in the Isle of Wight might not be rolled out...

Think this was the article: https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/02/sodium_batteries_improve/ As always, they are just around the corner until either they disappear or become the dominant product.

Also noticed an article the other day about the possibility of a sodium-based cell. Not as in sodium-sulphur or whatever, but close to a direct replacement for lithium. If it does come into being, cost should plummet as there is quite a bit of available sodium.

And Sir Keir Starmer. (Sorry, I still think it amusing.)

Getting back to tornadoes, as we were discussing, just had one this afternoon, within a very few miles - like two or three. Tornado causes damage to 24 homes in Pembrokeshire A tornado causes damage to 24 homes in Pembrokeshire, taking the roofs off six...

The greater density of idiots, unfortunately, seem not to walk among us. Well, some only on occasional visits to Barnard Castle, etc., and others to see newly painted aircraft. (The advantage of a red, white and blue colour scheme is that it can be hired out to so many other countries. France...

Half-expected him to call it Dexy's "Show Me - Soon". But that would actually require him to know and, to some extent, understand a teeny bit of popular culture.

Widely reported news as in this from BBC: Dexamethasone is first life-saving coronavirus drug

The ineptitude which allowed him not to do this before being forced into it is, yet again, staggering. Boris Johnson makes U-turn on free school meals vouchers ‘Covid summer food fund’ announced after pressure from campaigners including footballer Marcus Rashford

Just what sort of sandwich is an RNLI? Roast Navarin of Lamb on Italian bread?

Experts who say what the politicans want them to say. I can see our beaches are getting much busier now...