Simply untrue. Look at cases per 1m https://www.worldometers.info/...

And yet nowhere in there does it say how many are hospitalized or die.

Working backwards, 10 km/s tangential velocity and 5g centripetal acceleration gives a radius of 2000 km, which is O(size of the earth), so simply run a rail gun around the planet. 1000 seconds at 1g tangential acceleration would get you up to speed, at which point you would orbit the (surface of the) earth once every hour or so (if the track went all the way round, but 5000 km of track would suffice).

> Wait, I'm confused. Are insurance companies currently running the healthcare system? It looks like that from here... (England-land).

Even if the false negative rate was 50 percent, half of the real positives would be caught, which would have a large effect on exponential growth. But it's much better than that -- https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplep...

I just looked it up. As of data from three days ago, 68% of the UK is vaccinated.

That's 68% of the entire population, including children under the age of 12 who are not currently being offered a vaccination.

Scotland has vaccinated 90% of those aged 12 and over with at least one dose, while Wales has reached 88%, England 86% and Northern Ireland 83%.

Second doses are also being rolled out, with all nations reaching about 80% of over-12s so far.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/hea...

Or to put if another way, nearly a quarter of the covid infections detected in the world are detected in the UK.

Yes, you can get a patent for a small improvement to an astoundingly complicated machine, but it doesn't have to describe how to make the machine.

No, people are saying their ISP is down when they can't access Facebook

The contactless payment limit for a physical bank card is UKP 45 in the UK, but limits with an authorised phone app (phone unlocked) may be larger (or unlimited).

The niggle is the contactless limit for a locked phone. Arguably it shouldn't be possible to pay at all, or the limit should be the same as a physical card.

Google Pay says "You can make secure contactless purchases above the UKP 45 limit by just unlocking your phone", while Apple says "You may not be able to use Apple Pay for purchases over GBP 45."

But it evidently is possible to use a locked phone for 'express transit' related transactions, and the article suggests the corresponding Visa limit on iPhone is the unlocked limit, which doesn't seem like a great idea.

The percentage of those hospital who have been vaccinated is a meaningless figure without knowing the distribution in the population at large, since if everybody was vaccinated, all the people hospitalized would have been vaccinated. But there may be fewer people hospitalized than would have been without vaccination.

I hope they're not planning to go around any corners. carriages are generally 20m long in the UK

https://www.artiopartners.com/...

https://m.slashdot.org/story/1...

The UK per capita death rate from covid is lower than sixteen US states at this point.