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Another for the jab, am going to try and get the pfizer one.

Ffs, just get a jab when you are called. Compared with the massive benefits between having a jab, and not having a jab, the differences between vaccines are both marginal, and also no where near as clear cut as seems to be portrayed.

Both my parents have been inoculated, and tbh, I haven't even bothered to check which one they are having. We are lucky, my wife's parents have no chance of getting a vaccine this year, they need to wait until the rich countries have fed from the trough!

Yes, sorry I realised that and tried to edit it, but can't seem to change the reply to without deleting and re-posting, you've shown me up as being too lazy to fix my mistakes.

I am assuming they are the lateral flow tests which tend to miss quite a big amount of positive cases?

Lateral Flow Tests missing a large number of positive cases is not necessarily negative.

Lateral flow tests and PCR tests are very different tools for very different scenarios. PCR are good to spot that you have had the virus, but will still return positive long after you are no longer infectious. Lateral Flow Tests are a better indicator of infectiousness.

I've found some of the stuff Tom Chivers, and Tim Harford have written on this subject very informative

https://twitter.com/TomChivers
https://twitter.com/BBCMoreOrLess
https://unherd.com/2021/01/what-covid-tests-can-we-trust/

Found out about this vaccine study needing volunteers 6 days ago, and responded (The study is for people aged 50+). Got my first injection today. They aren't hanging about.

I think UCLH are still recruiting, and they are especially interested in BAME applicants.

https://comcovstudy.org.uk/participate

Injection tmrw, am expecting all the tireds.

Not necessarily, I had the flu jab before Christmas, with no adverse reaction at all.

Today I had the Covid Vaccine, also no reaction (So far).

Now do I switch over to Evans v Norrie, or watch the mopping up?

I can slightly understand being a bit cautious with Kholi, but the respect being paid to Ashwin with 250 needed from less than 2 sessions is baffling. Not that I still don't think that its just a matter of time.

Confused about the relatively defensive fields, now that India have no real chance of a win.

Feel sorry for those people who set their alarms for 6:40, at this rate the best they can hope for is watching the mopping up.

WOW!!

Need time for coffee making and ablutions

It will be NZ against either India or England based on the standings.

Actually, its a 3 way split.

If England win 3 tests they are through.

If India win the series AND win 2 tests (1 - 0, or 2 -2 do not cut it) they are through.

Otherwise Australia play NZ

tbh, my money is on the Aussies.

@mespilus In my experience, its pretty much ubiquitous, and there is generally a very limited choice. Don't expect to see Cobra unless you're journeying to the mystic parts of Stockport.

And I'd happily reciprocate

We don't agree. As always I'd prefer to be discussing this in a bar (Preferably in Chennai), rather than on-line. In other worlds, taking a wicket through spin in the 6th over suggests this debate has legs.

Can't remember the last time I was 100% certain about anything! (But then I'm getting on in years)

So you think the World Test Championship is not in Root's thoughts at all?

TBH, as an England supporter, I'd kinda hoped it'd be on his radar.

Agree it's odd, but it must be the plan.

In June I was defending the government's covid strategy with those very words

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90 overs a day, always get 2 balls.

In any case bleeding away wickets a 2 an over at this stage of the game is not optimal.

Seriously? I'd assumed that the target for the England team would to be crowned no 1 in the world? Tbh, the only way to find out would be to ask him and hope he told the truth.

That's the balancing act that is cricket, and generally I'd agree, but in this special case we have to win 3 out of 4 matches. A loss is actually no worse than a draw in this case.

Im consumed by an inexplicable desire to buy some ACC cement.

Totally get you, having followed England in India before now, I was amazed about the desire to sell you either concrete, or a motorbike!

Declaring later means the ball is still hard tomorrow

But we should still be trying to move the score along with 4 wickets in hand.

can someone ELI5 to me why what england are doing is wrong and bad

Its a trade off, we have to take 10 Indian wickets to win the game.

On the other hand India have to score more than (currently) 387. There are 3.x sessions left (x is around 8).

4 sessions is more often than not sufficient to bowl a team out in their last innings, 100 runs per session is not an unobtainable amount of runs

Its a balancing act. But also the longer a test match goes, in general the harder it is to score, given the deterioration of the pitch. If we declare now we should win, but Bangladesh thought exactly the same 2 days ago and came unstuck!

Btw I have Scottish ancestors,and after time even I managed to understand cricket to some extent.