Downing Street Briefing Today Sinks To New Low.

[needawin]

People of a certain age will remember a series of black and white comedy films starring 3 hapless characters namely, " The Three Stooges".
Today we had a remake on the Downing Street briefing.
We had Robotic Rabb, yes minister Jenny Harries and a bottom of the barrel reasonably new to the screens Professor Ian Diamond.
We got the usual prattle from Rabb followed by the mind numbing data and 5 tests from Jenny Harries.
We got the R value treatment with figures from Rabb which unfortunately did not agree with the figures from the Professor.
Prof gave an R value between .5 and .9 but when asked to define and elaborate 4 times by two different people he refused to answer and retreated behind a wall of mumbo jumbo. This man is the Government chief statistician so that explains a lot.
Prof thinks there is not a lot of difference between .5 and .9
Would be a vast difference if you were paying for your central heating oil!
Today was the day that legally the Government had to announce the further restrictions for the public. No such luck. Sunday will do said Rabb echoing Boris.
Testing failed to reach the target again but that's ok as Jenny explained it was due to a technical glitch. From the book of excuses no doubt.

[Zacs-Master]

You still think the R figures are accurate then, ff?

[fiction-factory]

Yes I accept they are in the range 0.7-0.9 overall with figure at the lower end , maybe 0.6 even in London and higher in care homes and hospitals (maybe 1). Most countries seem to have similar figures.
Better than just looking at the death figures and saying 'okay, looks safe to start having crowded trains, parties, football, school, again

[Zacs-Master]

Another reason the R figure is inaccurate is that, the CV gene is mutating:
https://uk.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-evolution/genetic-mutation-study-finds-new-coronavirus-spread-swiftly-in-late-2019-idUKL8N2CO3G1

[youngmafbog]

This is now becoming increasingly like an exercise in how to control the population.

Figures manipulated, those that make the rules flouting them, secret meetings and the three stooges. I thought we were in lockdown to protect the NHS, or so they keep banging on, but the Nightingale hospitals are empty so lift the 'lockdown' and let us move forward. There is no Vaccine and unlikely to be one so all we are doing now is trashing the economy where the rich will get ever more richer and powerful and the rest will be put back in their place. Perhaps that is what they are after?

Unless there is an economic miracle I predict Boris is leading the Tories to an even more historic loss than Mr Corbyn experienced.

[fiction-factory]

Trouble is, the other parties don't want to lift lockdown yet ,ymb, so who would you vote for?

[Zacs-Master]

Meanwhile, the much lauded Germany reports on actual figures!
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-germany-estimates/german-study-suggests-infections-are-10-times-the-number-of-confirmed-cases-idUKKBN22G1C7

[ToraToraTora]

so every single German has been tested Zacs?