Good harnesses are worth it, you can use them to restrain your dog in the car (as you are legally required to do so) – so they don’t go flying through your windscreen or knock you unconscious if you have a crash.

How many STWers do you think have Bichons? Cockapoos are proper outdoor dogs, with the same amount of energy as a working cocker.

Oh yes, there’s a left wing academic conspiracy to encourage you to take your hard earned cash and spend it on harnesses.

The harnesses I use are incredibly useful for proper days out in the hills where you might be traversing terrain or climbing over walls/gates/stiles that might injure the dog.

Admittedly, all of our exercise is on open ground where she can be safely allowed to be lead free, but heel and recall training is far more important than a trendy (and pointless) neoprene “Julius K9” .

And not everyone might be walking on flat open terrain with no roads or livestock nearby.

She hasn’t worn a collar, harness or anything else since she was about 6 months old.

You do know that it’s illegal for you to be out and about with your dog without any identification tags, yes?

https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2020/05/collars-risk-causing-neck-injuries-in-dogs,-study-shows#:~:text=Collars%20risk%20causing%20neck%20injuries%20in%20dogs%20as%20they%20pull,the%20owner%2C%20new%20research%20suggests.

My dog trainer friend is very anti harness. Says it encourages pulling.

You seen many police dogs and guide dogs pulling recently?

Told by vets not to use a collar until our puppy was 4 months. They also recommended using a harness as it reduces the risk for neck injuries.

You need to let their necks get stronger. Pulling can be dealt with later.

Anyway, we still use a harness for our dogs – ruffwear webmasters – as the carry handle is incredibly useful for getting a better hold on the dog if they need to be carried.

The biggest barrier to a tougher lock down, for example using papers to leave the house like France is our inability to enforce it. The past couple of times that I’ve walked into Sheffield’s city center in the evening to pick up food, it’s been what I can only describe as a lunatic asylum. Groups of smackheads and homeless people roaming around, people fighting and swearing in the street – it felt like a dodgey part of Turin.

There wasn’t a single copper in sight.

Traffic and footfall seems down today after the telling off the public got, during the week it seemed little different to normal though.

I’m not convinced the healthy under 50s population will get either vaccine this year. By the time the vulnerable categories have had their second doses we will be well into the summer and stockpiling any further doses for the next winter.

I’m not convinced they should either, it should go to the developing worlds vulnerable.

The Ezviz my old man has, has weathered a full year without any downtime in terms of rain damage.

Ezviz cameras are cheap and work well, you’ll still be paying a small subscription for recording any longer than a day or two.

The nightvision on my dads works really, really well.

You’re going to have a right old **** time if you have it ping alerts to your phone though unless you spend google nest money for the facial recognition. The rest of them will ping you whenever it rains.

Really, you want a cheap camera for recording plus a simplisafe alarm with door sensors, motion sensors and glass break sensors in the garage – then you won’t get false positive pings.

The video of the woman getting shot is quite amazing, not because of the shooting, but because everything goes on relatively normally around it. There is a guy standing right next to her appearing to text rather that getting the **** out of there. Someone else is standing talking to the person next to them. At what point did someone getting killed next to you while a swat team are coming up the stairs get normalised

It’s because a lot of people don’t look at the situation to decide what to do, they look at the reactions of the people around them to know what to do. If you’ve ever seen a stabbing or a terror event take place, be it in person or a video you might notice that depending on the situation people stand around like tools gawping and wondering what to do until one person pegs it and the rest follow.

It’s why I’ve once had to stop people from walking towards a scene where everyone on the street could quite clearly hear a guy shouting “Alluah Ackbar”, making threats and swearing. Didn’t turn into anything in the end and the police cuffed the guy – but it was eye opening.

Cheers Mac! Good post.

Trump can issue group pardons even if the individuals are unknown, it’s been done before in 1865 so that confederate lawyers could practice in the US.

The 25th will have to be invoked before he gets the chance to do it, it’s a race against time and will depend on how much the American establishment want to punish those responsible for the assault on their democracy. If they let Trump get away with it, they might have averted a disaster for now but it would be the the final act in beginning of the erosion of American democracy. Republicans might be blind to that, even if they can see that what happened yesterday was bad.

Oh well.

Feel sorry for the amount of shit that Secret Service chap will have to go through now.

Had force not been used at some point, it might have ended up with lawmakers dead and/or taken hostage – with the whole democratic process grinding to a halt.

Don’t think you can have a go at those cops for letting them through, they were throwing some proper punches right there – short of shooting them they had little other choice.

Keep in mind that apparently the Capitol police are a slightly better breed of officer compared to the rest of the countries, so aren’t expected to be trigger happy.

The coppers wading in and getting their punches in made me laugh. Shit job, must be hard not to let off steam on idiots like that.

The pics of the rednecks happy to wandet around as if on a day trip from Missisippi didn’t show much malice or aggression on the newsfeeds.

They seemed pumped up and ready for a fight in the ITV piece posted earlier.

It all turned a bit….

….. after the first seditious malcontent got shot. If it were France that lost it like this, the media would be reporting on complete carnage.

The A-10 was hated by Air Force generals because it was ugly and slow, the pilots that flew it and the troops it supported on the other hand absolutely loved it.

I know a couple of A-10 pilots, it was apparently an absolute hoot to fly.

What you need to fix here is people and that’s hard.

You don’t fix people, they’re hardwired for stupidity. History proves that.

Oh god, they do a stupid little prayer after the certification.

The NY Times feed is quoting some former CIA direcotr who says don’t call in the military as they’ll actually be under Trumps command and god knows what he might decide to do with them!

Apparently CJCS Gen. Milley has turned against Trump – so won’t happen.

Trump impeachment coming now

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-impeachment-ilhan-omar-us-capitol-b1783535.html

It’s too little too late, but a nice **** you to him, it’ll be good to see him removed in this way.

Hahah the FBI and National Guard have turned up…..

They’ve given them till 6pm – which is in about 30 minutes here.

The warning sounded like one of those ominous go home or you’ll get caught in the crossfire type messages that get given to the locals during counter insurgency operations.

Homeland was a bit like this…. :D

Wheres Clare Danes damnit! I have a thing for her

Biden using the term “sedition” – that’s a proper old school law to break haha.

Someones actually been shot as well.

Guns are being trained on the senate now.

Think I’m going to break out the microwave popcorn and wait for the live feed of MAGA idiots getting blown away by SWAT teams.

What a bad day to run out of whisky.

EDIT: Oh shit, I can uber eats some half decent bourbon.

Is this a “March on Rome” moment? If they clear the armed occupiers out with force it’s going to turn into a civil war.

My ability to resist the whisky and get up in the morning.

The graphics were shite.

Flicked the news on, saw the president, uncanny valley….gave me nightmares… 1/10 would not do again.

Now I’ve gone from trusting the MHRA to wondering whether senior leadership have taken up doing smack as a hobby.

I’m inclined to think that there is a certain amount of pant-shitting going on if that’s the evidence they are relying on.

Reading that paper properly, I’m inclined to agree TiRed – inferring 1 dose efficacy using the 14-21 day window alone is in the best technical term I can come up with, properly dodgey.

docrobster – that’s not a 1 dose treatment arm – they actually got the second dose at 21 days if I’m reading the paper correctly. It’s just a poorly formatted/presented plot.

Also, apologies TiRed if I come off as rude – I went into my “interrogate subject matter experts and make them explain things for the rest of us and inspectors” mode.

So reduced protection before 12 weeks? That’s what I care about. If that can be shown, I’ll side with you.

But what I am also also suggesting is that if this is the case, I’m sure this has been factored in to the MHRA’s decision to green light the 12 week regime – there may be a public health case.

See update TiRed.

Ahhhh, so you consider the sample size to be too low? Essentially that the separation isn’t strong enough at 14-21 days considering that only 4 patients were infected on the dose 1 arm?

With this considered (puts QA glasses on) what is the patient impact of actioning this incomplete data? I can’t see any yet? They wouldn’t have received the second dose in that timeframe would they? I like stats, I’m studying stats when I have time (currently on hold) – but what I really really care about is impact to patient.

Where the impact to patient comes from is leaving the second dose to 12 weeks, where we can see that red arm slowly start to rise. The impact will come from two things – that red line rising at the 40-50 day point and less potential efficacy vs the standard regime.

If it doesn’t impact the patient, I care less about the data being a bit meh.

Sorry TiRed what events are we talking about here?

So your issue is that the amount of infections the treatment arm might receive is too low?

Or is it the degree of separation between the two arms from day 14? ie not enough seperation?

I don’t have time to read the full paper yet and digest it, but how does the efficacy stack up not only against the placebo but against the standard regime? Is it less efficacious or more? If it is less efficacious have they made a risk-benefit analysis considering case numbers and rate of spread?

Surely the MHRA’s advice will be operating on some kind of modelling TiRed, to make this risk benefit calculation? Whilst I can see your point, I can also see the value in the agility that the MHRA have shown during this crisis.

As TiRed has pointed out, there’s no evidence to support that it will limit transmission, however I’m fairly sure he mentioned that he would be surprised if it didn’t – which I tend to agree with.

FDA Q&A also agrees.

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-legal-regulatory-and-policy-framework/pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-frequently-asked-questions

TiRed, do you think the reason that the Americans are more hesitant to make dosing regime changes is because they have a lower infection prevalence per capita? Are we operating out of blind panic now or at least with a different risk benefit analysis?

That’s a nice bitch slap from across the Atlantic, the FDA are a constant source of entertainment. I’ve been reading some 483’s for a bit of light entertainment recently, they never fail to give me a wry smile.