That needs kicking into touch straight away. Just another one of those who's keen to keep themselves in the limelight.And now we have the last example of trying to move the goalposts: Jeremy Hunt has said that the lockdown should continue until the number of cases falls below 1,000 cases per day; he thinks that the Government should aim to suppress Covid sufficiently to enable a South Korea-style approach of intensive contact tracing.
Which at the current rate of descent and assuming no increase or decrease in this rate, will be in roughly 11 weeks timeAnd now we have the last example of trying to move the goalposts: Jeremy Hunt has said that the lockdown should continue until the number of cases falls below 1,000 cases per day; he thinks that the Government should aim to suppress Covid sufficiently to enable a South Korea-style approach of intensive contact tracing.
Hopefully many with influence over this matter see him as a has-been and ignore that, unless that level is reached relatively quickly.
Under exponential decay we'd expect it to slow down, however where it gets tricky is the rapid vaccine rollout is turbo-charging immunity which may keep a high rate of decline going for a while. The ZOE study was initially showing a slowdown in rate of decline after the latest peak, however more recently the decline has been linear, so perhaps a sign the vaccines, which have now been proven to show a notable reduction in transmission as well, are doing their job among those they've been rolled out to so far.
Can you elaborate? Don't most of the people that die spend time in ICU first or don't they make it there?
Throughout the pandemic Starmer has said things on the lines of calling for restrictions to be put in earlier and/or tougher, which, while I don't agree with the whole approach, it's all ended up being good foresight that has undermined Johnson because he ultimately caved into whatever Starmer previously said.I heard on the radio that Sir Keir doesn't want the government to ease the lockdown too soon.
Won't affect him with his gold plated pension and secure job
Sadiq Khan and TFL may force Tube and bus passengers to wear medical-grade anti-Covid masks amid fears cloth face coverings don't protect against mutant strains of virus.
Passengers may be told to wear higher-grade anti-Covid masks
The London Mayor and Transport for London launched two reviews of the current guidance as the 'Kent strain' continued to spread through the UK.www.dailymail.co.uk
As with a lot of Labour's covid policies, low paid workers and the unemployed don't matter one jot. Despite it's foundations rooted deeply in the working class & the fight for their rights, Labour has long left the working class behind. It is now a party for middle class suburbians who have developed a pseudo-conscience, and are easily frightened.
Interesting how they grouped the eldest into 10 year slots, whereas the 45-64 were grouped into a 20 year one. I wonder what that chart would look like if they display 45-54 & 55-64 year groups? As someone who writes statistical & analytical applications, I am often fascinated by things like this, because it is so very easy to distort data to fit a narrative (something I am happy to say I always challenge professionally).
I don't know if it is standardised at ONS or the healthcare sector, but I know in my sector we would be more likely to use the ages bands shown on that last graph rather than the previous one. Perhaps there is good reason for those former bands, but it does show how data can be skewed easily. As you say a chart showing 45-54 & 55-64 would likely show the latter to be far more impacted that the former group, so it does raise the question why not show this so that vaccinations can be better targeted still?
They've been using it, or sometimes a 45-75 age group throughout. Last March there were a lot of places showing deaths by age group and using equally wide bars, giving the (accidental I'm sure) impression that the disease suddenly got deadly at 45
I find it so bizarre Labour were pushing for things like taxes or bans on disposable coffee cups and likewise. Things like bans on straws. Now we have them pushing for "everyone must use a disposable single-use mask". It's odd. I am sure it won't be long before it becomes 2 masks (Anthony Fauci in the US is already pushing for that). And what then. 4 masks better than 2. 8 masks better than 4!
But as you said earlier - no-one's really any better at the moment, are they...
I wouldn't trust that source, I'm afraid. That doctor has a terrible record for scaremongering and twisting facts to support an extreme "Zero-Covid" narrative. As far as I'm concerned, he's the Ivor Cummings of the pro-lockdown side.
If lockdown continues to the end of 2021, I don't think I'll cope.
I won't be sitting around all year. I'll be out and about by April/May at the latest. My parents have both been vaccinated so if Boris wants to keep the hotels shut I'll go and stay with them.
