love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

Have read, without confirmation, that the people attacked were asylum seekers, so maybe they were being housed in a hotel.

fuck :-(

I know there's a lot going on right now but this is the information I've been looking for for a while:

The proportion of Covid-19 patients in hospital who are dying is falling, research suggests.

The University of Oxford’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine studied deaths in hospital in England and found that the number of people in hospital with coronavirus is reducing by 2.4% every day - halving every 29 days.

The number of deaths is also reducing by 4.3% per day - halving every 16 days.

On 2 April, at the height of the epidemic, there were 644 deaths in 10,737 people in hospital with Covid - giving a 6% death rate, the researchers said.

But by 15 June, there were 50 deaths and 3,270 people in hospital - giving a death rate of 1.5%.

The authors suggested several reasons for the “steep and continual decline in the death rate in hospital of patients”.

One could be that patients with Covid-19 in late March and early April included a significant proportion of patients who caught the infection in hospital, they said.

“These patients, because they were in hospital, were more likely to be sicker and more vulnerable than patients who acquired infection in the community and so more likely to die from Covid-19.”

But as this changed, and patients with community-acquired infections became a greater proportion of patients in hospital, the death rate could fall, the researchers suggested.

Other reasons may be that medics have become more skilled at treating patients with Covid-19, patients over time have become younger with fewer underlying health conditions, or people are now suffering less severe disease.

The researchers said: “The reasons for the declining death rate in hospitals may be a combination of one or all of these factors or due to some other reason we have not considered.

“In either case, further research is warranted to understand why the hospital death rate has declined so markedly over the past eight weeks.”

That figure will presumably go down even more thanks to the dexamethasone treatment

And Boris being awesome.

https://i.imgur.com/ZfV6v1J.jpg
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.USPYGSPst0xSrLLgsinnXgAAAA%26pid%3DApi&f=

one of them is a joke Brummy stereotype performing left wing ideas purely for effect and well you know where this is going

rt this to make @baddiel’s piles flare up https://t.co/EWNujJjXAz

— Marine A. Hyde (@spagbolshevism) June 26, 2020

NEW @Survation Poll – Leadership Approval:
Johnson / Starmer
Net: +6% (+2) / +10% (-4)
Favourable 44% (+1) / 35% (-2)
Neutral 15% (-) / 30% (-1)
Unfavourable 39% (-1) / 25% (+1)

2,003 respondents, fieldwork 24-25 June 2020. Changes w/ 9-10 June 2020.
https://t.co/S0FVWD7zeD pic.twitter.com/ogwhlx6CN8

— Survation. (@Survation) June 26, 2020

oh deary me, declining approval ratings and voting intention polling, it looks like the gbp prefers their Tory cunts unreconstructed and of the straight down the line variety!

lol get fucked you coiffed boiled ham

Only getting a 1-point bump from opening the pubs seems hardly worth the deaths and long-term damage

So as it turns out Stephen Bush is taking on this role as chair on inclusivity in the Jewish community:

https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/racism-i-know-is-when-an-antisemite-sees-my-skin-and-thinks-i-share-their-repellent-views-1.500519

this thread is really getting me down today, unfortunately I live in it so no looking away.

xp wtf

...why would antisemites see black skin and think a Black person shared their antisemitism Stephen? pic.twitter.com/GIfp8iy1JM

— Your Mum says Black Lives Matter (@judeinlondon2) June 26, 2020

Only getting a 1-point bump from opening the pubs seems hardly worth the deaths and long-term damage

Good lord I've just realised they're reopening the pubs on a Saturday instead of doing the closest-to-sensible thing and opening them on a Monday or Tuesday. Whoever signed off on that really didn't think it through at all.

srsly i made the joke yesterday, it's like "if you were gonna do this inadvisable thing, what would be the worst way to go about it?"

"They're going to call it 'Super Saturday' and cause chaos" says the Mail, who *checks notes* coined it 'Super Saturday'

then again the beaches have been full of people for the same reason

Absolutely assumed they were going to go with INDEPENDENCE DAY.

I got the Stephen Bush article from that thread but didn't want to import it so much...but I was wondering why he ventured out of his usual beat -- parliamentary politics and numbers and intrigue -- to talk about AS in detail.

i'm too pished to read Stephen Bush on a Friday evening but from the clips i think there's a point there about assumed alliances/orientations?

The antisemite in question isn't necessarily black but I think he's saying that people just assume because he's black he can't also be Jewish and start trotting shit out as a result.

It's possible that with background and right amount of luck he has personally experienced less overt anti-black racism than AS over his life - I wouldn't want to assume otherwise, but it does strike me as unlikely. Columnists in general don't write headlines or have much say in that one and the choice to use that specific line feels... loaded.

https://labourlist.org/2020/06/its-time-to-reverse-ten-years-of-tory-decline-in-our-armed-forces/

lol

it takes a ration of guillotines to hold us back

in 2015 ministers pledged that the strength of the British Army would not fall below 82,000 – but numbers are down to 73,750. And they promised “to increase the Royal Nay and Royal Air Force by a total of 700 personnel” – but have instead cut the number by 1,970. Since 2010, the Conservatives have overseen the strength of British Forces drop by a quarter, with 40,000 fewer full-time troops now than ten years ago.

Pretty sure the number of Tories in the forces is up on a decade ago.

Is John Healy ex armed forces? His ugly mothrfuckin' head looks like its been napalmed to fuckery!

Absolutely assumed they were going to go with INDEPENDENCE DAY.

They did, didn't they?

if my rag-officer brother and sister-in-law and their phalanx of spam-hued facebook friends are anything to go by, 100% otm xxp

These arseholes that love to wank off the armed forces fill me with disgust, and the Labour ones are usually the worst.

I HEAR YOU BROTHER

The Labour party is now excusing comments in staff WhatsApp groups that include racism about Diane & Dawn, calling women who worked for Jeremy “fat”, “bitch face cow”, “pube head”, saying they hope Max Shanly dies in a fire & talking about not wanting labour to win the 2017 GE 🚮

— Matt Zarb-Cousin (@mattzarb) June 26, 2020

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Toby_Perkins.jpg/800px-Toby_Perkins.jpg

the current apprenticeship minister Toby Perkins, who was also lol, Corbyn's armed forces minister. I hope Starmfront has warned him about his future conduct after his history of putting out hate pamphlets that demonise the travelling communities.

Michael Winterbottom is set to direct a TV drama about Boris Johnson‘s handling of the coronavirus crisis.

To create the series, the Bafta-winning 24 Hour Party People filmmaker will team up with Freemantle, Revolution Films and True Detective production company Passenger.

The series will reportedly follow the UK Prime Minister from his appointment to office through to the thick of the pandemic, including the point in which Johnson was hospitalised after being infected with the virus.

Please just fuck off lads, people are still dying in the thousands every month because of how this health crisis is being mismanaged by the UK govt and it is probably likely to get worse again.

Interested to see the Michael Winterbottom drama about the time Michael Winterbottom is sent to the gulags for being tiresomely fascinated with the motivations of cunts being cunts.

apparently Tim Shipman has an advisory role on this dreadful looking venture. What advice could you give to an actor playing Boris when he had to go into ICU :p

Lmao worst tv drama ever. What the hell is even interesting about "Boris Johnson‘s handling of the coronavirus crisis"? He fucked up in the most undramatic way. He never went "through the thick of the pandemic": he was jolly bozzer for too long, did some press-co's, looked like an ass on zoom, had a cough for which he went to the hospital, and is back to his usual dumb self. Here's yr BAFTA.

Tbfttl he nearly died and has looked awful ever since

You'd have to pull a Braveheart and completely turn all factual accuracy upside down to squeeze any "drama" from this.

He looks like shit, I'll give you that, but "nearly died"? Nah. It was all "just a precaution nbd" remember?

Sorry I just dread the danger of potential churchillisation

that doctor did use the expression "gilding the lily somewhat" and suggested a bit of "artistic license" was taken by Boris. I don't doubt he had it, just think he was playing it much worse than he felt.

after that Theresa May flop by the bbc that seemed to be based on the presumption she was going get a mountainous landslide victory in '17 and Cumbertwat playing DomCum as a troubled genius with a lot of sharpies, don't need any more additions to this worse ever genre.

was listening to a doctor on WS earlier who specialised in viral pneumonia, he was talking about how fucking awful the rona is and how many of his patients with lung scarring are suffering worsening breathing problems months after leaving ICU. I don't don't it has fucked him up a bit, but still feel he was swinging the lead/doing a bit of political theatre - because he had fucked things up so bad.

don't don't doubt

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ebdy0XOUwAA2O6P?format=jpg&name=900x900

so this is how the Labour Party responds to internal racism/sexism bantz when the offenders are from the Tory wing of the party.

don't need any more additions to this worse ever genre

What if Winterbottom does it as a musical?

Twats?

Springtime for uhhh

Oklarona

NEW: Keir Starmer has launched a new Labour Friends of the Forces engagement programme to "open up Labour again to our armed forces": https://t.co/mw71H8lSq5

— LabourList (@LabourList) June 26, 2020