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Really? What is your source for that ('the internet'?) Because the available evidence overwhelmingly says that they do. Not 100% but enough to make a huge difference to the risk you pose to others when out and about, as lockdown lifts.

Have a look at what is happening in Brazil. It should make you reconsider, even from a purely selfish perspective, which is where you seem to coming from. But vaccination programmes are about public health - not individual health. Getting vaccinated is indeed a personal choice (as is calling...

Just watched this and was goig to post it, but you beat me to it. Lots and lots of good news in there, and amongst all that there are a couple of interesting points that might get lost: - The data is showing that, while side effects from the Oxford jab are relatively common on first dose, they...

Too early to tell really I think?. Cases have only really gone high in the last 2-3 weeks, so you wouldn't expect to see that translate into hospitalization, let alone deaths, as yet. The lag is obviously due in part to the time taken after infection/positive testing for a case to get serious...

There is a perfectly valid debate to be had about tone and content of the media coverage of Covid. There is also a perfectly valid place to have that debate - and it isn't on this thread. Meanwhile, Zoe App figures still dropping nicely. 3,150 estimated new symptomatic infections on 30th...

Admissions look a little worrying - but the good news (I assume) is that's a mistake and it's actually 256 or 258? The steady reduction in admissions, which have been coming down at a faster rate than infections for some time now, is definitely excellent news. And infections continuing to drop...

Making a mess and leaving litter is horrible behaviour. I hate it. But it doesn't cause transmission of Covid. I tend to err on the side of caution with regard to lockdowns etc, and earlier in the year I'd have been quite worried by some of these photos. But I've learnt that 1) things often...

Indoor mixing is lkely to cause far far more problems. That photo is just another bit of media hype - no doubt low angle, long range to make it look much worse than it really was. All the reliable evidence I've seen suggests that outdoor mixing is really pretty safe and unlikely to create any...

Stupid Troll :ban:

back on track... Zoe app still showing no sign of an overall rise in symptomatic infection rates to March 25th (new daily cases at 4,446 now, down 200 from the day before and overall levels of infection still dopping, now at just under 70,000 nationally). So if there is any impact on children...

To back up the point about individual choice alone (not) driving increased consumerism through the 80's - here's an interesting essay (trigger warning - it's in the Guardian AND by George Monbiot) with a bit of a local link. Well, I found it interesting anyway...

100%. This was EXACTLY my reaction. It's good entertainment, but he's getting away with murder with some of his sweeping statements. Wrong in both those cases. Especially the second one.

John Maynard Keynes Armando Iannucci

Tim Spector did say a week or two ago that he was expecting a levelling off or slight rise before dopping again, though I am not sure why. As per various posts above there are multiple recent changes, in testing regime, with schools returning and vaccinations rising which together make the...

'direct policy' isn't developed and passed in a vacuum. The Overton Window dictates what can, and cannot, be considered and what is likely to pass through the process of creating legislation. Thatcher (and cohorts) shifted the Overton Window on economic policy, and that has yet to come back...

You don't think her legacy lives on and is directly impacting our lives? Attlee is long dead, but I think the creation of the NHS has some bearing on how we live our lives today? Of course, it's never just one individual - these are figureheads for much larger groups of people working together...

The arguments also hinge on the assumption that what makes people better, or worse, off is only how much money they have. Not what kind of society they live in, how secure they feel, how optimistic they are for their childrens future, the environment they have around them, how much time they...

Well reading the quote in its entirety (sp?) still sounds just awful to me. And you can dress it up as you like, she was pretty open about what she stood for and her legacy speaks for itself in my view. We became a nastier, more selfish society under her guidance. The phrase 'winners and...

And now we live at the whim of billionaires and large corporations. Hurrah! Thatcher the biggest influence in my lifetime, as more than any before or since, she was prepared to take the mask off and be honest about what the Tory party really stands for: Selfishness and greed. Thus making me a...

But 'here' is a tiny minority of Brighton/football fans. And existing football fans are a tiny minority of potential football fans. So...who's really 'different'?