Brexit, for once some facts.

[Jesus H Christ]

I think we have to be careful not to over expect from the vaccines and over praise them. I warned about this a couple of weeks ago and have also pointed out that they are more effective as antigens than vaccines. All these people prematurely booking holidays and those crazy demonstrating women crowded together are doing so because they have the impression that the Covid danger is over now, thanks to too much publicity about how good the vaccines are and how well the innoculation program is progressing.

The truth is that the vaccines are nowhere good enough yet to stop Covid and we have the experts agreeing. By the Autumn we'll have most of the population vaccinated, yet Professor Chris Whitty and Professor Sir Ian Diamond have both now said they fully expect an Autumn surge in Covid cases. Clearly they will have to be vaccinated people catching it to create a surge and they will have to be catching it from others who have been vaccinated, showing the reduction in transmission from the vaccines is limited so shouldn't be relied upon. With limited evidence so far we have no idea if the vaccines cut transmission of new variants yet.

So with publicity it's time to stop the over expectation and excess praising and start concentrating first on the importance of everyone having the vaccines for the avoidance of the serious effects of Covid illness, second on the importance of maintaining precautions like social distancing for a long time yet.

Covid-19 is far from over.
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I totally agree and I fully expect the impressive head start we’ve gained with our vaccination programme to be blown. Headlines in newspapers such as Stand by for a Summer of Fun and Jab & Go from Ryanair are dangerously irresponsible.

I think by July 2021, everyone will be behaving as they did in July 2019 and we will head into Autumn and winter with a backdrop of rising infection rates and more vaccine resistant strains becoming prevalent. From the position we are in now, a severe outcome from the above is avoidable, but Party Boy will not be able to resist the pressure from his psychopath back benchers.

 

[Jesus H Christ]

An interesting development
First microwave-powered home boiler could help cut emissions ‘Drop-in’ replacement for gas boilers may help tackle challenge of cutting emissions from home heating

Assuming the power is from low emissions source of course!

That’s a good idea. Burn some gas and coal to produce low grade heat energy, inefficiently turn that into high grade electrical energy, suffer more losses transmitting it and then turn the electrical energy back into low grade heat energy to heat a house. Meanwhile you could have just burnt the gas at the house in a high efficiency boiler and used the heat to warm the house. Good old Guardian.

 

[oldgroaner]

Now this is very interesting research
The results showed that blood group A was associated with a higher risk for acquiring COVID-19 compared with non-A blood groups, whereas blood group O was associated with a lower risk for the infection compared with non-O blood groups.

This is simply an early study and not peer reviewed still i find it interesting.
Pity that I have no idea what my blood group is!!

 

[flecc]

Now this is very interesting research
The results showed that blood group A was associated with a higher risk for acquiring COVID-19 compared with non-A blood groups, whereas blood group O was associated with a lower risk for the infection compared with non-O blood groups.

This is simply an early study and not peer reviewed still i find it interesting.
Pity that I have no idea what my blood group is!!

That's good, I'm group O, the most common.

I'm sure you are common enough to be group O.
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[Zlatan]

Saw some comments other day from EU that UK hadnt/wasn't supporting vaccines out of UK as much as it should. (There is some argument between Raab and his EU counter part)
Found this graph if fact4u.


EU figure is contribution from 27 nations.???
I believe UK is largest contributor to Covax and AZ (accepted a Swedish/German/UK/Indian conglomerate) have promised to supply vaccines profit free for duration of Pandemic.
I wonder if this knocking AZ is to bolster Pfizer and consequently Pfizer profits???

 

[Danidl]

An interesting development
First microwave-powered home boiler could help cut emissions ‘Drop-in’ replacement for gas boilers may help tackle challenge of cutting emissions from home heating

Assuming the power is from low emissions source of course!

That surely is a solution in search of a problem.... It produces exactly 1watt of heat per watt of electrical power consumption,.. identical to that of a resistance ribbon or tape . The difference with a heat pump is it can produce 4or 5 watts of heat for each electrical watt.

 

[flecc]

View attachment 41330

EU figure is contribution from 27 nations.???
I believe UK is largest contributor to Covax and AZ (accepted a Swedish/German/UK/Indian conglomerate) have promised to supply vaccines profit free for duration of Pandemic.
I wonder if this knocking AZ is to bolster Pfizer and consequently Pfizer profits???

Sad though that we aren't good at keeping promises, cut's in promised overseas aid and a prime minister who wouldn't know what keeping a promise meant.
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[Jesus H Christ]

King Phillip has left hospital. Whilst I’m pleased, I do wonder how many of us as 99 year olds, suffering the same medical issues would have walked out of hospital?

It wouldn’t surprise me if he lived to be 1000.

 

[Danidl]

I totally agree and I fully expect the impressive head start we’ve gained with our vaccination programme to be blown. Headlines in newspapers such as Stand by for a Summer of Fun and Jab & Go from Ryanair are dangerously irresponsible.

I think by July 2021, everyone will be behaving as they did in July 2019 and we will head into Autumn and winter with a backdrop of rising infection rates and more vaccine resistant strains becoming prevalent. From the position we are in now, a severe outcome from the above is avoidable, but Party Boy will not be able to resist the pressure from his psychopath back benchers.

Again ..we find agreement, . I was furious with that Ryanair ad. . I would possibly go a little further and call it criminally irresponsible. Likewise cancel Cheltenham.

 

[Danidl]

Saw some comments other day from EU that UK hadnt/wasn't supporting vaccines out of UK as much as it should. (There is some argument between Raab and his EU counter part)
Found this graph if fact4u.
View attachment 41330

EU figure is contribution from 27 nations.???
I believe UK is largest contributor to Covax and AZ (accepted a Swedish/German/UK/Indian conglomerate) have promised to supply vaccines profit free for duration of Pandemic.
I wonder if this knocking AZ is to bolster Pfizer and consequently Pfizer profits???

Pledges are not worth anything.

 

[oldgroaner]

That's good, I'm group O, the most common.

I'm sure you are common enough to be group O.
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Thanks ex friend

 

[oldgroaner]

Saw some comments other day from EU that UK hadnt/wasn't supporting vaccines out of UK as much as it should. (There is some argument between Raab and his EU counter part)
Found this graph if fact4u.
View attachment 41330

EU figure is contribution from 27 nations.???
I believe UK is largest contributor to Covax and AZ (accepted a Swedish/German/UK/Indian conglomerate) have promised to supply vaccines profit free for duration of Pandemic.
I wonder if this knocking AZ is to bolster Pfizer and consequently Pfizer profits???

I hope the people who are expecting to be paid by us actually see the money, I hope they got most of it up front!

 

[oldgroaner]

Pledges are not worth anything.

Certainly not when dealing with the present UK government

 

[flecc]

King Phillip has left hospital. Whilst I’m pleased, I do wonder how many of us as 99 year olds, suffering the same medical issues would have walked out of hospital?

It wouldn’t surprise me if he lived to be 1000.

I think they are doing everything possible to get him past 100, as they did with the Queen Mother and hope to with the present Queen. Taking away his driving licence was a good start! Having three royals living to over 100 would be great publicity for tourism.

I actually feel sorry for him, having far less control on when he's allowed to depart than we have.
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[oldgroaner]

That surely is a solution in search of a problem.... It produces exactly 1watt of heat per watt of electrical power consumption,.. identical to that of a resistance ribbon or tape . The difference with a heat pump is it can produce 4or 5 watts of heat for each electrical watt.

Just easier to fit as a drop in replacement

 

[sjpt]

Covid-19 is far from over.

Our UK case figures appear to be settling at quite a high level. Yesterday was first time since mid-Jan that case numbers (7 day average) have gone up day on day. That increase is well below the statistical noise level; but the levelling off is not. Level is higher than the peak last April, though that peak was almost certainly under-counted.

Deaths still dropping significantly, partly typical delay after case figures, and maybe (fingers crossed) the effect of the vaccine reducing death rate even for those that do the the virus.

I was requested to take part in the Imperial/Ipsos Mori survey which I have done. Required getting up early (for us) so I could do the self-test before 8:00 a.m ... they didn't give courier collection slot until after the need to do the test in case the slot was early. What with one thing and another several minor hassles involved in taking part. I suspect many invitees don't do the whole thing, which makes me wonder how bad the statistical bias is (as well as the noise).

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[sjpt]

I actually feel sorry for him, having far less control on when he's allowed to depart than we have.

Just easier to fit a drop in replacement

Macabre juxtaposition of posts on different aspects of the thread.

 

[Jesus H Christ]

I think they are doing everything possible to get him past 100, as they did with the Queen Mother and hope to with the present Queen. Taking away his driving licence was a good start!

I actually feel sorry for him, having far less control on when he's allowed to depart than we have.
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He may end up in a jar with wires coming out of it

Will he get a telegram from his misses? Who will send the Queen a telegram if she nudges past the 100 post? There’s so much for us to worry about.

 

[flecc]

He may end up in a jar with wires coming out of it

Well he did flip his jam-jar in Norfolk.
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[Jesus H Christ]

Our UK case figures appear to be settling at quite a high level. Yesterday was first time since mid-Jan that case numbers (7 day average) have gone up day on day. That increase is well below the statistical noise level; but the levelling off is not. Level is higher than the peak last April, though that peak was almost certainly under-counted.

Deaths still dropping significantly, partly typical delay after case figures, and maybe (fingers crossed) the effect of the vaccine reducing death rate even for those that do the the virus.

I was requested to take part in the Imperial/Ipsos Mori survey which I have done. Required getting up early (for us) so I could do the self-test before 8:00 a.m ... they didn't give courier collection slot until after the need to do the test in case the slot was early. What with one thing and another several minor hassles involved in taking part. I suspect many invitees don't do the whole thing, which makes me wonder how bad the statistical bias is (as well as the noise).

COVID-19 Data Explorer

Explore global data on COVID-19.

ourworldindata.org

If cases are starting to rise again, we shouldn’t be contemplating any further easements. The school returns have yet to feed into the statistics.

I had a communication from British Cycling the other day, they’ve negotiated permission for groups of 15 meeting up from the 29th.