What do you make of this?

[Amity Island]

I don’t disagree with anything in that response,@Amity Island. You might also ask why we are told to wear masks, keep our distance and tolerate 10pm closing of pubs and restaurants, when in the House of Commons the bars are open well after 10, masks are not compulsory, nor is the rule of six or 2m distancing. A fine example to the general population, I must say. The government doesn’t even comply with its own rules - why should we?

Mikey B,

Yes, it does appear that there is still a fundamental difference in policy between houses of parliament bars and public bars.

1. Public bars and restaurants must "close" the premises at 10p.m (e.g everyone out at 10pm)

2. Parliament bars must only stop "serving" alcohol at 10p.m (e.g get a few rounds in and stay as long as you like after 10pm)

U-turn as Parliament's bars will no longer sell alcohol after 10pm

The government was forced into a climbdown today after it emerged Boris Johnson's 10pm drinking curfew did not apply to establishments in Parliament.

www.lbc.co.uk

 

[Amity Island]

Hi Everyone, can anybody verify what is being said in this video? It's something to do with taking the false positives from the total number of tests done, not just from the the number of positive tests done. Giving a very different result.

Thanks

The BBC have responded.

The BBC have now responded to the 90% false postives claim and confirm that in random testing you would in fact get 90% false postives, however they also state that not all tests are done at random and these symptom lead test results will have a more accurate result. So it seems, to get an accurate picture of positive tests, one needs to take into account both random and targeted testing.

This is what they said about random testing. Simply that 8 out of the 9 positives tests results would be false positives leaving the 1 true positive.

"If you tested 1,000 people at random for Covid-19 in early September, for example, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) infection study suggests you should have expected one of them to actually have the virus.

With a false positive rate of 0.8% - a figure used by Ms Hartley-Brewer and within the broad range of what we think might be the actual rate for community testing - you would get eight false positives. So in that context, it's true that roughly 90% of positives would be false."

Coronavirus testing: What is a false positive?

Some commentators say rising cases are just because of false positive results. But that's not true.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Amity Island]

I don’t disagree with anything in that response,@Amity Island. You might also ask why we are told to wear masks, keep our distance and tolerate 10pm closing of pubs and restaurants, when in the House of Commons the bars are open well after 10, masks are not compulsory, nor is the rule of six or 2m distancing. A fine example to the general population, I must say. The government doesn’t even comply with its own rules - why should we?

Official: MPs DID flout 10pm bar curfew

Matt Hancock is today under mounting pressure to come clean about his actions after a senior Tory MP witness insisted: 'I stand 100 per cent by my story. I know what I saw, and when.'

www.dailymail.co.uk