Freedom
July 19, 2021•8 words
just another word for nothing left to lose
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Isolation
July 18, 2021•314 words
Sajid Javid has CV19, despite having had both his vaccinations. Perhaps because the AstraZeneca vaccine is not very effective against some variants, and in particular it's probably not effective enough to get R below 1 even if everyone is vaccinated1.
And of course Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have been notified by the NHS app that they should self-isolate, since they've been in meetings with him (obviously they don't use Zoom like everyone else in the world).
But they're not going to self-i...
Read postPingdemic
July 23, 2021•167 words
Apparently there is now a 'pingdemic', caused by the various CV19 proximity apps sending out large numbers of notifications.
This term is dangerous: If the proximity apps ever told people anything useful about their exposure, they still do: the virus is not in the business of listening to the Johnsonites when they declare the pandemic over. So if the apps are pinging a large number of people that's because a large number of people, in fact, have been exposed. 'Pingdemic' implies that, someho...
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