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| R. Allin-Khan |
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6 | 1.60% |
| R. Burgon |
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80 | 21.33% |
| D. Butler |
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72 | 19.20% |
| A. Rayner |
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35 | 9.33% |
| I. Murray |
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5 | 1.33% |
| P. Flaps |
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177 | 47.20% |
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God what are all these Ides doing here? You had one job! Ffs.
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Mar 1, 2020 09:49
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Pro-tip - in the absence of a surgical mask or a dust-mask, you can substitute with a full-face welding mask. Bonus: Your inability to see anything will stop you leaving the house, and thus limit your risks of exposure
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Mar 1, 2020 14:33
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So if travellers trespass the police are just gonna seize their legally owned vehicles/homes? God is this the next 5 years? Just a quiet nonchalant slide into fascism.
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Mar 4, 2020 14:13
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I mean not necessarily but they'll arrest them. Unless theres later questions not quoted here that say that.  Boy I sure am glad journalists are picking up on this, instead of dropping burns on twitter about the precise patriotism content of a full english (87%)
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Mar 4, 2020 14:26
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I do not understand.
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Mar 5, 2020 13:50
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Mebh posted:Just got back from ASDA in Sheffield and the toilet paper aisle was stripped bare. People walking away with 2 giant packs under each arm. Did I miss a bulletin or something? "Oozing Purple" sounds like something I'd type into WebMD whilst slowly melting down in fear.
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Mar 7, 2020 20:09
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RockyB posted:I want to link to the zombie dance party in Daybreakers, but it looks like Netflix has deleted all copies off YouTube. Everyone just wearing headphones and raving away silently. I am so glad someone other than me remembers Daybreakers. Goddamn what a mess of a movie,but it was so much fun. Even when it goes all Benny Hill at the end.
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Mar 8, 2020 21:51
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XMNN posted:30-60% in Europe and similar numbers elsewhere according to Wikipedia, which is pretty apocalyptic It also (maybe) hosed our vowels, so I'm looking forward to whatever menglid nunsonse wi ull and up soonding lyke.
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Mar 10, 2020 18:09
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Azza Bamboo posted:It's a loving flu, we'll get through it and some grannies will die and a few nurses will quit their NHS jobs in favour of the much less stressful cosmetic procedure industry. Life goes on whoop de doo. It isn't loving flu. It isn't related to flu. It's a completely unrelated virus. Yeah, it looks and acts a lot like flu - it's a respiratory infection, with symptoms and transmission methods basically the same as flu (apart from the fortnight of infectivity before you show symptoms) - but mislabelling it as flu seems dangerously misleading to me. Firstly, most people already under-estimate the unpleasantness of flu. I think we all know people who complain they have the flu when at worst they just have a really rotten cold. Real flu knocks you out for a week or more. Secondly, the diseases it's actually related to, are way nastier than flu. Seasonal flu has a sub-1% death rate, even in the olds. Spanish flu was like 3%. But Covid-19 isn't related to them, so those numbers aren't much of a guide. What is Covid-19 related to? SARS. Which had a 9% death rate. And MERS. With a 36% death rate. Fortunately Covid-19 doesn't look anywhere near that high, but an off-hand comparison to flu means you're going to severely under-estimate how very deadly it could have been. Thirdly - it means our existing vaccines and drugs aren't all that useful. We poo poo out a new flu vaccine every year, in millions and millions of doses. We don't have that kind of knowledge and experience for coronavirus, hence the long predicted timescale on getting a vaccine. Ditto antivirals. We have antivirals for flu (they're kinda rubbish) we don't for coronavirus. This isn't just some pedantic "well, actually". Laymen aren't going to dig through the numbers, so if you call this flu they'll think "oh, i know how bad flu is, i can imagine how bad corona is". We have Trump having to be repeatedly shot down in meetings for trying to use the flu vaccine for this. Sorry to jump down your throat - I've seen this in a lot of different places and it pisses me off.
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Mar 11, 2020 20:28
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wooger posted:Dead people are just meat. An insulated bin that maintains a higher functioning temperature can digest meat fine. See https://www.hotbincomposting.com/ Made out of meat? But what does the thinking? The meat?
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Mar 11, 2020 22:34
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Tsietisin posted:How have Americans not rioted about their employment rights? What? Like some kinda socialist leech? Real 'muricans don't need rights, just freedom.
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Mar 12, 2020 13:58
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I have job interviews in Swansea and Birmginham over the next fortnight, really not looking forward to hours on the train with a million strangers.
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Mar 12, 2020 16:00
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XMNN posted:looks like it is actually loving Dominic dummies evopsych horseshit that's pushing this The actual epidemiolgy expert the Beeb had on after was all "well that's behavioural science, so I'm not gonna comment" which I think is professor speak for "this is clearly nonsense"
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Mar 12, 2020 19:33
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"I'll protect myself with herd immunity" sounds a lot like "i'll hide from the missile inside the crater" in my book. Yeah it can help, but the major damage is gonna be before that point.
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Mar 13, 2020 14:30
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Borrovan posted:Give me a shout if you fancy a pint after or need restaurant recommendations in Swansea, there's good places for both if you know where to look (& gently caress all if you don't) Gonna be skyping in after all, thanks anyway dude.
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Mar 13, 2020 14:34
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Cool, cool. So with the emphasis on kinder, gentler politics, everybody will come out and loudly condemn her, right? Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:u-turns into u-turns into u-turns Cool, cool. So we're now changing health policy in response to public outcry, not on scientific evidence? (Obviously this is the right decision, but clearly made for the wrong reasons)
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Mar 14, 2020 00:27
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My brother-in-law works in A&E and is pretty terrified about the governments response. Testing protocols are all over the place - guidelines say to test anyone from Vietnam, even though vietnam has only 60 cases. Says its almost certain medical staff are going to get infected, they're basically sacrifical lambs at this point. The good news is, A&E was virtually deserted on a friday night, which is unheard of.
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Mar 14, 2020 12:18
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At a-level viruses were "bad-news in a protein coat". I find it funny that computer viruses were named as an analogy to biological viruses, but in modern times the analogy is way more useful the other way round. Viruses are bits of broken code that hijack your OS.
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Mar 14, 2020 13:45
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All greetings will be replaced with tapping your right feet together. People feeling continental can tap both sides, whilst making loud kissing noises.
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Mar 15, 2020 12:12
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Didn't many of the poorer folk actually eat better during rationing than before? Almost like socialism works.
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Mar 15, 2020 13:11
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Boy I sure am glad the government held off for a week before making this entirely foreseeable decision
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Mar 16, 2020 18:08
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:ya you want to read imperial london college's latest paper on their model: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf I'm confused, where's the line for the number of beds? Oh. Oh.
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Mar 16, 2020 20:28
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Jose posted:My mental health has improved dramatically but I'm not sure if it's because im.sort of drunk or just rewatching the expanse and not reading coronavirus news God can you imagine how good Belter's would be with coronavirus? All merrily isolating themselves in different compartments/spaceships, shooting any well walla who tries to break quarantine. Na beltalowda gonya stockpile toilet paper.
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Mar 16, 2020 22:39
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God dammit who left all these bloody Ides here? Ffs, you had one job!
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Mar 18, 2020 00:29
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Frances "I'm a lush" Barber never fails to disappoint: Kinder. Politics.
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Mar 19, 2020 14:30
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It feels like they're deliberately giving this vague advice on the expectation that loads of people won't follow it, and so once the dust settles they'll have a convenient scapegoat. "Oh it wasn;t us, it was those bloody Wetherspoons that killed yer gran" Less conspiratorially, it's probably just hands-off ideology, and they just fundamentally don't think governments should be doing things. But it's also the other thing.
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Mar 20, 2020 12:43
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Only pc game I've got close to paying that for was a goon recommended disco Elysium which was so poo poo I stopped playing after about 10 mins. Well somebody died to the ceiling fan it was me. i died to the ceiling fan.
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Mar 20, 2020 22:46
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So what's happened in the past 24 hours that we're (probably) going from "oh please don't stand too close together" to full on lockdown?
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Mar 23, 2020 20:09
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Jesus christ could he have delivered that funerals line any worse?
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Mar 23, 2020 21:36
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Pretty great infographic on BBC showing the massive effect of cutting transmission. Kind of hoping that one of the experts is gonna get out a chessboard and a bag of rice
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Mar 23, 2020 21:48
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Is there a transcript anywhere? I want to know the wording but don't want to have to look at his stupid face. "We will be banning all weddings, baptisms, all kinds of religious events. [pause] Except funerals! "
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Mar 23, 2020 22:18
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Actually, conversely... why is the reported infection rate so *low* in this country? I know there's a fair few rich worried well getting tests, but as the NHS are apparently only testing people with shortness of breath bad enough to require hospitalisation surely the rate of positive results should be sky-high? Isn't this just because we're still doing a pitiful number of tests? Or do we have numbers showing how many tests are coming back negative?
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Mar 24, 2020 23:19
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Guardian is now reporting that the tests are coming (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/uk-coronavirus-mass-home-testing-to-be-made-available-within-days) so if its bullshit it's official bullshit. The tests look like ELISAs, basically pregnancy tests with the "pregnant" bit swapped out. They're pretty easy to mass-produce, but I'm still impressed/sceptical at the sudden turn around from "no tests" to "3.5m"
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Mar 25, 2020 17:22
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Pablo Bluth posted:The press coverage does make them sound like it's testing for generic class of antibodies but I came across this which says it is covid-19 specific antibodies. Oh yeah, the graun get a special award for: quote:The test detects the presence of IGM, an antibody that arises very early on in the infection, and IGG, which is increased in the body’s response to the virus. The results of some of the tests on order can be read by anyone, but others would need to be interpreted by healthcare professionals. Which is so close to being accurate, but also so very, very, wrong.
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Mar 25, 2020 17:34
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Comrade Fakename posted:Love to receive an email that starts "I am not a crank:" and then explains why the Coronavirus is a right-wing hoax. A right wing hoax? That's at least novel
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Mar 25, 2020 18:30
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Me when I'm sowing: Me when I'm reaping:
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Mar 27, 2020 12:36
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Consciousness is awesome/a horrifying nightmare all on its own merits, spinning it as "a way for the universe to know itself" feels like transcendental woo that just obscures the real questions.
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Mar 29, 2020 15:19
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Kind of annoyed at all the reports of UCL developing brand new completely never-before-seen respirators in three and a half minutes, no red tape needed. They reverse-engineered an existing device and figured out how to make it with their existing tech. Which is still really cool! But it feels like its being spun in kind of a jingoistic way.
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Mar 30, 2020 17:13
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Answers Me posted:Dominic Raab is a terrible orator isn't he. Sounds like an undergrad winging a presentation. Most likely because, despite the expensive education, he's actually thick as poo poo. It's so flat and lifeless, its awful.
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Mar 30, 2020 17:29
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I know a bunch of university labs that have been donating RNA extraction kits and qPCR machines to hospitals, and the manufacturers have said they're in the process of massively ramping up production, so there's clearly a bottleneck somewhere. But "there is/isn't a shortage of reagents" is a loving useless soundbite as neither Gove or Peston say what the reagents are.
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Mar 31, 2020 19:40
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