Now we see this headline & story
Coronavirus: Alarm as crowds flock to European beaches
Coo - people who have been locked up in their homes for weeks want to get out in the sun and go the seaside, I would never have believed it ;-)

But Prof James Wilsdon, an expert in science policy, at the University of Sheffield, says the lines between evidence-based science and politics are becoming "very blurred" and this will increase "as we try and tiptoe our way out of lockdown".

Politicians know what's best for us. :-)

Col Gianluca Angelini of the financial police said they had discovered "a true centre of power… in which dishonest public officials,
unscrupulous businessmen and entrepreneurs are willing to do anything to obtain contracts worth millions".

"These are unprecedented times and we must recognise that this crisis will not disappear overnight," said Woodward.

State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell believes that the comparison is difficult and that the Swedish figure must be compared with other aspects.
- On the one hand, deaths per day have been picked, which we know is extremely variable in Sweden. We have deaths that range between four and 140, so that is not a relevant figure to take, and partly that the countries are at completely different stages in the spread of infection, he said during Wednesday's press conference.
- Looking at a week somewhere gives no clue as to who has succeeded more or less well with different measures.

Why have over the past week, Sweden has had the highest average death rate in the world, in terms of population, according to statistics from Our world in data.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/sverige-har-hogst-coronadodstal-per-invanare

State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell believes that the comparison is difficult and that the Swedish figure must be compared with other aspects.
- On the one hand, deaths per day have been picked, which we know is extremely variable in Sweden. We have deaths that range between four and 140, so that is not a relevant figure to take, and partly that the countries are at completely different stages in the spread of infection, he said during Wednesday's press conference.
- Looking at a week somewhere gives no clue as to who has succeeded more or less well with different measures.

The Telegraph reports "Sweden becomes country with highest coronavirus death rate per capita"

Why have over the past week, Sweden has had the highest average death rate in the world, in terms of population, according to statistics from Our world in data.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/sverige-har-hogst-coronadodstal-per-invanare

State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell believes that the comparison is difficult and that the Swedish figure must be compared with other aspects.
- On the one hand, deaths per day have been picked, which we know is extremely variable in Sweden. We have deaths that range between four and 140, so that is not a relevant figure to take, and partly that the countries are at completely different stages in the spread of infection, he said during Wednesday's press conference.
- Looking at a week somewhere gives no clue as to who has succeeded more or less well with different measures.

The Telegraph reports "Sweden becomes country with highest coronavirus death rate per capita"

UK scientists are to begin testing a treatment that it is hoped could counter the effects of Covid-19 in the most seriously ill patients.
It has been found those with the most severe form of the disease have extremely low numbers of an immune cell called a T-cell.
T-cells clear infection from the body.
The clinical trial will evaluate if a drug called interleukin 7, known to boost T-cell numbers, can aid patients' recovery.
It involves scientists from the Francis Crick Institute, King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital.
They have looked at immune cells in the blood of 60 Covid-19 patients and found an apparent crash in the numbers of T-cells.
Prof Adrian Hayday from the Crick Institute said it was a "great surprise" to see what was happening with the immune cells.

"They're trying to protect us, but the virus seems to be doing something that's pulling the rug from under them, because their numbers have declined dramatically.
In a microlitre (0.001ml) drop of blood, normal healthy adults have between 2,000 and 4,000 T-cells, also called T lymphocytes.

The Covid patients the team tested had between 200-1,200.

Isn't that just the same as I posted in https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84230&postid=2049909#2049909

The Telegraph reports "Sweden becomes country with highest coronavirus death rate per capita"

The Guardian today has a strong article about one group of distributors: Agency staff were spreading Covid-19 between care homes, PHE found in April. So far, I've only seen the front page part of that story in a newspaper review: I'm heading out to the shop now to pick up the whole paper, to see if it names the seeder on page 6.

I have a recurring nightmare - and this is purely fictional, from my brain alone - that while Boris Johnson was safely tucked up in isolation/hospital, Dominic Cummings secretly crept out at night to seed the care homes. Reason? - everybody who has looked at the much-needed future reform of the British care system has shuddered at the cost, and put the file back on the shelf for the next government to deal with. So, let coronavirus cull the current occupants: no one will dare to move into the vacant rooms: the fees will dry up: the management will go bankrupt: Dom and his friends will be able to buy them up cheap in the resulting fire sale: and make a killing (sorry!) from the increased fees they'll be able to charge for the 'enhanced biosecurity' they'll be able to boast about when we've all forgotten about this and the next age-group need to be housed.

Please tell me it's not true.