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And here is the founder of the KBF movement
https://twitter.com/simondolan/statu...76971009044480
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OECD healthcare spending Expenditure on healthcare http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm link is 2015 data (2013 Data below): UK 8.5% of GDP of which 83.3% is public expenditure - 7.1% of GDP is public spending US 16.4% of GDP of which 48.2% is public expenditure - 7.9% of GDP is public spending |
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OECD healthcare spending Expenditure on healthcare http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm link is 2015 data (2013 Data below): UK 8.5% of GDP of which 83.3% is public expenditure - 7.1% of GDP is public spending US 16.4% of GDP of which 48.2% is public expenditure - 7.9% of GDP is public spending |
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Oh absolutely. But the server side aspect is (relatively) tiny; it's orders of magnitude less than a client-server architecture would need. Most of it is off-the-shelf WIS, hosted on Google/Apple cloud platforms.
That said modification has happened for NI (ongoing), Gibraltar (operational), Scotland (planning) and Wales (talks) |
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I did state I didn’t know how the Irish tech worked. Thanks for the detailed explanation, appreciated. I see it is very different. You do get used to what you use. There’s also an interesting difference between East and West to be examined there in terms of role of state vs individual.
So if it were to be available in the App Store for the UK, without UK or devolved Government co-operation, the anonymous notification should still work, just the bit involving the HSE wouldn’t. Or I suppose it might, but it would be at discretion of the Irish Government which presumably wouldn’t want to do it. In which case, if you got a big enough group of people using it, it could be very helpful. |
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According to the Sunday Times rich list he is worth Ł200m. So of course he needed crowd funding of 200k for his legal challenge.
Does he think COVID and coronavirus are unrelated? Actually, forget I asked. I see from the comments that people are quoting AIDS deniers in support of their argument. |
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The UK Home Affairs Committee, a cross party group of MPs, has claimed that the government made serious errors when it came to UK border policy in the early days of the pandemic.
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KBF?
Kayak Bass Fishing? (Yes, that's pretty much the first thing that came up) ETA: Ah! Keep Britain Free! (From one of jimbob's posts on the US covid thread). |
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I expect there's at least one or two of them who were members of the Revolutionary Communist Party and/or contributors to Spiked (though they are, frankly, one and the same thing), so I wouldn't be surprised to see them on QT...
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Sounds like they'd fit well with the elderly lunatic in 2014 who stood up and exhorted everyone to vote against Scotland's independence "in the name of Jesus!" The QT people were tweeting about what wonderful TV he was, instead of being thoroughly embarrassed.
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Uncomfortable forecasts/predictions about Coronavirus this winter in Wales.
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Planning? What's that?
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In this case it's the Welsh government so there is at least some hope that there's some actual planning going on such as:
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I'm reading that virtually none of the returnees from abroad who are supposed, suddenly, to be quarantining are actually being checked to see they are where they're supposed to be. The Telegraph describes it as 'a shambles' .
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Our friends who came back from Ibiza 30 minutes after quarantine was imposed have been left to their own devices. Fortunately they have taken their responsibilities seriously and not left their home - in part because of a local support network of friends and neighbours who can run errands and do shopping for them.
Their 18 month old springer spaniel isn't happy. He'll enjoy his first walkies on Sunday. |
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Aberdeen went back into partial lockdown about ten minutes ago. Apparently some pubs in the city centre were "heaving" earlier in the afternoon with people desperate to get in some last drinking before the deadline (announced at lunchtime). This is probably a new gold standard for "brain dead".
Next time this happens they probably won't give any warning at all, just drink up and get out. |
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I was about to link that thread
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Ah, the misogynist fox-murderer. I need to open a private browsing window, he blocked me. Nasty piece of work but clever with it.
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The sole thing I can find from googling is an incident where he posted in support of a transgender athlete competing in women's rugby,* and some people objected to that. Given Rolfe's views on transgender people (which this is not the thread for discussion of), this seems like it fits.
Certainly, anything else a search of his name and that term brings up is either seemingly entirely unrelated, his speaking out against misogyny, or him defending himself from accusations of misogyny for believing that trans women should be able to compete in women's sports - that defence even taking the form of posting a long list of the ways he has and continues to work for women's rights. *https://twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/st...799042?lang=en
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True, I remember the Good Old Days of DB2 on VMS, managed via DCL. It worked. In fact for a few clients it still works it's just bloody difficult to connect it to anything created after about 1990.
That would be an ecumenical matter.... Eh, I believe the app won't actually install but don't quote me on that. Certainly the data management could be handled in the same way, by the same people, as for the Irish users. But that is a large can of scorpions AFAIK the versions for Gib, NI, Scotland (et cetera) will be modded to use those states' procedures. Indeed. I rather think a decentralised app with centralised, Europe-wide handling would have been far better. But then compared to the UK's "world leading" track and trace a chimp with a phone book from 2018 would be more effective. |
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It's a serious issue. Ear loops will only hold a mask loosely across your face. OK for a surgical mask or something to be worn to go to the shops ("my mask protects you" and so on), but a respirator mask must fit tightly to your face so the only air comes in the filter. That means elastic straps behind the head that you can pull tight when you put the mask on.
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