Health Secretary Matt Hancock has admitted he is "concerned" after the daily number of UK coronavirus cases reached its highest level since May.
Official figures show 2,988 new COVID-19 infections were reported in a 24-hour period.
It is a large rise on Saturday's figure of 1,813 infections.
With positive test results being described as infections, a sense of masturbatory panic seems to be wafting through the ministerial air like a sweaty attempt to raise some kind of erection. Not that I know anything about that, but there is an embarrassing discrepancy between hardly any coronavirus deaths and official efforts to keep the drama pumped up via the somewhat opaque world of test results.
Wasn’t there something about a lost sense of smell being symptomatic? Maybe the inability to be embarrassed is a symptom of something too. Unfortunately we are so familiar with it that we don’t notice when our political leaders display the symptoms.
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I would have thought that if they need more infections, then they just need to ramp up the testing. Particularly among students, who are a good untapped source. There are two main difficulties, though. Deaths are far harder to fabricate; and the general public will soon start to ask why they should fear having an infection.
It's interesting, too, that our online microbiologist - Legiron - asserts that the test procedure will give positives from dead or fractional DNA. How 4king convenient . . .
It's all a bit toxic now - politicians, scientists, statisticians, doctors, pandemic specialists, all disagreeing and muddying the waters.
Maggie would have sorted all this by now, she'd have nuked the lot...
Sam - it's all very fishy, but politicians make everything look fishy which could even be misleading.
Jannie - yes the tests seems to be dubious and not fully standardised.
Scrobs - she would also have understood the science.
Ivor Cummins does a neat dissertation on the stats.
https://youtu.be/8UvFhIFzaac
Bill - that's a useful video. It isn't easy to understand why we are still being lied to unless we treat the whole thing as an entirely political softening up process. Could still be stupidity of course, but this seems to go beyond stupidity.
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