General Discussion on Current Situation 2/

[Gadget]

If you look at my earlier fact check link, groom, you'll see.

Maiden Stone - you're talking in riddles 

I don't think anyone would check Ancestry.

[Gadget]

This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as false because this woman is not Dominic Cummings’ sister.

[Maiden Stone]

If you look at my earlier fact check link, groom, you'll see.

Maiden Stone - you're talking in riddles 

I don't think anyone would check Ancestry.

Full Fact did. It says so under "Who is the woman the posts are talking about?"

[Gadget]

I read the other checks. I dislike Ancestry - only use it for DNA and US/Canada records. (I did check on FindMyPast    )

I'm thinking all this is dead cat-ish. What are they trying to hide?

[Maiden Stone]

I'm thinking all this is dead cat-ish. What are they trying to hide?

That may be because they've thrown so many dead cats on tables in the past. It gets so that one suspects everything of being a dead cat.
"File on 4", Tuesday, Radio 4 was about the Cheltenham racing festival and Liverpool's Euro match with a Spanish club in March and their alleged impact on the spread of the epidemic. Both places later shown to be "hotspots" of the epidemic. Liverpool had more cases per capita than nearby Manchester.
Liverpool and Manchester mayors have been critical about the way the recent changes to lockdown were announced without consultation and seemingly without consideration to the situation in northern England.
 

[radstockjeff]

re DC.....In the words of the late Erasmus Bottle, a well known Tyneside raconteur..who prefaced his local history lectures with "All the facts of this story are true, except those which aren't"

[LizzieL]

According to the statistics 80% of the country have been following the rules. It is just the few idiots who think it either doesn't apply to them or that they are untouchable.

I heard a similar figure and was appalled. It always sounds better when percentages are quoted, particularly a number considerably over 50%.
That means 20% haven't been following the rules. That's over 13 million people. To put it into context: London is estimated to have population of just over 9 million, Glasgow is 1.6 million, Birmingham and Liverpool  are both a bit under a million.

[groom]

One of the best things to have come out of the DC affair are the songs and parodies on Youtube. For instance:

“I could drive 500 miles“
“I can see clearly now the Covid’s gone. “
“Is this the way to Barnard Castle? “
“The Durham Dash”

[Gadget]

Just read that the Govt Track and Trace website has crashed already. I think this is the one that tracers use to access and enter info about cases.

(from Sky's Ashish Joshi  -@ashishskynews )

Add - link to thread

https://twitter.com/ashishskynews/status/1265910033860222976