COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Gabriel]

‘Sic’ should always appear in square brackets imo.

Does that not depend on required formatting and usage?

 

[Gabriel]

if you look at the numbers for England published by the NHS here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/

you could be led to believe the peak was March 30th.

I would be very cautious

Not sure I follow your point, GD, in relation to what I had posted. Apologies.

 

[mccity]

‘Sic’ should always appear in square brackets imo.

He says whilst putting the word between apostrophes.

For shame.

 

[kippax4ever]

You mean you don't have one to carry around?

As Wales and Belgium are the accepted units of land area, a Crouch could do the job for this.

I was on a job the other week & they put yellow strips down,I said to the H&S guy I don't no which 1 am scared off more,he said what you mean,I said the fking virus or all the c.nts who don't no what 2mtrs are seeing were on a construction site,

 

[MCFC_ Phil]

‘Sic’ should always appear in square brackets imo.

Pedant

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Does that not depend on required formatting and usage?

The word ‘always’ might give you a hint as to my response!

 

[Gabriel]

He says whilst putting the word between apostrophes.

For shame.

Or single inverted commas...

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Or ‘single inverted commas’...

 

[mccity]

Or ['single inverted'] commas...

Ok I think we're inching closer..

 

[Gabriel]

Only that if you jump too soon on a few points of data you can be drawn into false conclusions.
the NHS england figures have been corrected for date of death rather than when reported and they show a sharp decline after the 30th March which doesn't appear in the daily numbers released by the government. It would be easy to infer that england is already past the worst if you only looked at those numbers.

I wasn't suggesting that England (or the UK) was over the worst of it or Germany.