I do like @Marvin but he needs to take a chill-pill from time to time.I’m sure it’s just frustration on his part that the ramp up of testing seems to be taking a long time and this is the key to ending this crisis. He does happen to be right about that.
What do you mean "after all"? It was always the case and never in doubt. What did you think we needed the ventilators for, room perfume?
EDIT: LIstening to the news, seems I am mistaken. My apologies.
I had thought a CPAP machine was a ventilator. Seems not, although I have no ideas what the difference is.
He is pre eminent in his field, but he tends to start with worse case scenario and then refine, but his initial numbers stick in the public mind.Anyone else think this bloke’s a bit of a loose cannon? (Not you claytop)
First he claimed half a million deaths, scaring everybody witless, then 20000, most recently 5700? I appreciate this modelling will change over time when various data is applied, but still...
The steps taken before isolation did have an effect. Not that some on here would believe it, mind.Prof Neil Ferguson has said this morning the the rate of infection may be slowing, apparently new hospital admissions are slowing. Obviously this won’t be reflected in the number of deaths for a couple of weeks though.
I do like @Marvin but he needs to take a chill-pill from time to time.
It does deserve repeating, however, that he was widely lambasted, mocked even, for suggesting that Sanchez was finished (or at least considerably past his best) when we were in for him (on the last occasion) and he was bang-on about that - and to his credit I’ve never seen him bring that up despite (imo) being entitled to in the circumstances.
I’ve stopped paying attention to him. He’s as inconsistent as the Govt.Prof Neil Ferguson has said this morning the the rate of infection may be slowing, apparently new hospital admissions are slowing. Obviously this won’t be reflected in the number of deaths for a couple of weeks though.
You've been conned by the CCP. They shut the whistleblowers up starting in mid December.No they didn't. They first informed the WHO of issues on December 31st. They have, in the meantime, traced a case going back to as early as November 17th but they had no idea of that at the time
Dilyn says hi!So Dominic Cummings has it now.... who’s gonna run the Country ?
He was absolutely spot on, and it was certainly unconventional thinking. Everyone piled in, and yet he was right. Fair play to him for sticking to his guns and not (afaik) boasting about it afterwards.Yeah, he called the Sanchez thing right and none of us took much, if any, notice of him at the time
Best to go worst case and move back from there as you go forward.Anyone else think this bloke’s a bit of a loose cannon? (Not you claytop)
First he claimed half a million deaths, scaring everybody witless, then 20000, most recently 5700? I appreciate this modelling will change over time when various data is applied, but still...
He was absolutely spot on, and it was certainly unconventional thinking. Everyone piled in, and yet he was right. Fair play to him for sticking to his guns and not (afaik) boasting about it afterwards.
He articulates himself well and is reasoned in his approach, but he frequently does seem to make the same point over and over which I think invites a degree of piss-taking. We all have our foibles, of course, which are there to be gently mocked, myself included, but I think he gets more than his fair share, occasionally from this quarter, but he isn’t on his own in that regard!
Would be a shame if he felt he couldn’t post in this thread going forward. It’s only the internet, after all.
Half?Don’t know why he feels he couldn’t post in this thread anymore half the posters are clueless anyway
Half?
Not like you. You feeling ok?Wanted to be diplomatic:)
No.Anybody else find this casual way that we're sometimes seeing of talking about “the Chinese virus” as thoroughly distasteful, and borderline racist? God knows, I have no love for the Chinese authorities, having worked in China for a year and seen close up just how paranoid the authorities are about any circulation of information that they're not totally in control of. But the Chinese didn't invent the bloody thing so as to make the rest of the world ill! If I were ethnically Chinese (or rather, Han), I'd resent it intensely.
But then, history if full of crisis periods when demonisation takes place.
You've been conned by the CCP. They shut the whistleblowers up starting in mid December.
No, I'm not saying that - that's a different issue. I'm saying how can the British government have known about this at Christmas when the Chinese themselves only informed the WHO on 31st December?
Their apparent lack of basic regulatory hygiene standards within livestock markets (and livestock industry more widely) are worthy of comment (and censure) given previous associated warnings and incidents that have arisen.No. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) fucked up badly by lying and covering it up for 2 months. Millions may die as a result especially in poorer countries. The CCP happen to be Chinese.