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« Reply #3875 on: January 25, 2021, 11:45:54 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on January 25, 2021, 11:32:48 AM
They mean different things, and empathy here is the correct one since it's about the ability to understand the feelings of others.
No they don't, and sympathy means that as well. Please explain why you think the meanings are different.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3876 on: January 25, 2021, 11:51:07 AM »
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« Reply #3877 on: January 25, 2021, 11:53:31 AM »
Bollocks.
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« Reply #3878 on: January 25, 2021, 12:00:14 PM »
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« Reply #3879 on: January 25, 2021, 12:10:31 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on January 25, 2021, 11:35:06 AM
  Because it was the worst day for deaths we've had. Go and tell the families devastated by that that their deaths were good news,

You are lying. I did not say the deaths are good news. I said that the overall figures were grounds for cautious optimism because the infections were going down. Again I ask, what have you got against me pointing out that there is some good news?

This line of attack by you is utterly contemptible.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3880 on: January 25, 2021, 12:17:09 PM »
Quote from: jeremyp on January 25, 2021, 12:10:31 PM
You are lying. I did not say the deaths are good news. I said that the overall figures were grounds for cautious optimism because the infections were going down. Again I ask, what have you got against me pointing out that there is some good news?

This line of attack by you is utterly contemptible.
  You called the deaths of 1820 people 'yesterday's news'.

And in pointing that out, you think that I am trying to discredit 'good news'. If you didn't mean to imply that then you need to write more clearly.



 
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3881 on: January 25, 2021, 12:19:25 PM »
Quote from: Nye Scuppertea on January 25, 2021, 12:00:14 PM
Some good news.
Lots of good news.


Have to admit that I am a bit confused by this paragraph

'More patients are relying on mechanical ventilators – some 1,217, up from 1,206 a week ago. This is nearly twice as many as the number on ventilators in the first wave, which peaked at 5,201 in April last year.'


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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3882 on: January 25, 2021, 12:25:09 PM »
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3883 on: January 25, 2021, 10:06:33 PM »

UK's vaccination programme on a different league currently. Points to them .

https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-vaccine-europe-hit-commission-target-rollout-5-times-faster/
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« Reply #3884 on: January 25, 2021, 10:24:45 PM »
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« Reply #3885 on: January 25, 2021, 10:27:50 PM »
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« Reply #3886 on: January 25, 2021, 10:40:22 PM »
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« Reply #3887 on: January 25, 2021, 10:52:38 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on January 25, 2021, 10:40:22 PM
More on the issues with supply affecting the EU. The companies seem to have over promised.



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/25/eu-threatens-to-block-covid-vaccine-exports-amid-astrazeneca-shortfall?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR0hnp5agXNaw2GNmWFXcMdINT-G0bUbXe_VMUQxdQdyC6wAtuDGMgQD6Qo

I reckon astrazeneca is giving preferntial treatment to certain countries, backhanders and everything, and that's why they can't fulfill their contract with the EU.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3888 on: January 26, 2021, 07:05:20 PM »
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3889 on: January 26, 2021, 09:41:18 PM »
Quote from: ad_orientem on January 25, 2021, 10:52:38 PM
I reckon astrazeneca is giving preferntial treatment to certain countries, backhanders and everything, and that's why they can't fulfill their contract with the EU.

https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/01/26/news/interview_pascal_soriot_ceo_astrazeneca_coronavirus_covid_vaccines-284349628/

Good interview with Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca, on the supply issues in Europe.

What he describes seems very reasonable imo.
 
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3890 on: January 27, 2021, 10:07:46 AM »
Have to admit that we've been tempted to get a dog over the plague year but it's not really feasible


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-55719338
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« Reply #3891 on: January 27, 2021, 10:18:13 AM »
While I might agree with some of this, the use of a blanket 'scientists say' is not accurate based on the report.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55820178
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3892 on: January 27, 2021, 10:42:19 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on January 27, 2021, 10:18:13 AM
While I might agree with some of this, the use of a blanket 'scientists say' is not accurate based on the report.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55820178

Scientists or not there have certainly been a lot of bad decisions.

Anyway, I suppose we should prepare for the offer, later today, of another half-bowl of soup - to be delivered after it has gone cold...

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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3893 on: January 27, 2021, 11:27:22 AM »
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« Reply #3894 on: January 27, 2021, 11:35:45 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on January 27, 2021, 11:27:22 AM
Just ffs!


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55821623
Twenty years in prison? Fed and sheltered with TV etc probably? Far, far too lenient. This is where the old stocks, with public humiliation seems more appropriate.

thank goodness the utter stupidity was discovered - I wonder how, but an award for that person whoever it was.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3895 on: January 27, 2021, 01:14:13 PM »
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« Reply #3896 on: January 27, 2021, 02:08:20 PM »
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3897 on: January 27, 2021, 02:11:29 PM »
English schools not 're-opening' till March. No ta huge surprise but I do wish the reports would be clearer that it means in some sense reopen fully given the numbers of kids currently in schools.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55828952
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3898 on: January 27, 2021, 02:36:47 PM »
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3899 on: January 27, 2021, 04:10:17 PM »
Quote from: Littleroses on January 27, 2021, 02:08:20 PM
So do I. :o Our youngest daughter's in-laws live not far from that site.
Made it to BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55822838
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