Watching the Pandemic - UK

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Compulsory self-isolation if test positive no longer enforced.
24 Feb 2022

Compulsory self-isolation if test positive no longer enforced.
25 Feb 2022

Compulsory self-isolation if test positive no longer enforced.
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
28 Feb 2022

Compulsory self-isolation if test positive no longer enforced.
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
01 Mar 2022

Compulsory self-isolation if test positive no longer enforced.
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
02 Mar 2022

Compulsory self-isolation if test positive no longer enforced.
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
03 Mar 2022

Compulsory self-isolation if test positive no longer enforced.
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
04 Mar 2022

Compulsory self-isolation if test positive no longer enforced.
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
07 Mar 2022

From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
17 Mar 2022

All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
18 Mar 2022

All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
21 Mar 2022

All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
01 Apr 2022

Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends.
04 Apr 2022

All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends.
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All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends.
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All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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All Anti-COVID measures now abolished!
From week-beginning 21 Feb 2022, no updates at the weekends.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Free Testing Abolished! No updates at the weekends/B.Hols.
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Previous 7 Days total cases per 100,000 population

The number of covid-19 cases in the UK is rising again, due to the δ variant. It had been falling steadily until about mid-May but is already some 5,000 cases higher that at the peak of the first wave in April, 2020.

The main reason why hospitalisations and deaths are not rising nearly so sharply as they did then, is due to the vaccination campaign in which just over 80% of adults have had at least one dose and close to 60% have had both.

[update 28 Nov 2021] We now have a new varianr, (ο - omicron) to watch. The question is whether the vaccines will be as effective against it as they have been against α and δ and whther it will be more or less transmissible. The early indication is that it quickly replaced δ in southern Africa so is significantly more transmisible, with 50 mutations, 30 of which are in the gene for the spike protein.

[update 15 Dec 2021] Ο is proving to be far more transmissable that δ with an r number of 2-3 or higher. Cases in UK are now at record levels but serious cases seem to be remaining low (early days yet as there is about 1-2 week lag in being diagnosed and needing hospitalisations, with deaths about a week behind.)

This slideshow uses maps of cases published daily on the UK government Coronavirus UK Summary website. It starts about early April 2021, when I started saving them. An area shown in outline only has missing data.

Slideshows are something which I have been experimenting with for a few weeks and hopefully, I'll be adding some controls to this one in the near future. At the moment is simply recycles back to the first slide when it comes to the end of the list.

I'll be updating it with a new slide each day. A red background indicates the last 7 days.

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Evolution News - Another Creationist Dogma Refuted - Evolution by LOSS of Information!

Pseudoblepharisma tenue with endosymbionts - green algae and purple bacteria

© Sebastian Hess

An unusual symbiosis of a ciliate, green alga, and purple bacterium

One of the problems with Creationism is that, because it is not evidence-based and relies on religious dogma and disinformation, it is constantly having to ignore evidence which refutes those dogmas. Then, as Francis Collins pointed out, if Creationists ever grow up and discover scieence, they feel they have to abandon religion because it has been proved wrong. They also discover they've been lied to from the pulpit and by self-serving liars they were fooled into thinking were honest and giving them good information.

To remain members of the Creationist cult, therefore, Creationists must continue to ignore evidence such as this, or face that awful prospect of having to consider being wrong about everything fundamental to their lives and admit being the victims of unscrupulous frauds.

Nevertheless, the facts are what they are, and the fact in this case is that, contrary to Creationist dogma, evolution can, and does, occur through a loss of information. In fact, this is commonplace in parasitology - which is one reason why Creationists will rarely discuss parasitology.

In a paper recently published open access, in the journal Science Advances, a team of biologists led by Dr. Sebastian Hess from the Institute of Zoology at the University of Cologne, Germany, has discovered an unusual single-celled flagellate organism, Pseudoblepharisma tenue, which has in its body two endosymbiotic organisms, an algae and a previously unknown purple bacterium belonging to the family of so-called ‘purple sulfur bacteria’ (family Chromatiaceae). It was discovered living in the hypoxic sediment in ponds in Simmelried, a moorland near the German city of Konstanz am Bodensee.

Anti-Covid Vaccines Working!

Perhaps better than anything, this graphic from the UK Government Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows the effects of the anti-coronavirus vaccination program.

Starting just before Christmas 2020, the NHS has had a massive drive to get the adult population vaccinated, starting with the most vulnerable then working down through the younger age groups. The most recent age group to be invited to get a vaccine is the 25 year-olds and over.

The UK is currently experiencing a surge in case numbers due to the greater infectivity of the Δ-variant but the number of hospitalisations and deaths remain at substantially lower levels than during the earlier waves. The reason for this is almost certainly the protection against being made seriously ill being given by the vaccines.

The following graphic shows the percentage vaccinated with the first and second dose, together with with the probable anti-body levels over time of different aga groups:

Christian Covidiot News - How Dangerous Covidiots Manipulate With Fear and Superstition

Dr Sherri Tenpenny. Anti-vaxxer and purveyor of Covid-19 disinformation

Ohio Doctor Testifies God Will Disapprove of Christian Lawmakers Who Support Required Vaccinations

According to Newsweek, Dr Sherri Tenpenny is one of 12 people who between them are responsible for 65% of all vaccine disinformation on social media. Nevertheless she was invited to testify before the Ohio House Health Committee.

The Committee was taking evidence concerning Bill 248 which would make it unlawful for an employer to require an employee to have an anti-Covid vaccination and would allow individuals to decline a vaccine on the grounds of medical conditions, reasons of conscience such as religion and natural immunity.