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Forum: Idle Banter 09-01-22, 11:13 PM
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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...
Forum: Idle Banter 01-12-21, 12:38 PM
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

One of Gyles Brandreth's anecdotes is what he called his dog........ Phydeaux
Forum: Idle Banter 22-11-21, 06:56 PM
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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
Forum: Idle Banter 22-11-21, 04:23 PM
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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...
Forum: Idle Banter 22-11-21, 04:05 PM
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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..... ...
Forum: Idle Banter 22-11-21, 12:18 PM
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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...
Forum: Idle Banter 29-10-21, 09:59 AM
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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...
Forum: Idle Banter 21-10-21, 03:32 PM
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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....
Forum: Idle Banter 21-10-21, 11:01 AM
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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...
Forum: Idle Banter 17-10-21, 11:39 AM
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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...
Forum: Idle Banter 17-10-21, 11:33 AM
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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...
Forum: Idle Banter 14-10-21, 09:51 AM
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

The one thing you can pretty much guarantee with any "independent" or "judicial" inquiry is what will happen as a result.




NOTHING.
Forum: Idle Banter 30-07-21, 10:39 AM
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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...
Forum: Idle Banter 28-07-21, 04:19 PM
Replies: 474
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

Things work both ways. We take back control. They take back control.
Forum: Idle Banter 27-07-21, 08:18 AM
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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....
Forum: Idle Banter 27-07-21, 01:09 AM
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Views: 52,074
Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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...
Forum: Idle Banter 22-07-21, 08:48 AM
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Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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...
Forum: Idle Banter 21-07-21, 11:37 PM
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Views: 52,074
Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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,...
Forum: Idle Banter 21-07-21, 04:06 PM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,074
Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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...
Forum: Idle Banter 16-07-21, 06:06 PM
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Views: 52,074
Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

..... and then someone shot him. :cry:
Forum: Idle Banter 15-06-21, 09:29 PM
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Views: 52,074
Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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...
Forum: Idle Banter 06-04-21, 09:34 AM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,074
Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

Did you watch the BBC documentary last week?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000tqjj/panorama-undercover-inside-the-covid-testing-lab
Forum: Idle Banter 03-04-21, 01:51 PM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,074
Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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...
Forum: Idle Banter 31-03-21, 08:29 PM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,074
Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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...
Forum: Idle Banter 31-03-21, 05:26 PM
Replies: 474
Views: 52,074
Posted By embee
Re: The Covid19 thread

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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