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Mick Harper
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Please!
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We are entering a troubled time for Covidian statistics. The rate of infection is coming rapidly down -- though whether because of new lock-down rules or because we are past the Christmas peak or because of inoculation take-up or from some other reason, nobody knows. My own guess is it is because people have correctly diagnosed that taking a test and testing positive restricts their life parameters far more than having the disease. All statistics for test-taking have been absent from our screens for many months and test-taking is far and away the major input for calculating the daily infection rate.

The rate of hospital admissions is going up -- presumably because, as always, the ad hoc rules for hospital admission vary depending on capacity, which is still growing for Covid cases. The death rate is going up for people in care homes presumably because of iatrogenic factors, whether increased hospital admissions or increased inoculation.

The date for normalcy is being expressed in a number of overlapping windows so everyone can say, "Well, at least we got that right."
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Latest idea is to give 500 quid for a positive Covid test! If that happens even Mick will have to admit that our leaders are idiots or evil conspirators
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Mick Harper
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I thought it was a good idea in principle (given official parameters). It was wrongly applied as a means-tested benefit when it should have been a universal one but when it became too obvious that it was mainly benefiting people who knew how to work the system (whether doling it out or getting it), this has been corrected. Just in time for nobody needing it. It's the British way.
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This week's completely untrue aphorism from the One World/ Third World/ Liberal/ Statist intelligentsia: "Nobody's safe unless everybody's safe." This should read read "Everybody who's been vaccinated is safe except that nobody is ever entirely safe from any infectious disease, except maybe smallpox."
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Mick Harper
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You would think Big Pharma would catch a break after saving the world and declining to make big bucks out of it. You underestimate the depth of passion against these monsters. Here is a Dutch Green MEP on Channel 4 saying how it is:

"It shows these pharmaceutical companies are way too powerful. We should be super-harsh on companies that aren’t delivering on their promises. We must stand together against these companies that have become way too powerful. We must force Astra-Zeneca to share intellectual property so we can ramp up production."

Well, dear, you might find you too are subject to dud batches of vaccine, it being a living process, and disappointing your constituents. But it's your call. It's not too late to nationalise them now there are twenty-seven of you.
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Facebook will not allow this video to be shared. Watch it. You'll know why.

https://cantcensortruth.com/watch?id=6019e8c9481ac71e097fb6db
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Wile E. Coyote


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The vaccine is being offered to those most at risk to save lives.

So why within those groups are not members of BAME communities getting the vaccine first? There have been numerous papers saying they are dis-proportionally impacted, so logically this simple prioritisation based on ethnicity will save many lives.


Just asking.
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Mick Harper
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The BAMES have decided not to vaccinate on the White Scale on a purely voluntary basis. While this may be unfortunate for BAMES it won't significantly impact the rest of us. So why should we care? People have got to have the right to be dumb and accept the consequences.

PS The Iranians are still refusing any US or British vaccines because they will be 'contaminated'. The latest vaccine, Johnson & Johnson's, is actually made in Britain. In fact we have somehow become the go-to place for vaccines. Just an idea to punt around.
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Mick Harper
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I am puzzled by the slow roll-out in Scotland. St Nicola says it is because they are concentrating on the care homes first. But England is sort of doing the same thing by calling in the age groups top down and, I would have thought, it is far easier descending on a care home and lining them up rather than individuals being called to vaccination centres.

I am Zooming with a Scottish care home nurse tonight so I may get my answer.
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Boreades


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Why the slow roll-out in Scotland?

It's a lethal cocktail of deployment logistics combined with bloody Scottish obstinacy.

Michael Gove announced:
Eighty vaccine centres across Scotland are being set up by the Armed Forces, ensuring every part of our country feels the benefit of the Oxford AstraZeneca treatment.


Huzzah! A success, surely? Not quite (in Scottish / SNP eyes)

150 new mobile Army teams will deliver vaccinations with a fleet of Land Rovers and Chinook helicopters. ... the teams will comprise soldiers from the Royal Army Medical Corps and troops from the UK's standby battalions, who were recently deployed to Dover to give Covid tests to lorry drivers stranded outside the port. .. Troops from 1 Medical Regiment based in Tidworth, Wiltshire, are expected to join NHS staff at the Nightingales – seven makeshift hospitals


Oh .. see the problem? The troops are currently based in England, and so are most of the heavy-lift Chinooks (or the dobber-cloppers as #1 Son called them, because of their distinctive sound as they fly over). Logistics logic also means supplying most-densely populated areas first, then outwards to less populated areas.

Either way, the Dour Scots will be even more miserable, being cap-in-hand and waiting for the perfidious English to arrive yet again.
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Ishmael wrote:
Facebook will not allow this video to be shared. Watch it. You'll know why.


Yes, we have declared war on a poorly understood subset of what was previously thought of as the "common cold."
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Ishmael


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BINGO!
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Mick Harper
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Oh all right. Eyes down for a full house. Have to be on Zoom though.
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Oh all right from me too. Just so long as there's fish'n'chips at half time, and some decent Sauvignon Blanc on tap.
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