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Post by arfurdent on Sept 18, 2020 16:21:37 GMT
Beating the French is never much of an achievement I guess... Brings to mind this picture a French PM beating some small children at dominoes. I guess you can only beat what's in front of you...  did he use a big stick? |
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Post by arfurdent on Sept 18, 2020 16:22:21 GMT
I bought a car today. That was fun. Suppose I'd better insure the bastard then. and the car |
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Post by channonite on Sept 18, 2020 16:37:50 GMT
Nor as well as Germany and Italy...... If only you could bring your glass one quarter full optimism that you use for Saints to life in General, eh!  My problem is with the statistics, rather than which country is doing better than another. Years of working with stats has just implanted a healthy distrust of anything like this. |
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Post by spot51 on Sept 18, 2020 17:05:21 GMT
Think he said a Skoda Roomster. Correct. You can ditch the rear seats to get more dog crates and mobility aids in. |
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Post by spot51 on Sept 18, 2020 17:07:15 GMT
I bought a car today. That was fun. Suppose I'd better insure the bastard then. No NCD and a history of pranging Drew's cars: OUCH! |
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Post by Willshakes. on Sept 18, 2020 18:05:38 GMT
A little thought that may raise an eyebrow; scamdemic… which I believe is based on the Swedish response - i.e no lockdown, no closed schools, no mass unemployment, limited masks, no need for bailouts and yet still a far lower death rate per population than the UK (and most other countries for that matter) with over 75% of deaths being in care homes of elderly with underlying health conditions - oh yes, and also no sign of this so called "second wave"
Just a note of sanity - those currently in hospital with covid-19 amount to 0.0009% of the population (600 out of almost 66 million) which is less than the average amount of people in hospital from car accidents at any one time (0.0066%, so you are 7 times more likely to be in hospital from a car accident than from Covid-19) … or to put it another way 99.9991% of the population do not have any covid symptoms that are more than that of a mild flu at this point in time
For added perspective, the chances of being hit by lightning is 0.00008% so (since deaths in hospital from covid was around 1 in 20) this means at present you are twice as likely to die from being struck by lightning than you are from covid-19I’m liking this but are you sure? I don’t remember reading about 10s of thousands uk lightning deaths last year... An eyebrow has been raised  2 deaths from lightening last year 30 injured ! My FD, intelligent, numbers, etc put this together and tried to end with "What are the chances of being struck by lightening" The first 2 paragraphs are hard to argue with. We told him to prove the lightening paragraph but he couldn't. I think, putting politics aside, we just need to keep a distance, wash our hands regularly, wear a mask in public places ; shops, trains etc and wait for a vaccine. Over 60 or with underlying conditions is a different story. It's hard to see the wood from the trees. My worry is how this is going to decimate the economy & the amount of job losses in November. We're all in a Pandemic and I believe it's well worth debating to weigh up peoples views. I still think we'll lose to Spuds though  |
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Post by spot51 on Sept 18, 2020 18:47:30 GMT
I bought a car today. That was fun. Suppose I'd better insure the bastard then. No NCD and a history of pranging Drew's cars: OUCH! Hastings Direct were £300 cheaper than Saga*! *the old gits lot, not the Malmo detective. |
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2 deaths from lightening last year 30 injured ! My FD, intelligent, numbers, etc put this together and tried to end with "What are the chances of being struck by lightening" The first 2 paragraphs are hard to argue with. We told him to prove the lightening paragraph but he couldn't. I think, putting politics aside, we just need to keep a distance, wash our hands regularly, wear a mask in public places ; shops, trains etc and wait for a vaccine. Over 60 or with underlying conditions is a different story. It's hard to see the wood from the trees. My worry is how this is going to decimate the economy & the amount of job losses in November. We're all in a Pandemic and I believe it's well worth debating to weigh up peoples views. I still think we'll lose to Spuds though