Slow news day? The real deal? End of the world? 
 

They’re saying it probably came from an animal, has Somebody been shagging monkeys again? 

1 minute ago, Mr Grey said:

Just seen the bit on sky news of how they and what they do. So it is standard practice with any vaccine?

A lot of them end up not working or having side effects so the more options you have the better. Ultimately it comes down to money, which is driven by demand. Who ever makes the best one for this is going to be mega rich. What usually happens is several safe but not so effective vaccines are developed first, and then they get refined and developed to be more effective with less side effects. 

Just now, Mr Grey said:

That makes sense, obviously we wouldn't be interested in this if it wasn't for this virus and lockdown.

If you are interested in the science, have a look here

https://www.sciencemag.org/tags/coronavirus

3 hours ago, boltondiver said:

Figures from the first antibody tests showing that up to 50 times the number who knew they had the virus

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Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – Timothy Russel, Joel Hellewell, Sam Abbott and others – reach similar conclusions about the UK and Australia via a different method.¹⁵ They estimate the degree to which countries’ confirmed cases may underestimate total symptomatic cases by applying the case fatality rate (we explain this metric in detail here) observed in large studies in China and South Korea to data on the number of COVID-19 deaths in countries around the world.

They estimate that in Australia the number of confirmed cases reflect more than three quarters of the total number of symptomatic cases in the country. For the UK, they estimate that confirmed cases represent less than one in twenty symptomatic cases.¹⁶

As such, the gap between the UK and Australia in terms of the true number of infections is likely to be far higher than that indicated by their confirmed cases.

The intuition behind these researchers’ estimates is that where the number of confirmed cases looks low against the number of deaths, this is a clear indication that the true number of cases is likely to be much, much higher. But the fundamental reason for this is the limited extent of testing.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus#what-can-data-on-testing-tell-us-about-the-pandemic

Even without antigen testing these researchers estimated that with 100k positive tests in the UK there were 20 times as many who had had it, so 2 million.  

 

 

28 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

Yeah your right, sorry. Bloodyhell!

I'm only being a bell! 

1 minute ago, kent_white said:

I'm only being a bell! 

 

How’s things at Bolton?

The missus has just come home and told us the dickhead of a doctor who coughed and spluttered on her during yesterday's shift (who was sent home after being called a dickhead repeatedly) has tested positive. Dickhead is a doctor and knew the signs but felt OK and wanted to help. Dickhead.

Brother in law who’s a scientist applied for a grant to research into the corona virus and it’s just been granted, he is based in Salt Lake, if I hear anything interesting I’ll share it on here. 

Edited April 17, 20206 yr by Mounts Kipper

7 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

Aye definitely a dickhead

The missus is fiery and her boss was scared to tell her. To be fair to her she has took it in her stride and she expects to get it anyway but he is still a dickhead and always shall be.

We both have mild asthma but well controlled, hoping we skip the worst of the symptoms. 

47 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

The missus has just come home and told us the dickhead of a doctor who coughed and spluttered on her during yesterday's shift (who was sent home after being called a dickhead repeatedly) has tested positive. Dickhead is a doctor and knew the signs but felt OK and wanted to help. Dickhead.

The NHS is far from immune from dickheads sadly!

33 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

The missus is fiery and her boss was scared to tell her. To be fair to her she has took it in her stride and she expects to get it anyway but he is still a dickhead and always shall be.

We both have mild asthma but well controlled, hoping we skip the worst of the symptoms. 

I thought they were ok to be honest............oops, I thought you said The Simpsons. 

 

Hope you and your much better half are ok pal 👍🙏

 

 

https://twitter.com/SalfordRoyalNHS/status/1251113297530818561?s=20

Slipped up badly here. Mrs brought home some of this malt loaf t'other day.

Didn't realise it was from Neville's cronies. 

☹

1 hour ago, RoadRunnerFan said:

https://twitter.com/SalfordRoyalNHS/status/1251113297530818561?s=20

Slipped up badly here. Mrs brought home some of this malt loaf t'other day.

Didn't realise it was from Neville's cronies. 

☹

Rule 3 in life. Never turn down malt loaf.

And, apart from the obvious, Neville is alright.

Just now, mickbrown said:

Rule 3 in life. Never turn down malt loaf.

And, apart from the obvious, Neville is alright.

😮

Just now, TroySwoosh said:

😮

I did say apart from the obvious!

Honest, I quite like the bloke

I'm in the process of cleansing my innards of said malt loaf with alcohol. 

Neville is a weapons grade cnut.

And it must be said that I tend to be in broad agreement with you on most issues Mick. In spite of any opprobrium this may attract. 

Just now, RoadRunnerFan said:

I'm in the process of cleansing my innards of said malt loaf with alcohol. 

Neville is a weapons grade cnut.

And it must be said that I tend to be in broad agreement with you on most issues Mick. In spite of any opprobrium this may attract. 

Ha!!

Malt loaf is perhaps the most vile of all northern food stuffs

Edited April 18, 20206 yr by Sweep

20 minutes ago, Sweep said:

Make loaf is perhaps the most vile of all northern food stuffs

Make loaf, not war

1 hour ago, Sweep said:

Make loaf is perhaps the most vile of all northern food stuffs

People who eat malt loaf probably eat Turkish delight and Parma violets

Deviants.

Lobby 

It looks like sick and smells like a mixture of sick and steaming BO 🤢

4 minutes ago, Rudy’s Message said:

People who eat malt loaf probably eat Turkish delight and Parma violets

Deviants.

Turkish delight is shit but the other two are tremendous

Just now, frank_spencer said:

Turkish delight is shit but the other two are tremendous

No, you’re wrong. Rudy is bang on with all 3. 
 

All of them are sociopath foods.

Turkish delight is nice

2 minutes ago, Morizio said:

Turkish delight is nice

Lunatic 

10 hours ago, mickbrown said:

I did say apart from the obvious!

Honest, I quite like the bloke

Ditto.