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Yes, that's how it worksYou really do live in a world where a coroner is going to put "died of covid" on the death certificate of someone with tyre tracks across their face, don't you?
Yes, that's how it worksYou really do live in a world where a coroner is going to put "died of covid" on the death certificate of someone with tyre tracks across their face, don't you?
This is the same tired crap you were coming out with when the death rate peaked at more than twice the yearly average in the spring of last year. Since then the registered covid death rate has pretty closely matched the excess deaths.@Mr. Tea the point is 'died with covid' is enough to make it count as a covid death
This is the same tired crap you were coming out with when the death rate peaked at more than twice the yearly average in the spring of last year. Since then the registered covid death rate has pretty closely matched the excess deaths.
Why not just give this obviously terrible argument up as a bad job?
Have you even read this? It says:
You should also enter any other diseases, injuries, conditions, or events that contributed to the death, but were not part of the direct sequence, in part two of the certificate. The conditions mentioned in part two must be known or suspected to have contributed to the death, not merely be other conditions which were present at the time.
The what now? How does this work?Bunch of American music venues are apparently installing Amazon palm scanners now. This stuff's appalling and it's all happening so quickly.
I'm assuming it's along the same lines as thumb and fingerprint scanning. There isn't much information in the article I read as it was mostly about a bunch of musicians signing a petition against it;The what now? How does this work?
Exactly! I hate these bastards. Data vampires.Fucking hell. What's wrong with a paper ticket?
It's bad enough when authoritarian governments try this sort of shit, but at least in a democracy the government is in principle answerable to the people, and can in principle be voted out if they piss enough people off, and there is in principle an opposition that could form a new government that could overturn unpopular laws.Exactly! I hate these bastards. Data vampires.
Tell me about it. It's a curse of the age. I assume you know about the Horizon accounting software scandal in post offices? I don't know if going back to physical ledger books is the answer, but at least they didn't lead to hundreds of people being wrongly accused of theft, financially ruined, jailed, driven to suicide etc.I'm not convinced a lot of this stuff - digitising everything - is more convenient or reliable anyway. It's a faff, it's intrusive, it's expensive, it creates security issues and you can't trust anyone with this sort of power.
Yeah, that was horrendous. Didn't it take a while for them to admit to it too? They were happy for those people to take the blame, at least for a while, iirc.Tell me about it. It's a curse of the age. I assume you know about the Horizon accounting software scandal in post offices? I don't know if going back to physical ledger books is the answer, but at least they didn't lead to hundreds of people being wrongly accused of theft, financially ruined, jailed, driven to suicide etc.
It took them fucking years, and the people at the top - the ones who really ought to have been responsible - not only were never prosecuted, but I don't think they even got sacked or ever gave more than a meally-mouthed "regret for the unfortunate situation"-type non-apology. If it hadn't been for Private Eye I don't think it would ever have come to light at all.Yeah, that was horrendous. Didn't it take a while for them to admit to it too? They were happy for those people to take the blame, at least for a while, iirc.
I've also seen people complaining about stuff like having to download an app to use the communal washing machine in their apartment building; also having to order things in bars and restauraunts by scanning QR codes off menus rather than just being able to order from a person directly. Completely unnecessary.