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But London showed something different, we had a huge number of cases immediately, over double the national rate, due to our circumstances and ignoring restrictions, and that was before any Nightingale was open, yet we managed after a fashion, albeit with more early deaths. But now we are...

There's no doubt that Covid-19 has been relished by the doom mongers who delight in bad news about anything, we've plenty of them in here. Therefore I always look carefully at the language they use. Everything I've highlighted above introduces evidentially suspect elements, so I treat it with...

Like invisible ferries sailing from ports that couldn't handle them. Boris and his ilk are about jobs for their pals, a number of them proven or wannabee crooks. .

If they have absolutely no symptoms, they haven't caught it. No symptoms whatsoever mean no illness is being suffered, other than the ill fortune of having been born. And you're ignoring the valuable evidence from Sweden of teachers not contracting anything extra from children, despite their...

Understood, but the kids aren't getting Covid-19, and we know that lots of them are fat or even obese these days. The one very clear common factor with Covid vulnerability is age. Kids are virtually immune, but as population age increases the infection rate increases. And at any age prior...

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No it isn't, I don't know how you've got this idea. The issue is how children so rarely ever get the infection, seeming to have an immunity. Since they don't get it, they can't spread it. Sweden has demonstrated this very clearly. Their children have all stayed in school throughout the...

Exactly the same here in London, every delivery I've had being like it. Item on the doorstep, ring bell, step back a couple of metres and wait, then point to the item when I open the door. Snag is they have to use the communal hall door handles which everyone has been mauling to both get in...

It's a nonsense anyway. London as you know has a very low rate after being hit hard early, but for some while there have been two exceptions. One is the narrow eastern fringe where it meets Kent and South Essex which have much higher rates, so obviously vulnerable to transfer. The other is...

They almost never get it, the risk so low it's considered negligible. But I've no doubt that a very few kids are in some way compromised so more vulnerable, not all young kids being perfectly fit and healthy though they might appear to be. I remember the case of a youngster who in a...

Indeed, see this link .

NiCads lasted many years on e-bikes too. It's all about cell density/capacity. A NiCad D cell was typically 5ah, the successor NiMh D cells 10ah but much shorter lived. Satellites use Li-ion to normally last 10 years and near to 4000 daily charges, and when satellite replacement launch...

In Europe, price and German pride. The well made Panasonic mid drive motors were expensive, like many Japanese quality products, so the Germans could match or beat it. Also the Germans don't like to acknowledge any Oriental superiority. So even with the Panasonic motor equipped bikes...

Unhappy experience, but avoidable: 1) Don't remove the rear wheel, just unlatch the brake cable at the noodle. 2) Take the tube out on the non chain side and put a little air into it. 3) Locate the puncure and repair the tube, it's easy to ease it around between the wheel and frame tubes. 4)...

And in fairness to Kalkhoff, the Impulse motor wasn't theirs either, they've never made anything electrical. They are made by the German Daum company and were originally marketed as Daum. And the batteries the Impulse motors use are made by German battery company BMZ. .

Indeed. But DAB started at a disadvantage from the outset with the BBC adopting the inferior Musicam compression system, so it was already clear which way it was going. In our brave new world money always trumps quality. .

Good, the only reason to adopt crap DAB was to release more bandwidth for the government to sell. That's already gone much too far with TV having rubbish transmission standards on many channels, sound quality in particular suffering badly. .

No chance, by leaving with ill will we've ensured the deal we get has to be worse than membership. .

World beating of course, the UK once again showing it's supremacy over all others. We never do things by halves, or let our stiff upper lip slacken. .

Indeed the real meaning of Brexit. As I posted three years ago, it will all end in tears and regrets. I feel particularly sorry for the Welsh who only voted very marginally to leave in the referendum, since from the days of coal mining through to the present, they have suffered far more than...