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. Good to learn they are concentrating on the most important issues of greatest concern to us. .

Nothing I wear is for fashion reasons, unless scruffy becomes fashionable, I prefer to ride helmetless in ordinary street clothes like the Dutch do and some of my clothes are black. Since virtually all my riding has been in daylight, that isn't a problem as seventy years of cycling, mostly in...

That's deaths of course, of whIch there are far, far less than the infected. I think today's mass testing is what is throwing up huge numbers of false positives in the two ways I mentioned. .

Trouble is that all the infected people carry on giving positives long after they've got rid of the infection. That's because the test reacts to the dead particles left after infection, not just to the live virus, so a second source of false positives as well as the surface presence one. .

I think the tests are very unreliable and are recording very large numbers of false positives. As I've remarked elsewhere, the surface presence of the virus in the PCR test does not mean a person is infected, it merely means they were present in the air they breathed, but the test assumes they...

Nah, I want a Cambridge vaccine. It's all crap out of Oxford: Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, need I go on? Oxford can't even row along the Thames without sinking. .

Probably not worth checking, The makers claim will almost certainly be the gross figure, the maximum it takes from the battery. The net figure, which is what you get in power at the wheel, will typically be a bit under 700 watts. N.B. Crossed with PC2017's post. .

It was inevitable and why I forecast it after the referendum, which was our biggest own goal ever. Watch Frankfurt and Paris profit too. .

They were developed at two different medical centres. I'm a bit suspicious about them developing two successful treatments at different local centres so take both stories with a pinch of salt for now, pending evidence and peer review. Israel has a penchant for stories about their breakthroughs...

Or the UK ! Like me they know the UK isn't a country, so report England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as the countries they are. .

Well we've certainly been gabbing about it between doses, but I fail to understand how our online chatter can make the vaccine more effective. .

I think the biggest problem for cyclists and to a fair extent motorcyclists is in being small in comparison with cars etc., so easily overlooked in a glance. In daylight being dressed all over in black, or even any single colour, can make someone easier to see than being dressed in patches of...

Mainly because as a tiny, poor nation, it's so much easier to do. Tiny means few residents to deal with, few visiting from elsewhere in the world and less area to cover. Poor means they don't have large numbers of their own citizens flying back from holidays or business in countries all over...

I wouldn't say lots, the overwhelming majority fly into Heathrow, so in fixing a standard charge those London costs will dominate. Remember we are only speaking of the Red List Countries and regional airports never see flights from most of them. .

Cheer up, I've found someone with lots of faith in the first vaccine dose, You might remember me posting this back in January: "Early last year I was planning to get some dental treatment but the arrival of covid scuppered that hope since it appeared no dentist would consider a high risk...

Not in London. .

I think it's reasonable. Firstly this is London with much higher hotel cost and charges. I've been quoted £130 a night long ago in such as Premier Inns which are far from special, probably much higher now. Then there's the extras like room service of food, laundry, covid tests, deep cleaning...

Conforms to my rule that over 99% of all battery advance announcements lead nowhere. And why the most widely used large rechargeable battery in the world is still lead acid. .

They took over a lot of the non-covid work in the first lockdown, to help free the NHS for Covid. They wanted to in the second lockdown but there seemed to be negotiation difficulties between the two. Information link .

Bo!!ocks ? ;) .