Brexit, for once some facts.

[oyster]

Mmmm - How long before Boris is tempted to impose martial law on Liverpool - along with most the country.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1309981840095219713

I think he has a problem with marital law.

 

[oldgroaner]

Some biological/medical tests are standardised. But the ones I am most often discussing are not. The test manufacturers have made, effectively, no effort to achieve standardisation.

We see:
Reference intervals that vary from one lab to another;
Tests that are prone to interference by known factors which could be avoided;
Refusal to do tests on specious grounds;
And then, they publish papers which refer to reference intervals as if they were the same in every lab! Particularly when they are meta-analyses;
We see formal guidelines which say some value should be under/over a certain level;
Because the tests are not standardised, this is absolutely rotten to the core.

"Because the tests are not standardised, this is absolutely rotten to the core."

But profitable...........................................

 

[oldgroaner]

I think he has a problem with marital law.

They're only breaking the law in
"A limited and specific way"

According to the
Dummies guide to UK Law
By Dominic Cummings

 

[oyster]

This brexit is obviously not even alpha tested. Can we go back and have a beta-referendum? Then a final-release one?

Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April
Beta means fully operational? Haha! Good one!
A UK government system to avoid miles of road traffic congestion in the county of Kent as the Brexit transition period comes to an end will rely on software which is not yet in its beta version.

Following the announcement this week that the government would introduce Kent Access Permits to ensure heavy goods vehicles travelling to the port of Dover and the Folkestone Eurotunnel crossing do not set off without the proper paperwork, the transport industry was quick to point out Whitehall had not begun testing the technology on which they would depend.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/25/brexit_travel_permits_software_beta/

I keep wondering what will happen to vehicles actually delivering from rest-of-UK to Kent. Will they need KAPS? Even if not officially required, it might end up being something that avoids issues.

 

[Fingers]

Do take notice.

As I've already reported, that is mainly due to the Borough of Hillingdon which is the Heathrow airport area borough supplying the bulk of Heathrow Airports 76,000 workers who have been receiving all those flights from infected areas. That 76,000 is overwhelming more than London's 16,000 infected who have caused the current panic.

Those infected but not in Hillingdon, as again I've already reported in here, are mostly around London's border with Essex just north of the Thames, due to Essex's higher infection rate and commuting.

27 of London's 29 boroughs do not have a problem. Two of them are Londons largest boroughs, including my own, which at the beginning of the pandemic was London's worst hit by far. That of course is why we don't have a problem now, we took the hit early. Here we are ignoring the politicians latest panicky lockdown which had no need to be applied London wide.

We in Croydon also service a major airport, Gatwick, but that was soon virtually shut down, probably why our infections were very high early but have largely disappeared since. And Essex still with a high rate as mentioned above, services the other major London airport Stanstead which has continued working. It's a pity our politicians hadn't watched what was actually going on and acted more wisely with far stricter control over incoming flights during the pandemic, isolating and testing all passengers before allowing them immediate contact with immigration, customs and all other airport workers in shops, hotels, public transport and the rest of the country's population.
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its mass hysteria fuelled by the most incompetent government in the history of our country.

i am disgusted and ashamed of my country.

i now know how anti Brexit types felt.

its quite a sickening feeling.

 

[oyster]

Will Johnson be relieved that he doesn't seem to be a target? Or hacked off that he is ignored?

Reports that Sacha Baron Cohen has filmed and test-screened a sequel to his 2006 comedy hit, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, have gathered pace with the news that a title for the film was submitted to the Writers Guild America.

Borat: Gift of Pornographic Monkey to Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence to Make Benefit Recently Diminished Nation of Kazakhstan was submitted to the Writers Guild America in recent days, but the page has since been taken down.

 

[sjpt]

Following the announcement this week that the government would introduce Kent Access Permits to ensure heavy goods vehicles travelling to the port of Dover and the Folkestone Eurotunnel crossing do not set off without the proper paperwork, the transport industry was quick to point out Whitehall had not begun testing the technology on which they would depend.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/25/brexit_travel_permits_software_beta/

I keep wondering what will happen to vehicles actually delivering from rest-of-UK to Kent. Will they need KAPS? Even if not officially required, it might end up being something that avoids issues.

Copying a comment from the url above:
Proper acronym is 'Kent Road Access Pass'?

 

[oyster]

Copying a comment from the url above:
Proper acronym is 'Kent Road Access Pass'?

AKA Kermit.

 

[oldgroaner]

And then
Parliament bars impose 10pm curfew after swift U-turn

 

[Wicky]

Students are usually looking for p/t work and with the outbreaks in over 40 Unis it could be perfect self-perpetuating make-work to get them working for T&T...

Test and trace: 'I spoke to one person in four months'

People who worked for England's NHS Test and Trace tell of technical problems, confusion and wasted resources.

www.bbc.co.uk

Covid: About 40 universities report coronavirus cases

But students are assured they will be able to return home for Christmas holidays.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[oyster]

I haven't even travelled to the next county for ages, and not to the next country for over a year:

 

[RossG]

Students are usually looking for p/t work and with the outbreaks in over 40 Unis it could be perfect self-perpetuating make-work to get them working for T&T...

Test and trace: 'I spoke to one person in four months'

People who worked for England's NHS Test and Trace tell of technical problems, confusion and wasted resources.

www.bbc.co.uk

Covid: About 40 universities report coronavirus cases

But students are assured they will be able to return home for Christmas holidays.

www.bbc.co.uk

I once spoke to one person for four months, then the mirror fell off the bathroom wall and that was that .. alone again naturally

 

[oyster]

$70,000

Paid to style Trump’s hair for television, claimed as expenses.

A fool and his money are easily parted. Or dyed, bouffanted (is that a word?), combed over or whatever else the hairdresser does.

 

[flecc]

I haven't even travelled to the next county for ages,

I only have to stumble in my County of London and I'm in the next County of Surrey, I've just been in there this afternoon and I'm looking out of the window at the boundary at this moment.

And if I walk in the other direction for 25 minutes, I'm in the County of Kent. The way things are going at present with Brexit negotiations I may need a passport for that one shortly.
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[oyster]

Follow the science? Follow the scientists? Or not? Apartheid? Or not?

Asking over-65s to shield is 'age-based apartheid', boss of NHS England says

Sir Simon Stevens rejected idea proposed by scientists to contain Covid second wave
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/28/asking-over-65s-to-shield-is-age-based-apartheid-nhs-england-boss-says-covid

 

[wheeler]

We, the people, did well at abiding by the rules on lockdown when first introduced. (That Cummings, Jenrick, the Scottish health person, etc., seemed not to abide properly undermined the widespread support/"obedience".)

Everything that went before, and much that has happened since, is appalling.

I don't believe the actions of "the Scottish health person", pp as you describe her, had any effect on the public's behaviour.
The difference between her and the other two self-entitled pricks that you mention is that she stood beside Nicola Sturgeon at the daily briefing, fully admitted her transgressions, apologised for letting the public down and resigned.
The other two could not manage an ounce of contrition or even a vague hint of apology and that is what got right up the public's nose.

 

[oyster]

I don't believe the actions of "the Scottish health person", pp as you describe her, had any effect on the public's behaviour.
The difference between her and the other two self-entitled pricks that you mention is that she stood beside Nicola Sturgeon at the daily briefing, fully admitted her transgressions, apologised for letting the public down and resigned.
The other two could not manage an ounce of contrition or even a vague hint of apology and that is what got right up the public's nose.

Certainly agree she did "the right thing". But still, I think, contributed to the "I'll interpret as I wish" attitude.

 

[jonathan.agnew]

I don't believe the actions of "the Scottish health person", pp as you describe her, had any effect on the public's behaviour.
The difference between her and the other two self-entitled pricks that you mention is that she stood beside Nicola Sturgeon at the daily briefing, fully admitted her transgressions, apologised for letting the public down and resigned.
The other two could not manage an ounce of contrition or even a vague hint of apology and that is what got right up the public's nose.

Although I'm deeply grateful to the two entitled pricks for inadvertently revealing the hypocrisy of the conservatives to the electorate (who seem to need to be slapped several times with a disembowled rotten fish before they recognised it as such), the tory lead in the polls began its slide around then. I think there should be a new annual public service award for the most corrupt official who accidentally torpedo his her own party

 

[oyster]

Although I'm deeply grateful to the two entitled pricks for inadvertently revealing the hypocrisy of the conservatives to the electorate (who seem to need to be slapped several times with a disembowled rotten fish before they recognised it as such), the tory lead in the polls began its slide around then. I think there should be a new annual public service award for the most corrupt official who accidentally torpedo his her own party

Nominations now open!

And what will you call the award? (Shouldn't actually have the effect of memorialising the person. So probably not their names.)

 

[RossG]

$70,000

Paid to style Trump’s hair for television, claimed as expenses.

A fool and his money are easily parted. Or dyed, bouffanted (is that a word?), combed over or whatever else the hairdresser does.

He might as well had boxed his barnet up and sent it off for a light trim via Amazon Prime