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Another Sun reader. Why not think for yourself instead of letting Murdoch do it for you? You may be able to lose some of your pantomime dame anger and malice.
Oh, I’ve missed out the most important thing. If the planning officer’s recommendation was sound in rules and law, it would have been approved on appeal.
Well, maybe some of the NIMBYs only care about themselves, but there are still a raft of remaining difficulties that cannot just be lawyered away.
For a start, the fact that the lane is coping with articulated lorries at present doesn’t mean that it can cope with a new bunch of cars – the opposite is true.
Secondly, the local surgery has pointed out that they are at operating at capacity and cannot cope with a fresh influx of patients.
Thirdly, the area has already had two new building developments at the pavilion and Old Wrexham road. Whether a NIMBY or not, a local resident can quite reasonably argue that there has been enough development in their back yard.
Fourthly, the cold application of the law doesn’t take account of the perfectly reasonable objection that Green Belt land should be a development choice of last resort. Why not regenerate Brown field sites?
Have I missed anything out?
The Data Protection Act is just an excuse, as the information is anonymised. Good information has always been used to try and keep on top of public health problems. Another example is cancer rates.
If we’ve passed the peak, that by itself isn’t a good reason to ease the lockdown. This ‘novel’ virus is highly contagious, very durable and deadly. It even seems to be viable in the air to some extent. A potential second wave could be even more deadly than the first and rushing things could undo all the good of the present lockdown. If it’s done slowly and carefully, with industrial testing, tracing and isolating, then fair enough.
But if they can’t even get the information right, that doesn’t promise much about their ability to tackle the other issues.
“A hero is someone who doesn’t read the Scum.”
Can’t argue with that. A superhero is someone who uses the Sun as last resort toilet paper.
Indeed, Matt, I have a family member who works in care and she’s very diligent about taking precautions against possible spread.
Re: PPE, it looks like Public Health England is gazumping Wales’ orders. I’m no Plaid supporter, but find the content of Adam Price’s recent Twitter feed very concerning. Firms barring orders from Wales.
This after PHE appeared to jump on Wales’ order for testing kits too. The WAG perhaps should be more vocal about this.
What I find amusing about Councillor X’s offensive ‘appeal to ridicule’ is that, in fact, it is not all that more outlandish than the official theory put forward about this virus’s possible ‘ground zero.’ Namely, that in the Wuhan seafood market, it jumped from horseshoe bat to an intermediate host and then to a human.
We know that viruses can and do mutate and sometimes cross species, but we also know that it is possible to tailor-make viruses with gain-of-function experiments. I refer back to my link above to support that point.
I’m no expert, but this seems incredibly risky to me. That’s probably why they introduced a moratorium on gain-of-function experiments in 2014:
https://www.the-scientist.com/the-nutshell/moratorium-on-gain-of-function-research-36564
However, it seems that this was lifted in 2017:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(18)30006-9/fulltext
And it looks like some experts were also worried about the risks. That and the timing and co-incidences make this nervous reading for me. Let’s hope those trying to beat this virus will consider all theories about the source, in order to succeed.
China, US and possibly others.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985
“Therefore, to examine the emergence potential (that is, the potential to infect humans) of circulating bat CoVs, we built a chimeric virus encoding a novel, zoonotic CoV spike protein—from the RsSHC014-CoV sequence that was isolated from Chinese horseshoe bats1—in the context of the SARS-CoV mouse-adapted backbone.”
Let’s hear from experts, please, I don’t like what I’m reading.
