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  1. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I don't agree with your analysis there. Someone walks past and releases some viral material - you don't have to breathe it in - just attaching to your face so that you later transfer it yourself is sufficent, I believe. Holding breath might help, a little, but I certainly don't think it is an...
  2. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    So no cabinet meeting tomorrow - despite saying there would be one every day.
  3. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I was understanding that the countries have different issues counting and reporting, but I felt the disclaimer itself was poorly stated. Do they re-base the graph if it is shown that a country actually hit 50 deaths two/three/four weeks earlier than had initially been reported?
  4. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Even the disclaimer is confusing. Is Day 0 the day on which 50 deaths were reported, or the first day for which 50 deaths were reported? Given the lag we are seeing here between death and reporting of death, the difference could be considerable.
  5. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And this incredibly well-informed and intelligent committee simply hung on every word from China and didn't consider that, for whatever reason, information from China might not be the entire truth? As you say, they did learn a lesson from China. Dissembling is the order of the...
  6. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Once, she just might have "got away" with it. Twice, she undermined everything she has said and advised. And everyone associated with it.
  7. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Slightly less noticed: It has also been reported that if Johnson’s key aides, Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain, were to be incapacitated, they would be replaced by Conservative campaign director Isaac Levido. Cummings also displayed symptoms of coronavirus last weekend. AND Retired judge and...
  8. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    It never stops. Scotland's chief medical officer has resigned Scotland’s chief medical officer Catherine Calderwood has resigned
  9. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Already we are getting dissembling: Johnson remains in charge of the government and in contact with ministers and officials. Followed by: As the first secretary of state, Dominic Raab is expected to chair the government’s Monday morning meeting. Afraid I do NOT think it possible to be ill...
  10. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Maybe, but maybe they are keeping it clear of any covid-19 in case someone else needs treatment? ... DO NOT come to King Edward VII’s Hospital if you think you have COVID-19 Most people who contract COVID-19 will have mild to moderate cold and flu like symptoms. The people who are most at risk...
  11. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    PM Johnson admitted to hospital over virus symptoms https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52177125 Which hospital, I wonder?
  12. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Went to Lidl on Saturday. The man on the door was very pleasant and almost invited us in. Once inside, most people were leaving gaps. Though some were rather careless. But one woman in particular seemed to be positively trying NOT to keep away from others. As we went to the till, another woman...
  13. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Just had a quick read. (Then washed my hands and eyeballs.) Not nearly brutal enough.
  14. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Well, who is surprised? Hertfordshire hospital forced to consider who should be refused oxygen Watford general hospital declared a critical incident on Saturday over pressure to vital supplies
  15. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Hypocrisy. Writ enormous.
  16. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I think I've solved the pasta issue - where it disappeared from shelves in nanoseconds. People were building self-isolation rooms: http://www.peterdecupere.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=27:spaghetti-house&catid=14:featuredartworks Or perhaps preparing a re-enactment of the...
  17. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    And the ones they printed on a different printer have not yet been approved by PHE?
  18. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Quote from somewhere else: And to make you smile - I am wiping my bum with lettuce leaves and that is just the tip of the iceburg..
  19. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Are we supposed to have received Johnson's letter yet?
  20. oyster

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Isn't that a mis-reading of what herd immunity is? As I understand, herd immunity is due to multiple indivudals being (or becoming) immune. It the the herd which, provided sufficient are immune, reduces the rate at which an infection is passed on to others who are not yet immune. A herd can...