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Seems like overnight the US protests have escalated to people shooting at cops and ramming police lines with cars. Also Trump had riot police attack a bunch of protesters so he could go do a photo op at a church. Yikes.
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EvilHawk posted:How is "other" so high in this report? Assuming people of Chinese/Japanese origin are being grouped under "Asian" (which is always a tricky subject in this country), you've got white, black (which presumably covers African and Caribbean heritages), Asian, and mixed races, I'm struggling to see a fifth category that can account for more deaths. floofyscorp posted:Deep in the Appendices there's an explanation that Arabic people go in 'Other' so I imagine that's a large part of it. Also the 'Other Asian' category almost unbearably broad and includes groups like Pasifika who are extremely vulnerable. Saros fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Jun 2, 2020 |
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Lol the loving fish out of water look on that american lady's face. "Oh no someone googled my actual opinions how horribly unfair."
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:Seems like they might cut stamp duty at least (not that helps 95% of people) Honestly I can't think of anything worse to cut, lets inflate the property market a little more while helping people who are able to buy/sell houses at the start of probably the worst recession in history.
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peanut- posted:I really don't understand this £1,000 to employers for bringing back furloughed employees policy. Helicopter money but not for people or anywhere it would make a difference.
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Grayling is such a fuckup though he'll probably end out releasing the report in full.
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kingturnip posted:So I see that this is still a thing, somehow: 
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Communist Thoughts posted:I wonder if theyr still doing herd immunity, when that was the plan they talked about how as well as locking down when it got too much they'd have to work to infect people with the virus when it was too low in the population and they'd do that by opening schools etc. It's also an incredibly bad idea because just like SARS there is more and more evidence of long term damage even with people who had relatively mild illnesses. You could come out the other side with 5-10% of your workforce semi-permanently disabled in some fashion. Honestly it's not really possible to distinguish any more the malice from the incompetence.
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I think the spend is something like a third of a million pounds per person traced so far.
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justcola posted:This was originally posted the middle of June but its the summer thread, weeee Don't panic yet. I'm reading the study now but from an initial skim it doesn't seem to be anything too out of the ordinary/unexpected. Antibodies decline after infection this is normal and while this decline is steeper than expected in some patients (of only 65 studied) the majority exhibited strong responses three months after initial infection. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.09.20148429v1.full.pdf ^^Full text if anyone wants to read it. [e] There seems to be a suggestion in the study that some people with mild cases had minimal Ab titres after ~60 days which is mildly concerning. [e2] No evidence at all for antibody dependent enhancement thank loving god. Saros fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Jul 13, 2020 |
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/15/police-treated-unfairly-over-incidents-caught-on-video-says-senior-officer Lol at the Met. Being mildly critiscised and suffering absolutely no consequences for tasering someone unecessarily who then was seriously injured by the fall is 'unfair.' For reference this is the video in question. https://twitter.com/Wretch32/status/1270430645584572417?s=20 Saros fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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Lol, I told you Grayling was such a fuckup it would end out published.
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Jul 16, 2020 10:58
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Stop freaking out about vaccines please you sound like morons.
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If people are actually interested in seeing how the process works and what happens in the UK you can just look it up yourself. https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory-agency/about There is a lot of history to why medicines are regulated and controlled the way they are so it's a lot more than one person can write up in a pithy post while the thread is moving this fast.
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Also it's worth making the point that the Oxford vaccine in particular is a variant of a MERS vaccine which has already had a good amount of testing before Covid showed up all of which raised no cause for concern.
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Russia report is out, anything good?
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Jul 21, 2020 10:36
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Googling fudge bicycle returned some uh, interesting images.
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Ahoy UKMT-er's since I got quite a response to my job post last time and we even ended out hiring a fellow goon I thought i'd put this one in here. Looking for someone with a life science/pharma background who has some familiarity with databases for a Scientific analyst role. Details are here. Shoot me a PM with questions or hit me up on the discord.
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Jose posted:amazing what competent covid response can do The Tories and NZ First making GBS threads the bed loudly enough that even the media couldn't ignore it played a big part too. Also parliament is MMP so it won't be the total blowout polls like that would be under FPTP. Its actually not perfect because labour are okay but the greens are legitimately great and imo a labour gov in coalition with the greens will be a far better government than labour alone.
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Looks like a chemical factory of some sort cooking off? Something is on fire then it goes up in a big way. [e] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53656220
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The Question IRL posted:The Sci-Fi show The Expanse has a group of people called Belters, who live on the parts of the Solar System outside Earth and Mars. They all have an accent that is part South Afrikan, part Dutch, part Creole and part Kiwi. In the books the belter dialect is nigh incomprehensible to most people, I kind of wish they'd gone with subtitles and crazy rear end upspin chatter.
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Oh no you said his name, time for the bi-annual visit about how being funded by the state department is good, actually.
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I must be getting old but is there some reason why every youtube video has to have the person in it pasted across the thumbnail with a really odd expression on their face. Was there some sort of clickbait study that showed people click more if you're on the cover making a weird expression.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:So what (if anything) are we to make of the (apparent, because obviously there always has to be a massive disclaimer) situation in the States where despite a massive surge in reported cases hospitalisations and deaths are - while ticking up - aren't tracking with this? There's a lot of graphs running around purple-face Twitter purporting to show this and TBH I'd expect at least once southern city to be showing New York levels of deaths by now, but apparently not. There's a few things going on at once here. First is that the early wave had massively massively more cases than tested positive, there just wasnt the capacity to actually test people at the time. If you had actual data of cases you'd have far more infected than what tests showed. Something like a fifth of NY has had it from antibody studies. Second that treatment of COVID-19 has progressed a lot, far less people who turn up to hospital die than previously. Thirdly a lot of deaths were from it absolutely tearing through care homes, the second wave is primarily among (relatively) younger people. The reduced initial viral load is largely supposition. It might be a factor but there is no real proof of it yet. The whole immunized by sunlight attenuated virus is garbage.
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pentyne posted:Can someone explain to an American wtf is going on with these exam protests? The gist of it seems to be You missed the uniquely UK insanity of the fact that university spots are normally assigned on these imaginary grades. After that there is a period called 'clearing' where after exams are done if you did better or worse you can compete for a small amount of spots in some sort of weird reshuffle. Im probably not explaining it well because I didn't go through the UK school system and nobody's ever managed to explain it to me in a way that doesn't make it sound totally insane.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Oh, and companies are now charging exit fees to graduates who try to leave their jobs, effectively creating indentured servitude: Mind quoting for those of us who dont have a FT sub?
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Lol I think it's pretty telling that there still hasnt been an actual court case and the companies continually settle and agree to forget about it. Absolute scum though.
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Jedit posted:Not hundreds; there's only 343 English councils total, and they're talking about 5% of them going to the wall. That said, we pretty much know for a certainty that their "reasonable worst case" is actually the expected scenario, and the actual worst case - which they will bring about through incompetence and intransigence if not outright malice - will be worse. Unless I misread the article it was 5% are probably going bust because of coivid alone and the no deal will make things much worse.
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I'd say humiliation but well, Grayling.
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Aug 28, 2020 19:59
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Only for bombing poor nations using 80's era Soviet weapons. Also Lockheed can't charge 140 million dollars for a drone.
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Soylent Yellow posted:
These exist already, there are even armed Cessna variants. Then again these are basically what most drones are.
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Goldskull posted:I did the tour of Clapham South shelter with all round train expert John Bull off London Reconnections back in 2016. They said they were going to make it a regular tour but I don't think they ever did, was fascinating. They were hiring it out as dry document storage for years, but all the original bedframes are still there that housed the people sheltering, then US Military and later the Windrush generation that came in temporarily until they were housed in the surrounding area. There's still graffiti from the 40s/50s on the walls. TFL has been doing regular guided tours for years now, probably since 2018ish.
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