Wednesday 22 April 2020

Total number of deaths in the UK April 3-10 were slightly lower than in the same week in 2018

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According to ONS data cumulative deaths [in the UK] for w/e April 10th (184,960) are lower than cumulative deaths at same point in 2018 (187,720). Further so far there have been 30 deaths for under 40s and 260 deaths for under 60s. So why don’t we just focus on protecting the elderly and ending the lockdown now?

Brooks Newmark


Given that the evidence reveals that the Corona disease declines even without a complete lockdown, it is recommendable to reverse the current policy and remove the lockdown. At the same time, it is advisable to continue with low-cost measures, such as wearing masks, expanding testing for defined populations and prohibiting mass gatherings.

Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel, April 16, 2020. (He discussed on Israeli TV on April 13 his thesis that the spread of the coronavirus comes almost to an end after 70 days, regardless of any steps taken to contain it.)


One thing is for sure: once this plague is over, national barriers might make a comeback and be seen as more than just an impediment to human freedom. A borderless world may be the dream of rich subversives such as the ghastly George Soros, but something good always emerges after a catastrophe: like never trusting the Chinese and outlawing the word ‘globalist’.

Taki

To break even given its full-throttle expenses, Saudi Arabia needs oil prices to be around $80 a barrel. The Kingdom is running a budget deficit and a prolonged oil price crash could do for Saudi Arabia what it did for the Soviet Union in the late 1980s.

Mark Almond




Covid-19 looks less like Communist China’s Chernobyl than Beijing’s opportunity to assert itself globally while the West, paralysed by the virus, turns inward.

Mark Almond


'In the course of the season, he [a British fruit farmer] employs up to 1,200 people to pick strawberries, raspberries and so on. He hopes to recruit more British workers than in the past, but finds that in practice few young British people tolerate back-breaking, finger-chafing picking and cutting for 60 hours a week at the minimum wage. Very few have rural upbringings. They are untrained for the work involved, are often students, and usually not local. Those filling in online forms this month because of their unsought idleness may like the sound of working outdoors in summer (1,500 have applied to him), but his past experience tells him that only one per cent will stay the course.
'He also points out that the lockdown will probably end in June. At that point, the British workers would probably depart, leaving the raspberries unpicked.
'Eastern Europeans, by contrast, are used to agricultural labour and keen on the work, because it pays more than four times their home rates. On his farms, half of the workers who come one year return the next. They come legally, currently under EU rules; after any forthcoming trade deal, they will arrive under the seasonal workers’ agricultural labour scheme which the Government has promised to expand. The labourers are socially distanced from the wider community because they are housed in caravans on the farms.
'Besides, says my friend, even if every single one of the 36,000 British applicants got a place, our fruit farms would still be roughly 50,000 workers adrift of the over 85,000 they need this year. Without the Romanians and Bulgarians, the crops would simply rot and the British public would have to buy their fruit from places like Morocco instead.


Charles Moore - British job applicants say they are not too lazy to do this  work.


When the black death affected this country, parliament couldn’t sit. Thanks to modern technology, even I have moved on from 1349, and I am glad to say we can sit to carry out these fundamental constitutional functions.

Jacob Rees-Mogg in the House of Commons


Just as we were getting used to the headlines about hospitalization and mortality rates, the really bad news arrives. Meghan and Harry are back. After scuttling to California before they were isolated in the hell of a luxury rental in Vancouver, the unemployed ex-royals are loose on the streets of Los Angeles. Disguised as two Postmates workers, they’re delivering bags of food to already vulnerable members of the public and making sure to be filmed doing it. Think Candid Camera, without the candor.

Like everything this spontaneously warm and down-to-earth couple does, this stunt combines a cold whiff of careful planning with their signature aroma, a complex blend of farce, vanity and self-destruction. 


Dominic Green in the Spectator unfortunately is right. His article is merciless and accurate.

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