Isn’t that the point of this forum?☺️

Victor Gao - Vice President , centre of China and Globalisation denies his country tried to cover up the virus 

Claims ever since the discovery of this " strange pneumonia " December 27th 2019  China moved into action and on December 31st China contacted WHO - from then on China worked tirelessly ( first week in January ) to find out what happened 

No cover up he says 

" USA , wasted February and March doing nothing and need to be investigated " …………..he goes on to rant 

wot - constant troublemaking, John?

Roger

Breakdown of the 370 new hospital deaths in England by date

• 75 on May 1st
• 149 on April 30th
• 52 on April 29th
• 85 between April 1st and April 28th
• 9 in March with one on March 13th

It's like a little riddle isn't it?

What has the potential to destroy the NHS and preferentially harms the old, the sick, the poor and ethnic minorities?

Today, the answer is covid-19 but if you'd asked the question 12 months ago you might have got an entirely different answer.

The rate of coronavirus-related deaths in Lincolnshire is three times lower than the England and Wales average, according to new research.

Figures released today show that the county has recorded 11 coronavirus-related deaths per 100,000 people in the population.

Nationally, that number stands at 36.

It's also been revealed Boston recorded the highest number with 22 deaths per 100,000. But West Lindsey had the lowest at just four.

Roger

LOL

I think we're at risk of slipping into the Monty Python Argument sketch here.

TBH attitudes like that are best left behind in the Young Conservatives. Most of us become a bit more nuanced in our views of others as we age.  

Urgh I had a mucocele once. Inside bottom lip. Would fill up and become quite big after draining...it was rinse repeat. Luckily it disappeared on it's own after about 1-2 months. 

We've had figures from Gavin D for both Wales and England, but not Scotland or NI.

Look forward to getting that from the guy that provides us with this every day 

1,129,907 tests now conducted (105,937 yesterday)

182,206 positive tests (4,806 yesterday)

14,695 people in hospital (down 399)

28,131 have died (621 recorded yesterday)

Johnson and his partner have named their son after their two grandfathers and "Nicholas" after the two doctors that "saved his life" both called "Nick". 

I wonder how keen he would have been to name him "Adebola" and "Sanjay" if he'd been in an ICU in our local hospital in Essex? 

The government will release a series of papers next week outlining its approach on how to safely and gradually restart the economy.

Back to work guidelines you might have to speak and or work back to back if 2 metres can’t be observed 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52496636

Daily slides

Transport

New cases

Hospitals

Critical care beds

All settings deaths with the rolling average

Sorry I went to bed early last night very interesting read

http://miltonwainwright.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Hitlers-Penicillin.pdf

Mr Perfect - you should write a book , no doubt be a best seller 

Some people drink and smoke for all sorts of different reasons and haven't got the mental strength to just flick the switch , It's not good to be so judgemental , everyone is different .

Its interesting to look at how COVID is affecting this forum.

My posting output is fairly constant, fluctuates a bit (with the seasons especially) but not a huge amount. For the last few years I've been pretty much always in the 3-6th position for monthly posting total and quite rarely outside of that (in either direction). During COVID however I've struggled to make the top 10 (my posting output hasn't changed). One small positive to take from this is that TWO is alot more active than it usually is at one of the less active parts of the year.

UK data

• Tests - 105,937
• People tested - 63,667
• Positive tests - 4,806

Confirmed rate is 7.55% - The lowest since around March 19th

So what you're saying is it is a lab-created virus, Brian created it because he knew we'd discuss it over thousands of pages on the forums and significantly drive up site traffic and revenue? 

Oh, so the allegations by certain people that the transport chart had been omitted because ‘lots of people were driving again’ was the usual b****ks 

We needed something post-Brexit 

Can see the datasets by going to the link below and clicking on them.

Thursday 2nd April had 35% of normal traffic, Thursday 30th April had 42% of normal traffic. Not that much of a rise but the extra 7% is 20% of the 35% (if that makes sense).

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/slides-and-datasets-to-accompany-coronavirus-press-conference-2-may-2020

Roads in urban areas are probably not much less busy than normal in places (maybe about 60%) but this is balanced out by the motorways. I went over the M4 on my bike on my daily exercise the other weekend and it was virtually empty.

I'm assuming this chart is measured by miles travelled, and journeys on average must be considerably shorter.

It was only missing for one day as well as far as I remember.