The point to remember with the distancing is that there are two main things driving the risk of being infected. The more significant one is whether the other person is carrying the virus or not.

 

Some estimates are that as many as one in 100 people were carrying the virus at its peak. The risk of catching it at two metres is estimated at 1.3%, meaning that the risk of catching it off a random individual was roughly one in 8,000. Now it is estimated that one in 1,000 (or more) are carrying it. If the risk of catching it at a distance of one metre is 2.6%, the overall risk becomes one in 40,000.

 

Cancelling the daily briefing is not a surprise. It means Johnson now only works one day per week which is pretty close to his ideal.

The EU is planning on continueing the travelban from the US, Brazil and Russia amongst others after july 1st

So the county of Gutersloth in Germany is back in lockdown after 1500 people at a meet factory have spread the disease!

They breached the federal limits for new cases in a 7 day period. So far still no real community transmission, just the factory itself. Track & trace is working and the “emergency brake” that Merkel agreed with the States has kicked in as expected

They have put fences up round the community as the people in the factories may bring it back to their families. Think this is he future here too over the course of the summer.

Indeed they have. It has not been popular. Police have had a fair few things thrown at them. Problem being that Germany is very poor at providing information in languages that aren’t German and the folk locked down are migrant workers from Eastern Europe - and they lack the highly technical German required to fully understand the regulations. (As do I! Thankfully the city authorities in Berlin Reprints everything in English, Turkish, Russian and Arabic among others a couple of days later.)

 

I understand they’ve been hiring translators to help everyone understand the restrictions.

 

 

In other news, Scotland’s roadmap has been updated with a load of new

 

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650 new cases today. We’re fast catching up to the rest of Europe which is nice to see.

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Haha, second time he's got him with that. Boris really is a third rate politician, got to say it's great that we've actually now got someone in Opposition able to show him up for the incompetent dolt he truly is.

Haha, second time he's got him with that. Boris really is a third rate politician, got to say it's great that we've actually now got someone in Opposition able to show him up for the incompetent dolt he truly is.

I think that's an insult to all the politicians who are bright enough to be described as third-rate.

650 new cases today. We’re fast catching up to the rest of Europe which is nice to see.

This is really encouraging considering up unto the weekend we'd never gone back below 1000 cases. It'd be interesting to know where they were likely picked up - no idea if this thing is kept, or attempted to.

 

I'm certainly confident that the risk of outdoor spread is very low now. The protests were a fortnight ago and we'd be seeing more infections now if they did have much impact.

As expected, in spite of the british media foaming at the mouth at an R0 of 2,88, the German authorities have found 0 confirmed cases in the community in Gütersloh with the outbreak that’s currently wrecking havoc on the National R0 being fully contained with no community spread so far.

 

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Unlike the UK, there has been no bragging or grandstanding about being world beating. Just quietly getting on with it. And we have a functioning app and track and trace is exceedingly effective. Imagine what the UK gov could do if it put as much energy into execution as it did to mouthing off about how amazing they are!!!

As expected, in spite of the british media foaming at the mouth at an R0 of 2,88, the German authorities have found 0 confirmed cases in the community in Gütersloh with the outbreak that’s currently wrecking havoc on the National R0 being fully contained with no community spread so far.

 

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Unlike the UK, there has been no bragging or grandstanding about being world beating. Just quietly getting on with it. And we have a functioning app and track and trace is exceedingly effective. Imagine what the UK gov could do if it put as much energy into execution as it did to mouthing off about how amazing they are!!!

But you can't have a functioning app. Johnson said yesterday that no country did. Surely he wouldn't lie :o

But you can't have a functioning app. Johnson said yesterday that no country did. Surely he wouldn't lie :o

Not only is it functional, but our equivalent of BBC2 is trolling the sitting UK prime minister

 

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Theres a reason I Call myself a Brexit refugee

Not only is it functional, but our equivalent of BBC2 is trolling the sitting UK prime minister

 

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Theres a reason I Call myself a Brexit refugee

And, of course, we could adapt the software for use here without paying Germany a single penny.

And he repeated this lie at PMQs today too. So basically his reaction to Starmers forensic analysis is to bluster in a more ignorant and argumentative way.

And, of course, we could adapt the software for use here without paying Germany a single penny.

If I remember rightly they open sourced all the code. The UK gov could copy/paste it and be up and running in days!!!

 

Europe’s leading hacker collective gave it a going over and their reaction was “ok yeah this is good”. If there’s one to steal, it’s possibly this one :lol:

 

 

Am I hallucinating or was the NHS app plan relying on self reporting?

Unlike the UK, there has been no bragging or grandstanding about being world beating. Just quietly getting on with it. And we have a functioning app and track and trace is exceedingly effective. Imagine what the UK gov could do if it put as much energy into execution as it did to mouthing off about how amazing they are!!!

I think my country is okay on the aggregate, and I think the relaxing of the lockdown in particular has been done in a very sensible way, but I'll admit that there's been a real cockup with the app - only 1.5 million people have the app still installed and fewer still are actively using it because it absolutely destroys your battery.

 

Until widespread app use can be guaranteed then low tech methods are probably more effective - exchanging contact information and time of entry/exit when going to a restaurant, hairdressers etc. Locally at least we also have quite detailed tracing where if there was case of the virus in a school, then only the cases's class would need to go into quatorzaine, rather than the entire school, because we track movement within the building from classroom to classroom and recreation is staggered.

If I remember rightly they open sourced all the code. The UK gov could copy/paste it and be up and running in days!!!

Exactly. That's my point. They wouldn't need to do much more than make sure all the messages are displayed in English.

And he repeated this lie at PMQs today too. So basically his reaction to Starmers forensic analysis is to bluster in a more ignorant and argumentative way.

There was a time when lying in the Commons was treated as one of the worst things any politician could do.

I think my country is okay on the aggregate, and I think the relaxing of the lockdown in particular has been done in a very sensible way, but I'll admit that there's been a real cockup with the app - only 1.5 million people have the app still installed and fewer still are actively using it because it absolutely destroys your battery.

 

Until widespread app use can be guaranteed then low tech methods are probably more effective - exchanging contact information and time of entry/exit when going to a restaurant, hairdressers etc. Locally at least we also have quite detailed tracing where if there was case of the virus in a school, then only the cases's class would need to go into quatorzaine, rather than the entire school, because we track movement within the building from classroom to classroom and recreation is staggered.

Yeah the easing in France looks really well thought out and the traffic light by region looks like a great idea. How are the restrictions for you now?

 

The French app isn’t running on the Google/Apple platform is it? Hopefully they update the architecture to this model as it’s low battery but I guess the damage is already done.

 

 

Sounds like your school is well prepared and the plan thought through!! We’re also doing the old school leave your details method as well - if it ain’t broke!

 

Exactly. That's my point. They wouldn't need to do much more than make sure all the messages are displayed in English.

It’s already fully bi-lingual with German and English!! More languages are enroute according to the RKI