Mundane News

[cookiemonster]

Masks have never been demonstrated to make a difference, indeed, the Danish study showed no statistical difference between wearing a mask or not. The 2 metre rule had no scientific basis either.

COVID is a seasonal virus, like flu, and the season has now long passed. Their figures for cases uses the PCR test at, I believe, 46 cycles, Fauci said anything over 25 is meaningless.

Erm...I disagree.

The University of Hong Kong medical school did a study in Spring of last year and found that masks reduce the rate of infection from 66% to 16%. This study was replicated by Harvard, John Hopkins and Yale Universities in the USA with similar results and, shortly after, the WHO changed their advice re masks.

Also, if masks are so ineffective, why then are the mortality rates here in Asia way lower than in the UK/Europe? Some of the lowest mortality rates from Covid are here in the Far East and all East Asian countries have mask wearing in public a legal requirement.

There's no evidence yet that Covid will be seasonal either. The scientists don't know that yet as the virus keeps evolving.

Anyhoo, dinner time.

Apologies to @Andy in Germany

 

[cookiemonster]

Ok. Two typhoons in the area.

Will one, both or neither hit us?

Place your bets.

 

[PeteXXX]

I once had a Loach I'd named Wiggle
To catch him it was such a giggle
He swam like an eel
Round the tank he did wheel
Then under the gravel he diggled

 

[oldwheels]

Lovely sunny day with no wind but did not go triking due to volume of traffic.
Down the street a camper van was blocking all the blue badge spaces despite notices forbidding them from parking here anyway. Problems with aggressive M/H owners free camping at Duror apparently and police were called.
The coop has put out a warning on FB which reading between the lines says "don't bother coming shopping as we have nothing in stock anyway".
Just as well I have a good stock of everything except fresh fruit and veg. Can't even go to Oban as cannot get on a ferry due to numbers already booked. Roll on winter.
Do I sound negative? Not at all just realistic.

 

[cookiemonster]

There's a bat roost just above my living room window. The bats are awake and are flying around my window just before they head out to feed.

Beautiful sight.

 

[Andy in Germany]

It is absolutely gerhooning it down here. I think another train journey may be part of my immediate future.

 

[DCLane]

I've just seen the 3rd scrap metal wagon come past my house, turn round at the end and go back in the past 10 minutes.

Don't they at least work out where each other will be?

 

[Illaveago]

Ventriloquist's work will become much harder when they do away with mask wearing .

 

[Illaveago]

The Covid thread is over here

Yes. Too much trouble to move .

 

[Reynard]

Cool, blustery and showery here chez Casa Reynard.

It piddled it down with rain overnight. Had to bail out some of my planters, but the daily slug hunt yielded none. My tomato plants are recovering from being eaten.

Too wet to do anything outside, so I am spending the day writing.

And it's almost lunchtime.

 

[Reynard]

It seems daft to me to do away with precautions when the numbers are still increasing. With the number of cases doubling then surely your chances of coming into contact with someone with it also increase .

It's basic statistics, isn't it.

Unfortunately, mathematics doesn't seem to be the government's skill.

 

[Reynard]

You've been vaccinated, are you saying it's no use?

I've only had one jab so far. Struggling to book a second one (it is due imminently) without being sent halfway across the country.

So I'm only partially protected, and the protection from the Delta variant is much lower than for the older Kent variant after one dose.

My 92 year old mum lives with me. She's the only family I've got left, and I'd never forgive myself if she ended up with covid. Ergo I'm going to keep on doing what I'm doing just because I love her so much.

 

[Reynard]

Had a lovely lunch of one slice of wholemeal toast with lox and schmear, one slice of wholemeal toast with peanut butter and sliced banana, plus the rest of the banana, half a punnet of strawberries and two

Now got the cycling on the telly. It is wazzing it down with rain outside. The cats are curled up on the bed.

 

[biggs682]

Will I be lucky enough to get a few miles in later tonight ?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

The weather here is horrible.