Lloyds Banking Share Discussion Threads

[jl5006] 03/11/2020 16:37

As a simpleton I ask why the R factor is so critical.
The available data only related to what trick and trace manages to identify.
It does not add in a dont know factor.
Is that why scientists were always seen as weirdos - bcos they only saw their world.
What is the point of mass testing Liverpool - bit like lucy in the sky with diamonds - dreaming - and logistically impossible -
what are these ppl?
And should 100% of the ppl test positive - then what/ And the test is 100% correct.
Total and absolute rubbish from the hierarchy of so said our NHS

[minerve 2] 03/11/2020 16:37

k38

So what.

Trump is history just like your ilk.

[grahamite2] 03/11/2020 16:36

Luckily the world has no say in the matter. But the fellows in Peoria and Abilene do.

[k38] 03/11/2020 16:35

He may pack his bags but.. The Q is what Biden has to offer to the ordinary Americans and all know the A.. big nothing.

[minerve 2] 03/11/2020 16:34

The world no longer wants The Twitter Clown.

[grahamite2] 03/11/2020 16:33

We all want to see Trump win, xxxy! Nigel has put 10 grand on him.

[stonedyou] 03/11/2020 16:32

But researchers remain concerned that R is looming too large, and is being used

for purposes for which it was never intended. “It’s not yet clear what actions

they are or are not taking on the back of R. But we are concerned because they’re

giving it such prominence,” says Woolhouse.

[stonedyou] 03/11/2020 16:27

To infectious-disease experts, Johnson’s focus on the reproduction number as a guiding light for policy was worryingly myopic. They worry about placing too much weight on R, the average number of people each person with a disease goes on to infect.

But fascination might have turned into unhealthy political and media fixation, say disease experts. R is an imprecise estimate that rests on assumptions, says Jeremy Rossman, a virologist at the University of Kent, UK. It doesn’t capture the current status of an epidemic and can spike up and down when case numbers are low. It is also an average for a population and therefore can hide local variation. Too much attention to it could obscure the importance of other measures, such as trends in numbers of new infections, deaths and hospital admissions, and cohort surveys to see how many people in a population currently have the disease, or have already had it.

“Epidemiologists are quite keen on downplaying R, but the politicians seem to have embraced it with enthusiasm,” says Mark Woolhouse, an infectious-diseases expert at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, who is a member of a modelling group that advises the British government on the pandemic. “We’re concerned that we’ve created a monster. R does not tell us what we need to know to manage this.”

[pal44] 03/11/2020 16:27

No Biden will win the orange man Is packing his trunk

[xxxxxy] 03/11/2020 16:23

I do hope Trump wins. Fingers and toes crossed.

[chavitravi2] 03/11/2020 16:14

Yes I know. I just wish I could do something right. These go up and what I have bought into go down, only for now hopefully.

[grahamite2] 03/11/2020 16:14

The R-rate in England has fallen to 1, King’s College has said, leading to hopes that a national lockdown can be avoided.



This is getting beyond farcical. Keystone Kops stuff, as someone on the Telegraph comments has said.

[mo123] 03/11/2020 16:14

Might still get a chance to buy in. The presidential election may be contested and the last time that happened mkt had a pretty big downturn.

[alphorn] 03/11/2020 16:09

Can't make it look too easy. GBP perky for some reason; perhaps nobody read that article?

[xxxxxy] 03/11/2020 15:54

Glad to see others now question the forecasts of deaths and cases used by the advisers to demand lockdown. Still seeking the figures for NHS hospital bed capacity and to find out why they are not using the Nightingales for CV 19.

[alphorn] 03/11/2020 15:29

Not just yet max - I still have my bullish sterling stuff open. ;))

[maxk] 03/11/2020 15:21

More doom...

[scepticalinvestor] 03/11/2020 15:08

You probably should have bought back in to Lloyds mateGood luck!

[arjun] 03/11/2020 15:07

Afternoon AllAt last heading in the right direction...Phew..., onwards and upwards ;-)

[k38] 03/11/2020 15:01

Last chances before new year..I believe it will be another chance to buy under 28p.Whoever want to go for a long winning ride get on the black horse because is going to be a winner by new year.

[maxk] 03/11/2020 14:42

He'll need to play his cards very right, or he's a goner .. and no mistake!