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I think you misunderstand me I wasn't criticising the Tories and just point outing that if it's spreading P2P then school closures are effective, I'm sure they're taking advice from whoever they should be and trying to the make an evidence based strategy that is not going to sow more panic.

All the data from previous pandemics shows early closure of schools is absolutely the most effective way of slowing down transmission. Unfortunately mum and dad both go to work now, who will look after the children.

Sam Harris has put out two very informative podcasts in the last 48 hours, listened to them both last night in a bout of insomnia. The latter had some positive news based on the country with the best testing (South Korea, they have drive through testing) the death rate is only 0.6% (6 times worse than the most recent bad flu case) Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, where he directs the Human Nature Lab and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. https://samharris.org/podcasts/190-respond-coronavirus/ Amesh Adalja, MD, is an infectious disease specialist at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security. https://samharris.org/podcasts/191-early-thoughts-pandemic/

Very idealistic Michael, majority of money comes from the TV so think the show will go on regardless.

Have a look at that dashboard, really puts Europe into perspective.

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1OyQLmmffhosoZ9t3ur05sof0DpgMjeyYqcmS2fgHIoBwoovbrcVOfaII#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Who is all wrong? Your post, after saying saying Trump is just trying to protect the economy actually highlights why his tweets are so irresponsible. Let's keep in mind he has the absolute best reporting and intelligence supplying him information and he's still showing zero understanding of the situation. One thing is sure, we're having a global recession and this is going to get much worse before it gets better.

This is the prime difference between the right and the left, the left organise marches and carry placards. The right (who are also often rural) get into positions of power and stack the system in their favour. Not sure I agree she is a bad candidate on account of her not winning when they are purging the electoral roll of people who would vote for her but lets just agree to disagree.

Trump seems to think he can stop the virus by denying it's an issue. Bizarre and irresponsible carry on, Republicans can get it too.

You keep saying she didn't do particularly well but have you looked at the numbers? Now look at 2014 23% increase in voter turnout, if I had to guess I'd say she mobilised both sides. One side maybe out of spite. with only 50k votes in it, I would say it definitely affected the outcome. “Kemp’s actions during the election were textbook voter suppression. His actions were strategic, careless and aimed at silencing the voting power of communities of color in the state.” Consider these numbers. • In the three months leading up to election day, more than 85,000 voters were purged from rolls under Kemp. During 2017 668,000 voters were purged, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. GOP stole it, no wonder she refused to concede.

Oh right, that's why I was confused I would have thought most people with a vague interest in politics would know who the minority leader was in their own state. (I know my own, not so much the other states) She actually did considerably better than previous democratic candidates with a 5% swing to her, from what I've read you have issues with voter suppression and she ran a very effective campaign to combat it. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/stacey-abrams-census-voting-rights-vice-president-953173/

Obviously planning to defeat this virus with cups of tea.

Sorry I'm confused, do you live in Georgia?

I just went to buy a red capsicum, the entire toilet paper aisle was desolate. Same with the pasta and pasta sauce aisle.

Toilet paper update https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-07/two-women-brawl-in-supermarket-over-toilet-paper/12036218

My old man did the same after visiting Indonesia, have to say I also prefer it.

Not sure I've seen much "hype" about her so to speak, but do you think narrowly losing a gubernatorial campaign makes her less qualified for the VP spot somehow? I would have thought if she won, then that would definitely would have ruled her out, historically (this time might be slightly different with the pushing 80's candidates?) it's a bit of a nothing position and largely symbolic. Like Mark said from a base mobilisation perspective she ticks a few boxes.

All I know about Abrams is from watching her State of the Union response and reading her Wiki's but she only just missed out on being the first African American Governor by a gnats chuff and has been a legislator since 2007 so on the balance I think just as strong as Harris. It's been fairly ordinary rich white men all the way back on that measure these two are both over qualified IMO. This is heart breaking, but also could be a positive. https://fortune.com/2018/04/24/stacey-abrams-debt-georgia-governor/

Its bizarre, I am yet to find a reason why people think toilet paper will be in short supply.

I have no idea why but in Australia it's toilet paper. https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/everyone-has-just-gone-a-little-bit-crazy-australias-toilet-roll-panic/news-story/25c4ccd2a27e8f90d9474955e94deb4d

Interesting piece in Quillette, Bill Gates has been sounding the alarm about a situation like this for a while. https://quillette.com/2020/03/03/dealing-with-a-once-in-a-century-pathogen/

If he wants to make sure everyone turns out it's one down from Biden Sanders lol All solid picks in terms of succession planning, I think everyone should be able to agree there's no way Biden can do 8 years.

He has the best ideas. Flu Vaccine.