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people with size 11+ do exist!

Size 13-14 checking in... and you know what they say about men with large feet.

They are perpetually frustrated about not being able to get shoes in their size.

^^^ and ^^^^: agreed. I'm not particularly convinced BoJo is super essential to keeping things together and while I do hope he survives, I won't be sending him too many thoughts and prayers, BUT I do think this whole "oh is he taking away a bed from someone more needy" is just appealing to the lowests possible instincts.

What the absolute fuck?

Well, what did you expect: it's chaos with Ed Miliband.

I'll have a more detailed read at some point, scrolling through this sentence caught my eye:

Das würde dem Rest der Volkswirtschaft wieder eine rasche Rückkehr in annähernden Normalbetrieb erlauben und die Aussicht eröffnen, dass diese Krise nicht größer wird als die Wirtschafts-und Fi-nanzkrise 2009.

Quick translation: this would allow the rest of the economy to rapidly return to an almost normal state and opens up the prospect of this crisis not getting any larger than the one of 2009.

That's not surprising though, the rules are stricter in France and Italy for example.

Not sure how good the data on this is, but anyway:

Fair enough if you come at it from that perspective.

None of that really says anything about his intelligence being 'supposed' or a 'myth'. I don't think many people would claim he's a genius, but in the broad general sense one talks about people being 'intelligent', he definitely is. This is especially apparent when juxtaposed with Trump, who just bloody isn't.

Not that any of what you said there is wrong of course.

You're not the only one to have that suspicion, however: the Olympics were postponed to 2021 on March 24th. That's 2 weeks ago, ages in Corona time.

I've been cycling on 65mm LB rims during windy weeks preceding this whole corona shitshow. It started to get a bit twitchy in 30mph+ crosswind gusts, but I'm also relatively heavy which makes it easier for me. I'd think 46mm rims should be fine though.

In general though, 1000 people tested when the are already badly ill VS 1000 people tested when they are asking for a test is going to result in a higher relative death rate.

Exactly - I only mentioned the much higher rate of testing before, but you're right of course, even with the same number of tests it depends on who you're testing.

I'm sorry but that is not possible.

You realise this pretty much exactly matches the disparity in tests performed, right?

Of course it is possible.

Germany deaths is suspect as fuck btw.

Why?

Could it maybe have something to do with the fact that they've tested almost four times as many people per million population, or almost five times as many people overall?

I did appreciate the "many people of all faiths, and of none" though.

precious time would be wasted as that power is realigned

Serious question though: is the current situation not one in which the civil service left to its own devices + some caretaker PM might actually be more quietly efficient than all the politicians on top? Are they really adding all that much at the moment?

Sure, at least in the UK they're maybe not openly obstructionist like in the US, but still...

That's the thing with Boris, he is actually pretty intelligent and I'm pretty sure he e.g. knows exactly how important those bloody foreigners are for the NHS. He just chooses to ignore that in his quest for power.

I honestly don't know whether that's better or worse than the empty entitled airbag that Trump is.

Yeah I tend to agree.

That being said, I think it's pretty normal for country leaders to get the best available healthcare as they're considered key in that country's government / organisation. That's the same probably everywhere and I don't have a big issue with it.

I was supposed to be at a wedding in Finland this weekend. With the bank holidays, that would have made for an ideal weekend away + time to relax after...

Doubtful. If he is indeed doing poorly, but then recovers, he'll just get the 'survivor' bonus on top of his already inexplicably strengthened approval rating.

Although the ones that are triggered by hay fever not so much.

In all seriousness though, even as someone with a hay fever I think having lower general pollution is good as your membranes are just slightly less stressed to begin with.

Obviously that doesn't help when everything is in full bloom and you start to see layers of pollen on cars etc.

Ha!

Yeah probably but they don't make the whole 'social distancing' thing any easier when you walk past a parked car and you look down and instead of a closed window like with all the other parked cars you see the face of some geezer reading a newspaper a foot away from you.

Went for a short walk along the riverside a few minutes ago when I absolutely couldn't stand to stay in anymore - yeah it's a bit full out there. My issue is not really with everyone wanting to get some sun and fresh air (and let's face it, the air out there is probably fresher than anyone has had it in the last two hundred years or so), but with some knobs making absolutely no effort to do the whole 'distancing' thing. Ironically not so much all those evil cyclists and bad joggers, but just some normal people going for a walk with their dog.

I also saw a number of old people sitting in cars - clearly they had driven in just to sit in their car by the riverside. I kind of get the idea, but I'm not sure they're helping much either.