Unless Johnson plans to resign I've little interest in hearing his press conference. His monstrous mishandling of our Covid-19 crisis (another 1162 dead today) is beyond inept and into murderous. Here's the overall picture (1) 
Thats the highest daily total of all second wave and the second highest daily total overall. Only topped once, 1224 on the 22nd of April. The never-ending second wave of infection has killed about as many as the first now. (2)
Deaths are increasing exponentially and unless this slows very soon and very quickly we are looking at biblical totals (3)
Rolling 7 day total of just shy of 5000. Amost all completely avoidable if, like island nations such as Japan, Australia or New Zealand we had taken this seriously from the outset. Boris Johsnon has taken it on the chin of nigh on 100,000 dead people now (4)
Todays total was closer to the 14 day trend than the 7 day trend, bringing the latter down. On (still terrible) trend tomorrow we would expect between 683 and 799 dead tomorrow. (5)
And looking at Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I'd be very surprised if Friday comes in under trend. (6)
Comparing waves 1 and 2, wave 2 is looking pretty much as terrifying but very different in form (7)
If we go away from that noisy scatter into averages and drop a log on the numbers we can see that then we were in a slow exponential decline in deaths, now we're in a slow exponential increase (8)
R was still in the 1.2 to 1.3 range when people who died today caught it. Its been up there for an age now - why the hell, with infection growing as it was, did it take so long for our government to take this seriously? (9)
Tiny fall in positive tests today. Don't be fooled into believing it, deaths haven't tracked positive results reliably ever in this pandemic. (10)
As ever, I want to find something positive. I'm not seeing any. Couple this with data on hospitalisations, and we're in serious shit. It was predictable, indeed it was predicted. But our government acted late, indecisively, and limply. (11)
Its scant comfort to say daily deaths are now rising at 'only' nearly 4% per day. (12)
If you're reading this and upset, please don't be. You can't do much with upset. Be angry. Stay angry. Hold the herd immunity government to account for this colossal act of mass murder. Because many thousands more are yet to die - on current trends, the worse is yet to come (fin)
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