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Hover Fly
Lazy so and so
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Barrow is one of the lowest in the country (and not part of SLDC)
https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/18983166.coronavirus-cumbria-round-up-saturday-january-3/
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Bad example: speed limits are set to a published national policy. If there was a similar published policy for deciding area covid tiers, rather than occasional one-off justifications, it would probably look a lot less like dithering and delaying mixed with vindictiveness against Labour-voting cities.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
That is your opinion but compare the treatment of Labour-mayored Manchester and Leicester with that of Tory-mayored West Mids and West of England. It may have nothing to do with the mayoral party but without a published policy, it can look like it.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
matticus
Guru
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
But use of that line would no longer be "arbitrary" like you complained about.
I don't normally pay any attention to Jeremy Clarkson, his output is mainly hyperbolic nonsense, But his column in Yesterdays Sunday Times was pointed out to me.
T'was about his brush with Covid over Xmas. Mainly full of his usual fluff but with some pertinent stuff and finishing with:
This is the problem we have. We keep being told that we know a great deal about Covid, but what I’ve learnt over the past 10 days is: we don’t. We don’t know how long we are infectious for. We don’t know how to tackle it. We don’t know what it does to us.
We don’t know how long the antibodies last. We don’t know how easy it is to catch it twice. And we certainly don’t know if any of the vaccines will work long-term. I don’t even know if I’m better now. Seriously, I have absolutely no idea.
Maybe the BBC should consider this and in future stop asking clever-clever questions designed to make Boris look foolish, and instead ask clever questions that will help us understand something that scares us.
T'was about his brush with Covid over Xmas. Mainly full of his usual fluff but with some pertinent stuff and finishing with:
This is the problem we have. We keep being told that we know a great deal about Covid, but what I’ve learnt over the past 10 days is: we don’t. We don’t know how long we are infectious for. We don’t know how to tackle it. We don’t know what it does to us.
We don’t know how long the antibodies last. We don’t know how easy it is to catch it twice. And we certainly don’t know if any of the vaccines will work long-term. I don’t even know if I’m better now. Seriously, I have absolutely no idea.
Maybe the BBC should consider this and in future stop asking clever-clever questions designed to make Boris look foolish, and instead ask clever questions that will help us understand something that scares us.
kingrollo
Guru
National lockdown until Easter ? - Being reported by a few outlets, can't see it myself. Also speculation that the SA variant maybe resistant to existing vaccines. I wonder if the two stories are connected ?
Would that mean all the produced stocks - would be no good ? - also would those vaccinated early need re jabbing with the tweeked dose ?
Would that mean all the produced stocks - would be no good ? - also would those vaccinated early need re jabbing with the tweeked dose ?
matticus
Guru
matticus
Guru
Substitute "every media interviewer (and indeed media and social media commentator)" for "BBC" and he may have something there.
<grinds teeth while admitting Clarkson might have said something worthwhile>
I feel dirty now ...
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Not quite.
Furgus Walsh and other Health and Medical correspondents have been good in both interviews and analysis. They are no less interested in advancing their careers but that advancement comes from proper science and explaining and communicating complex science to an uninformed public.
For Kunessburg et al advancement comes from embarrassing politicians and getting soundbites on the rolling news.
We needed more if the former and less of the latter.
