ONS 🦠 infection survey Week ending 19 February suggests a bit of a decline in cases in 🏴, (but still v high levels of infection) but INCREASE in 🏴. Wales and NI uncertain trend.
🏴 1 in 25
🏴 1 in 20
🏴 1 in 30
NI. 1 in 14
>1 in 20 Primary school kids infected.
> 1 in 50 70+ yr olds
When you consider the Antibody survey suggests 83% of 8-11 yr olds have antibodies by the first week in Feb, half acquired in the previous 8 weeks, extraordinary that infection levels still so high.
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Dashboard data (showing marked drops) doesn’t seem to reflect ONS levels of infection.
I remember in my O and A level history lessons the importance to Russia (or the USSR) of warm sea ports in the Black Sea with easy access to the south being drummed into us and why.
And how huge Russia was with great land masses uninhabited.
We were fortunate in our history teachers and also our English teacher who introduced us to Uncle Vanya, the Cherry Orchard, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, The Government Inspector (by the Russian Ukrainian Gogol) and the Brothers Karamazov
And the teachers talked to one another so the lessons joined up.
“For the West, this may be (yet another) wake-up call. For Ukraine, it is a death-knell.We will have years …to mull the combination of naivete, complacency, arrogance, ignorance and — most of all — greed that brought us to this catastrophe.”
“Putin is an imperialist thug. He is challenging the right of Ukrainians to exist, to aspire towards European liberty. Don’t forget how this all started – with his attempt to stop the country signing an association agreement with the EU in 2014.”
“The people of Ukraine dream of freedom, safety and self-determination. He is intent on preventing them from attaining it, on the basis of a belligerent jingoistic colonialism.”
“Morality and strategy are perfectly entwined. There is no complication to this issue. There is only the profound historic imperative of taking a stand.”
Wonder what it is like being “a successful” businessman working under the shadow of fear that you will suddenly end up thrown out a window or poisoned?
And look who is one of the people who had a special meeting with Putin.
Guryev who owns the largest mansion in London after Buckingham Palace.