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Understand viral dose and viral load. The government response has turned NHS frontline staff into viral suicide bombers.

6 April 2020

A lot of current medical discussion revolves around viral load, which is the amount of virus within an infected person’s body. This can determine the severity of symptoms if they develop the disease as well as their level of viral shedding, i.e. the amount of virus in their excreta (for SARS-CoV-2, their mucus). Those with […]

Downfall – a government awaits its fate. Your 14 days are almost up.

5 April 2020

This strapline is a variation of ‘a nation awaits its fate’ from the film Downfall. Even if you haven’t seen the rather excellent film, you have probably seen one of the myriad video parodies spawned by one particular scene (clue: it will include a roundabout or road in your area that gets really congested). As […]

Professor Graham Medley 1 Professor Chris Shifty 0

4 April 2020

You will do no doubt recognise Professor Chis Shitty Shifty. He is the government’s chief medical officer and the buffoon who keeps appearing on our television to tell us to stay indoors else our bodily odour will kill everyone on sight. Yes, that’s the man (used in the loosest meaning of the word): dressed in […]

The difference between infectability and detectability.

4 April 2020

A virus requires a host to survive. Unlike a bacterium, which can survive on its own quite happily for ages, a virus needs a living environment. In this respect it is parasitic although it is not a parasite. There is much speculation about the length of time SARS-CoV-2 can survive on its own, whether in […]

And for my next trick…

3 April 2020

Once you have started down the path of lying, in order to maintain the charade then the misdirection has to increase both in frequency and intensity, as a greater level of lie is required to justify the increasing disconnect between the truth and what you are masquerading is the truth. Have you noticed that on […]

Words to worry and confuse you

2 April 2020

We had the ‘war on terror’ and over a period of year most people came to understand that you cannot fight against an abstract concept or inter-subjective reality as if it were the military force of an opposing state massed on your borders. You may make a belief system ineffective and even kill its self-proclaimed […]

United Kingdom mortality rate

1 April 2020

The current COVID-19 mortality rate in the UK is 26 people per million population. That is 0.0026%. This figure will no doubt increase but bear in mind that the vast majority of deaths are from underlying health condition exacerbated by the presence of the disease or from upper respiratory tract infection caused by the disease. […]

It doesn’t look good in Europe

1 April 2020

Currently 22 of the 31 countries & territories with a mortality rate above the worldwide average are in Europe. That’s 71% and surely is more than a coincidence? Usually, countries without access to advanced healthcare and medication are more adversely impacted by a disease but with SARS-CoV-2 the data seems to suggest the opposite. A […]

The next named rainy interlude is Storm Overexaggeration

30 March 2020

The excessive and incorrect implementation of health & safety coupled with a blame culture have created a risk-averse society where warnings simply have to be issued for everything. Have you noticed that when a new office or shop is built and opens, the first thing that happens is lots of notices and signs have to […]

How many people do you know who have already had SARS-CoV-2?

26 March 2020

A rather distinct although not unique characteristic of COVD-19 – either in the disease itself or the body’s immune system response to it – is the effect on the gustatory or olfactory system. If your sense of smell or taste has recently changed or in the case of the latter you experienced a genuine loss […]