Day: 5 July 2020

Having fun in Soho on Super Saturday Some people had fun in Soho last night. But crowded streets inevitably led to a lot of alarmist nonesense. The story in the Mail about last night's revels is headlined: "'A second wave won't be long in the making!' Exhausted police officer predicts fresh Covid spike after 'long late shift peppered with pub fights, drunken violence and drunken, drugged-up fools'." A senior police officer has predicted a fresh coronavirus onslaught after confronted with "pub fights, drunken violence and drunken, drugged-up fools" last night.Social distancing was declared to be in tatters today after jubilant drinkers called time on lockdown and descended on the nation's pubs.Cities across Britain were heaving last night on a scale not seen since Boris Johnson ordered bars to shutter over a hundred days ago. Yeah, that won't happen. Everything will be completely fine. They Seek It Here, They Seek It There https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01i19qog8Pw Good piece by Professor David Spiegelhalter in the Observer about how misleading some of the headline figures are. This bit in particular Jumped out: The Office for National Statistics has just reported that the number of people in England testing positive was previously decreasing but has now levelled off. There was some additional modelling, but the raw data comprised “swab tests collected from 23,203 participants, of which 12 ...