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Are The Lockdowns Working/How Effective Are They?

As is usually the case, the answers are "possibly" and "fairly, maybe?". But this is also an interesting video to see how statistical analysis can be used to even try to answer the question....
12:26 Thu 23rd Apr 202036 answers, last by 10ClarionSt 19:09 Mon 04th May 2020
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Burglary Rates Plummeting During Lockdown

Should the petty crime industry be the next target for a Government bailout? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8213795/Burglaries-plummet-30-cent-parts-Britain-coronavirus-hit.html...
12:36 Mon 13th Apr 202012 answers, last by teacake44 12:47 Mon 13th Apr 2020
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Covid-19 And The Important Of Testing

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/coronavirus-case-counts-are-meaningless/...
12:21 Sun 05th Apr 202020 answers, last by woofgang 14:10 Sun 05th Apr 2020
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Epidemiology 101

A highly relevant video providing a hopefully easily watchable introduction to how to model disease spread. NB: plenty of disclaimers from the video poster himself. Toy models only. But still highly...
21:58 Fri 27th Mar 20205 answers, last by jim360 16:35 Sun 29th Mar 2020
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Coronavirus In The Us

On its current trajectory, the US will record more confirmed cases than China by Friday, and should pass around 1000 total deaths from Covid-19 at around the same time. Some of this is down to...
22:16 Tue 24th Mar 202037 answers, last by Alex98 15:45 Sat 14th Jan 2023
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Good For Him, I Guess?

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/william-shatner-horse-semen-divorce-settlement...
11:54 Fri 06th Mar 20209 answers, last by shoota 15:02 Fri 06th Mar 2020
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Johnson's "new" Deal

So far so quiet on AB, but since the new Deal* (text available at the bottom) has now been announced, what are people's thoughts?...
11:24 Thu 17th Oct 201932 answers, last by jim360 20:38 Thu 17th Oct 2019
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Early General Election On Its Way?

Looks like TTT might be set to lose his bet...* https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49549960 *Reference to https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1668562.html . If you want to actually make...
12:42 Mon 02nd Sep 201922 answers, last by ichkeria 13:27 Mon 02nd Sep 2019
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Wholesome Video To Brighten The Evening

https://imgur.com/gallery/dwlqWID...
21:52 Wed 14th Aug 20199 answers, last by Mamyalynne 16:55 Thu 15th Aug 2019
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The Purge -- Over Half Of Cabinet To Be Replaced

As I type two more ministers, David Mundell and Claire Perry, and Leader of the House Mel Stride, have stepped down from Cabinet roles, presumably because they were pushed -- joining a long list of...
17:21 Wed 24th Jul 201966 answers, last by ichkeria 07:36 Fri 26th Jul 2019
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The Most Important Story Of The Week

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-49060280 So relieved to hear that all the puppies have been saved, and that potentially the culprit(s) has/have been caught and identified....
12:29 Sun 21st Jul 201921 answers, last by 10ClarionSt 23:12 Mon 22nd Jul 2019
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This Is The True Cost Of Brexit

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7219283/Swedish-mother-50-blames-Brexit-stress-drink-drive-crash-ditch.html Is there any more reason needed to end this disaster? The effects are real. The...
12:19 Sat 06th Jul 201929 answers, last by New Judge 16:12 Sat 06th Jul 2019
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The Continued Us Presence In Afghanistan

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-afghanistan/trump-says-he-is-worried-about-terrorist-attacks-if-us-troops-leave-afghanistan-idUSKCN1TX042 Like Bush and Obama before him, Trump hoped that...
23:34 Tue 02nd Jul 201910 answers, last by jim360 12:38 Wed 03rd Jul 2019
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Should Detained Migrant Children Be At Least Allowed To Sleep?

Let's just start by trying to set one thing aside: the ultimate fate of migrants to the US, whether they should be allowed to stay or not, should really be neither here nor there when it comes to this...
22:44 Sat 22nd Jun 201952 answers, last by andres 14:35 Sun 23rd Jun 2019
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Alabama's State Congress Introduces Law Banning Abortion In (Almost) All Circumstances

First, I want to it clear that this is not really an anti-Trump post: although he's very much delivered anti-abortion messages, repeated lies about late-term abortions, and has likely emboldened many...
13:13 Wed 15th May 201913 answers, last by jim360 22:10 Thu 16th May 2019
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Mayor For Fall River Ousted And Re-Elected At Same Time

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/us/jasiel-correia-mayor-fall-river.html It's hard to know what to make of this story beyond inevitably pointing out the inherent flaw in any first-past-the-post...
00:16 Tue 19th Mar 201936 answers, last by pixie374 15:49 Tue 19th Mar 2019
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Ronnie O'sullivan Has Reached 999 Career Centuries...

in competitive play, at least. And with one more session tonight, needing three frames for victory in the Players' Championship, will he reach 1000 shortly?
16:46 Sun 10th Mar 20196 answers, last by Ken4155 23:14 Sun 10th Mar 2019
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Ireland V. England Six Nations

Spoilers to follow...
21:06 Sat 02nd Feb 201911 answers, last by Togo 12:59 Mon 04th Feb 2019
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If It Takes An Average Man A Week To Walk A Fortnight...

How many apples in a bunch of grapes?
14:04 Fri 01st Feb 201943 answers, last by Peter Pedant 18:51 Fri 01st Feb 2019
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Venezuela Crisis: Trump Backs "opposition" To Maduro

Here's the second Trump thread I was going to start, although as can be seen it's not all about Trump. Two questions, really: Is Maduro, the successor to Chavez and current president, or is Guaido,...
11:57 Sat 26th Jan 201917 answers, last by Peter Pedant 12:29 Mon 28th Jan 2019

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