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FT interactive graph thingy now outside the paywall: Coronavirus tracked: has your country’s epidemic peaked? | Free to read | Financial Times

They’re just all so fucking stupid. In fairness the Labour front bench last year was also the stupidest in living memory. Why are all our politicians so fucking dumb? What happened to the intellectual powerhouses?

If no loan players it’s a lot harder. Want someone who can put a foot in but also beat ten men and rifle it home. I’d say Dabo but he’s struggle on the “rifle it home” bit. Doubles of Dabo and Godden might work though.

What like this one? Name me a better Wembley player in the squad.

Hmmm, who would you pick for us? Liam Walsh I reckon, if doubles then Walsh and O,Hare. Obviously not if it was heads and volleys.

I’m waiting for someone to suggest a load on penalty shootouts because we can do social distancing for them.

No it’s not? How are you consistently this wrong? NHS planning is about knowing where outbreaks are occurring, track and trace is about informing people who have been in contact with potential cases. As the article states other countries are using the Apple/Google solution for track and trace...

Rubbish. The government don’t even say that, they say they need the centralised data for NHS planning not track and trace. Most other countries are using the Apple/Google decentralised system which as the article explains is more likely to work as well as being better for privacy. There’s no...

Theyd still be short term though. Not a new normal

Jesus. It’s The Reg so this gets a bit technical but good article on the mess the government is making of the contact tracing app: UK finds itself almost alone with centralized virus contact-tracing app that probably won't work well, asks for your location, may be illegal

I am in favour of it permanently and agree it’d be a good short term measure. I’m referring to those who claim the case has been made for it permanently. My point is that the crisis throw up lots of short term measures that make sense or are emotionally satisfying but in reality aren’t likely to...

Estimates of 120,000 people in this country alone. Though technically that was the government response to the crisis rather than directly. Source: Health and social care spending cuts linked to 120,000 excess deaths in England | BMJ

Spanish flu was 100 years ago, WHO naming guidance has been to not associate with a place or animal for some time as it confuses the issue and leads to people making incorrect assumptions about its spread. Plus racism. As this thread nicely demonstrates...

Seems to me everyone’s seeing what they want in this crisis. Environmentalists saying well all work from home and reduce consumption: not going to happen Technologists saying well all do remote work and online learning: not going to happen Left wingers pushing UBI: not going to happen...

A point the FT chart guy makes a lot is that country level data doesn’t make as much sense as region level because outbreaks are so regionalised. A differentiated lockdown seems the most sensible thing in most places.

Yeah I agree, though still think it could be the end of the year unless it’s with mad occupancy limits that people don’t follow. But until then hotels can open safely as people are generally separated so they’ll have to without a bar.

Mate, a friendship where you’re scared of scaring them off isn’t an equal friendship and so not a friendship that’s worth keeping IMO. You need to learn how awesome you are and that you are worth as much as anyone else. Ignore her. Go work on yourself or talk to other people, if she’s worth...

That bit I can see. Can’t close pubs then leave a massive loophole open at hotels.

I will fight anyone that disagrees cauliflower cheese should be on a roast.

Have they given a reason why we can’t use the standard system Google and Apple devised like most countries plan to I believe?