The standard of discussion has really fallen on this site since I was last here. This is the way I see things:
1. To quote one of the most seasoned war correspondants in British history, Robert...
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The standard of discussion has really fallen on this site since I was last here. This is the way I see things:
1. To quote one of the most seasoned war correspondants in British history, Robert...
On a similar note, here's Ezra Yachin, the oldest reservist in the Israeli armed forces who's still going strong. On one hand he's obviously a legend of the Israeli army and nation - though born in...
How did this discussion even start lol. What have Ethiopian Jews got to do with the price of tea in China?
Meanwhile in the real world, the offensive has started. One BBC journalist reckons that...
Reports coming in now that sections of the Russian army are defecting to join Wagner - specifically those in Lipetsk region. However, Kadyrov in Chechnya is standing by Putin. Private jets heading...
FFA... Forward Freight Agreement? Future Farmers of America? Frustratingly Flat A**? Help me out here, lad.
The question now is, what chance does Wagner have of putting up a serious fight against Putin? Do they have any backing from oligarchs? Is there any evidence coming in of defectors from the army to...
*a jar for storing scrolls incorrectly identified as a batttery. :)
The advice according to your video was to fill out death certificates with Covid-19 as probable cause of death if it was suspected due to circumstantial evidence but no lab test was carried out. I...
Sadly I'm not sure that's necessarily as encouraging as it might appear. On April 2nd (7 days ago) Cuomo said they were 6 days away from maxing out ventilator capacity. Maybe they just don't have the...
This bickering over hydroxychloroquine is bizarre - there's little evidence it's effective, and even in the best case scenario it's not exactly a miracle cure given its side effects and its poor...
Bear in mind that a new study was just published confirming the efficacy of masks in avoiding the spread of coronaviruses. Also bear in mind that the amount of masks being produced has been massively...
Garfenafuten Tuten-Juten Exiobalexis
Very true. Although if even 25% of the deaths are directly attributable to Covid19* it's still a horrendous number bearing in mind the rate of increase. And then you have the phenomenon of indirect...
Indeed. Although it's worth taking into account the flip side of that, which is that this situation might actually do some good too. There's some evidence to suggest that economic crises actually...
Fortunately, less so in Europe than in the US. We don't yet know if China's quarantine has worked, it may be that they'll have a renewed outbreak now that people are out and about again. The PPE,...
Away from the arguments about which medicines are effective or not, and back to the main topic:
Nobel prizewinner Paul Romer has issued a grave warning about the economic impact of lockdown. It...
It's certainly a very interesting development. It's crazy how people are willing to tolerate a level of societal suppression which would have been labelled as the actions of a tyrannical dictator of...
Yep. The lower body kilt was invented in the early Georgian period (supposedly by an Englishman living in Scotland) and the clan tartan not until the late Georgian period. It's a venerable...
Likewise.
With respect, that's not what I took from the report you posted. In fact, they seemed to suggest that we need to pursue suppression as much as possible since it will still help even...
I watch live sports socially, but that's it. It's definitely enjoyable, but I can't really follow most sports as I don't know the rules well enough.
Someone losing their job is bad. Someone losing their life is worse. Besides, what do you imagine will be the economic impact if 1% of the global population dies in one year? WW2 took 6 years to kill...
Daily deaths from the virus have gone from double figures at the start of the month, to 1000 yesterday. That's an increase of 1000%. For comparison, the daily deaths in February went from 45 to 54 by...
The kilt is the symbolic dress of Scottish men. There are no kilts in other countries. There are similar garments perhaps, but they are not kilts. Just as there are many high quality sparkling white...
Open borders is one thing, but immigration? What does immigration have to do with a pandemic? The only way immigration could spread a pandemic is if immigrants were arriving in large numbers from...
"If total cases peak at 1.2 million around the middle of July, this would require 180,000 hospital beds, of which 30,000 with respirators."
The UK has IN TOTAL 150,000 beds, of which 4000 have...
It doesn't matter whether they are 'new to the system' or not, it matters whether they require oxygen and respiration in ICU. ICU beds are a tiny proportion of hospital beds - there are only a few...
Here in the EU, countries are beginning to put up border controls and refuse access to foreigners. I used to be able to walk across the border without seeing a single police officer, now I don't even...
The mortality rate of Covid is demonstrably much higher than regular flu. The mortality figures in the USA are as yet non existent, as the disease course can be up to a month and the disease has only...
That is sadly not likely to be an accurate statement. Seasonal flu infects somewhere between 10 and 30 million Americans annually of whom less than 1 million are hospitalised. The novel coronavirus...
India's economy and politics really are a mess. On the one hand India's economy needs serious reforms if it's to provide opportunities for the next generation beyond the hellish social darwinist...
The problem is, all it takes is 5-10% of the population to get symptoms of the virus (of whom they say 10-15% require hospital treatment) and hospitals will be completely swamped. There simply won't...
Few people these days deny that the climate is changing - over the past 30-50 years we've seen a variety of record-breaking events, which seem to be getting more and more frequent, especially the...
In the below post, you raise an interesting point which I'm happy to discuss further in another thread if you wish, but it's not of core importance to the matter at hand here so I have put it in a...
It's not 'medieval romanticism', it's just a fact. Scotland is a nation which existed long before the UK did. The UK was a stitch-up created by collusion between a faction within the Scottish elite...
Scotland is a proud nation with a history longer than almost any other country's on earth. The people of Scotland are to be taken out of the EU against the wishes of the majority of the Scottish...
Is it really such a major intelligence coup to know the location and travel plans of one of the highest political figures in Iran, and to stage an attack in a country where you have been operating...
WHAT? We've been taken out of the EU against our will, and the UK has become a one-party state under Boris Johnson for probably the next 10 years. If you'd told anyone in Scotland these things in...
What a story to wake up to. Soleimani, as most here are aware, was essentially the third highest figure in Iranian politics, after Khamenei and Rouhani. Since he was a military target and the attack...
I'm not sure about that. There's nothing stopping Westminster from deploying English officers in Scotland as far as I can see. Indeed, I believe it's going to be happening next year during the 2020...
I don't think anyone claims that England 'won't survive'. The problem is that the EU is deeply woven into the UK's economic and legal fabric. Undoing that will lead to a major short-term shock, as...