Topic: CORONAVIRUS 2020: RHYTHM OF THE DEATH III

[Zetetic]

Mmm. It looks to me that daily reported deaths continues to be fairly flat across the four nations[1] for the last week or so (bearing in mind stuff like the weekend dips). (Could be down to local hospitalisation capacity limits, I have wondered.)

1.	Although I confess I pay little attention to England.

[olliebean]

Could also be down to the figures being desperately massaged to keep them below 1000/day.

[Zetetic]

By who? Where in the processes across the four nations, who are all showing vaguely similar patterns[1]?

1.	Looking at a 7-day rolling sum

[weekender]

Aldi are making everyone use trolleys instead of baskets.  I don't really see how this helps.

[Dewt]

Pretty obvious, you don't have to lick the trolleys like you do with baskets.

[NoSleep]

Aldi are making everyone use trolleys instead of baskets.  I don't really see how this helps.

If it's anything like what I've seen in the Co-op and Waitrose I've used since lockdown, it's cleaning them between each use by customers.

[Zetetic]

Following up chveik's posts, HSJ has also been emphasising the discrepancy in international comparisons:
https://www.hsj.co.uk/coronavirus/government-has-misled-public-over-uk-deaths-being-lower-than-france/7027404.article

[BlodwynPig]

Could also be down to the figures being desperately massaged to keep them below 1000/day.

That was my thinking.

[weekender]

If it's anything like what I've seen in the Co-op and Waitrose I've used since lockdown, it's cleaning them between each use by customers.

Yeah, they're not doing that in my local Aldi though.

This was basically "Leave a trolley behind for the next person after you who doesn't have a pound coin, but you must use a trolley".

[jobotic]

So Hancock sends people from hospitals to care homes with no testing.

This is all deliberate isn't it? Cummings should be hanging from a lamp post or at least spending the rest of his repulsive life in a cell.

But he's not, he's waltzing in and out of No 10 and no one in our media has a word to say about it. Murder before their very eyes and they pretend not to see it.

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I did have the very dark thought that knowing care home deaths weren't recorded in the official figures they might see a way to massage the figures.

As a non-psychopath I obviously dismissed that thought as far too awful for anyone to contemplate.

[Abnormal Palm]

Edit: I can't get into it, but I don't believe there's a conspiracy as much as lag.

[Zetetic]

Again, not least because where you be prosecuting it?

Scotland's disparity is at least as huge:
https://twitter.com/VictimOfMaths/status/1250489805777055744

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It's more likely the same half-arsed, poorly thought out bungling we've seen since this thing kicked off, yes.
   

[olliebean]

Aldi are making everyone use trolleys instead of baskets.  I don't really see how this helps.

I think it's because it forces people to stay at least the length of a trolley apart from each other. (Assuming it's like my local Aldi where there isn't room for two trolleys to pass in the aisles.)

[Dewt]

No, it's because of lick-basket-lick.

[BlodwynPig]

I think it's because it forces people to stay at least the length of a trolley apart from each other. (Assuming it's like my local Aldi where there isn't room for two trolleys to pass in the aisles.)

No understanding of particle physics, cuh!

[Darles Chickens]

Someone on Facebook has just shared the following image, as if to make some kind of point:



What point has he made, other than to demonstrate that he's a giant bulb?

[Butchers Blind]

That abortion figure, is that fetuses or women?

[Darles Chickens]

Worldometers currently has the data as "12,332,524 Abortions this year".  So, I presume, the former.

This guy is a Trump supporting, British Tory guy running a bar for Brits in Spain, who voted Brexit.  I don't think he believes in Covid-19 either.

[JamesTC]

All deaths are kind of abortion in a way.

[BlodwynPig]

All deaths are ultimately necessary

[idunnosomename]

ive squashed more red spider mites in my childhood than the covid death toll in the last 24 hours. let that sink in

[EOLAN]

That is quite a lot of deaths for the first four days of the year.

[Dewt]

Would they really prefer 10+ million babies every four months

[Dewt]

If only more people would adorp

[imitationleather]

Mmm DP.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

The starvation figure is pretty upsetting if true.

[bgmnts]

The starvation figure is pretty upsetting if true.

Pretty common knowledge I thought. Think there are more obese people in the world than starving ones though, so thats something.

[idunnosomename]

If only more people would adorp

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