New Covid-19 graphs from Christopher Bowyer. ONS data here. NHS England data here. (The ONS data is up to the end of week 38, 18 Sep. The NHS data is generally more recent, see each graph for the date.) All graphs can be clicked to enlarge. England deaths with Covid-19 by absence (yellow) or […]
Andrew Mahon is a writer based in London, who has written for the Spectator, the Daily Wire, Human Life Review, New English Review, Brexit Central, Catholic Journal, Conservative Woman and others. Apparently, there’s a second wave in Canada. Cases are soaring and more quarantine restrictions are needed. More self-isolation, more lockdowns, more social distancing, more […]
Hector Drummond Magazine reader and contributor Christopher Bowyer has done some more Covid-19 test result graphs based on the data at https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/. (All graphs can be clicked to enlarge.) First let’s remind ourselves of the ridiculous graph presented by Vallance and Whitty on September 21 – this version is adjusted to apply to England only […]
My eleven year-old daughter is currently under house arrest. She is not allowed to leave our home to attend school, to exercise, or to visit friends or family. She is not able pop to the shops to spend her pocket money, take her bike for a spin around the park or participate in her (beloved) […]
On Saturday I took my youngest daughter swimming for the first time since March. She’s a bright and loving child but quite nervous and lacks the confidence of her older sister. As such, swimming has been something of an uphill struggle and though she made progress over eighteen months of lessons, these gains naturally fell […]
This is an article by Nick Rendell. nick.rendell@gmail.com When John Ashworth, the Labour Party’s Shadow Health Secretary, was interviewed at 07:35 on September 18th on the Today programme he said “We shouldn’t consider any levels of death acceptable”, and agreed with the interviewer that any economic sacrifice was worth it to save lives. It isn’t […]
To give us all a rest from lockdown on a Sunday morning, here’s a lovely non-lockdown piece from Peter Divey. It made me think of what a wonderful place Britain used to be (and I say that as someone who doesn’t even like perfume). And that got me all depressed about the future we’re heading […]
Mark Ashby is an independent researcher interested in upland and farmland ecology, and evidence synthesis. Leaked documents have revealed the details of Operation Moonshot, the UK governments newly proposed COVID-19 mass testing program1-4. The program involves dramatically increasing testing capacity from the current level of 350,000 COVID-19 tests per day to ten million tests per […]
New Covid-19 graphs from Christopher Bowyer. ONS data here. NHS England data here. (The ONS data is up to the end of week 37, 11 Sep. The NHS data is generally more recent, see each graph for the date.) All graphs can be clicked to enlarge. England deaths with Covid-19 by absence (yellow) or […]
“Freedom is only ever one generation away from extinction”. Ronald Reagan It really started for us with pictures of overrun hospital wards in Lombardy and Madrid. True, we had seen similar images from Wuhan a month or two earlier, but that is a place no one had previously heard of, and seemed very distant and […]
Hector Drummond Magazine reader and contributor Christopher Bowyer has done some more Covid-19 test result graphs. Given the urgency of the situation at the moment these are very recent, they are from yesterday’s update at coronavirus.data.gov.uk. (All graphs can be clicked to enlarge.) The first one looks at Covid-19 positive tests (blue), Covid hospital admissions […]
Joshua is a 57 year old who has done a variety of jobs ranging from court reporter, photojournalist, civil servant and assorted filler manual jobs. He currently runs the fahrenheit211.net site where he writes about politics, religion, Islamic extremism, and culture. Anybody who has a modicum of intelligence and who can understand basic data and […]
Hector Drummond Magazine reader and contributor Christopher Bowyer has done some more graphs using data from coronavirus.data.gov.uk. (Graphs can be clicked to enlarge.) The first one looks at Covid-19 positive tests (blue), Covid hospital admissions (green), and Covid deaths (red) for England. You can see that there’s been a slight increase in hospital admissions since […]
I’ve noticed an increase in the misleading use of log graphs. This is a graph where the numbers on the vertical y-axis follow a logarithmic rather than a linear scale. To cut a long story short, the numbers on this axis go up far more rapidly than they do on a normal graph. This is […]
New Covid-19 graphs from Christopher Bowyer. ONS data here. NHS England data here. (The ONS data is up to the end of week 36, 4 Sep. The NHS data is generally more recent, see each graph for the date.) All graphs can be clicked to enlarge. England deaths with Covid-19 by absence (yellow) or […]
For a bit of Friday night fun, let us take a look at John and Edward Grimes, who are back in the news for calling out various celebrities for being ‘Covidiots’. (I was almost going to say ‘fellow celebrities’, until I remembered it’s not 2010 any more.) Now, I am not for one minute suggesting […]
Mark Ashby is an independent researcher interested in upland and farmland ecology, and evidence synthesis. A couple of weeks ago, you may have noticed the stream of headlines suggesting that the refusal to wear a face mask is linked to sociopathy or sociopathic tendencies1-8. These headlines were written in response to the findings of a […]
Christopher has sent me another graph, this one looks at Covid-19 positive tests (blue), Covid hospital admissions (green), and Covid deaths (red) for England. Data from https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ If you can see the black plague in there you have better eyesight than me. (“But wait two weeks!” is the endless-loop response this sort of graph gets […]
Much has been made of WHO’s change of mind on the use of masks in June, which is said by many to have been a game-changer. However, the relevant WHO document, ‘Advice on the use of masks in the context of COVID-19 Interim guidance’, is anything but decisive. It says (on p. 6): There is […]
New Covid-19 graphs from Christopher Bowyer. ONS data here. NHS England data here. (The ONS data is up to the end of week 35, 28 August. The NHS data is generally more recent, see each graph for the date.) All graphs can be clicked to enlarge. England deaths with Covid-19 by absence (yellow) or […]