I'm just hoping we don't get number-fucked through this Omicron spike.
I'm just hoping we don't get number-fucked through this Omicron spike.
I know Shindi, I know.
First paragraph of his wiki entry lol. He was advocating hydroxychloroquine early on. Oof indeed.During the COVID-19 pandemic, McCullough promoted misinformation and falsehoods about COVID-19, the COVID-19 vaccine, and COVID-19 treatments.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
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His wiki just gets better and better. "No evidence of asymptomatic spread". "Survivors cannot be re-infected". Etc.
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If only other SCIENCE members got the same scrutiny.
Four doses, Whitty? Four? That's insane.
Prem is going to have to be stopped thanks to this shit now, lord have mercy, this is truly the end of life as we know it. Esports and NFTs, what a time to not be alive.
The UK embassy are loudly celebrating the fact that they just donated 310,000 Covid vaccines to Vietnam.
Only problem... If you zoom in you can see the expiry date of September 2021 :/
He's that Ivermectin retard, right?
Also, Joe Rogan is only 2 letters away from Rogan Josh. Wake up sheeple.
I don't know where you are, but it is hard not to notice that if a scientist shows up in Fox, then he is SPREADING LIES, but if he is the NPR type, it is all good. Now, I am not saying that it is wrong to scrutinize what that person is saying, I just wish we did it to everyone.
Rupert Murdoch is a shit stirrer.
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Shut the fuck up and post some [min 10k word count] medical papers and educate us.
Here's a 20 minute video on South Africa Taz. It's good news (I for one am shocked), but it does fly in the face of Whitty's "there is no good news" last night, so he's probably lying.
One of the problems is that the briefings are full of political number one journos (Kuenssberg, Peston, Rigby et al) looking to catch the PM out or ask political questions rather than health journos asking health questions.
Meanwhile the frozen dinners mob have come roaring back (ComRes):
That "only allowed to leave the house for essential shopping" column is mental. There's no way these polls are actually representative of the population as a whole. They're absolutely pointless.
I tagged along to my dad's retired breakfast club thing and one of the lunatic women there does a lft every time she leaves the house. I didn't think these people were real.
She proceeded to be really nasty about a few people and fire in to a Spoons english breakfast. Real benefit to society having her around.
Do you lot called a fry up an "English Breakfast" up there? I don't think we even call it a "Full English" down here any more.
47% of people want full lockdown? I just can't see it. I know one person that wants that. Other than that everyone is happy plodding along with masks and distancing.
It's either the way the questions are framed or simply that the people bothering to answer these polls are massive drips by default. I suspect a combination af the 2.
An even split wanting lockdown doesn't compute here either if I was to go on personal experience but neither would any vaccination uptake of greater than 20%. That's one good thing about this affair, it's been a good indicator of the mindset of peers and society as a whole.
Yep. Your friend group is unlikely to be representative of the UK.
Most people don't just talk to their friend group, though. You have colleagues and random interactions that give you an indication of what the wider population think, which helps you gauge what the overall sentiment might be. I know full well that 47% would not be right here, although it was never going to be as high as the UK.
I've seen it done various ways. Sometimes they'll specify a Scottish breakfast if that means it's got lorne/square, potato scones, etc. But it usually will have those so sometimes that's just a full breakfast.
About time this thread got onto something actually interesting.
My friends would be 100% opposed.
My family would pretty much just be "ooh, be careful!" with the exception of my Sister in Law ( who has pulled her kid out of school and still has her husband strip in the hall and immediately shower when he gets home from work).
My extended family ranges from Antigua, to Cornwall, to Newcastle and they're all plodding along.
Outside of that, my work colleagues are much the same. There was one Team Fear resident, but she has been talking about her trips to Christmas Markets (come at me Igor) etc, so her head has returned.
I also spend a large amount of my time on the phone to "customers" and 9 times out of 10 their reaction to the word Covid is "Oh, I've had enough of that rubbish".
The only setting that I encounter any real worry is from the uppermanagement and I take that to be mostly arse covering.
47% of the population is a big number. It's basically every Remain voter and I have no trouble finding them.
Aye, square slice. I presume public health reasons are why it is rarely found outside of Scotland.
I'd be surprised if you don't have a proper butcher near you that does it. But yeah, it comes essentially looking like a block of mince that is then sliced and fried as you'd expect. Think it's got spices through it too. I would still choose a really good 'link' sausage (if you just ask for sausage in your breakfast roll you'll get square 9/10 times so I'm in the habit of thinking of them as 'links' now) but square is good.
I'm sure we were able to get it when I lived in England from one butcher but not the supermarkets usually.
EDIT: Saying I'd be surprised if you can't is strong, but I'd say there's a reasonable chance you can get it somewhere local.
Square sausage.
I'm going to have to track this down now.
I'll walk up the butchers on lunch.
Most people talk to about 50-100 people who by definition share one or more social contexts with them. A poll is a scientifically weighted sample of the whole population. There is no comparison, the poll is far more accurate.
In this case I would say the 47% will be an alliance of WFH droids, loonies (that's about 15% of the population, of whom half will be the opposite kind of loony), and to a great extent, looking at the underlying numbers given by Comres, just legions and legions of dull people aged over 55.
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47% seems a tad high, but I think (for the reasons Jimmy's stated) our circles won't be that representative and there are a shitload of people who are absolutely terrified and hold the misguided belief that another lockdown would make it all go away, when in reality it just kicks the can down the road.
I hesitate to say culture war as I hate the phrase (for reasons), but is this a prime example of that? People (myself included obviously) care more about this issue than anything they have for a long long time.
The poll people know what they're doing. They wouldn't have a business if they were churning out absolute shite on a daily basis. Most of their work is for market research for businesses, the political stuff is a loss leader for marketing reasons.
Lockdown supporters:
Incels
Losers
Public Sector/3rd Sector workers
Operational/Service private sector workers
Mothers
Do-gooders
People who do 60mph in the outside lane
People who live in new builds
Depressed people who want everyone to be as miserable as they are
I am 2-3 of those things and don't want a lockdown. Check your facts.
Magic is atleast 3 of them herself.
I'm not even going to fix that typo.
I don't necessarily agree with this. It's like saying newspapers wouldn't have a business if they were churning out absolute shite on a daily basis, yet here we are. There's a market for anything these days. I'm not saying all of their polls will be a load of shit, but they aren't going to be on the money every time.
Yeah, but their business is in being correct.