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If there's one tiny thing I do respect Johnson for, (other than actually finally, belatedly agreeing to lockdown - some of his party colleagues would have said no, awaiting that magical herd immunity), it's his refusal to get a sneaky regulation-breaking haircut. He's wearing that mop like a champ, even if he's always had a mop.
 
Brigantium said:
If there's one tiny thing I do respect Johnson for, (other than actually finally, belatedly agreeing to lockdown - some of his party colleagues would have said no, awaiting that magical herd immunity), it's his refusal to get a sneaky regulation-breaking haircut. He's wearing that mop like a champ, even if he's always had a mop.
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Not getting a haircut and as a result end up wearing such a mop is a helpful way to hide a receding hair...
 
Black Wizard said:
Lock them up in Spain then.
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And throw the key? :lol:

This reminds me of discussing the following with a colleague 2 years ago:

www.independent.co.uk

More than 1,200 British football hooligans blocked from going to the World Cup

Police are undertaking efforts to root out the 58 remaining passports to make sure they are not able to travel to the football tournament
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk

He was completely against that measure and argued that they should be allowed to travel, but not to return to the UK. :lol:
 
Brigantium said:
If there's one tiny thing I do respect Johnson for, (other than actually finally, belatedly agreeing to lockdown - some of his party colleagues would have said no, awaiting that magical herd immunity), it's his refusal to get a sneaky regulation-breaking haircut. He's wearing that mop like a champ, even if he's always had a mop.
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He's never given a shit about how ridiculous his hair looks. I remember around the time he was campaigning to become Mayor of London he was asked about his hair and people making jokes about it. This was around the same time as the initial London 2012 logo was publicized, but had to be swiftly changed because the animated/video version was inducing epileptic seizures in some people. So when Boris was asked about his hair he said something like "Well it hasn't given anyone a seizure has it"? :lol:

That hair is sort of a family trait. His father has quite luxurious locks too.
 
As 'practising what you preach' statements go, it's quite a good image at this time. He really does look a mess, as opposed to quirky. Lots is being made on social media of footballers, newsreaders and politicians having what looks like newly cut and styled hair.
 
One of the BBC commentators at the weekend made that observation too. He remarked that Andros Townsend seems to be the only footballer who doesn't live with a hairdresser. I guess one or two of the physios at the club's training ground might be a dab hand with the clippers, but it does look suspicious.
 
Black Wizard said:
One of the BBC commentators at the weekend made that observation too. He remarked that Andros Townsend seems to be the only footballer who doesn't live with a hairdresser. I guess one or two of the physios at the club's training ground might be a dab hand with the clippers, but it does look suspicious.
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Some of my students have been solving that problem with DIY haircuts and the results have been satisfactory as far as I can tell (via teleconference). That being said, they are probably smarter than your average footballer...
 
Brigantium said:
As 'practising what you preach' statements go, it's quite a good image at this time. He really does look a mess, as opposed to quirky. Lots is being made on social media of footballers, newsreaders and politicians having what looks like newly cut and styled hair.
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Perhaps the decision to stop the UK government daily briefings from today (number of deaths equal to 171) is an excuse to pop to the hairdresser's without the public then having the opportunity to notice the change! ;)
 
The more being tried the better.

The Oxford/AstraZeneca one has come in for some criticism as it's estimated to be only partly effective. At least some if not all of the monkeys it was tested on did come down with Covid when exposed to the virus, (although none of them developed pneumonia), and they were euthanased after something like 13 days, so nobody knows what the longer-term impact would be. Maybe these individual animals just wouldn't have developed pneumonia anyway, as not every human with Coivd does, and the vaccine may not have made a difference. Or maybe the onset was delayed. It looks like it was also tested on a very small number of animals before it was moved to the next phase. Another criticism I read suggested that although it may help protect the lower respiratory system against the virus, it might not protect against those cases where the the virus causes brain damage.

The initial animal testing of the Sinovac one being developed in China also had its flaws, apparently - to do with quantity of virus the test animals were exposed to, and exactly where they received the innoculuation and the infection. (The test animals in both trials were getting something a lot more invasive than than shots in the arm).

Edit: just read an article on Imperial College London's website, and this is a completely different type of vaccine to the Oxford and Sinovac ones, an RNA vaccine. There haven't previously been any RNA vaccines licensed for use on humans, although several are under development for Coronavirus, including I believe the leading US vaccine under trial.
 
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I read everything on the WHO's website about vaccine and treatment trials, before they shut that part off - traffic was getting too high with nosy non-academic types reading it, possibly.

RNA vaccines are a tad scary because they're totally new, and we don't really know how how the human body will react. However, I'm led to believe that it could revolutionise the development of vaccines in future, as they can be produced a lot quicker than conventional dead or inactivated virus vaccines, and can also be developed more quickly in general. But 2021 is the target date for Imperial College's vaccine. Oxford's could be ready from September 2020.
 
Shit is hitting the fan in Murica again - Texas had 5996 new cases yesterday and Florida 8942. Both states were beginning to reopen too.
 
I've seen the news on tv and they have showed what is happening in UK. Liverpool fans celebrating a won football match like crazy. All together without respect social distancing and without wearing masks. The same in a beach at south of England that was full of people who travel in train like sardines and another celebration in London with people without masks and dancing in parks and streets. No police or control anywhere. That shocked me a little bit to be honest.

Italy, France and Spain are having some cases like these.

The borders are open and the virus can travel everywhere. This could be turn in a disaster again
 
Especially when it's sunny. Arseholes.

There's more than one vaccine being trialled on volunteers. The one in that BBC article seems to be the first human trials of Imperial College London's new RNA vaccine. Another, developed by Oxford University, started testing on humans a while ago. Signs of slight fever are said to be an expected side effect of that one.

I don't think either of these are being tested in Russia or China, though. China has had a vaccine in human testing stage for quite a while now. That's a similar type to the Oxford vaccine (made from a modified cold virus, plus the coronavirus spike protein). I think an American company has also taken an RNA vaccine into human trials.
 
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