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

If there's one thing I've learned about home pulsox testing over the last year or so of having a good record of mine, is that ita not a very useful metric by itself.. I sometimes score low nineties when I have a cold but also scored a 99% on the day I was diagnosed (by chest xray) with pneumonia last year.

Traffic on our road is back up to normal levels today, the 4pm to 7pm rush hour is back. Sigh.

So Hancock looking particularly sweaty and nervous in today’s briefing. Turns out afterwards he’d forgot to add on 400 odd extra deaths when he was trumpeting today’s figures. Honest mistake I’m sure on today of all days...

Coming back to Sweden there seems to be wildly contradictory reporting in the press as to whether their strategy has mitigated the worst of Covid. The indie and Wired are excoriating the strategy as a failure, with the telegraph painting a very different picture. The independent's graphs seemnto contradict the thrust of their own argument.
A delve into twitter shows even more polarised views. Loath to link to the various graphs due to the nature of social media.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-lockdown-sweden-death-rate-worst-country-covid-19-a9539206.html?amp

Totally dead for me while cycling round West London. Mrs Sifta said same. Don't see any reason to believe anecdotal evidence over cellphone/GPS data government show every teatime though.

This Cummings/ planning permission/ council tax story is not being picked up. Any ideas why?

It's really hard to prove it conclusively and therefore it might not be as simple as that or even true?

I cycled from Plumstead to Fitzrovia with a few detours around the West End and it was quiet
everywhere. Just a massive queue in front of the IKEA in Greenwich at 7.30pm.
Oh and a soundbite I picked up from a guy on the phone in front of the Tate Modern
"only 100.000? I lost over a million quid" and he didn't sound to concerned.

Has someone applied for title register to confirm it is his 2nd home?

Although I think the government lockdownEZE fast forward has done its job of distracting or at least trying to move the blame onto the population for not following the government easing rulez... instead of not following the lockdown rules

I was wondering about that, too. Possibilities, in order of likelihood, include that there may not be mileage in it because the infringement may have been committed by his father; journalists may be checking the documents referred to independently of the blogger, and it takes time to get them; the blogger may have made a mistake; there may be legal technicalities/loopholes that were exploited so that legal advice is required over any story. I think the first is the most likely, and the last the least likely, but you never know. I can't imagine that there won't be at least some reporting on it at some point.

There's also a big story happening in the states.

Has someone applied for title register to confirm it is his 2nd home?

Someone has checked the Land Registry title. That won't tell you whether or not it's his second home, merely that he's one of the registered owners. Similarly, the absence of planning permission may be easily explicable. The additional building may have been built for agricultural purposes, in which case it wouldn't have needed planning permission, and then converted into a dwelling under Part Q permitted development, which wouldn't have needed planning permission either.

Yeh and Government now using that as a reason not to publish a report in to the risk's to BAME community
https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1267568553177288710

Ah yes, so would you suspect it's most likely a non-story?

Based on what I've seen so far, it doesn't seem that interesting to me. Might be a bit of legal tax planning involved, perhaps some careful use of permitted development rights, but nothing that would get me particularly outraged.

It’s that deadly combination of technical, boring, borderline invasive and inconclusive. And only tangentially related to the original story.

Bit of a turn off for the readers I would have thought. Sure if you hate Cummings then fill ya boots. Doubt many editors will die on a hill to give it oxygen.

It was very noticeable yesterday and we were wondering why - we're unfortunately a rat run between Lower Clapton Road and Chatsworth Road, all through lockdown we haven't had that evening rat run traffic, until last night. But we're just one road, so yeah.

I was wondering about that, is the Google data freely available on a reasonably up-to-date basis?

Ah right, so a bit neaueanced then.

big groups of young men (demographically most likely to not follow the guidance according to various police forces, and also of course most likely to get caught up in gangs)

Colored folk

Just a massive queue in front of the IKEA in Greenwich at 7.30pm

Interesting

I was planning a last minute cycle over there last night, glad I didn't.

OliverSchick in 4...3....2....1.....

It's about a week old here
https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
It only goes down to City level though

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/downing-street-press-conferences-weekend-low-ratings_uk_5ed63cf6c5b6ef31834e37bc

Boris not pulling a big enough crowd on weekends, so briefings only to be on weekdays now

Yeh and Government now using that as a reason not to publish a report in to the risk's to BAME community

It's out now.

https://twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1267792785257758720?s=19

Celebrity edition at weekends could have worked.