Markwadsworth

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• YPP's Proposals - How to Deal with the Corona Virus Crisis

  Joint effort by TBH and me, cross-posted from here. -------------------------- Our proposals would achieve various things which the government's do not: -... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2020 DEBATE

• Yes, That's Nineteen Individual Tragedies, But,,,

  From the BBC: Thousands of people in the UK have now died with coronavirus, including doctors, nurses, surgeons and other NHS workers. Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2020 DEBATE

• Weekly Deaths, England & Wales, 2018 to 2020 (weeks 1 to 13)

  

  Statistics from ons.gov.uk I will update this monthly. Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2020 DEBATE

• "Australia's Fire-Ravaged Forests Are Recovering. Ecologists Hope It Lasts"

  

  From an article at npr.org from a couple of weeks ago. Well worth a read. The trees are doing what they've evolved to Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2020 DEBATE

• It's Worse Than I Thought - Leaving Your Own Home is Now Basically a Crime.

  From http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/made: STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 2020 No. 350 PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND The Health Protection (Coronavirus,... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2020 DEBATE

• Driving for the Sake of Driving is Apparently Not an "essential Journey"

  The lock down rules have the aim of reducing person-to-person contact as far as possible. Misguided or not, that's a clear enough basic principle. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2020 DEBATE

• "Basic Income During Quarantine: The Only Way To Avoid Societal Collapse"

  John McCone explains on his blog why only Basic Income, Combined With Freezes In Rent, Mortgage and Debt Payments Can Stave Off Calamity. This is not the usual... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2020 DEBATE

• Fun with Numbers

  

  The clever bit is... 1. Call the four numbers a, b, c and d. 2. One of the answers is a x c (2) and one of them is b x d (6). Multiply these up is a x b x c x... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2020 DEBATE

• Fun With Numbers - the NHS

  From the BBC: The government has confirmed that 2,000 NHS frontline staff out of half a million in England have been tested for coronavirus since the outbreak... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2020 DEBATE

• This Shut Down Does Have Its Upsides...

  

  Tesco Edmonton, a couple of days ago. It might have gone up or down since then: Surprisingly, the petrol stations in my area, which are always about 10p/litre... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2020 DEBATE

• "Supporting the Housing Market"

  From the BBC: On Tuesday, Nationwide - one of the UK's biggest lenders - effectively pulled out of new deals... Nationwide will now only offer home loans to... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2020 DEBATE

• Wishful Thinking by the Eurosceptics... but It Would Be Ironic If It Happened

  From The Daily Mail: Coronavirus could mark the end of the EU 'European project' if member states cannot agree to share rescue package debt, the bloc's economic... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2020 DEBATE

• Fun with Numbers - Flattening the Curve

  

  Numberphile did an interesting video on the models they use to predict the spread of viruses: I reverse engineered their spreadsheet with a few basic assumption... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2020 DEBATE

• Every Day Feels Saturday; Every Evening Feels Like Friday.

  I find this whole 'working from home' and 'lock down' experience strange, but not totally unpleasant. Obviously, I'm not sure that the government will come to... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2020 DEBATE

• Folllowing on from Our Hosts Post

  

  How about this. If you are going to design a simple minimalist sports car, using readily available mechanical parts, you always seem to end up here - and this i... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2020 DEBATE

• A Coincidence? I Think Not.

  

  They haven't shut the petrol stations yet, so for the time being, the only fun thing left to do is driving round. Roads are empty, petrol's cheap. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2020 DEBATE

• Jap Crap - Car Review

  

  There's not much else going on right now, so I'll review these: They are all brilliant, whichever one I'm driving feels like the best. I'm no expert of course,... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2020 DEBATE

• "Coronavirus Deaths: What We Don't Know"

  An excellent article at the BBC, which has saved me the bother of writing something like this myself. Worth reading in full, the upshot seems to be this: But... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2020 DEBATE

• Killer Arguments Against Citizen's Income, Not (26)

  Just to remind us that it's not just the authoritarian Right but the authoritarian Left who are digging their heels in. From The Morning Star: For years the... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2020 DEBATE

• When Life is Funnier Than Satire

  From The Daily Mash: ANYONE who does not live in a detached house will be barred from shopping in Waitrose during the coronavirus crisis. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2020 DEBATE