I had hoped (but not believed) I would never need to do another if these daily summary threads again
🦠 5765 new cases (rolling 7 day average up 46.2%)
⚰️ 13 x 28 day deaths. I think they are turning up again. Watch this space over the next 2-3 weeks.
The upward movement of cases can be clearly seen in the 7 day rates.
We have not been at 35.9 cases per 100k since early April.
We got so close. Why are we squandering all that effort for want of a bit more self discipline for a couple more months?
Look at cases by swab date
5891 on 2-6-21. (NB cases may well be added to recent days due to reporting lag).
2702 on 18-6-21 just as measures relaxed.
More than doubled
🏥 admissions? 154 but the rolling average is down a fraction.
But what is happening under the bonnet?
Look. Just before measures were relaxed we got down to 78 admissions in a day rising to the high point of 134 in a day last week and 154 on Tuesday 1st June.
Sorry. 2702 on 18th May (not June!) just when measures were relaxed
I think deaths are turning up again too, when looking at deaths by date of death but the is quite a lot of uncertainty around the impact vaccinations will have on deaths esp with the DELTA variant now dominant.
Reason to believe vaccinations (esp 2-dose) reduce but not eliminate
Either way. Cases are the first indicator and the gradual increase in positivity (1.2% on 31st May, since when positives have continued to rise).
That increase isn’t increased testing either as that is down overall.
💉 535,226 vaccine doses given
(💉 1st dose- 174k
💉💉 2nd dose - 360k.)
The final graph shows the gap between those with first doses and second doses are narrowing.
But note: the uptake graphs are percentages of the ADULT population not the population as a whole.
How outrageous. She admits that FFP3 works .., factory testing, but asserts HCW should not be given them because - apparently- they cannot be trusted to wear them properly.
I would point straight to the leadership & IPC training if that’s the case. A massive comms fail as here
I can quite see that if you supply utterly careless leadership and comms like that, that staff would NOT do well. Zero sense of responsibility. Zero sense of remorse. And nosocomial transmission was MUCH higher in some trusts than others. For a reason
Two hospitals. Two different approaches to masks. Two different outcomes for the medical personnel putting themselves at risk for us.. & the high protection staff also protect us.
Which is why, SHE wore FFP3 masks dealing with infectious diseases.
It is the argument that simply “governing well using all levers available”, as Stoller put it in the first half of Biden’s presidency, does not necessarily translate into popular gratitude or political success.”
“They cite the Inflation Reduction Act, the president’s $500 billion green energy strategy, the American Rescue Plan Act, which helped to lift 2mill children out of poverty, & the US’s generally dynamic economy as achievements to which the public responded with a collective shrug
Politico described Stoller’s diagnosis as “good policies no one understands”. Obamacare had similar results.”
There has to be a continual storytelling which connects to people’s day to day realities.
Their ability to do the weekly shop without grinding anxiety.
Potholes!
I’ve been thinking about the broad but shallow majority Labour has and what it means
1/. It is the result not just of a profound disgust at Tory political behaviour even from their own traditional voters but also of a highly intelligent and organised electoral strategy.
2/. It is pretty obvious that Lab and Lib Dem struck some sort of non aggression pact in a large number of seats to their mutual benefit. It took a lot of the poison out of tactical voting that we saw in 2017 and in 2019 in particular. So did the change in leadership.
As @Samfr pointed out : the seats where there was no such non-aggression pact and the opposition was split, this resulted in saving MPs such as Braverman & Mel Stride
In just 42 seats in England and Wales was the Tory vote bigger than the combined Lab/Lib one.
They don’t tax your state pension. But your state pension is added to any other income you have and that IS taxed…(basically treating your state pension as part of your normal personal allowance (PA). Not enough to meet the PA limit.
7 out of 8 pensioners do not GET the full new state pension. Most are on the old state pension (or less) of c £8,800 pa.
So that arrives untaxed.
However that does accrue so that if you have any additional income once it reaches the £12,570 threshold (inc your state pension) THOSE income sources as taxed as normal…as they should be
Even on the NEW full state pension you are way off the PA still.
We’re just pausing over tea to discuss the location of the DC solar panel isolation switches as the loft is not a good location for me up a wobbly loft ladder and very awkward loft hatch
They are going in the spare bedroom cupboard so easy for me to get to
The team is absolutely lovely.
Tomorrow the roofing panel team will arrive: James and Rhys who have both been doing this for 4 years.
James is ex military
Rob and Andy (electricians and survey team)
Geoff (sales consultant) has been in solar for years.