If this data is real, it just shows the idiocy of the current policies. How on earth is restricting the number of people you are allowed to meet at home make a difference if most infections are in ‘educational settings’ (which probably includes socialising students), ‘workplace settings’ and care homes?
It appears the restrictions are mainly “up north”, according to the Daily Trash.
This is really serious though:
But, seriously, this focuses one’s mind on not catching it. These people cannot be written off as having the “usual” dispositions.
https://www.icelandreview.com/society/social-distancing-and-gathering-restrictions-to-be-tightened-again/
Iceland is having to tighten rules again. I’ve been impressed by their Government and Media handling of Covid-19, compared to UK and US.
Peter wrote:
This has been said in as many words by UK officials, saying they don’t want the specific communities coming under attack.
I don’t understand this. What is preventing independent media from publishing whatever they want? All the data is out there for sure, it’s only a matter of presenting that data in an intelligible manner so people can understand it. It is well known here that initially the spread among certain minority groups were skyrocketing. The main reason was they simply didn’t understand the recommendations (washing hand, social distance etc), a pure language problem. This was sorted out fast’ish, and from then on no difference was seen compared with the rest of the population.
There is no way to answer this in a PC way, and this really almost belongs into the political thread, but basically, there are several factors in the UK which are a hot potato for mainstream media
All these things are a massive political/media hot potato. Most of the above challenges exist all over Europe, of course, especially for the older countries with a colonial past (Norway probably doesn’t have that issue; well not recently).
Also there is no obvious solution which a government could implement – especially with a largely rule-noncompliant population and a government system which believes strongly in being non-totalitarian and consensual.
One day historians will observe how a number of things coincided to create so many changes in the world. Tom Clancy would have loved it – such a pity he’s dead. He would be halfway through another brilliant 5cm thick book 
And with Trump himself being 50/50 right now, we aren’t done yet. Things could get massively more interesting…
There are parts of the UK population which don’t speak English but they are a very small minority. The UK has a pretty good level of integration.
Peter, don’t worry! I can testify, this is NOT TRUE. Fake news at its worst…. so relax and go to the pub! :)
Just wear a mask when you go….
Great to know – thanks
Today’s news – the UK is not planning to vaccinate everybody; just those “at risk”
I wonder if everybody with an aviation medical is at risk?
These are the latest daily positive test numbers, after the adjustment for the “IT error”
For comparison, it was estimated that during the peak of the first wave, it was about 100k/day but very few were being tested.
From this app the estimate of actual infections is about 20k/day.
Peter wrote:
even a dead virus will show up positive
I’m one of those people that instantly raises their eyebrows as soon as I see or hear anything from the conspiracy theorists but a good friend convinced me to watch this video. I think it was worth watching and suggest you might like to too.
German lawyer starts Class Action over CV19:
I got about 6 minutes in. If I die within the next few weeks do you think my family could find a clever lawyer to sue him for boring me to death?
Here’s a fascinating look at the virus in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-unveiled.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
NYT is behind a paywall, but you can read one (or a few) articles for free.
