Prof Neil Ferguson is one of the world's most influential disease modellers.
He is director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis.
Now after reading the first two sentences you may think what a bloke, but when you know he's a hypocrite, liar and a cheat that could alter your opinion.
He couldn't keep it in his pants and broke lockdown rules by having a woman from elsewhere visit him on a regular basis. Tut tut tut.
It's was all ok till he got caught. Oh dear.
Our local surgery to regular updates on the town Facebook page, very good reassuring and positive comments, from yesterday.
"Today marks a significant date in the fight against the covid pandemic in carmarthenshire. For the first time Public Health Wales did not record ANY patients found to be positive for Corona virus throughout the whole of carmarthenshire".
The kind of news I want to start hearing, they then go on to say "Thank you also to our postmen, who are invariably cheerful. Thank you to all staff working in the food industry as well"
I think it's filling column inches stating the obvious, that we can't compare, while trying to infer that we can.Originally Posted by Stagger
I think we have to forget death count for now.
We just have to consider that the worst affected countries seem to be Western democracies with advanced economies, infrastructure, health systems.... and that have also had the long and erring on the side of draconian lockdowns.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
Apparently some genius has worked out that not smoking, not drinking, exercising, eating healthily and being the correct weight all help to minimise the seriousness of the virus if you get it and help speed recovery. I'm glad we've got experts to tell us this.
Further extracts from the the NCSC statement:
"Importantly, the app knows how close it has been to other phones running the app, and for how long. This allows the app to build up an idea of which of these phones owners are most at risk."
"The app also records your phone's make and model, which it needs to accurately measure the distance between the phones of people who’ve installed the app."
"the Bluetooth signal strength and power (used to estimate the distance between the phones)"
So the app is somewhat more sophisticated, than first assumed. Whether it will be of use is another matter, but it might be.
I was surprised to read that there was some evidence that smoking reduced your risk of getting Covid-19 (although admittedly smokers who did get it were more likely to develop serious symptoms). French researchers are apparently going to test nicotine patches on coronavirus patients.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ng-coronavirus
Well its easier to practice social distancing if you smoke because nobody else wants to come anywhere near you.
Good point.Well its easier to practice social distancing if you smoke because nobody else wants to come anywhere near you.
By keeping pensioners out of their cars, supermarkets and other public places would be a massive saving of life😉
The bright sparks that run Sainsbury tried to improve public opinion by giving preferred access to older customers and health workers, putting them together at the same hour. So they put the most likely to be carrying infection with the most likely to be infected.
If brains was dynamite some wouldn’t have enough to blow their noses!
