Brexit, for once some facts.

oldgroaner

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You can’t really compare, too many differences and variables.
Oh so our Dead people are different to Australian dead people are they?

Let's see now it used to be said that
"An Englishman is worth TEN foreigners"
Now, due to inflation
"A foreigner is worth TEN Englishmen"?

There isn't much variability between a dead Britisher and a dead Aussie as far as I can see
Except perhaps the Australians have a lot more space for graveyards?
 
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Barry Shittpeas

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Oh so our Dead people are different to Australian dead people are they?

Let's see now it used to be said that
"An Englishman is worth TEN foreigners"
Now, due to inflation
"A foreigner is worth TEN Englishmen"?

There isn't much variability between a dead Britisher and a dead Aussie as far as I can see
Except perhaps the Australians have a lot more space for graveyards?
Australia has more square metres per head of population, they tend to populate costal areas as well. These factors make a difference.

Not sure what your ready reckoner is all about.
 

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We’ve got the App coming then. This could be useful if uptake is good. I hope we don’t have too many Luddites refusing to embrace new fangled technology in case GCHQ know they are at Bingo on a Wednesday afternoon.
 

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interestingly, the authors (Utrecht university) give you not only their recipe but also their antibody sequences for non commercial use. Samples of SARS-COV-2 was supplied by Germans.
 

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We’ve got the App coming then. This could be useful if uptake is good. I hope we don’t have too many Luddites refusing to embrace new fangled technology in case GCHQ know they are at Bingo on a Wednesday afternoon.
Once again it will expose the false claim of 95% mobile coverage. Just like the similar false claim about broadband coverage. It's our governments who are the Luddites, trailing far behind the oriental countries in our technologies in both coverage and speed.

We even lagged behind Africa in payments by mobile phone for goodness sake.
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oldgroaner

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We’ve got the App coming then. This could be useful if uptake is good. I hope we don’t have too many Luddites refusing to embrace new fangled technology in case GCHQ know they are at Bingo on a Wednesday afternoon.
After you old chap, just don't give them your name Pike!
 
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oldgroaner

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interestingly, the authors (Utrecht university) give you not only their recipe but also their antibody sequences for non commercial use. Samples of SARS-COV-2 was supplied by Germans.
There seems to be a lot of it about, if you know what I mean o_O
 

oldgroaner

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And in a proper journal, Nature, rather than a billionaire's rag. :)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16256-y

Sounds like eau de cologne...
Dont you dare mention eau de cologne, if Trump gets wind of it the USA will either suffer mass deaths from poisoning or smell like a Lebanese Brothel.

And no , Never been there just another assumption caused by reading the Daily Mail Online too often:cool:
 
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Should have re-commissioned the Cutty Sark, would have delivered quicker.

Launch of PPE delivery system for care home staff hit by delays
Clipper scheme could take three weeks to be operational, warns UK communities secretary
 

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I read somewhere might have been on here, that the government may lift the lockdown first on the IOW as an experiment. Then if everyone starts catching covid again over there at least it's off the mainland and they can watch it unfold. I'm sure that wont be the case but equally sure it must have crossed someone's mind.
The Chinese do their medical experiments on their prisoners, we have an whole island !
 

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Once again it will expose the false claim of 95% mobile coverage. Just like the similar false claim about broadband coverage. It's our governments who are the Luddites, trailing far behind the oriental countries in our technologies in both coverage and speed.

We even lagged behind Africa in payments by mobile phone for goodness sake.
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I don't think signal coverage will be an issue. As I understand it, the App logs IDs of phones within a pre-defined radius of you using Bluetooth, that data will then be sent to a central server once a data connection is established. It doesn't matter if you are in a signal blackspot, the data will be stored on your phone and transmitted when you get in signal range / wifi range.

I'm not sure you are correct about mobile payments. I use nothing but my Apple Watch or Mobile phone for payments. I never use a card or cash and can pay anyone anywhere in the world at any time I like. I can't see what other payments facility is lacking.
 
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oldgroaner

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I don't think signal coverage will be an issue. As I understand it, the App logs IDs of phones within a pre-defined radius of you using Bluetooth, that data will then be sent to a central server once a data connection is established. It doesn't matter if you are in a signal blackspot, the data will be stored on your phone and transmitted when you get in signal range / wifi range.

I'm not sure you are correct about mobile payments. I use nothing but my Apple Watch or Mobile phone for payments. I never use a card or cash and can pay anyone anywhere in the world at any time I like. I can't see what other payments facility is lacking.
Apple watch? after all you've said about China? :rolleyes:
 

oldgroaner

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Seriously, what are you afraid of? If a large proportion of the population take this up, it could save a few lives. What's so bad about that?
Do you really, really seriously think it will?
With the government you voted for running the show on software from the dodgiest sociopathic rat on the planet's friends?
Here are my doubts
  1. When did this government last run any Computer project that actually worked?
  2. What danger is there of them equipping and organising the infrastructure to do the testing and tracking and isolation of cases?
  3. Is anyone gullible enough to trust them with their data if Cummings has been within a solar orbit distance of the system?
No thank you
 
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oldgroaner

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I wonder

Chris Giles@ChrisGiles_

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Update: Following the latest hospital figures for the number of people who have died after testing positive for coronavirus, a cautious estimate of the UK excess deaths linked to the outbreak is 50,200

Not a good start Boris to preside over this is it?
 
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