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SWP's back said:
And his Director of National Intelligence said the opposite and Trump wants to try and blame someone and hasn’t told a truth in about 25 years. Boom indeed.

Given Trump’s shared numerous Breitbart and Infowars crap on twitter. It’s entirely plausible he’s seen the same videos or tweets often shared on here and thinks that’s ‘evidence’. Or likely this that did the rounds yesterday and had Sugar retweeting it before deleting it.

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Trump was thinking of a Noble laureate.
 
SWP's back said:
And his Director of National Intelligence said the opposite and Trump wants to try and blame someone and hasn’t told a truth in about 25 years. Boom indeed.

Given Trump’s shared numerous Breitbart and Infowars crap on twitter. It’s entirely plausible he’s seen the same videos or tweets often shared on here and thinks that’s ‘evidence’. Or likely this that did the rounds yesterday and had Sugar retweeting it before deleting it.

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David Icke for Vice President 2020-24 then?
 
somapop said:
Really sorry to hear about your wife and I wish you the best of luck with your courses. I’m sure you’ll crack that.
I’m doing similar and networking like there’s no tomorrow...hadn’t used LinkedIn until a few weeks ago. I must’ve spoken to over 500 people in the past few weeks in order to get help and advice on there. Same with courses and research. In fact one of the positives in this is that a few big courses have been made free during the pandemic.
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Cheers. Much appreciated.
 
BlueAnorak said:
I took a third of my pension to look after the wife for two years who had terminal cancer and died in January. The money will run out at the end of August and I need to get back in the job market and work for ten years to rebuild my pension/savongs.
As such, I needed COVID-19 like a hole in the head
To get back in the job market, I have to become accredited so I'm spending 6 hours a day doing online learning courses to Get AWS Solution Architect Associate and Togaf 9.2 Associate acreditarion. Both are achievable.
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Best of luck to you mate. You're putting in the work and I'm sure it'll reap rewards no matter how far away that might seem just now.
 
Least surprising news ever - research shows that if you live in a poor area you are more likely to die if you contract Covid-19.

Old news is that pre-Covid-19 poor people died younger than rich people. Its not so much news as fact.
 
As of yesterday, Brent (4,044 cases per million), home of Wembley stadium is no longer the Coronavirus capital of the UK. That accolade now goes to Sunderland (4,102 cases per million). It wasn't in the top 30 COVID-19 hotspots when the lockdown began but it's rise up the list has been relentless.
I reckon they must be having house parties by the bucket full
 
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After 4 months of this madness, generally speaking countries are where they are based on their strategy.

In a battle of virus /humanity you would think that the only strategy is total resistance but a small group of countries have adopted the resistance is futile approach. Their intention is not to suppress the virus entirely but to shield their most vulnerable people, and to flatten the epidemic's peak by limited measures whilst allowing the virus to spread at a controlled rate.

If resistance is futile, then the area under everyone's curve is the same, and it is better for society to do it quickly rather than slowly (but not so quick that it overwhelms your health system). Most countries have the economic strength for one lockdown but that would be it.

The countries following this strategy have generally higher death rates as you would naturally expect but they are also closer to the end of the tunnel and are insured by some limited immunity against the devastating effects of a 2nd lockdown.

If you look at it from the point of herd immunity advocates then you can't compare deaths by country now because some countries are just much further along in their eventual infection than others, and they will all get their in the end.

The problem with this strategy is that it ignores the fact that humanity will more than likely outwit the virus. However, it is a conservative strategy with some merit. It is a long and hard strategy but it is guaranteed to get there. Nations like South Korea resist through operating very smartly but you cannot operate under siege forever.

It feels a little safer in the UK because I am already pretty confident that the UK wont go through another 2nd wave because so many people have already been infected, however that is not a reason to be happy because it came at a high price.

I don't really think you can say that there is a right way and a wrong way to do this. There are different strategies that take different routes based largely on expectations of the timing of a vaccine. Should a society battle to save every life knowing that if a vaccine is 18 months away then probably more people will die in the long run?

As the moment the pendulum has swung towards total resistance because the vaccines are all lining up and there is no scientific reason I am aware of as to why a vaccine can not and will not be successful. I think it would be wise for the Oxford vaccine group to expand their trial to somewhere like Moscow where the virus is growing fast, but if they could I think they would have done. So now we just wait and hope. I expect we'll know before May is out.
 
Marvin said:
High blood sugar impairs basic immune function and leaves diabetics generally vulnerable to infections.
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Coupled to the report that the majority of the victims had low vit d levels that reinforces our immune system and aids repair of organs.
 
We are allowed out tomorrow here in Spain for an hours walk.
Sadly I will miss out as I've been allocated the times between 6am and 10am (when I'm still in bed) or 8pm and 11pm (when I'm usually blind drunk)
Oh well, such is life.
 
I noticed both the Czechs and Germans have had an increasing number of cases since they relaxed their lockdowns. It will be interesting to see if they go ahead with easing the restrictions further, as planned, or if they tighten them up again.
 
Pablo1 said:
We are allowed out tomorrow here in Spain for an hours walk.
Sadly I will miss out as I've been allocated the times between 6am and 10am (when I'm still in bed) or 8pm and 11pm (when I'm usually blind drunk)
Oh well, such is life.
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Is that just for the one day, or is it a daily slot ?
 
Marvin said:
After 4 months of this madness, generally speaking countries are where they are based on their strategy.

In a battle of virus /humanity you would think that the only strategy is total resistance but a small group of countries have adopted the resistance is futile approach. Their intention is not to suppress the virus entirely but to shield their most vulnerable people, and to flatten the epidemic's peak by limited measures whilst allowing the virus to spread at a controlled rate.

If resistance is futile, then the area under everyone's curve is the same, and it is better for society to do it quickly rather than slowly (but not so quick that it overwhelms your health system). Most countries have the economic strength for one lockdown but that would be it.

The countries following this strategy have generally higher death rates as you would naturally expect but they are also closer to the end of the tunnel and are insured by some limited immunity against the devastating effects of a 2nd lockdown.

If you look at it from the point of herd immunity advocates then you can't compare deaths by country now because some countries are just much further along in their eventual infection than others, and they will all get their in the end.

The problem with this strategy is that it ignores the fact that humanity will more than likely outwit the virus. However, it is a conservative strategy with some merit. It is a long and hard strategy but it is guaranteed to get there. Nations like South Korea resist through operating very smartly but you cannot operate under siege forever.

It feels a little safer in the UK because I am already pretty confident that the UK wont go through another 2nd wave because so many people have already been infected, however that is not a reason to be happy because it came at a high price.

I don't really think you can say that there is a right way and a wrong way to do this. There are different strategies that take different routes based largely on expectations of the timing of a vaccine. Should a society battle to save every life knowing that if a vaccine is 18 months away then probably more people will die in the long run?

As the moment the pendulum has swung towards total resistance because the vaccines are all lining up and there is no scientific reason I am aware of as to why a vaccine can not and will not be successful. I think it would be wise for the Oxford vaccine group to expand their trial to somewhere like Moscow where the virus is growing fast, but if they could I think they would have done. So now we just wait and hope. I expect we'll know before May is out.
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Good, well balanced post that Marvin.
 
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