[kreuzberger]

Member states can make decisions for themselves. Here, that even works at a federal level with Berlin authing AZ for the over 18s, rather than just the 60+s.

It was actually easier to find a non-smoking virgin with matching socks in this city than to actually confirm a Vax appointment but that is by the by. France is genetically truculent in the face of authority but that is also by the by.

The French news is only an irregular element of my news diet but I bet that the kids will be eagerly gobbling up AZ just to spite their jillet jauned, flabby, automatically indignant elders.

And, Mulhouse is a fucking khazi, twinned, quite possibly, with Coeur-de-la-Piscine.

[Boiler]

And a fat lot of good it's doing it. I noticed the stages for the easing of limitations in France, as published by the Elysee: unless they do something about their vaccine uptake and pronto, they will be in the shit by September.

And, Mulhouse is a fucking khazi, twinned, quite possibly, with Coeur-de-la-Piscine.

I'd like to visit Mulhouse one day - home of the French equivalent of the National Railway Museum.

[kreuzberger]

Sounds like a fair shout. It, in my limited experience, is not quite the worst town in France although it is in striking distance of Belfort, Vauban's Besançon, Bern, and Basel. I am sure that there are places nearby beginning with other letters but those four would set me in good stead for a decent lunch, albeit not a cheap one.

[Boiler]

[kreuzberger]

Rather weak but soldiering on. Not sure whether it was the stress or the excitement of the day, but I am soon going to bed with a glass of wine to see me through. Note, "with", contemporaneous, rather than "after".

The plan is to sleep through the dawn chorus and the blazing morning light because we still haven't got any blinds up in the bedroom. Let's see what the morning brings.

[mattomac]

They aren't. They are offering it to younger people.

My partner on a 5 day visit there, got a jab of Pfizer, dunno if it’s relevant but the NHS couldn’t allow it apparently.

Even after volunteering for a week and matching all the boxes for high risk categories. Thankfully he went back to Brazil with some protection.

[Boiler]

One pointed out to me by a friend: somewhere (probably Faecebook) someone had posted up what they claimed was the circuit of the controller of the 5G chip in the Covid vaccines.

Turned out the circuit was the front end of an Italian-made audio mixer.

[MisterMuncher]

There was a scary circuit diagram in circulation that turned out to be a Boss Metal Zone* distortion pedal as well.


*In fairness, it is an absolute disease of a thing. Bumblebee in a tin can would be a kind description.

[Boiler]

There was a scary circuit diagram in circulation that turned out to be a Boss Metal Zone* distortion pedal as well.


*In fairness, it is an absolute disease of a thing. Bumblebee in a tin can would be a kind description.

The late Gerald Wells of the Vintage Wireless Museum in West Dulwich used to describe some of the early loudspeakers as "sounding like a wasp in a bottle" - a description also used off-mike to Charlotte Green to describe the quality of the earliest sound recording made, with predictable Charlotte Green results.

On-topic, a long thread of modelling the spread of the new Covid Variant.

[mattomac]

Always thought taking away social distancing and masks in June was always a bit premature.

[AOB]

There was a scary circuit diagram in circulation that turned out to be a Boss Metal Zone* distortion pedal as well.


*In fairness, it is an absolute disease of a thing. Bumblebee in a tin can would be a kind description.

The late Gerald Wells of the Vintage Wireless Museum in West Dulwich used to describe some of the early loudspeakers as "sounding like a wasp in a bottle" - a description also used off-mike to Charlotte Green to describe the quality of the earliest sound recording made, with predictable Charlotte Green results.

On-topic, a long thread of modelling the spread of the new Covid Variant.

That James Ward thread is calm, researched, thought out. This considered output is somewhat lacking in the media, who are more intent on screeching "variant surge!" every few hours. The real danger currently is being caused by crying wolf. The Indian variant would appear not to be a cause of alarm. However, what if further down the line a variant crops up that is more likely to evade vaccine protection. The media have made such a cacophony over this that it risks future, genuine concern and subsequent information becoming white noise.

[Nigredo]

I have lots of appendages crossed in hope that Johnson's dithering with the Indian variant won't shit the vaccine rollout success into a bin

[mattomac]

Same, I think someone remarked previously, for a government so obsessed with borders they seem to be lapse when it comes to closing borders to places that might contain a risk.

Anyhow I see Biden is now sending vaccines out to the world, small step but one that recognises this doesn’t stop at your coast line.

[Boiler]

Because as said elsewhere, Johnson's a Modi-licker and he doesn't want to blow any trade deals or upset any Indian oligarchs in the UK.

[Boiler]

Here's a new one:

https://www.sciencealert.com/most-anti- ... tudy-shows

And if they're in the US, the First Amendment protects them.

[AOB]

The latest positive test stats show a 2.6% decrease over the past 7 days, and as a like for like with last Tuesday down a touch. It obviously remains to be seen whether yesterday's relaxation will have an impact but it seems to suggest there would not in itself be a major problem caused by the Indian variant. Surely the last few days would have seen a gradual increase, if so. Positive results have plateaued for several weeks now around the 2.5k daily mark, give or take a couple of hundred.

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

[Boiler]

The sudden downward change is due to a counting error.

Revision to historical case data in England. The introduction of a new system disrupted the removal of cases where a positive rapid lateral flow test (LFD) was followed by all negative laboratory (PCR) tests taken within 3 days. Therefore 4,776 additional cases have been removed today. Regions and local authorities do not show the actual number of new cases reported. UK and England numbers of newly reported cases have been adjusted and correctly reflect new cases reported.

[Boiler]

https://www.joe.co.uk/news/nurse-who-ca ... nhs-273247

Jenny McGee, the nurse who cared for Boris Johnson whilst he was seriously ill with Covid-19, has resigned from her job because of her disillusionment with the "lack of respect" shown by the government to the NHS and its workers.

Snide fucker (permanently "doing R&D for my patents") on another forum I read said of this:

Presumably she has been paid for the programme...or I am wrong...

Having just been burnt myself by a production company, it'd be fuck-all anyway.

[Bones McCoy]

https://www.joe.co.uk/news/nurse-who-ca ... nhs-273247

Jenny McGee, the nurse who cared for Boris Johnson whilst he was seriously ill with Covid-19, has resigned from her job because of her disillusionment with the "lack of respect" shown by the government to the NHS and its workers.

Snide fucker (permanently "doing R&D for my patents") on another forum I read said of this:

Presumably she has been paid for the programme...or I am wrong...

Having just been burnt myself by a production company, it'd be fuck-all anyway.

Off topic, but worth knowing that the biggest form of theft in the UK is wage theft.

[Boiler]

https://www.joe.co.uk/news/nurse-who-ca ... nhs-273247

Jenny McGee, the nurse who cared for Boris Johnson whilst he was seriously ill with Covid-19, has resigned from her job because of her disillusionment with the "lack of respect" shown by the government to the NHS and its workers.

Snide fucker (permanently "doing R&D for my patents") on another forum I read said of this:

Presumably she has been paid for the programme...or I am wrong...

Having just been burnt myself by a production company, it'd be fuck-all anyway.

Off topic, but worth knowing that the biggest form of theft in the UK is wage theft.

By whom?