@Balrog99 in relation to Covid-19 in Africa, there are a number of potential explanations for the low death rate and no-one seems sure of the impact from each of these. The far younger population is … (View Post)

I do believe the Chinese numbers. It's pretty clear that social distancing works - that was very apparent in the UK when a runaway epidemic (numbers doubling every 2-3 days) was arrested from day 1 o… (View Post)

Testing & tracing only works well with low numbers, so you really need to use restrictions first to keep/beat the virus down to the point you can then manage it. The UK briefly just about got to … (View Post)

I noted the other day that I thought that US influence was less internationally than it had been. That's mainly down to the spill-over from the behavior of Trump himself being perceived as something … (View Post)

On the topic of what courts might do, I was interested to see that the Polish supreme court has just decided that abortion is essentially illegal. Poland already had extremely tough laws against abor… (View Post)