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Idle Banter
09-01-22, 11:13 PM
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According to https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics/january-2021
it's (copied and pasted) 1,327,892 Headcount in January 2021 and...
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Idle Banter
01-12-21, 12:38 PM
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One of Gyles Brandreth's anecdotes is what he called his dog........ Phydeaux
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Idle Banter
22-11-21, 06:56 PM
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As Bibio pointed out, it's treatable with antibiotics being a bacillus not a virus.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/seriously-dont-worry-about-the-plague#Heres-how-the-plague-spreads
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Idle Banter
22-11-21, 04:23 PM
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In principle you are probably right, but the reality is that over 5 years or so the Black Death killed a third of the population of Europe. I'm not sure that's an acceptable approach in today's...
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Idle Banter
22-11-21, 04:05 PM
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I'm still not sure what your point is?
(the Black Death didn't actually die out, and people took many measures to try to deal with it back in the 14th century, but that's another story..... ...
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Idle Banter
22-11-21, 12:18 PM
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Some comments have been made regarding resistance and strategies etc for viruses and bacteria.
It should be noted that viruses and bacteria are very very different things, bacteria are way above...
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Idle Banter
29-10-21, 09:59 AM
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It did strike me while listening o some of Mr.Sunak's much-leaked budget speech that the billion is the new million.
Not long ago it was pretty spectacular when the govt announced spending north...
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21-10-21, 03:32 PM
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Adolf Hitler was elected. Sometimes you can fool enough people to get elected on a deceit, tell people what they want to hear and they'll vote for it regardless of what you then intend to do....
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21-10-21, 11:01 AM
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I'll refer (again, yawn) to my favourite analogy.
If 130+ people a day were dying on the roads and we knew exactly what to do to allieviate at least some of it with very little real inconvenience to...
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17-10-21, 11:39 AM
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How about this one?
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/925853/S0768_Fifty-eighth_SAGE_meeting_on_Covid-19.pdf
Advised on 21st Sept...
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17-10-21, 11:33 AM
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That's OK, she now works for a boss who has been sacked multiple times for being "flexible" with the truth, by the Times, the Telegraph, and Tory leader Michael Howard (I believe Michael Howard...
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Idle Banter
14-10-21, 09:51 AM
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The one thing you can pretty much guarantee with any "independent" or "judicial" inquiry is what will happen as a result.
NOTHING.
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Idle Banter
30-07-21, 10:39 AM
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https://corona-ausschuss.de/faq/
The "German committee" as referred to is clearly a dyed-in-the-wool anti-everything conspiracy theorist organisation. If you read the faq page at all you will see...
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Idle Banter
28-07-21, 04:19 PM
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Things work both ways. We take back control. They take back control.
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Idle Banter
27-07-21, 08:18 AM
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Indeed, the UK appears to be in the process of increasing imports from China while reducing imports from the EU. Some might question the moral justifications....
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27-07-21, 01:09 AM
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Statistics, a tricky fellow indeed. Growth depends where you measure it from .................
Australia GDP is above where it was in Dec19 (pre-pandemic), the drop in Q2-2020 (full hit from...
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22-07-21, 08:48 AM
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Just to roughly match the 7 day average for reported Covid deaths at 21st July, and it just happened to be a convenient 10x the actual road death rate. Arbitrary choice.
The question was simply...
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21-07-21, 11:37 PM
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I suppose what I was trying to investigate was the tolerance level for deaths (for want of another simple measure).
Cases are increasing at around 2.5 times in 3 weeks, and so are deaths,...
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21-07-21, 04:06 PM
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Lots of intriguing views and comments.
I still like to compare attitudes to Covid deaths and road deaths. Typically 5 people die on UK roads per day, and that's among the millions of everyday folk...
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16-07-21, 06:06 PM
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..... and then someone shot him. :cry:
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15-06-21, 09:29 PM
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They gave themselves emergency powers. Just keep an eye on how reluctant they are to give them up when the real emergency is over, and whether they start "mission creep", using the powers to do stuff...
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Idle Banter
06-04-21, 09:34 AM
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Did you watch the BBC documentary last week?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000tqjj/panorama-undercover-inside-the-covid-testing-lab
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Idle Banter
03-04-21, 01:51 PM
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Apologies, I said I wouldn't, but .............
Halix opened its new plant in Leiden, NL, in 2019. Halix is contracted to AZ to supply "drug substances" which are then transported to other fill...
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31-03-21, 08:29 PM
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Article 16 wasn't to do with the company AZ per se, it was a precursor to applying wider export controls out of the EU (the UK then being a third country so included in the proposed control remit...
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Idle Banter
31-03-21, 05:26 PM
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Ah, right, so the EU wanted to be co-operative with AZ and waived it's right to sue them for failure, and the UK held a big stick over them and said fail us and we'll beat you to death. Nice. Now I...
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