Boris Not About

[teacake44]

Boris sent is lap dog to the Andrew Marr show this morning ( Matt Hancock) to dish out some more bull **** He states their not publishing testing figures at the moment because they want to make sure the figures are right, they've now gone a month without figures, have they not got a calculator ? He also states now after three and a half months that masks make a difference, well well well what about that.

[mushroom25]

I thought Andrew Marr was on compassionate leave?

[THECORBYLOON]

Didn't see the programme but the normal daily figures are here for Friday, shorturl.at/gjITW

[woofgang]

Corbs, link does not work

[teacake44]

10.44 the show still runs with him or without, forget the name of the interviewer who stepped in for Andrew.
Of course Boris will be announcing the reduction from 2 meters too one meter later next week, Boris likes to do , what he see's has the goody bits, and leaves the hard hitting interviews to Hancock, while I've got no time for Hancock he has been left to deal with most of the explaining while Boris hides away.

[Peter Pedant]

some data here
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

the test positive rate in the population is around 0.2% - which is 2 in a thousand and nearish to boris' figure 1 in four thousand

the non political facrs are more imortant
1 it will always be with us
2 there is an animal reservour
3 vaccines are still the answer
4 second wave is a certainty

good interview with Piot ( pee-ott apparently spanish probably) on the Andrew Marr show

[jim360]

The missing figures are the ones that concern how many people have been tested, and they are indeed missing and have been since May 21st (give or take a couple of days). The initial reason given was for validation, but I am surprised that a month later that exercise is still not complete. It's hard not to wonder if the reason is because the "tests carried out/posted out" and "people tested" are significantly divergent, to the point that makes the tests performed close to meaningless.

[Jackdaw33]

Perhaps teacake might be more profitably employed in learning the difference between meter and metre.

[teacake44]

11.54 Is that all you have to offer the thread, bit bored this morning.?

[fiction-factory]

Maybe they should either get some independent body to calculate them or they should just stop publishing any testing figures since they are not sufficiently meaningful - eg some people are tested twice, some tests are sent out but not returned, those posted back go to the company that processes them not to Matt to count. the figures include antibody and antigen tests, etc. I can't see why the figures matter so much now- the key issue is whether everyone is being tested who should be tested.

[fiction-factory]

Oh, and Matt Hancock is the Health Minister so as this is about a pandemic it's not surprising for him to attend these interviews. I expect you'd criticise Hancock of hiding if he didn't attend

[teacake44]

15.02," I can't see why the figures matter so much now ?" they seemed to matter I month ago, that was till they got caught out telling lies, like saying that the test up the nose, and the test in the mouth, was classed has two tests, instead of what it should have been, ONE PERSON tested and completed.

Oh, and yes Matt is the health minister, but he can tell better lies than Cummings, and jumps when Boris presses his button.