Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now - Tomas Pueyo - Medium #coronavirus medium.com/@tomaspueyo/co…

Chart from my live on #Newsnight just now. Right or wrong, there’s no doubt the UK is increasingly an outlier in our Covid response.

ITALY: lockdown CHINA: lockdown DENMARK: lockdown NORWAY: lockdown Turkey: lockdown IRELAND, FRANCE, BELGIUM: close schools, cancel gatherings USA: close schools, ban all european flights BORIS JOHNSON:Right. Some of you are going to die. NHS are a bit busy shit happens #bbcqt

BBC News - Coronavirus: UK deaths double in 24 hours bbc.co.uk/news/uk-518899… #coronavirus Note Whitty says “every measure we are taking is designed to protect...”- NOT “we are taking every measure we can to protect...” - there is a big difference 😢

Some key takeaways: 1) LOOK at the death rates by age group. Under 50s death rate is 0.1% from 803 deaths. Even 50-70 is low. 70+ it bites hard. Takeaway: be responsible. Protect elderly relatives from infection. /2

Attention Boris!

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I wonder if Apple could at least temporarily re-word the messages on their Activity app? Admittedly I had a quieter day - helping Oscar with his homework and playing Monopoly - but I don’t recall ‘taking it east’ for a very long time! 😢

PM’s virus adviser calls for a way out of lockdown thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-… Just the sort of message we DON’T need.. Plenty decades younger than me on ITU. Let’s concentrate on the lockdown for now. Yes, this may be our Dunkirk, but eventually we’ll have our D-day #coronavirus

NEW: quick chart showing key context for today’s news of a Tier 4 Christmas Cases are soaring in areas set to go into T4, with rate of increase extremely worrying. Testing has increased lately too, but even if we look at positivity, the rate of increase is very steep.

If you improve a skill by 1% each day, after one year you are 37 times better at it. The mathematics of progress!

Why is Johnson hanging on? He must realise the game is up now… #DowningStreetParties independent.co.uk/news/uk/downin…

Farrow & Ball have released a new colour: Sue Gray. However it is a very light shade, which means that if spread too thinly it looks like whitewash.

The best birthday surprise ever! Thank you Maryam, Oscar 🎻 and Emilie xx 😊

Kwarteng out as chancellor bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-p… via BBC News (UK) Didn’t Liz Truss say the two of them were ‘in lockstep’? So what next? 🤔

Rees-Mogg hopes contest goes to wider membership bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-p… via BBC News (UK) As if the members made a great job of it last time - or the time before! Let’s hope (for the country’s sake, not Mogg’s) that Sunak emerges the clear winner amongst MPs + the contest ends there

As I understand it, the max sentence for manslaughter is life imprisonment. Can someone pls explain why these 3 aren't still in prison - and why - having killed SIX people - all of them CHILDREN - they aren't in prison for the rest of their lives? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Is it really a 'changed' Labour Party? Labour's tax plans are dressed up as signalling a desire to raise money for state schools - but these posts betray their true motive - ideological envy and hatred