Tuesday, 14 April 2020

Coronavirus

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Communist China is angry with a Danish paper for printing this cartoon. It's the paper which held the Draw Mohamet competition. A...
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Americanisms

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Of interest to those people who passionately (murderously in some cases) dislike Americanisms, the word furlough, which is much in the news,...
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Sunday, 12 April 2020

Coronavirus statistics for England and Wales can be misleading

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The provisional number of deaths registered in England and Wales in the week ending 27 March 2020 (Week 13) was 11,141; an increase of 496 ...
Saturday, 11 April 2020

Thoughts on the eve of an Easter with all the churches closed

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Someone said in the 1980s or 1990s that 'hypochondria is the only religious enthusiasm of our times'. Since then Muslims showed tha...

Is the American lockdown necessary?

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The data for the virus are all over the place and very misleading. People who are susceptible to other types of pneumonia are also at a hig...
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Iceland has tested 10% of its population: between 0.3% and 0.8% have Coronavirus

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Iceland has tested 10% of its population, more than any other country. Between 0.3% and 0.8% of Iceland’s population is infected with the C...
Friday, 10 April 2020

All-cause mortality in Europe, including Italy, in March was no higher than normal

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In March the number of dead from all causes in Europe and in Italy was still normal or even below-average. Is this only because of the lo...
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Thursday, 9 April 2020

How curious human beings are

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Dan Hodges @DPJHodges I've said it before. But the desperation amongst some people on here to see death rates sky-rocket just so ...
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Persians invade Kent

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Despite the coronavirus crisis illegal immigrants continue to come to England. 23 people, apparently Persians, are reported to have landed ...

Crude death rates are very misleading and Neal Ferguson is pretty unreliable

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Today 17,700 people in Italy are reported to have died of Coronavirus this year. In fact they died with the virus, rather than necessarily ...
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Looking back at the way Britain dealt with the virus from the start might be pointless

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I know from well placed sources that the British Chief Medical Officer wanted a lockdown a long time before Boris Johnson agreed to it. The...

"I'm certainly glad we did not have a real catastrophe like a bombing or infectious outbreak for real."

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A canny American project manager friend emailed me this. Yeah, the lockdown is a bit crazy and overkill. At least here, it has exposed the...
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Wednesday, 8 April 2020

The end of an era?

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"But escape was possible, for any man of capacity or character at all exceeding the average, into the middle and upper classes, for wh...

Good news from Germany about Covid-19

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The latest figures from the German Robert Koch Institute show that the number of people who test positive per number of tests is not increa...
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Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and th' action fine

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St Nicholas's Church in Strada Blanari is a lovely church though it's not old. The present building only dates back to 1867. Unusua...

My old China

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China comes out of this catastrophe worst, then WHO. The EU never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity but this time has done nothi...
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Was Andrew Marvell another Cambridge spy?

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Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but th’ off-scouring of the British sand; And so much earth as was contributed ...

Patrick Flynn in the Daily Telegraph on the intense media hostility to Boris

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Over recent days, leading up to the terrible news that the Prime Minister’s Covid-19 illness had become so severe he had been moved into in...

Small sample in China shows 80% of cases of Coronavirus are asymptomatic

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The British Medical Journal (BMJ) reports that, according to the latest data from China, 78% of new test-positive individuals show no symp...
Monday, 6 April 2020

Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care

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A statement from Number 10, Downing Street said: "Over the course of this afternoon, the condition of the Prime Minister has worsene...