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Nice story on the BBC: France rewards front-line immigrant workers with fast-track citizenship

Seems like a nice idea, I wonder if anyone is thinking about doing that here in the UK?
 
Not liking this South African variant.

Hope Test and Trace have got their act together to track all arrivals from there in the last few weeks and their contacts.

I assume that is what we expect from T&T no?
 
I finished my first bottle of port. Gonna have to go on essential booze run.

Anecdotally, (glimpsed from the post piling up on neighbours' doormats), at least 3 out of 5 households in my Tier 4 block of flats have fucked off somewhere else.

Also, just came here to post what weltweit said above.
I am sure everyone who has arrived from SA AND all their close contacts will quarantine thoroughly because Matt Hancock said it on the telly...

Good luck everybody!
 
I said this before but the BBC really should make a proper old school documentary about vaccine development. Loads of talking heads on how vaccines have pretty much kept modern urban civilisation viable, regards more leathful diseases. Not being dramatic.
How safety is core, talk to people who've taken part in trials.
How vaccines developed, genome sequencing, using cloud computing, first RNA vaccine, all that stuff.

It's right in their remit.
The trouble is, that in the prevailing media climate, it'd end up being a thing where 3 dinner ladies, a team of management accounts, another of estate agents, and several mums from Huddersfield would all end up competing to make the perfect vaccine while overcoming challenges involving linguini, custard, and coasteering, interspersed with heartwarming stories about how their disabled nieces/nephews inspired them to take part.

Which is pretty much what current Government policy seems to be, now I think about it.
 
Note: classical evolutionary pressure tends to drive towards increased transmissibility with a commensurate reduction in lethality.
If this one message could be conveyed by a three-phrase soundbite that they could stick on the front of Clown Boris' podium, a good thing would have been done.

Except that it would have as much impact as all the previous three-phrase soundbites that have adorned the podium in question already :(
 
I assume there's some statistical reason why the Guardian per 100,000 figures are different, it's annoying that they aren't consistent in how they present data.
 
The trouble is, that in the prevailing media climate, it'd end up being a thing where 3 dinner ladies, a team of management accounts, another of estate agents, and several mums from Huddersfield would all end up competing to make the perfect vaccine while overcoming challenges involving linguini, custard, and coasteering, interspersed with heartwarming stories about how their disabled nieces/nephews inspired them to take part.

Which is pretty much what current Government policy seems to be, now I think about it.

With a half hour in-depth Andrew Wakefield interview. For balance.
 
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