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In my non-expert opinion, this released today is irresponsible: - Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London said he was being given NHS data that showed a slowing in new hospital admissions as social distancing measures imposed in recent weeks start to have an effect. For a start, many are asymptomatic in the first days and we have yet to get close to the top of the curve. Even Trump had been told to say last night that calling victory too early on this war would be a big mistake. It was only last weekend that Snowdonia reported their highest ever visitor numbers. We have seen packed tubes last week, packed streets in Birmingham, packed supermarket queues everywhere and tons of non-essential workers (including in construction) still mixing. We should see more of the Cheltenham racegoers coming to hospital imminently as their symptoms would've started recently and may worsen now. I wonder how many of them have since died or who are on ventilators? We did NOT stop spreading the virus in big enough numbers until 6 or 7 days ago so more shit will inevitably hit the fan. I wonder if this academic (and therefore possibly not of the real world, and even more likely not to be if this government choose him to be within their select circle) has been inspired by "only" 209 dying in the 24 hours through Saturday, as reported on a Sunday? If today's figures aren't the highest daily death rate yet recorded, we might have some hope for optimism, that the plateau is within sight. It's way too early to know I reckon.

One of the experts on CNN in the early hours of this morning mentioned the UK and our failed Herd Immunity strategy. Rico and me smelt shite and said it made no sense to us within hours of hearing about it for the first time. The biggest crimes against humanity in the west have been Boris and Trump not seeing the severity of the situation quickly enough. There is a mountain of evidence online to convict Trump in this regard and in the UK, the schools closures and the social isolation/distancing/lockdown measures were implemented by a reactive government too late, reacting purely on public demands including non-government-employed scientists and social media rather than "the science" that they said they were following in their laughable attempts to present themselves as leading the fight. When Blow Job said Operation Last Gasp in relation to the ventilators one week ago, this was more to do with his contrived image of being a jolly japester more than him being flippant about the virus, although it did reveal the depths of his inhumanity. The BBC, ITV and Sky have been giving the inept government too easy a ride. The damage has been done and many thousands of lives have been and will be lost by failing to act with intelligence.

We watched the Trump press briefing live from the Rose Garden last night. It was more of the same. We then flicked through some news channels and I watched CNN for the first time in years. It was amazing. Some guy called Dom or Don Lemon and a team of experts analysed what the President had said and showed clips of what he had been saying previously. It was factual reporting, not the fake news that Trump says it is. I knew that a huge number on social media were big on exposing the stupidity and the lies but I didn't know a mainstream media outlet were honest enough and courageous enough to report truth. This is bitter and it is sweet. Trump is clinically insane.

Grampian doing well comparatively. So far. https://www.travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker/

After watching my daughter on her yoga mat - she's been doing it for years in classes and stuff - I just had my first Yoga session in my life. I'm hooked and plan to do it every day. She recommended the down dog App and I just completed the first Beginner session of Vinyasa, 14 minutes of coordinated moving and breathing. Loved it.

Vernon looked more like a striker than Cosgrove and Main combined. But he wasn't good enough to get into any team that could win stuff, like 99% of footballers at AFC since.

In Roma, they had a spontaneous clap from the balconies for actual healthcare staff who had passed through. It was filmed, went viral and everybody went Awww. It was a beautiful thing. Some lassie a couple of weeks later thought it was a good idea to do it here, proposed it, it went viral and Boris got filmed jolly japestering on his front door hours before mild symptoming, he and Piers Morgan describing it thereafter in the most maximum of gushing terms e.g. "deeply moving". Piers is an absolute dick of course but has generally been very good this month in banging the government with fairly-earned contemptuous criticism. Like everything, the original was best and the copies a weak imitation. The video in London which caught the boy having a wank was ironic. He obviously missed the memo although having curtains/blinds open to the extent that he could've been seen was pretty disturbing.

This week, Channel 4 - the best mainstream news media by far - had interviews with a doctor and paramedic. Their identities were hidden and their voices overdubbed by actors. The reason for the cloak and dagger was to protect them as the crime of speaking the truth would have resulted in them getting fired. That's how much the Tories love the NHS. The last ten years have been systematically fucking the NHS by stealth. John Pilger's documentary was only three months ago and unsurprisingly, neither the BBC nor ITV ran with it.

Great post TW. My son's girlfriend wrote on Friday - instead of a round of applause, please don't vote Tory. My wife on Thursday described the imminent clapping for the NHS a heap of shite. Those are the only two front line NHS workers I know.

Data. It's always revealing. Today and of the major disaster areas, the UK 34.25% and the US (now that their numbers are in) 30.25% suffered the worst percentage increases day-to-day. There's now a G7 of countries who have tripped 1,000. Over the next week, I can't imagine that Boris and Trump won't manage to be the top two in terms of the exponential potential. Given the incredible fuck ups by both, it couldn't possibly be surpassed by others, particularly how dumb and stupid our general populations are.

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/10/doctor-johnson-thousands-deaths-nhs-patient?__twitter_impression=true

Now that this has been confirmed, I don't see next week being other than similarly exponential and horrific. The government acted too late and as we saw in the West Midlands yesterday, some people STILL don't understand the seriousness of the situation. Herd Immunity didn't work.

Just as we were able to identify from the data that England had decided to change their reporting a couple of days ago, there may be a change in this respect going on in the US right now. Astonishingly low percentage increases in the latest numbers today. Edit: ok they've upped the US numbers a bit in the last couple of hours. At the UK briefing today, they said we had over 1,000 dead as of 5 pm last night.

The approval ratings for Trump would be astonishing but for the fact that most of his approvers aren't voting for him, they're voting for themselves. In this snowflake era where people aren't able to admit their mistakes, the truth becomes secondary to their perception of self.

I don't blame politicians for being "style-aware". It was Blair's administration who introduced the term "spin" but when style becomes more important than substance, then they're fucked. Or they would be if the electorate wasn't so dumb. The fact that they say thank you for each and every question received in the daily briefings isn't a normal expression of gratitude. It's what they've been told to do to try to make them look more human. It doesn't even make sense, thanking someone (already pre-selected) for doing their job, particularly if the question is highly critical and exposes one of their many weaknesses.

Wow. Aoife O'Donovan fantastic. Never heard of her. Different strokes etc. - couldn't listen to the other two!

Finally got round to listening to it all. So refreshing to listen to a real expert. Great find. Thanks for sharing.

I asked her to put up some music on the telly just now. These were her first selections which coincidentally includes Fleetwood Mac, even though I hadn't mentioned them to her.

No, he's HM, a Scot living south of London. Absolutely different strokes. He loves him. I don't. But he did introduce me to Fleetwood Mac, a band I never cared for until he insisted I listened to some lesser known tracks. Will come back to you with some great music I'd not heard before this week, including some stuff recorded before I was born, introduced to me by our 18 year old. I knew she loved music but didn't appreciate how deep her knowledge is and how broad her tastes are.

It was indeed a blip yesterday. 113 deaths in the last day. As we discovered earlier today, England decided to change the time in the day when they count them. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have been reporting as normal.

Unfortunately I gave the government too much credit. It wasn't stupidity but way more sinister than that. The announcement that Dyson has been awarded a 10,000 ventilator contract wouldn't be anything to do with the fact that he was a massive Brexit supporter would it? Andrew Raynor of MEC Medical answered the call from the government and was ignored, as revealed on Newsnight last night. I don't get why Hancock wouldn't have gone to existing specialists in the field FIRST.

My mate was at that gig and is a huge fan. He introduced Bonamassa to me a few years ago but alas I am thoroughly unimpressed. Yes he's a good technician but I don't hear any beauty neither in his guitar and especially not in his voice.

Heard this for the first time yesterday. Love it.

Nadhim Tory cunt getting nailed on Newsnight just now. His constant use of "ramping up" has just been exposed by Emily. Awesome stuff Emily. This cunt is fuck all v. Randy Andy.