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[CheeseSlice]

God help us all.

When I saw that slide and the mountain graph with no X or Y axis, I knew that Sage and "the science" have been sidelined.

[jamesbrown]

When I saw that slide and the mountain graph with no X or Y axis, I knew that Sage and "the science" have been sidelined.

I assume they mean to convey that the 5-category warning level takes into account both the R number (the number of people that one person infects, which is not a rate) and the existing number infected. What they've done is taken a concept and passed it through a mathematical cretin filter. I think it says a lot about the parlous state of mathematical education in this country that (presumably) quite a few people laid eyes on this and saw nothing wrong (or didn't feel confident to say it).

[Old Greg]

I assume they mean to convey that the 5-category warning level takes into account both the R number (the number of people that one person infects, which is not a rate) and the existing number infected. What they've done is taken a concept and passed it through a mathematical cretin filter. I think it says a lot about the parlous state of mathematical education in this country that (presumably) quite a few people laid eyes on this and saw nothing wrong (or didn't feel confident to say it).

It looked OK on the side of a bus.

[GigiBronz]

I assume they mean to convey that the 5-category warning level takes into account both the R number (the number of people that one person infects, which is not a rate) and the existing number infected. What they've done is taken a concept and passed it through a mathematical cretin filter. I think it says a lot about the parlous state of mathematical education in this country that (presumably) quite a few people laid eyes on this and saw nothing wrong (or didn't feel confident to say it).

It’s as if they are doing their best to butch it up.

Could it be that they know this will end badly so to save people time thinking they serve them some early signs of incompetence? They are afraid that if people start thinking just a little bit, they might see the hard thruths and won’t be so easily pushed around in the future.

[elsergiovolador]

It’s as if they are doing their best to butch it up.

Could it be that they know this will end badly so to save people time thinking they serve them some early signs of incompetence? They are afraid that if people start thinking just a little bit, they might see the hard thruths and won’t be so easily pushed around in the future.

What people are going to do? It's not like there is any better government in hiding.

[jayn200]

I wonder how people function in daily life and in the workplace if they really had that much difficulty understanding what Boris said.

[darmstadt]

I wonder how people function in daily life and in the workplace if they really had that much difficulty understanding what Boris said.

How about this for an idea, why don't you explain exactly what he said?

[DimPrawn]

How about this for an idea, why don't you explain exactly what he said?

There you go, it's quite simple.

https://assets.publishing.service.go...v2_WEB__1_.pdf

[darmstadt]

There you go, it's quite simple.

https://assets.publishing.service.go...v2_WEB__1_.pdf

Have you read it? All 60 pages?

[DimPrawn]

Have you read it? All 60 pages?

Read, memorised and destroyed as per instructions.