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POLL: On whether Dominic Cummings should resign:

Should Resign: 59%

Should Not Resign: 27%

On whether what he done broke lockdown rules:

It Did: 71%

It Did Not: 20% Via

 
I think he's done now. Johnson said about 3 times "People will have to make their own mind up". They clearly have.
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3 minutes ago, Spy Bee said:

The WHO have said they don't expect a second wave of the virus as they doubt the virus will survive.

In the meantime, in the real world. 

 

The death toll was announced after the World Health Organisation warned countries which lift their coronavirus lockdowns too early risk facing an “immediate second peak” of infections. Dr Mike Ryan, the WHO’s emergencies head, said the virus could “jump up at any time” even in countries where infections have been falling.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-news-live-uk-lockdown-update-cases-vaccine-covid-19-today-a9532181.html

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2 minutes ago, Duff Man said:

Where did you see that?

https://as.com/diarioas/2020/05/25/actualidad/1590408886_315781.html?id_externo_rsoc=CM_ES_TW

 

Over time, a major outbreak of coronavirus becomes a remote possibility. This is stated on Monday in statements to RAC-1 by the director of Public Health of the World Health Organization (WHO), María Neira.

"There are many models that advance with a high probability. They speak from a punctual regrowth to a major wave, but this last possibility is increasingly being ruled out. We are much better prepared in all areas," says the Spanish.

Although seroprevalence studies undertaken in different countries, including Spain , have shown that the levels of contagion have not been sufficient to create group immunity that reduces the transmission capacity of the virus in a hypothetical second wave, Neira states that "we have lowered so much the transmission rate that the virus will have a hard time surviving. " "We must be very careful to say whether this is the end of the wave, but the data at least shows us that transmission and the explosion of the first weeks have been avoided," he adds. 

Caution

Does this have something to do with the heat? Although it has been said that high temperatures limit the propagation capacity of the pathogen, Neira does not see a decisive factor there, at least with what is known so far: "There are certain doubts about the relationship of the virus with climatology (... ) It is making the geographical journey that is expected of a virus that wants to survive. "

Despite everything, the doctor warns that it is still essential to maintain "great caution" in the de-escalation , a "critical" phase. Otherwise, the good omens of the WHO run the risk of being reversed. "The immunity figures are very low, you have to be very vigilant," he says. Finally, ask the population not to be paranoid and learn "to live with infectious diseases." Regarding Spain, he believes that lack of confinement will be "a day-to-day battle" and that its results will not be known in epidemiological terms for "two or three weeks".

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29 minutes ago, Anubis said:

 


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I clicked on the original Hopkins tweet just to see what other cunts people are calling her and got a notification "some replies have been restricted by the author" 

 

If I saw her in the street I'd break her nose. 

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11 minutes ago, Spy Bee said:

POLL: On whether Dominic Cummings should resign:

Should Resign: 59%

Should Not Resign: 27%

On whether what he done broke lockdown rules:

It Did: 71%

It Did Not: 20% Via

 
I think he's done now. Johnson said about 3 times "People will have to make their own mind up". They clearly have.

I'd like to agree, but it'll be years before the next election and folks will have forgotten about it by then.

 

Cummings will just sit it out. This government is proving that it can do and will do whatever it likes. I think only widespread strikes could make them think again, but even then he'll just resign to come back later under some other guise.

 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/26/coronavirus-update-us/

Ex-FDA commissioner cites reopening as likely cause of uptick in hospitalizations

Former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the small increase of hospitalizations because of the novel coronavirus is probably due to reopening measures.

 

“We now see a trend in an uptick in hospitalizations. It’s a small uptick, but it is an uptick, and it is unmistakable, and it is probably a result of reopening,” he said Tuesday morning in an interview on CNBC. “We expected cases to go up and hospitalizations to bump up when we reopened.”

 

States such as Florida, Georgia and Virginia have registered increased hospitalization numbers, he said. “We’re going to have to watch it,” he said. “The hope is that there’s a seasonal effect. … That seasonal effect will hopefully offset the increased social interaction, which is going to cause cases to go up

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30 minutes ago, deiseach said:

 

Used to love guilty bullshitters in my covering court days, Anubis and TK will have heard far far more than I did, but they were always along the lines of:

 

"Mr Jones sincerely regrets killing his neighbour with a ball peen hammer, he was suffering from depression at the time but now has a girlfriend with a baby on the way and the promise of a job at his uncle's construction company." 

 

"So noted. Ten years. When's lunch?" 

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4 hours ago, SasaS said:


Why, what have you heard?

Apparently some Swedes are not happy with where they are now. It seems they have a pretty low population density (certainly incomparable to the few nations ahead in per capita death rate) and their economy has been affected like everywhere else. There may be an issue with their reporting in care homes and they are seeing a second spike sooner that may be a little steeper than others.

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