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  • If nursing a patient with measles, there is a reason why gloves and hand hygine is still required. Medically, we consider the 97% effective as a population average besed upon “usual exposure”. That means 3 in 100 vaccinated children are likely to contract measles this way. If your. local exposure is higher, then there are higher infection rates in that peer group. If you sit next to me for 5 mins you have one risk of exposure. If we are kids in a classroom together for several hours, then the transmission risk is higher. So yes, just like COVID, the higher the proportion of infective people and the longer the contact time the greater the risk of infection and also transmission.





  • I used to teach medical statistics to post grad doctors in the UK. One of my examples was the drop in HRT use in the 90s with UK newspapers reporting a doubling in cancer risk. That was also a relative risk, with absolute risk remaining extremely low. Both the all cause mortality and the absolute measures for quality of life were such that more women suffered and died as a result of the headline scare story.



  • In the UK, a tiny majority voted to “take back the country”, or Brexit. Immigration plummeted and newer migrants left, leaving huge gaps in workforce. We drove up prices by leaving the biggest buying group possible because (insert old time Empire music for irony), we think we’re still an Empire and can negotiate better deals as a tiny island of 70m than a collective of billions. Oh, and that tiny majority believed that we’d have £millions more per week for some insane reason. Crikey, that was therapeutic to get off my chest.