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But Sweden has shown that is not true. With all schools open normally throughout the whole Covid-19 period, their teachers infection rate is identical to the rest of the population, so no loss due to continuing to teach. .

Ditto with two mortgages, the bungalow I bought for my parents in 1961 and the flat I bought for myself in 1967. Both cleared very long before their mortgage terms were up. Left me with a long comfortable run up to the very early retirement I'd promised myself since I was 16 years old, and...

Mostly true for the whole of Britain, the foundations of our modern world were financed by slavery. So a petition to shut down our country and hand it to someone else to run it would be more appropriate. The EU perhaps? .

We'll see, but meanwhile we could have avoided the very damaging closing of schools. The amount of mixing together of various families and their children in each others homes and gardens during not observing the rules must have caused some additional viral spread. Equally the large groups of...

Sweden has just announced that their policy of not closing any schools has paid off. It has not caused any rise in infections and teachers show no greater infection rate than the rest of their population. So that is just one way in which we could have avoided an immensely damaging policy...

Far more logical than your position, missing what the 90% were doing. Once again you make your silly assumptions from afar. When speaking of Londoner's behaviour I'm not just speaking of momentarily passing which is as you say relatively unimportant. I'm speaking of people completely...

Agreed, but that's the fault of the population as much as government. When only 3% here cycle but most are car drivers, there's severe limits on what governments can provide for cycling at the expense of cars if they ever want to get elected again. It's dead easy in the Netherlands where 70%...

No Danidl, that is not their personal behaviour I'm speaking of, that is simply their "working" from home or just being laid off, meaning they are not commuting on the underground. Same for the buses. After all, nobody in their right mind is going to spend all that time off work in the weeks...

It's not without lockdown, there's still the voluntary actions of employers and individuals from the guidance, which, as I've posted, would greatly increase as the death rate rose and fear started to play a greater part. It's without the compulsion which only has limited effectiveness and...

You should have replaced the valve cores, not scrapped the tubes That's why Schrader are superior, the valve core is always easily replaced, or removed to insert sealant, but only some Presta valves have removable cores. .

Already seen, hence my knowing "not its aim", just as I posted. That link wording isn't Sweden's, it's just the media mischief again. As ever, I stick to the facts and not the hysteria. .

Once again neither I nor the Swedish government have mentioned herd immunity as a target, indeed I've twice dismissed it. I don't agree with the inevitability of your conclusion and still you only speak of one side of the balance. There's two sides, and our poor Covid outcome plus huge...

Because it was entirely the wrong sort of lockdown as I and some notable others have said. We could easily have had a better overall outcome with a different approach, but remember that by overall, I'm referring to the whole balance of economy and sickness, not just the latter. You are quite...

All irrelevant to what I've been posting and completely missing the point. Your simplistic view of economics ignores the very real and sometimes lasting damage done to peoples lives by our measures. The economy versus Covid, personal and national, is very much about a balance of loss, one form...

Of course they got more deaths, they nor I ever claimed otherwise, nor did they make any herd immunity claims. Those are all by other countries, organisations and individuals. It was and is as I've consistently posted, a simple balance of losses and gains, death and sickness against economic...

And he's not alone, Johnson as well. Of course they like to tag onto the publically popular of the moment, it's what they always do, but it doesn't necessarily mean a gong. We'll see in the New Year list. .

I should have made it clearer, that's the trend which worries me, especially if software protected. The fully within frame ones can usually be recelled and their wrapping doesn't matter since it's hidden. .

Indeed, they were supportive yes men in their time. .

Tom Moore was strongly supporting the government and said as much. That's why not. .

More than a potential issue, it's already been a very real one and will be again many times. Over ten years back US e-bike company Izip marketed a bike with a curved down tube that contained a custom Panasonic NiMh battery. One year later with some of the batteries failing, the battery was no...