Posts by JohnMurray 844 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jul 2011
Seek help - you have bad memory problems.
The UK vaccinated only those who were expected to be most affected, who were also those who would benefit less from vaccination [they still are] by dint of reduced immune response from either age or illness.
It also sent infected old people out from hospital into care homes housing uninfected old people, with totally predictable results.
If the UK govt had tried to maximise deaths, in groups regarded as socially expensive to maintain, they could have not done much better than they did!!
At a White House dinner in February of 2011, President Obama asked former Apple CEO Steven P. Jobs what it would take to build iPhones in the United States.
The answer was not what Obama wanted to hear. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” Jobs said.
https://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/news/articles/bringing-macs-back-to-the-u.s
Wanting to become a global science superpower and then leaving the European Union is a bit like wanting to become a global military superpower and then abolishing the Navy and the Air Force. It's not the most helpful of steps"
But fully in keeping with having a bunch of untalented morons in charge of the country [whichever party, ditto]
Politicians are towering intellects, compared to technologists surely?
At least, in the politicians minds.
As someone who has actually talked to one for a while [Dorries], I quickly realised it was a case of "the doors open but nobody is home"
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