DeeTillEhDeh Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 Tui have cancelled all Turkey holidays up to 3 October and will proactively contact those meant to be travelling between 4 October and 15 October.They'll be hoping people take a voucher - I certainly would not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 (edited) 15 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: 1 hour ago, Have some faith in Magic said: If the govt knew it was a load of shite they should have been warning folk the official figures weren't worth the paper they were written on. Should have had them on the amber list at least. Wise words indeed from our resident Jason Leitch figure, who was busy telling everyone just how badly Turkey's infection control was really going just yesterday: On 30/09/2020 at 18:37, DeeTillEhDeh said: My daily Turkey report. Infection rates continue to drop - 6 out of the last 7 days - the one day it did rise (yesterday) was marginal (15 cases). Figures daily infection numbers for last 5 Wednesdays are: 30/09 - 1391 23/09 - 1767 16/09 - 1771 09/09 - 1673 03/09 - 1596 The tightening of restrictions at the start of September (and again 2 weeks later) seem to be having an effect. Edited October 1, 2020 by vikingTON 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 So no thenIf that's how you want to interpret it be my guest. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eez-eh Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 Dunno if anyone else has noticed before, but the “percentage of people who tested positive” figure looks like it’s being fudged (specifically being reported as higher than it actually is). https://www.travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker/ There were 14,316 tests yesterday - of which 6,192 were people who hadn’t been tested before, i.e. the newly tested people. Of the 14k tests, 668 were positive, therefore the +‘ve % = 668/14316 = 4.67%. For some reason however, the percentage positive is being reported as 10.8%, which as it turns out is exactly the number of positives from all tests divided only by the number of newly tested people: 668/6192 = 10.7%. Why the f**k you would take the number of positives from ALL tests and then only use a subset of said tests to work out the percentage positive is anyone’s guess. Unless there’s something I’m wildly missing it looks quite clearly like the figure is being incorrectly derived as a way of causing more panic and getting the public onboard with the re-tightening of restrictions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 Dunno if anyone else has noticed before, but the “percentage of people who tested positive” figure looks like it’s being fudged (specifically being reported as higher than it actually is). https://www.travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker/ There were 14,316 tests yesterday - of which 6,192 were people who hadn’t been tested before, i.e. the newly tested people. Of the 14k tests, 668 were positive, therefore the +‘ve % = 668/14316 = 4.67%. For some reason however, the percentage positive is being reported as 10.8%, which as it turns out is exactly the number of positives from all tests divided only by the number of newly tested people: 668/6192 = 10.7%. Why the f**k you would take the number of positives from ALL tests and then only use a subset of said tests to work out the percentage positive is anyone’s guess. Unless there’s something I’m wildly missing it looks quite clearly like the figure is being incorrectly derived as a way of causing more panic and getting the public onboard with the re-tightening of restrictions.I get what you’re saying but this business of skewing stats to make things look worse than they are doesn’t make sense, isn’t that the opposite of what politicians usually do?The question in this case is, who benefits from restrictions tighter than what are really necessary? Are they government ? If not how powerful are they for/ against the government .Find the answer to that and you’ll know why 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anotherchance Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-54375643Together with the change in tone from Vallance etc away from “we may never get a vaccine” then it’s looking like a fairly safe bet we’ll have something starting to be rolled out over the next few months. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 Tell me what other figures I could have used to make a judgement? I think for most people this has been a bolt from the blue - the truth only started to emerge late Wednesday and was not out in the public domain until midday. I have not found anything that even gave an inkling that something was not right. By the way you still haven't answered the question I asked last week. How do you screen share with a pupil that doesn't have access to a computer? Your modus operandi of hiding behind your keyboard and being an obnoxious c**t to all and sundry is just fucking tiresome. Now take your gravestone teeth and go do one. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 3 hours ago, Donathan said: Just being in the same room as someone doesn't make you a close contact. Especially a room the size of the House of Commons. But those within 2 metres of her will be told to isolate. I've visited the House of Commons. It's actually rather small. MPs don't tend to resign either. They fester on as independents until a General Election. The last MP I can remember resigning was an English Tory who disagreed with May's Brexit deal IIRC and got back in anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 8 minutes ago, tamthebam said: I've visited the House of Commons. It's actually rather small. MPs don't tend to resign either. They fester on as independents until a General Election. The last MP I can remember resigning was an English Tory who disagreed with May's Brexit deal IIRC and got back in anyway. They are not allowed to. Naughty MPs from our delightful and well-represented parliament - where every constituency from Stromness to Truro is given equal weight - has to take the Chiltern Hundreds. Obviously a fiction but a good one and one that has allowed our British democracy to flourish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 On 12/08/2020 at 23:23, Todd_is_God said: Covid is essentially over as a public health crisis in the UK, and the sooner we stop losing our minds about new cases because "Second wave" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cairn Terrier Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Looks like Todd will have plenty time to post on his return. Whoopy fucking doo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Have some faith in Magic Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 That's Donald Trump got the virus now. Let's see how this goes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 15 minutes ago, Have some faith in Magic said: That's Donald Trump got the virus now. Let's see how this goes. First positive thing to come out the White House in nearly four years, and it turns out to be a coronavirus test. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szamo's_Ammo Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 (edited) Having the virus worked out well for Boris's approval rating. In all seriousness, not a fan of Trump's politics, racism, homophobia, sexism, tax dodging or character in general but praying he pulls through. Edited October 2, 2020 by Szamo's_Ammo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hauzen Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Huge boost for the US bleach industry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 In all seriousness, not a fan of Trump's politics, racism, homophobia, sexism, tax dodging or character in general but praying he pulls through. [emoji120] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smpar Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 In 2 weeks’ time he’ll be absolutely fine and it’ll give be a convenient excuse for him to peddle the “this Chinese bug isn’t a big deal” pish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H Wragg Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Reserving judgment on Ferrier's actions til I find out who was in the chamber with herMark Francois wasn't.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 Rob Jenrick Barely hiding his smirk whilst discussing Ferrier on BBC. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven W Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 8 hours ago, anotherchance said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-54375643 Together with the change in tone from Vallance etc away from “we may never get a vaccine” then it’s looking like a fairly safe bet we’ll have something starting to be rolled out over the next few months. Why's that a local news story??? Huge, good news that (hopefully) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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