Coronavirus outbreak

[Joey Shabadoo]

Not quite sure how it's okay for the PM to travel to his second residence and for his fiancee to join him there.

Aye, that's the second time you've brought that up. Could it be because Downing St is the working office of government, filled with staff and operating throughout this crisis whilst Chequers is more appropriate for someone recuperating from a serious illness that put them into intensive care for three days?

 

[vickster]

Indeed and I’m sure he’s not out gallivanting mixing with the locals, like all the second homers who headed to Southwold

 

[theclaud]

Aye, that's the second time you've brought that up. Could it be because Downing St is the working office of government, filled with staff and operating throughout this crisis whilst Chequers is more appropriate for someone recuperating from a serious illness that put them into intensive care for three days?

Doesn't he share a flat with Symonds? Y'know - the one the police had to be called to last year because of the screaming and shouting and smashing things?

 

[Eziemnaik]

Tsssss that would be the third residence

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Doesn't he share a flat with Symonds? Y'know - the one the police had to be called to last year because of the screaming and shouting and smashing things?

Would you want to go back to a flat with such nosy neighbours?

ETA - serious answer, he's Prime Minister now. I'm guessing there's security implications.

 

[mjr]

Aye, that's the second time you've brought that up. Could it be because Downing St is the working office of government, filled with staff and operating throughout this crisis whilst Chequers is more appropriate for someone recuperating from a serious illness that put them into intensive care for three days?

You mean the flat is above a place with loads of people who can bring food and other essentials.

When I heard Boris has gone to his second official residence, I was horrified. It's a real "rules don't apply to me" Scottish CMO moment and loads of people will take this as an excuse to ignore the rule. I'm now worried about the coastal area I live in, the chocolate box area where my mother lives and the tourist town where my in laws are. At least it might help my relatives in London and the Midlands if some idiots leave those.

Chequers and other grand houses owned by the nation and probably National Trust should probably be requisitioned as convalesce homes like in the wars. That would get the message across of what a big deal this is.

 

[pawl]

Second home owners sending luggage ahead to ther holiday homes by courier to avoid being stopped by the police. Selfish idiots

Think I’ll send my saddle bag up to a youth hostel.Silly me there all closed.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

HydroChloroquine

Please can we stop pushing unproven cures without references or evidence.

Hydroxychloroquine has potential for COVID treatment, but the evidence for it is extremely weak.

The popular faith in hydroxychloroquine stands in stark contrast to the weakness of the data. Several studies of its efficacy against COVID-19 have delivered an equivocal or negative verdict, and it can have significant side effects, including heart arrhythmias. Raoult’s positive studies have been widely criticized for their limitations and methodological issues.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...ing-hype-over-unproven-coronavirus-treatment#

Many other drugs are also being trialled for use in COVID. They merely do not have the same hype. You can search on clinicaltrials.gov for ongoing trials; the are 440 of them for COVID and many for agents other than hydroxychloroquine.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=COVID&term=&cntry=&state=&city=&dist=

The main story about hydroxychloroquine is how it is being used by Trump to deflect attention from his personal failings.

[Full disclosure: I have a friend who is a professor of virology in France. He is personally scathing of the quality of the study used to push this by the doctor]

 

[theclaud]

Tsssss that would be the third residence

Fourth, IIRC, as he and Symonds reportedly bought a £1.3M four bedroom house in Camberwell last year.

 

[newfhouse]

Could it be because Downing St is the working office of government, filled with staff and operating throughout this crisis whilst Chequers is more appropriate for someone recuperating from a serious illness that put them into intensive care for three days?

No staff at Chequers? Really?

 

[marinyork]

EU President says vulnerable and elderly may have to stay indoors until next year - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...ion-president-warns-elderly-may-need-isolate/

This is something my wife and I had already discussed, that she can't go outside until there's a vaccine.

May not be as incredibly rare a view as thought if this poll that asked substantial, but shorter timescales is anything to go on

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ing-hardest-modern-equivalent-victorian-slums

This poll goes much further than previous ones

 

[Eziemnaik]

Please can we stop pushing unproven cures without references or evidence.

Hydroxychloroquine has potential for COVID treatment, but the evidence for it is extremely weak.

The popular faith in hydroxychloroquine stands in stark contrast to the weakness of the data. Several studies of its efficacy against COVID-19 have delivered an equivocal or negative verdict, and it can have significant side effects, including heart arrhythmias. Raoult’s positive studies have been widely criticized for their limitations and methodological issues.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...ing-hype-over-unproven-coronavirus-treatment#

Many other drugs are also being trialled for use in COVID. They merely do not have the same hype. You can search on clinicaltrials.gov for ongoing trials; the are 440 of them for COVID and many for agents other than hydroxychloroquine.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=COVID&term=&cntry=&state=&city=&dist=

The main story about hydroxychloroquine is how it is being used by Trump to deflect attention from his personal failings.

[Full disclosure: I have a friend who is a professor of virology in France. He is personally scathing of the quality of the study used to push this by the doctor]

Not pushing it at all

Please can we stop pushing unproven cures without references or evidence.

Hydroxychloroquine has potential for COVID treatment, but the evidence for it is extremely weak.

The popular faith in hydroxychloroquine stands in stark contrast to the weakness of the data. Several studies of its efficacy against COVID-19 have delivered an equivocal or negative verdict, and it can have significant side effects, including heart arrhythmias. Raoult’s positive studies have been widely criticized for their limitations and methodological issues.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...ing-hype-over-unproven-coronavirus-treatment#

Many other drugs are also being trialled for use in COVID. They merely do not have the same hype. You can search on clinicaltrials.gov for ongoing trials; the are 440 of them for COVID and many for agents other than hydroxychloroquine.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=COVID&term=&cntry=&state=&city=&dist=

The main story about hydroxychloroquine is how it is being used by Trump to deflect attention from his personal failings.

[Full disclosure: I have a friend who is a professor of virology in France. He is personally scathing of the quality of the study used to push this by the doctor]

Funny how reading the link provided I saw support from heads of French science

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Funny how reading the link provided I saw support from heads of French science

A better example of confirmation bias could not be imagined. Well done.

 

[Eziemnaik]

Pot, kettle, black

 

[theclaud]

Fourth, IIRC, as he and Symonds reportedly bought a £1.3M four bedroom house in Camberwell last year.

Sorry, I take it back. Third it is, as the flat that the cops attended is presumably out of the picture. The flat they live in at Downing St is the mahoosive one above no 11. Presumably they are renting out the massive house they've just bought in Camberwell (counting dwellings is one thing, counting incomes will be a bit more of a challenge). And of course the house he and his ex have just sold for something in the region of £4M doesn't count. All in it together, see.