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.
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.
Just thinking about my young Ukrainian Refugee today.
Two years ago today she was awoken by her brother in law, a customs official, telling her to get out of Kyiv straight away. Forget her home and job there. The Russians were invading.
She left to go to her parents
So did her sister and her two young children. To a tiny village in the Poltava Region. All living together in their parents house.
What must it have been like for her? Realising that the war was not going to be over quickly and her lost home and lost job were now her reality
Meanwhile her cousins were fighting at the front. The loss of life and destruction of property all too real and the grim stories of torture, rape and deportation of children growing louder.
Suddenly having to take off to a foreign country she had never visited to survive
Extraordinary: “On 11 June 2020 a Supplemental Deed was signed by (HOUCHEN) & (Corney & Musgrave). “The innocuous title & diminutive page count contrasts with the practical impact of this legal document, which amends the…agreements signed in March 2020”
The March 2020 deal which granted options to TWL over the entire Teesworks site,” comments the review (16.31).
“The amendments added wording which provided express permission for TWL to enter any of the option land & to remove all minerals, aggregates, metals & equipment”
“ & title to such items passes to TWL on removal from the property. The effect of this was to transfer to the JV Partners 50% of the value of the recyclable materials”
TWL = Tees Works Ltd which WAS owned 50/50 by South Tees Development Corp (public) and Corney & Musgrave (JV)
Ladies & gentlemen : I give you Steve Gibson, Houchen’s then vice chair at South Tees Development Corp. “You’ll be fucking shaking your head very soon. I’ll be fucking shaking it…you are going to get a fight like you have never fucking experienced…and I want your walls…”
“..and I want your eyes out of your head; I want the fucking roof off your house; I want your kids out of private school; I want no shoes on your fucking feet”
That’s his idea of a professional negotiation with PD ports.
He went on to say that he didn’t pay over any money to the PO but he did have a conversation with Geoff Hoon who was Defence Minister in Blair’s Gov at the time
He advised this postmaster, who had 3 post offices at the time and oversaw or provided relief for 20, to get out of PO
Now what did Geoff Hoon know back in the early 2000s to make him say that?
In any event this clip seems particularly important as he says the remote alteration they all saw together disappeared a couple of days later…also done remotely.