I wish him a speedy recovery. I'm just glad to hear from Pete he's no longer PM.Can't wait till he's back to perfect health.
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tsubaki
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That’s funny because he seems to have been an MP since 1983 and twice won the Labour leadership.
peteblue
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I must have missed the second one....so are you saying he’s a serial winner then....just like Hannibal, obv before he got defeated by the cheating Romans.....
peteblue
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you’ll find it....
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
He’s just human. You see people that support Boris know that, he’s human and he makes mistakes.....and he’s still the best the UK has got......
tsubaki
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No, I am saying that describing Corbyn as a bad leader because of the 2019 election is like saying Hannibal was a bad leader because of Zama and him going into exile a few years afterwards (the exile being ironically the result of idiot politicians looking to protect their own class instead of looking after the Carthaginian state as a whole).
edit: the second leadership election was in 2016
Can someone check to see if the ravens are still at the tower of London?
Just seen it
Good Lord I hope not, like saying Trump is the best America's got, a terrifying prospect...
peteblue
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It was a nice try, but wholly irrelevant and misguided. Corbyn is a poor leader because no one would follow him, his shadow cabinet all packed it in at some stage, his party undermined him and the electorate deserted him. I’m sure he’s a really nice guy, but he Is no leader......
tsubaki
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This is just the standard peteblue guff presented as fact.....
Blueclouds
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I'm confused. So with the deaths rates. Have most of these died in hospital.
What the stats for new hospital admissions each day? So if 700 die in the last 24 hours. Does this mean we have more beds and are these being used straight away. Are the hospitals full or quiet?
What the stats for new hospital admissions each day? So if 700 die in the last 24 hours. Does this mean we have more beds and are these being used straight away. Are the hospitals full or quiet?
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Are you saying his shadow cabinet did not resign their posts. I think the Labour Thread is all about how the party undermined him and the GE result is the GE result. He is a serial failure....sorry....
tsubaki
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No, all of his shadow cabinet did not resign their posts. “Serial” also does not mean “lost twice”.
Probably going to regret this, but nevertheless....
An excerpt from the link.
Virus researchers say there is virtually no chance that the new coronavirus was released as result of a laboratory accident in China or anywhere else.
The assessment, made by more than half-a-dozen scientists familiar with lab accidents and how research on coronaviruses is conducted, casts doubt on recent claims that a mistake may have unleashed the coronavirus on the world.
But after corresponding with 10 leading scientists who collect samples of viruses from animals in the wild, study virus genomes and understand how lab accidents canhappen, NPR found that an accidental release would have required a remarkable series of coincidences and deviations from well-established experimental protocols.
"All of the evidence points to this not being a laboratory accident," says Jonna Mazet, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Davis and director of a global project to watch for emerging viruses called PREDICT.
Rather, the experts interviewed by NPR all believe that the virus was transmitted between animals and humans in nature, as has happened in previous outbreaks — from Ebola to the Marburg virus — and with other known coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS.
The real risk is in the wild in the way people interact with wildlife around the world," says Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance in New York City, a group that researches the origins of pandemics. "That's where we need to be focused if we want to really do something about preventing the next pandemic."
Many questions remain about how, exactly, the coronavirus known officially as SARS-CoV-2 began to spread in people. Its closest genetic cousin so far is another coronavirus found in Chinese horseshoe bats. Researchers believe SARS-CoV-2 likely made its way to people directly through bats or through an intermediate animal. Early focus on the source of the outbreak in Wuhan was on a major seafood market that also sold wild animals, though conclusive evidence proving the market was the origin of the virus has yet to emerge.
Regardless, genetic analysis shows the virus began to spread sometime in the fall or winter of 2019, says Robert Garry, a microbiologist at Tulane University. Those same analyses refuted an earlier theory that the virus was genetically engineered in a laboratory. Garry says the reason is simple — the virus infects people in a way that scientists had never seen before: "The virus is just really too good at what it's doing," he says. "No human using a computer could do this. This is very clearly a natural process that occurred." In addition, he says, there are no signs of human genetic modification in the virus's code.
Although the exact route from nature to people remains a mystery, bats are the likely reservoir for the virus, says Simon Anthony, a researcher at Columbia University who specializes in emerging infectious diseases. Bats are believed to be the carriers of two other coronavirus diseases that can infect people: SARS, which was first identified in Asia in 2003, and MERS, which was first reported in the Middle East in 2012.
An excerpt from the link.
Virus researchers say there is virtually no chance that the new coronavirus was released as result of a laboratory accident in China or anywhere else.
The assessment, made by more than half-a-dozen scientists familiar with lab accidents and how research on coronaviruses is conducted, casts doubt on recent claims that a mistake may have unleashed the coronavirus on the world.
But after corresponding with 10 leading scientists who collect samples of viruses from animals in the wild, study virus genomes and understand how lab accidents canhappen, NPR found that an accidental release would have required a remarkable series of coincidences and deviations from well-established experimental protocols.
"All of the evidence points to this not being a laboratory accident," says Jonna Mazet, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Davis and director of a global project to watch for emerging viruses called PREDICT.
Rather, the experts interviewed by NPR all believe that the virus was transmitted between animals and humans in nature, as has happened in previous outbreaks — from Ebola to the Marburg virus — and with other known coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS.
The real risk is in the wild in the way people interact with wildlife around the world," says Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance in New York City, a group that researches the origins of pandemics. "That's where we need to be focused if we want to really do something about preventing the next pandemic."
Many questions remain about how, exactly, the coronavirus known officially as SARS-CoV-2 began to spread in people. Its closest genetic cousin so far is another coronavirus found in Chinese horseshoe bats. Researchers believe SARS-CoV-2 likely made its way to people directly through bats or through an intermediate animal. Early focus on the source of the outbreak in Wuhan was on a major seafood market that also sold wild animals, though conclusive evidence proving the market was the origin of the virus has yet to emerge.
Regardless, genetic analysis shows the virus began to spread sometime in the fall or winter of 2019, says Robert Garry, a microbiologist at Tulane University. Those same analyses refuted an earlier theory that the virus was genetically engineered in a laboratory. Garry says the reason is simple — the virus infects people in a way that scientists had never seen before: "The virus is just really too good at what it's doing," he says. "No human using a computer could do this. This is very clearly a natural process that occurred." In addition, he says, there are no signs of human genetic modification in the virus's code.
Although the exact route from nature to people remains a mystery, bats are the likely reservoir for the virus, says Simon Anthony, a researcher at Columbia University who specializes in emerging infectious diseases. Bats are believed to be the carriers of two other coronavirus diseases that can infect people: SARS, which was first identified in Asia in 2003, and MERS, which was first reported in the Middle East in 2012.
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