Good morning, it has been raining all night, fields again about as sloppy as it gets. Only problem with burn piles around here is finding a dry enough day to light them.
Yesterday I made good progress cutting out the dead stuff in the hedge. There were a couple of dead blackthorn intertwined with the hawthorn which hasn't been cut in a long long time, so was growing more like trees than hedge plants. Lots of old wives' tales about getting blood poisoning from blackthorn, though these were all thorn less after being attacked by an ugly looking fungus.
Eric, not sure I understand that footnote on the graph...does it mean that if someone died of anything they are counted, since they had a positive test as much as 4 weeks previously?
Wng, you got my wife wondering why I am reading the British Medical Association guidance notes on completing death certificates. It seems doctors only write down Covid-19 if they believe that is the underlying cause of death. The definition of "
underlying cause" in this context is "
the disease or injury which initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death". In the early stages of the pandemic doctors could only go on symptoms, now almost all fatal cases have the additional evidence of a recent positive test to substantiate that diagnosis.
That's enough doom and gloom from me for today, does anyone else look back with nostalgia to those pre-covid times, when this thread's no 1 topic was DPF regen cycles ?
Funny mice Don. :thumbsup:
