Wednesday 11th January 2023

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

Guess I'm not watching the Royal Rumble this year

[refitman]

Julia's tweet is aging increasingly poorly

[refitman]

Some good news, from one part of Labour

[RogerOThornhill]

Good morning.

I see that someone has had the whip removed...not having a good time lately is he?

[AnatolyKasparov]

Inevitable that a Tory backbencher would go full QAnon sooner or later.

[refitman]

[AnatolyKasparov]

His books are about the same standard, or at least I am thus reliably informed.

[frog222]

DANNY ALTMANN was the first prof who really impressed me when he was interviewed on Youtube in mid-2020 by Gez Medinger , one of the other Long Covid sufferers .

He had the humility to admit that his first ideas about covid were plain wrong which unusual honesty is always nice to hear !

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-022-01393-x

Yes it's the FOURTH year

"" having enjoyed a period of détente and mutual respect between scientists and policy makers, we now again face segregation into rival tribes: the short attention spans, COVID-19 revisionism and ‘move along, there’s nothing to see here’ attitude of our global leaders threatens the laser focus that the scientists will need if we are to avoid endemic bedding-in of massively elevated mortality along with a lasting worldwide burden of disability imposed by more than 150 million cases of long COVID.

How did ‘endemic’ — the term used in infectious disease to describe our relentless struggle in the relationship with our greatest scourges of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria — come to be re-appropriated to mean some form of victory over COVID-19? If we now meet the COVID challenge poorly and throw in the towel, historians may puzzle over our ineptitude for centuries to come.""

Must admit I was a little amazed at how so many of the world leaders, notably those I follow in the anglosphere -- US Canada Australia and then UK -- were all close together in announcing that covid was over and we could live with the little leftovers from it .

Strange then how most people have to test -ve before being allowed close to Joe and Kamala . </cough ! >

Our official Incidence Rate has gone down almost sixfold in a month, from c680 to c120, but many hospitals are still bursting with postponable operations cancelled and my GP when I saw him on Thursday was still very busy working late with covid cases . He and his confrère both wear masks , as do all patients . Only blue jobs mostly, but better than nothing . We have appointments so the small waiting room has rarely more than two or three in it .

Most people are back to 'normal' but I'm still wearing my ffp2 in shops and only going into a bar-tabac to buy a paper . This is only 43 days old --

France heads into ninth Covid wave in lead up to Christmas
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20221129-f ... -christmas

but it only caused a slight increase in masking ! I'm now thoroughly used to being the odd one out, tho it did feel a bit strange at first ...

As time passes the evidence grows that if at all possible abstinence from covid is er highly recommended .

[frog222]

[frog222]

Not ALL angels, as @Sky has found repeatedly --

[frog222]

D U M B , more money than sense page 1252565156--

[AnatolyKasparov]

Did somebody say Quadruple?