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Christ, imagine if Raab becomes PM.

Coupled with Trump’s insular world view and infantile selfishness, another four years of him and their global status is certainly diminished.

Great day.

I knobbed a bird in a Saints shirt.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/25/uk-coronavirus-policy-scientific-dominic-cummings?CMP=share_btn_tw A view on the government's misguided dallying (if that's what it was). Will be interesting to see how things go in Sweden which seems even more relaxed than our government was.

If you've recovered you probably aren't contagious any more. The virus can live on hands for a while but not indefinitely. You may now have immunity. That's certainly the hope, but the science is currently inconclusive.

Hang in there mate. The numbers are on your side. You might have already had it and recovered!

Abortion is the green choice. Save the planet.

We’re going to see people dying in hospital corridors, much like in Italy and Spain. The government had a couple of weeks to try to get on top of it but dithered with the idiotic “we’ll do something at the right time” mantra and have singularly failed to test and trace or to send clear messaging to the public.

I suppose the good thing about Trump dishing out ignorant and dangerous medical advice is that the only people stupid enough to believe him are likely to vote for him.

Apparently Sports Direct is claiming to be "essential". Is this right?

The Dell.

Not too busy to post on SaintsWeb but too busy to post anything sensible?

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2058116-la-peste Something to do if you're bored.

Hope it all goes well. Best wishes.

"A 2018 survey revealed that more than 78% of Belgian couples openly practice wife swapping, a cultural trait that became common practice in the 19th century under the rule of King Leopold II." Is this right? Asking for a friend.

Luxembourg looks ****ed.

Yes, speaking to my friend yesterday and his parents live in France - they need the bit of paper too. I've just heard on the radio that in London and Manchester, public transport is operating at 35% of typical volumes still. In Paris, Madrid etc. it is more like 0 - 5%. To be honest, I'm not sure case rates are particularly relevant due to the differences in testing rates from country to country. The key metric is death rate and we look to be mirroring Italy fairly closely on that. Of course Italy did impose quarantine on some towns quite quickly, whereas we have not so I would not be surprised if our death trajectory ends up being steeper than theirs.

The FT had some graphs showing death rates by country. Our trajectory, time adjusted, is at least as steep as Italy's. Same in the US and lots of other countries. Whilst the government's financial measures are being praised now, the two-week "contain and delay" phases before anyone actually bothered doing anything useful to try to stop this may end up looking like tragic folly (but they certainly won't be alone in that).

High quality private healthcare?

Italy apparently does post-mortem Covid-19 tests and if the test is positive then Covid-19 is the recorded cause of death. Apparently other countries don’t do that - Germany, perhaps - so if you die before you’ve been tested then no one knows if you had it or not and it won’t be recorded as the cause of death. Not sure what the best approach is but consistency would be useful.

#stablegenius

Friends are just a social construct, man. **** the system!

What was funny was someone sending clips of the Italian balcony singers to Cheryl Cole and telling her they were signing "Fight for this love" and her believing it.