While most people work to get out of the path of hurricanes, geologist and oceanographer Dr. Art Trembanis purposefully heads into the storm in order to gather data on storm surges. #DrainTheOceans
@GC26sag@helenczerski Why is focusing on deaths the answer to that problem. Find any area where there is temporal consistency and report the percentage change. Any single measure - whether deaths or cases, confirmed or otherwise - is a more imperfect picture of the situation than a percentage change
@GC26sag@helenczerski Think Helen’s point is that however flawed your measuring, if the measuring is at least consistent, percentage increase is the only way to get a clear sense of the daily change that can be compared against other countries to see how well UK measures are working
After the Danes yday the Norwegian govt has set out what it will do for workers affected by #COVID19:
🇳🇴 Full pay for those laid off for 20 days.
🇳🇴 Self employed get 80% of their average income the last 3 years - ceiling 600k NOK (£48000).
🇳🇴money for carers of Covid patients.
Jealous of the dog, who will not wake up tomorrow feeling his world of opportunity has been diminished by a colossal act of national self-harm. You’re alright, Archie. Keep dreaming about chasing cats. I’m going to have a dram.
@Aggerscricket who threw the ball in for overthrows? Any chance it was a bit of benevolent pressure-release from an Indian fielder, disguised as trying to get a wicket? Surely even the Indians wanted to see Cook get the ton...