Brexit, for once some facts.

oyster

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Rather concerned at the proposed vaccine. Not what it is. But what it is called!

The Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group have been working on a vaccine, called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, and said earlier this month large-scale production capacity was being put in place to make millions of doses even before trials show whether it is effective.

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The dog ate my homework. I'll bring it in tomorrow. Or maybe the next day. And even if I don't bring it in, I might bring in the sheet with the title on it. Anyway, it really doesn't matter that 47,471 of the promised tests weren't done. Moses didn't make it to the promised land. Is it too much to hope...

Britain could miss its target of carrying out 100,000 coronavirus tests a day by the end of April, the justice minister, Robert Buckland, said on Thursday.

Some 52,429 tests were carried out on Wednesday, according to the latest figures, putting Britain on course to miss the target set by the health minister.

“Even if it isn’t met, we are well on our way to ramping this up,” Buckland told the BBC.
It's rare to describe continuous failures as "Ramping" though of course that is Boris's speciality
 
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oldgroaner

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Rather concerned at the proposed vaccine. Not what it is. But what it is called!

The Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group have been working on a vaccine, called ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, and said earlier this month large-scale production capacity was being put in place to make millions of doses even before trials show whether it is effective.

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The advantage of a Vaccine that probably won't work is if the government enjoys it's usual success in not hitting it's promised target, it wont make any difference to the Death rate.
And the chances of analysing it's success or failure are so remote it will be easy to claim a "Roaring success" as no one can prove it isn't
 
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It's rare to describe continuous failures as "Ramping" though of course that is Boris's speciality
Remember when people talked about "rampling"? As in this from 2012:

It was Barry Norman who first coined the verb "to rample" (def: "an ability to reduce a man to helplessness though a chilly sensuality"). Now, here's your chance to have your own words virtually rampled: Charlotte Rampling is in town this week to promote I, Anna, a new noir thriller told from the point of view of Rampling's femme fatale, who falls for the detective (Gabriel Byrne) in charge of a murder case.

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ramping
To sit around and do nothing and then complain about it.
 
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I haven't read it but my immediate thought was: My goodness, medics who had treated someone who had voted Labour!

Followed by remembering Brian Redhead's indignation that a politician presumed to know how he voted. In this country with a secret ballot.
Possibly the obvious connection is that the medics work in the NHS established by Bevan who just happened to be a Labour Party politician...
 

oldgroaner

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The dog ate my homework. I'll bring it in tomorrow. Or maybe the next day. And even if I don't bring it in, I might bring in the sheet with the title on it. Anyway, it really doesn't matter that 47,471 of the promised tests weren't done. Moses didn't make it to the promised land. Is it too much to hope...

Britain could miss its target of carrying out 100,000 coronavirus tests a day by the end of April, the justice minister, Robert Buckland, said on Thursday.

Some 52,429 tests were carried out on Wednesday, according to the latest figures, putting Britain on course to miss the target set by the health minister.

“Even if it isn’t met, we are well on our way to ramping this up,” Buckland told the BBC.
A google search revealed that there is in fact no such location in the British Isles that you can be "well on our way to" and certainly not one called "Ramping this up"
 
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oyster

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No criticism of Colonel Tom, at all.

But why can people go flying when I am not allowed to go driving (beyond necessity)?
 

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No criticism of Colonel Tom, at all.

But why can people go flying when I am not allowed to go driving (beyond necessity)?
It's about money as ever of course, he raised £30 millions in voluntary taxation to fund the NHS. That's money the government doesn't now have to spend on the NHS but can spend on armaments or MP's pay rises instead.
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so much for ny lock down berty bassit clones are everywhere pmsl
 

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I know we have started to include non-hospital deaths, and that our record is not good, but this seems absurd
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Did they roll in all non-hospital deaths for a week or more into a single day's numbers?
 
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oldgroaner

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I know we have started to include non-hospital deaths, and that our record is not good, but this seems absurd
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Did they roll in all non-hospital deaths for a week or more into a single day's numbers?
No of course not! the explanation is simple
They ran out of graph paper so used the margin.
Some swine had used it all up for DIY facemasks
 
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