Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker/status/1264120695228940289?s=19

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On what grounds were the video deleted?

That research paper is a bit waffly isn't it? No actual description of what study was done (cohort definition, methodology etc.)

No statistics, calculation of significance values etc.

A single table of "results" quoting a sample size of 20.

Massive blocks of dense text. The first sentence of which begs the question of the importance of the immune cells they are investigating.

The paper is not in the accepted two column format for an academic submission.

It is a pre proof and as such has not received peer review, so why is it being published?

I have no idea if the man is full of shit or not, just sure that there are lots of symptoms of someone who is full of shit.

Oh and unherd.com ? Yeah.

By the way, posting as a user with no real username is another symptom of being full of shit.

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Why the fuck are you posting links to it then, given the overwhelming likelihood it's a crock of shit? Fancy providing some links to some '5G causes Covid' nutjob conspiracy sites while you're at it?

For a cycling angle on this - Ratboy Bryce just posted a hearty endorsement of Anti-Vax beliefs on his Instagram, be interesting to see how that plays with Cannondale, Santa Cruz etc.

The Cummings Durham trip and the cack-handed defence seems to be picking up some momentum. I wonder what dead cat they've got ready to deploy.

Or is this the dead cat that's distracting from something else?

I think he will go. Right wing journalists have turned on him as well .

I've trawled through some of the replies to Gove's and Sunak's sycophantic tweets attempting to defend the indefensible. People are rightly furious, there are very very few agreeing. If they keep trying to defend him I think they will all be in danger of losing any remaining credibility. Perhaps some of them will realise that and attempt to get rid of Cummings before this drags them all down.

Genuinely interesting if he does - Johnson has no desire to govern and the entire cabinet was selected for their loyalty to both Johnson and Brexit rather than any thought to their competence.

Cummings is our de-facto leader, being the hand up Johnsons arse that operates his mouth, and without him the government will be quite lost I suspect.

Could Cummings be sacked and then immediately appointed to a 55 Tufton St type sinecure that would enable him to attend all the same meetings as he does today?

Nothing would surprise me any more. They clearly no longer give a a flying fuck about maintaining any facade of decent behaviour

Problem here (ignoring whether Cummings keeps his job within government or retains his responsibilities but his wage comes from the TPA instead of the TP) is that the senior Cabinet are (right now, on Twitter) saying that Cummings was right to ignore the rules that bound the public because his care for his child over-ruled the law.

Therefore, all parents who obeyed the law are fools, or maybe they didn't love their children enough to disobey it.

And, if we get "Lockdown II, This Time It's Not Just Pensioners and BAME Dying", who the fuck is going to obey the rules when it's clear that if you believe that you have a good enough reason then you don't have too?

How can anyone say it was consistent with the guidelines with a straight face ?

I think that's why they have pivoted to "it was because he loved his child very much", as it was clearly flouting the guidelines (and, it has to be said, the law).

Massive problem that no-one will believe future rules. They've basically thrown the public health strategy under a bus to save Cummings's job.

Oh dear...

Shows how much power he has...

I'm sure the parents of Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab loved him just as much, but weren't in a position of privilege to ignore the rules and kick the doors of the hospital in and be with him in his last moments.

The whole Cummings situation makes me feel ill. Bringing children into it as a last ditch attempt to justify his actions is pathetic.
I'm certain he will get away with it despite the scrutiny of what his wife wrote in The Spectator (I'm not a subscriber so can't read the article)

Shows how much power he has...

A very worrying moment

Dominic Cummings: "Who cares about good looks?"

Everyone: "Well not you obviously, seeing how you probably have the worst dress sense in Britain."

It really does. But he also has a lot of enemies so I think this might be the end of the road for him

Well, they're not Russian to sack Cummings and put in someone else, are they? It's Dumb and Duma at the moment. To them, it's just a few Kremlins to be sorted out.