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We should all take every article with a huge pinch of salt....it was only a month or so ago that media were reporting that more men in China were dying of Corona-virus because so many of the male population smoke there. The issue is no-one really knows much about what works, or doesn't work, with this virus.


Also there is a lot of noise about flights still coming in but only about 10% of flights are still running, most are desolate, many are carrying nothing but cargo (they are covering the seats with netting to load cargo instead of passengers) and some are re-repatriation flights (we saw a plane heading over East Dulwich towards Heathrow a week or so ago which was, I think, Trident Airlines - not an airline anyone would have heard of before it had been chartered to bring people back from Florida).


One thing to say about Trump is that his nightly press conferences, which have become must-watch in our house, are pure comedy gold; it's by far the most entertaining thing on TV (just a shame the subject matter is so serious)...last night's entry to which The Standard's article refers should have been entitled When Science and a Deluded Narcissist Collide.

Chick Wrote:

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> evilmanic Wrote:

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> > Just out of interest, what are your views on

> 5G?

> > And how it relates (or doesn't) to Covid-19?

> >

> >

> It doesn't have anything to do with Covid-19.


Unfortunately the more secrecy the more people will believe in conspiracy theories.


We're slamming China for initial secrecy but then suddenly our government goes quiet - I can see why that makes suspicious people wonder.

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