I thought she only did light duties anyway, it's not as if she'll be putting a washing on or taking a cloth to the skirtings or windows.I see tomorrow's headlines are dominated by HMQ continuing to do light duties despite Covid.
Is it all set up to point out how lazy Johnson was for taking time off when he had it?
They are desperate to get her alive to 100 years old.I see tomorrow's headlines are dominated by HMQ continuing to do light duties despite Covid.
Might have to adopt the Lenin approach if she doesn't.They are desperate to get her alive to 100 years old.
Her mother made it to 104, Prince Philip almost got there with intensive medical care, being only a few months short of 100 when he expired.
Great for the tourism industry if the Queen makes the magic figure, uniquely the royal family who live to a century old.
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That might depend on royalty continuing, I'm not confident it will. The institution has been increasing prone to shaky moments harming their popularity. From the abdication of Edward VIII and the inspid George VI on the throne. The mentally strange Princess Margaret. The doomed marriage of the Dozy Diana to Charles. The strange behaviours of Charles chatting to plants and most recently the situation with Prince Ginger and his American wife. And Prince Andrew hasn't exactly helped.Might have to adopt the Lenin approach if she doesn't.
I agree that we could be approaching the end of monarchy. At least, the end of it as anything other than a set of titles some families squabble over.That might depend on royalty continuing, I'm not confident it will. The institution has been increasing prone to shaky moments harming their popularity. From the abdication of Edward VIII and the inspid George VI on the throne. The mentally strange Princess Margaret. The doomed marriage of the Dozy Diana to Charles. The strange behaviours of Charles chatting to plants and most recently the situation witn Prince Ginger and his American wife.
I don't see Charles being a popular King, so it's possible he could be the last to sit on an increasingly English throne as the Union of the UK breaks up.
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Less hysteria OK, but I shall continue to wear my maskIf they did of course.
As little as under 1 in 1000 Covid deaths reported have been of people with no underlying serious conditions. Overwhelmingly Covid deaths are of those with serious underlying conditions, often coupled with old age, itself a serious underlying condition.
But we take the lazy option of recording all those deaths as due to Covid, simply because it is a new and unfamiliar disease which they have coincidentally caught.
We could have done the same previously with the common cold, for all those who died after having coincidentally caught a cold, but didn't since that was such a routine illness.
Maybe as we learn to live with Covid, it will become such a routine ailment that we'll stop automatically using it as the cause of death for all who have happened to catch it around the period of their death. i.e. within 28 days, or within 60 days of a positive test, the latter used for the 2020 figures.
Just imagine how many deaths would have been recorded as due to the common cold if they automatically included all who died within 60 days / two months of catching a cold.
That rather puts the issue into perspective, does it not?
As I've already posted many times, a little less hysteria is in order.
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I wasn't speaking of masks, I'm still wearing them where advisable.Less hysteria OK, but I shall continue to wear my mask
Feel free to risk your own lives, but not mine
I wasn't speaking of masks, I'm still wearing them where advisable.
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Follow the Science ...Less hysteria OK, but I shall continue to wear my mask
Feel free to risk your own lives, but not mine
You and they miss the point... . The purpose of a mask is to reduce the velocity of expelled breath so that particles do not get projected far... . Moreover the lifetime of individual virins in free air is very short due to UV and drying out, and the only ones which survive for any time are the heavier globules...Follow the Science ...
No use being logical, we are speaking of governments.I believe there are two possible responses to the Russia / Ukraine situation. One will work, the other will fail.
1) Send thousands of ordinary people to Ukraine armed with products that make rich people even richer. Write off the casualties as a sacrifice that the rich people are willing to make for the sake of preserving their wealth.
2) Send all of the dirty Russian money which has been stolen from the Russian people and invested in the U.K. back to Russia.
I think option 2 might make a few influential Russians sit up and listen if they think their wealth is going to be at the mercy of the basket case Russian economy.
I wonder which of the two is most likely to be implemented?