1. The govt strategy on #Coronavirus is more refined than those used in other countries and potentially very effective. But it is also riskier and based on a number of assumptions. They need to be correct, and the measures they introduce need to work when they are supposed to.

Epic Fail BBC correction on Burberry coronavirus plea bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

"As of noon tomorrow, Auckland will move to level 3 for three days until midnight on Friday. The rest of the country will move to alert level 2" Sounds very surgical and scientific. nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl…

It's still too early to confirm this trend, but new COVID-19 cases are increasing in Denmark, Norway and Finland while decreasing in Sweden... If this trend continues, it will be further validation that Sweden reached herd immunity and the other countries just delayed it.

Jacinda Ardern is praised by liberals across the world for putting ‘people above money’. But her Covid policy is utterly unsustainable. The capital city has been locked down after finding just four new cases. This damage being done is huge, says Matt Drake spiked-online.com/2020/08/14/jac…

Here are some people I’d like to buy a drink for once this pandemic is over: Dr. Ron Daniels BEM Prof Francois Balloux Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @Anshul__K Dr Ellie Professor Karol Sikora David Paton Carl Heneghan All have dedicated their spare time to promoting truth and combating hysteria. Thank you!

1/n. Everything you wanted to know about Herd Immunity, but were afraid to ask. What is HIT exactly? What’s the relationship with R_t? Will the virus vanish? A thread by Maestro Rayo, Levan Djaparidze and Federico Andres Lois

Camilla Tominey The Telegraph Dawn Butler ✊🏾💙 I managed to get my hands on the clue for 4 Down: Unwashed, lentil-munching, free-press-loathing self-absorbed eco-loons. (10,9)

GOOD NEWS: Oxford Vaccine Trial Resumes | #Covid19 #lifescience 🧬🧫🙏 covid19vaccinetrial.co.uk/trial-resumes

"50,000-a-day" sounds like the new "45 minutes" doesn't it?

Suggestions that schools will stay open during a forthcoming lockdown are very welcome. We've always said that schools should be the last to shut & first to open. It would be a disaster for children's well-being and education if they were to close.

B.D.K Piers Morgan Emma Raducanu Jesus was born in a stable pal, doesn't make him a horse.

Watched this crazy sports movie last night, where a schoolgirl from Bromley entered the US Open and then, listen to this for terrible screenwriting, just won every single set straight through including the final. Oh come on! Good cameo from Larry David though.

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