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I wrote this in response to Owen Jones suggesting we suspend the patents on Covid vaccines. There are real problems with pharma market incentives, but if we want *more* vaccines

I have work to do so naturally I started trying to work out how much of Trump's blood we could give to each person if it turned out his blood

re Oxfam's carbon inequality report, which said the richest 1% accounts for 50% of emissions https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/621052/mb-confronting-carbon-inequality-210920-en.pdf it says "We assume

On @bengoldacre et al's new study, looking at 17 million people to establish risk factors for Covid-19; and why the exciting thing is not the findings but because it shows

The silliness of using *Bill Gates* as an example of billionaires avoiding taxes. Bill Gates! Who has paid tens of billions of dollars in tax! And uses most of his

Some people say things are simple, but I say: what if instead they are complex And perhaps do not fit well into tweets

*damning* towards the end about the "number theatre" of the government's press conferences: "completely embarrassing; we're told lots of big … precise numbers, actually not trustworthy communication of statistics"This BEFO

Really useful NHS England breakdown of death stats, arranged by day of death rather than date of report: seems to suggest we're comfortably past the peak https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-daily-deaths/ (you nee

looked back at 1st thing I wrote about COVID, in Jan. Headline "coronavirus will not be the next Black Death", which is true but kind of downplay-y. I *think* the

OF COURSE the Swedish deputy state epidemiologist looks like this No offence to whitty or vallance but they couldn’t be in Borgen The real public health risk is cutting yourself

I notice that @jessesingal has started tweeting a picture of a pineapple every time he resists the urge to tweet something that will only bring him needless twitter bullshit. In

BY THE WAY, I'm reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin, sequel to Children of Time, on the advice of @psmith, and it is the best science fiction I have read