Give Boris Some Credit

[IT Minion]

Our R rate must be much higher than these other countries.

If we've got more cases then yes, to have more we must have a higher R (on average). But why do we have a higher R? Density is a factor, but it's not the only factor, possibly not even the biggest factor, otherwise the Netherlands would be a morgue.

 

[Trazor]

Not so simple. The R rate is lower the more densely populated the area is. London easily has the lowest at the moment. Scotland is probably the highest but others are similar. If the line is level the R value is 1. If increasing it > 1 if reducing it's less than 1 so people can work them out from this if inclined.

The R rate in London must have been very high, early in this Pandemic.

Pure and simply, the greater the population density, the greater the risk of infection spread.

 

[Brigadier]

I'll take the word of WHO than yours any day when it comes to this virus. At least they have the worlds scientists at hand working, studying the disease and reporting back, what do you have as facts to tell me that NZ and Oz have done better because this happened in their summer...?

This isn't just an ordinary flu by any stretch of the imagination. Doctors are witnessing things that defy medicine with oxygen levels in the blood etc.

Can you see that you've just completely destroyed your own position, Sod?

You believe the WHO (informed by scientists), yet acknowledge that this disease is confounding science (blood oxygen levels, for one)?

For me, at the current time, this is a data - gathering exercise.

 

[Bodd]

Pse tell Bodd that

I've not seen anything yet reported, that suggests the virus is likely to die out in hotter climates.
Perhaps such suggestions were more based on wishful thinking (that the 'rona might be akin to a flu).
Offer a bit of hope, and all that....

I did hear at the beginning of this mentioning 27 degrees and above... Not sure either.

Yet Australia and New Zealand have come out of this rather mildly They have a different diversity than the UK and US. They do however have more of an Obesity problem than the UK does.

 

[Bodd]

Bit like Notch and Gal ...They JUST know these things!!!!!!!

They all seem to know. Why don't they tell the experts...

 

[fillyboy]

For me, at the current time, this is a data - gathering exercise.

And data gathered in many different ways, hence too early to say we have the highest death rate.

 

[Bodd]

Can you see that you've just completely destroyed your own position, Sod?

You believe the WHO (informed by scientists), yet acknowledge that this disease is confounding science (blood oxygen levels, for one)?

For me, at the current time, this is a data - gathering exercise.

 

[IT Minion]

Can you see that you've just completely destroyed your own position, Sod?

You believe the WHO (informed by scientists), yet acknowledge that this disease is confounding science (blood oxygen levels, for one)?

For me, at the current time, this is a data - gathering exercise.

You don't need to know everything about a topic to know something about it. The reported oddities around blood ox levels don't have anything to do with how widespread the disease is.

I don't know why people like marmite, but I can find out where it's sold.

 

[Bodd]

Times like these it's best to stick to facts, more than ever before imo.

Hooray
STFFs has all the answers.

 

[Bodd]

Do you think he will keep repeating his mantra 'get Brexit done' throughout his tenure? After all, it arouses the RWR/BHS and keeps them under heel.

Poor sods.

Yes poor Sods

 

[Brigadier]

Early on there was some thought that the virus was spreading around the globe preferring countries that were colder -under 20 degrees, however the evidence now shows clearly that the virus spreads as quickly in warm countries

Do you have a link for that?
Or would you like to rephrase it to "hope", or "speculation"? Given that there was absolutely no evidence to support it....

 

[Bodd]

You don't need to know everything about a topic to know something about it. The reported oddities around blood ox levels don't have anything to do with how widespread the disease is.

I don't know why people like marmite, but I can find out where it's sold.

Is there anyone who knows the answers?

 

[IT Minion]

Is there anyone who knows the answers?

Yes. The answer is 42.

 

[fillyboy]

 

[IT Minion]

Needs more flowerpots