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I haven't seen something that says the signs are that there is no long term automatic immunity. They haven't seen evidence of long term immunity so far which isn't the same thing.

It's a different question from the one you originally asked. If we could guarantee that Biden was healthy, that he didn't have any cognitive impairments and that he wouldn't be incapacitated shortly after being elected then he'd probably be the better choice. It should also be hoped that he doesn't make any moves to try to appease the rabid intersectional bigots like AOC, ilhan omar et al. Seems they are voting for him regardless anyway so that's a good start.

It's not that simple and even if it were, it's a different question from the one you asked earlier.

You must have not seen that absolutely embarrassing display during the debates? If you had you wouldn't be making fun of it.

It depends what you mean by that. If Biden actually does have some form of dementia as some have suggested or is unwell to the point that he can't actually do the job then I think that's pretty awful. Something like that would be comparable to the much publicised failings of trump. Why the Democrats couldn't just get in some bog standard safeish candidate like Corey booker I'll never know.

He does have to appease a load of them in order to win though. Its why the nominees were tying themselves in knots doing things like speaking in Spanish during the campaign.

The point is its a rubbish choice which it absolutely is. Million of people in America and those are the best two candidates they can muster. It's pathetic.

I'm glad he's someobe else's problem for as long as it lasts.

Blimey. A sensible post from you that I agree with.

There is too much demand for whatever the capacity was for their online portal since they increased the criteria yesterday. It's a changing situation though isn't it.

In fact at this point why not just open the online portal up to anyone who has symptoms but hasn't had a test with priority for key workers and NHS? Seems like the logical thing to do if there really isn't the demand there.

Completely agree. Test everyone in the care sector and NHS on a regular basis and that's easily 100k a day. Then once the antibody test is available (if it ever is), certain people can get back to things with a level of certainty.

Fair enough. I was just questioning the people who were laughing at the idea of there not being too much demand. Is there demand at the rate of 100k a day for people currently displaying symptoms who haven't had a test?

The point is there isn't currently much motivation for people who may have had it a few weeks ago to get a test now because it may not even show anything other than negative the antibody test is a different thing and that's very much worth the effort.

I don't believe it would.

Isn't part of it also that it's now for people who are currently showing symptoms. So that excludes anyone who may have had symptoms and anyone not showing symptoms which maybe doesn't leave multiple thousands every single day. Maybe they should make the testing compulsory instead rather like how south Korea have done it.

Yes but how are people going to dictate to those countries that they can only have one child per family whilst others can do what they like? It's not going to happen is it.

Tbf it is a good point though. Its going to get to a point where it doesn't matter how many green policies there are, the sheer amount of people will ruin things regardless. People don't want to have that conversation though because it goes down a dark road where you either limit child numbers or talk about mass culling.

All key workers and families wasn't it?

I'm glad he isn't dead but I'm not encouraging to return on here or anything.

Good news.

Genuinely hope soggy is OK. Hasn't posted in over a month.

I already said him!

On the face of it that does seem like a really stupid and potentially deadly error.

What does passing the buck to the science even mean? They've set out the criteria that needs to be met before the lockdown is ended. Making decisions independent of the science would be incredibly dumb. It's only idiots in the media that demand an exact date for things.