German food is great when it's about minus ten outside. Otherwise, nah.
German food is great when it's about minus ten outside. Otherwise, nah.
Isn't everything beyond Belgium absolute muck? The way they approach marzipan is enough to write them off before you get to their rotten savouries.
I've got a picture on my phone of boiled pork knuckle from somewhere in Berlin. While it was fucking amazing, if someone served you something looking like an aborted fetus in the UK, you'd be closed within a day.
At least the beer is good.
Same with Polish food.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Far too many soups and boiled potatoes with meat.
They do a good steak and chips (fries).
The sin there is boiled potatoes. The only reason a potatoe should go near boiling water is either to make mash or before roasting. Boiled potatoes in and of themselves are shit.
New potatoes is obviously an exception, but you still need enough butter to swim in to make them worth it.
Absolutely agree.
They even call try to call them mash but they'll bash them a bit and it doesn't even see a bit of butter/cream/milk.
Genuinely horrific.
Dutch food is mostly horrific, aside from pastry-type stuff which is decent
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56359403
First Minister Mark Drakeford told the i newspaper he did not see life returning to normal in 2021.The co-chairwoman of the TAC, Fliss Benee, said it was a crucial moment in the course of the pandemic.
"We are sitting at a knife edge, where if we start to unlock too fast then we will be in a period of exponential growth that could bring us easily back to the sort of levels of hospitalisations and deaths we saw in January," she said.
There's much to lol at but the state of that whale barely seeing her students through the PPE is a particular highlight.
I genuinely don't understand how they think that unless they think a) the risk of a VARIANT getting around the vaccines is a probability or b) the vaccines don't work.
Why do they never provide their 'work'?
The thing I saw the other day about the Kent variant felt a little dodgy. The article was on about how it's deadlier by "30%- 100%" and then no other numbers to back it.
Reliance on numbers would have given us back 16 months of our lives. No numbers just vibes.
That stat is an absolute lie. There are some loops you can jump through to make it work, but 13 in 1000 dying instead of 10 in 1000 dying is not 30 fucking percent more deadly.
Yep, that one will not die.
And if someone doesn't think life will return to normal in 2021, I can't see how they ever think it will.
0.4% fatality rate. That's not something to shit the bed over.They found that the Kent variant led to 227 deaths in a sample of 54,906 patients, compared to 141 among the same number of closely matched patients who had the previous strains.
It's nearly all over, and the disappointment of many is fucking palpable. I'm loving it. There are various academics, unions and left wing politicians whose whole state of being depends on a huge rise in cases, hospitalisations and deaths in the next month. Watch them completely lose the plot, EU-style, when it doesn't happen.
Drakeford said yesterday that the thought of foreign holidays resuming 'filled him with horror', what sort of a slug do you have to be to think that phrase, let alone say it.
Last edited by Jimmy Floyd; 11-03-2021 at 10:32 PM.
The media have been presenting medical stats in that exact way for years. I'm fairly sure I've brought it up on here before to point out what an issue it is. Especially as most science/health journalists have zero scientific background and understanding of what they are reporting.
Absolute risk vs relative risk. It’s a twat-move but technically not wrong.
Yeah, I saw the argument at the time and agree it's sensationalist, but it is 30% more deadly.
https://ir.novavax.com/news-releases...t-original-and
100% protection against severe disease
Final analysis in U.K. trial confirms 96% efficacy against original strain of COVID-19
Efficacy against variants confirmed in U.K. and South Africa
Open the clubs.
This is my local public hospital about 5min drive away.
I can smell a 3 day snap lockdown!
BREAKING: COVID-19 case identified at PA Hospital.
The Princess Alexandra Hospital has been placed into lockdown effective immediately after a positive COVID-19 case was detected today (12 March 2021).
All non-essential visits to patients will not be allowed. If you must attend PA Hospital, you will be required to wear a mask. The Emergency Department will remain open, but if you’re able to receive care at a nearby hospital or at a GP, please do so.
Staff will wear masks at all times. Patients will be required to wear masks at all times unless it is not clinically appropriate. Non-urgent outpatient bookings and elective surgery will be postponed.
The person, a staff member at the PA Hospital, had contact with COVID-19 positive patients in the early hours of 10 March.
The person was infectious whilst in the community on the 11th and contact tracing is underway. It is likely public exposure sites will be identified and communicated tomorrow.
All patients, staff and families this person interacted with are being identified and appropriate actions are being taken.
The hospital is actively working to ensure the safety of staff and patients on campus while contact tracing is undertaken.
Anyone with any COVID-19 symptoms should get tested immediately and isolate until you receive a negative result.
The comment section is so fucked.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...72529&sfnsn=mo
Last edited by Queenslander; 12-03-2021 at 11:40 AM.
Boring statistic time: Based on 2019's numbers, we now have 27m adults left to vaccinate. We'll get there by the end of July but the second doses are really eating into the progress.
No, you don't need to do anything mate.
16000 square kms is in the naughty corner
We'll piss all adults by the end of May.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56382608
They've absolutely fucked it
It's a lazy Saturday at Don towers, what is this talk of another substantial wave in Italy and Germany...
i) is seasonality not a big enough factor to protect against it slightly? At least to prevent levels seen in previous wave?
ii) is their vaccination progress so bad that it'll come with associated deaths or is it just cases they're shitting themselves over?
iii) lol
i) only slightly. Their cases are still rising nonetheless and they're on double our deaths (Italy, this is). Bear in mind also we've already been clobbered by the Kent variant and they haven't.
ii) yes, it's that bad, even if they are now just starting to crank it up, it's too late to stop deaths from the recent case rise. They have four simultaneous problems compared to us: 1. supply, because they fucked up the procurement; 2. distribution, which is where the good old NHS has a massive advantage over the decentralised systems they have there; 3. their populations simply don't want the vaccine to the same extent as ours does, for reasons that continue to baffle me to this day. 4. their dosing strategy proved less effective.
% of population to have received at least one dose as of 12/3:
UK 36.47%
Spain 11.45%
Italy 10.64%
Germany 10.58%
France 9.91%
iii) lol.
Last edited by Jimmy Floyd; 13-03-2021 at 06:01 PM.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56361840
Happy Mothers Day Jim.
Every day is Mother's Day in the EU, especially for the Austrian Chancellor, who it turns out has eyes like James Dean and ears like Wiener Schnitzels.
France blaming AstraZenica for the lack of supply whilst sitting on a pile of unused vaccines is great fun.
Lol
She's a goldmine.
I thought it was a parody account at first.
She's deranged.
What's her PhD in? Homeopathy?
Poetry, I think.
The highlight of her career.
Well, if I'm being generous, I'd say at least she doesn't double down on her assertion. But still, thick as mince.
She made her name with a book about eating disorders that over-stated deaths from/with them by something like a thousand times, but the vibes were right so the facts/logic weren't important.
Another example of an over-exposed thicko mouthing off everywhere. I'll start with 'Anyone who likes to talk a lot should be sacked from their job' and we'll workshop the theory as we go along.
Belfast does have 5G as well.
That proper made me lol
Is it not 3 that does it though in which case she's right.
It's hilarious that Hungary are only ahead of other EU nations on that list because they turned to the Russian vaccine.
A year of mass death and disruption on the continent while Brits are revelling in an economic boom and lauding it up holidaying all over the World could spell some serious trouble for the EU.
Working for an exporting company, my current spidey sense is that the EU are about to start making life as difficult for us as possible in terms of selling into the bloc, possibly in very aggressive terms.
On the one hand, we had a month or two a head start and they have to split their doses across several countries. On the other hand, they really, really could've taken a more proactive approach instead of waiting for the EU to thumbs up everything.
Seems the link to booking your vaccine here has become widespread and any old Tom, Dick and Harry is booking on.
Why it’s not a personal link for each patient, who knows? Well, I do, but I won’t badmouth shit helens!
I'm a twit
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