the main difficulty in explaining this phenomenon is because often people don't remember that time dilation is directional, so all they remember is silly apparent padadoxes like one of the two twins decides to take a flight at near speed of light and comes back in 20 years, which one will look older? rather than sticking to basic geometry of how light moves as seen by each observer.
A little more now we are back.Interesting, I'll be over Tesco's in a few hours time so I'll report back. I'll be going alone so no problem there, I always wear gloves so sanitizer not needed. Queuing is unlikely as my local store is bigger than a footie pitch although they do count you in & out to keep to a set number of shoppers.
I never queue anyway, I just tell them at the door I'm from Special Branch and they think that means head office so in I'll stroll. I'll also get a 15% discount too because I'm a crafty old fox that knows every trick in the book
Inside, fairly empty. No problem with tills at all.
Was the 20 years according to the flying twin or the one who remains here?
If they hand me a bottle of sanitizer at the door I'll take it and tell them I'll keep it for later. I've seen those traffic lights set up but nobody takes any notice of them anyway round here.A little more now we are back.
They fitted green/red lights a few weeks back - never seen them red. Today, two "security" people. And a queue. Which is fun in the wind and rain.
Everyone being told to use hand sanitiser - probably including those who wear gloves. Before that point I had returned to car.
Our shop is huge - probably wanted space for simultaneous football and rugby.
The trip back takes us past Morrisons - who had tightened up the other day. No idea about the others.
No good came of physics post Newton.Was the 20 years according to the flying twin or the one who remains here?
And did you see that the DNA of twins differs by more than had previously been realised?
Are you reversing the direction of the arrow of time?
I’m not sure that it’s fair to ask staff to enforce mask wearing in supermarkets. People can be aggressive when approached. This is where the police should be deployed. We are told that a supermarket is a setting where high rates of virus transmission occurs, so police intervention could make a difference here. Sadly, they seem to direct their efforts towards chasing people in the countryside. Perhaps this is because people out walking are likely to be more compliant than an aggressive anti-masker inside a supermarket. Police doing easy again.
See! it's started already!..................
Yep, I realise that (GPS) hence USAF being able to hit chip shop chimney..
I agree, the second dose should be admitted as per the manufacturer’s guidelines. However, I believe there is a massive reduction in the need for hospitalisation after just one dose.We definitely need the second shots on time
Initial data from Israel’s vaccination campaign shows that Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine curbs infections by some 50 percent 14 days after the first of two shots is administered,
See! it's started already!..................
Sell a man enough rope and he'll hang himself:
Let's hope so. Infections have certainly dropped (last 3 days all under 50k) and hospital admissions have levelled..
I wouldn’t bet on it. Christmas Day infection deaths are just starting to kick in. A lot of people had a cheeky couple of extra days tagged on too (it won’t hurt), so that needs paying for. The New Year account will be due for settlement in about 10 days time as well.
My normal source certainly shows it has peaked, even with 7 day smoothing.
ourworldindata.org
