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@snowychap @Awol In fairness, if you read the quotes from Professor Shattock, he’s talking generally about the world wide effort to find one and that the virus ‘isn’t changing much’ - he only ‘hoped’ that it might be one of the two being worked in here. The Oxford professor was different, she was talking specifically about their vaccine, so yes I can understand why she’d be positive about it. They already had the funding by then though, so no need for a further sales pitch.

The teams working on them here in the UK seem quite confident? https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-vaccine-latest-london-trial-a4420941.html There was also an interview with a professor from Oxford on the BBC the other night too and she was ‘80% confident’ that the initial vaccine they are working on will work and be ready for September.

I’d always heard it told as a Hammer, WD-40 and Duct tape. If it moves and it shouldn’t - Duct tape If it doesn’t move and it should - WD40 Everything else - hit it with the Hammer

Very decent indeed. The “I didn’t need to be corrected” bit on testing was particularly delicious. Early days and Raab has the brain power of an amoeba, but promising none the less. Johnson won’t fair well with forensic, fact-based questioning - he needs to stick with this.

1st Episode did not disappoint. It’s proper good.

Interesting points from that ‘study’ 368 patients treated, all male, median age over 65 and from what I can tell, they were all seriously ill. interesting to note the point about black people and the ongoing wider concern that it’s hitting that demographic harder. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v1.full.pdf

That’s about as reliable as the dodgy ‘trial’ that started the whole Trump miracle cure debacle in the first place. Haphazard at best and not yet peer reviewed. As I said the other day, the US media is an unreliable source of info for drug trials at the moment as it’s become a political point scoring exercise on both sides. There are a decent number of proper clinical and other treatment programmes underway now that will provide much better data and proper, reportable outcomes. This is one to keep your eye on. https://www.recoverytrial.net/

I hope you’re ok mate. Apologies if the piss-take misfired, it wasn’t my intention.

The Stranger on Netflix is basically a bang average ITV drama - wish I hadn’t bothered War Of The Worlds (The new Fox TV/Canal+ version with Gabriel Byrne) - wish I hadn’t bothered with this either. Slow, dull and utterly boring. These are prime examples of why I don’t usually let the Mrs pick the shows we watch, everything she chooses is shite.

I’m amazed you made it through the 1st season of manifest! I’ve seen primary school plays with better acting, I couldn’t believe how bad it was! Premise of the show was great, but my McGrath, it was terrible. I’ve not signed up for Apple, not even the 30 day trial as yet. Considering who they are and the kind of money they can chuck at it, their launch programmes look very ‘meh’ at best to me. The Morning Show, See and For All Mankind look ‘ok’ and The Banker with Samuel L Jackson and Anthony Mackie looks decent, but compared to the competition, it’s a pretty weak library at the moment.

I’m 3 episodes into Doom Patrol. I like it, it’s quirky and reminds me a bit of Umbrella Academy. Going to give that Counterpart a go too, looks decent. They are both on ‘Starz Play’ on Amazon Prime, along with a few other decent bits.

And I salute her for it, she’s doing God’s work.

When you’re finished, go for Warrior next if you haven’t seen it. It’s made by the same peeps that did Banshee and it’s top stuff. Definitely has the same vibe.

Dr Hilary and some bloke I saw on Sky the other day said no, there is no additional risk. That being said, I’ve seen something else recently where they reckon a ‘cough cloud’ (area of output from a cough) can spread much further and hang around longer than previously though (indoors) and the recommended 2m social distancing might not be enough. I suppose there’s is a chance you could get it if you walk into someone’s vape/Fag cloud and inhale it? Now there is this thing with masks too where the ‘consensus’ seems to be shifting from them not being effective and we shouldn’t wear them, to we should be wearing them when out and on public transport. I’m not exactly confident in the advice being dished out tbh!

Coming soon to VT Premium: Decoding @Brumerican

Were you baked when you posted this, because this is the kind of post I regularly delete around midnight when I’m battered?! Some of the ‘previous content’ I’ve cleared when it saves a draft post in a thread is amazing.

Cut my own hair today lads. Time for a cool sharp Harp.

That’s a shame, I was going to give this a look after your post on it the other day. It looks stunning.

It’s proper hard work at the moment, so extensions are about the only thing we can do. I run our used leasing operation, as well as a bit on the new side, and all the suppliers have shutdown. I have used cars in stock ready to go that can’t be delivered, others that need a bit of refurb and a pipeline of returns that we can’t collect. We have offers on new stuff, but dealers are closed and fleet centres are barely operational, so all we are doing is quoting and getting people to credit stage. IMO, some of the manufactures and suppliers shut up shop too soon, when they didn’t need to. Plenty of key workers needing vehicles and with a bit of nous, dealers could have stayed operational for leasing/broker sales - social distancing would be a piece of piss.

Seems a very odd stance to me, we are actively contacting customers with 6 months or less left on their lease and offering some very attractive extension pricing (circa 25% reduction on original contract rental if extended for 12 months)

Really hard to predict. I work in leasing and used car values are tanking at the moment, which causes an issue for our valuation teams when trying to predict a sensible RV curve. We are holding our nerve at the moment, but not sure what will happen o er the next few weeks. There will be a surge in demand when things start to get ‘better’, but supply might not catch up for a while (supply was already under pressure due to relatively weak demand and huge changes in emission testing), depending on where cars are in the supply chain. There will absolutely be some ‘deals’ to be had, especially if dealers had some pre-reg in for March, but I don’t think you’ll see a wholesale reduction in pricing, it might go slightly the other way.

Yes! I knew we'd get a sequel lads

Wait until episode 6.