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Every single tree lining that road in 1902 gone and not replaced by 2015.

Flu is short for influenza so perhaps the apostrophes are intended to indicate the existence of missing characters?

"Singapore has recorded some fully vaccinated locals getting Covid-19, but none of them have had serious symptoms."

Fully vaccinated people are hospitalised in the UK every day. Some of them die. I think this sentence misleads.

Vaccines do work but their effectiveness is not and was never expected to be 100%.

I don't understand the point or popularity of the pickup. It's like a van except no roof so your luggage gets wet if it rains.

I suppose it just rains less in America.

Absolutely the same. Some people just naturally improve when iterating on something (for me, coding is this way) while other just stay at "incompetent" forever - for me, most other activities such as DIY, playing guitar, cooking, and so on.

I always fail to remember this when getting frustrated at programmers who don't seem to improve

Right but this suggests those things might be for your benefit when it looks to me like they're for team cohesion ie for the employers benefit. There's nothing wrong with that unless they're trying to portray those things as being for your benefit!

Do you mean underlies instead of belies? I'm having trouble parsing the meaning of your first sentence.

But getting bothered, angry and proving someone wrong on the internet ARE my own projects. What would I do without them? :/

Ex-primary teacher here. At any one time a certain percentage of kids in the class would be off sick, it was a given. So the curriculum doesn't proceed linearly but more like a helix: it circles around and around the same topics year by year with each child being supported to learn at the level they are - always a broad range in any one class.

So it's in my experience totally untrue to suggest that any child would have to "catch up" any learning missed due to sickness (and also reveals that schools are talking bollocks when they suggest that taking a few days off to go on holiday during termtime will have any noticeable adverse effect, but shhhh)

Rather than keeping all your other expenditures the same and reducing your savings outgoings by 100% each month, what about reducing all your expenditures by 20%?

Unless your income and outgoings have been fixed at their exact current levels for your whole life, there's nothing magical about their current values and they could change?

There's the 'school closures' lever still to pull.

Then there's things like only being allowed out of your house once a day for exercise.

And maybe if your work can't be done from home you're paid to stay home and not do it unless it's an essential service?

Key things are

1. This is only for a short and bounded time while we roll out vaccine 2. We need to get numbers down so that vaccine rollout isn't impinged

Is this for a vaccine that confers sterilizing immunity (ie, prevents infection and therefore onward transmission, as well as preventing severe disease)?

I don't believe we yet have evidence that any covid vaccine provides this. I've only read that any vaccine prevents disease or hospitalization.

I've tried a number of these activities. What I've found is that most if not all the ones I've tried require and imply screen time. I go down rabbit holes of scrolling phone for the perfect sofa, the perfect cycling jersey, the best mountain airbnb, and so on.

The only real way to escape smartphones is to live a 1970s life where the only things you know come from other people or the radio/tv. I have a slight yen to try this but I can't bear to actually try it. It would be like cutting off a limb. I'd be so information poor.

It behaves exactly the same, but faster (is the current working assumption based on limited research so far).

So the "problems" it is causing is just that EITHER more stringent restrictions of the same kind are required to contain it OR if uncontained healthcare will be overwhelmed more quickly.

So problems of degree not of kind.

He means as it is more transmissible (but yes, apparently by the same routes and mechanisms) we need to tighten restrictions.

A rhetorician would call these different "methods" of attack but you're right that in fact they're merely different degrees of the same method.

"Lost your job during COVID? You could be eligible for a complientary copy"

Do I get a complientary copy for proofreading your copy? Like a sort of bug bounty if you like :D

"The coronavirus is the cause of about 20% of colds." and "0.2% of cold viruses are coronaviruses" aren't necessarily mutually exclusive statements