“(This) as one in a long line of Le Boeufs at the News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla. The name dates to 1979 and has been handed down critic to critic.
Le Boeuf could, in theory, be anyone.
That was the point.”
“But if my inbox served as indication — where emails started “Dear Sir” and “Cher Monsieur” — most readers assumed Jean was a dude. A French dude.
I liked being a French dude.
Perhaps because I’m not at all a French dude.”
“I’m a half-Filipina, half-Yugoslavian/English/Canadian woman, born one year after Le Boeuf was created in the same place he was created: a city named for a Confederate colonel.”
Yet here we are 18 mnths later, post 3 lockdowns of sorts, Alpha then Delta variants increasing the risks & worsening the odds, 45 mill+ fully vaccinated
163,500 Covid deaths (by date of death): deaths & hospitalisations still piling up.
And a Government even sloppier than at the beginning.
The second and third/ fourth waves are unequivocally on Johnson. His choice against scientific advice.
How very Johnson to absent himself from the country when the Select Committee report is published.
In China, in the early days of the pandemic it was established that about 21% of (mostly elderly) admissions had a history of diabetes but a further c20% were diagnosed on admission.
Was Coronavirus precipitating diabetes or were these people with it previously but undiagnosed?
“The precise mechanisms for new-onset diabetes in people with COVID-19 are not known, but it is likely that a number of complex interrelated processes are involved”
These include
📌previously undiagnosed diabetes,
📌stress hyperglycemia,
📌steroid-induced hyperglycemia, and
📌direct or indirect effects of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on the b-cell.
Britain’s energy crisis is spiralling – but all we get is a spat between ministers | Gaby Hinsliff
If it’s true (that Kwarteng lied about discussions with the Treasury) we shouldn’t believe a word Kwarteng says, then he shouldn’t be business secretary. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
“If it’s a wicked smear, then heads should roll at the Treasury instead. Eventually the prime minister might deign to prenez un grip on all this, but first he has chosen to prenez un holiday in sunny Marbella.”
Ha! @gabyhinsliff turns Johnson’s “Bon mots” back on him
As Johnson chills on his Marbella sun lounger likely courtesy of Zac Goldsmith offering a home from home so he can WFH…
“It beggars belief that any government would choose this particularly chaotic moment to threaten to start a trade war with the EU too.
Remember that most common symptoms for Covid now (especially amongst the vaccinated, but in both vaccinated and unvaccinated) are not “eligible” for a PCR test.
“Future challenges may be less about adapting to Covid, though, than coming to terms with the last decade, a decade during which councils’ spending per person on services has been cut by a quarter.
That’s worth repeating.”
“ Local authority spending per person has fallen by 25 per cent since 2010. There have been sweeping cuts to planning, economic development and leisure services.”