{"id":57861,"date":"2021-07-04T10:03:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T09:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=57861"},"modified":"2021-07-04T10:03:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T09:03:13","slug":"sunday-morning-thoughts-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/07\/04\/sunday-morning-thoughts-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday morning thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my Twitter account this morning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-57862\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-04-at-09.59.57-550x157.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-04-at-09.59.57-550x157.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-04-at-09.59.57-768x219.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-04-at-09.59.57-600x171.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-04-at-09.59.57.png 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-57863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-04-at-09.59.42-550x139.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-04-at-09.59.42-550x139.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-04-at-09.59.42-768x194.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-04-at-09.59.42-600x152.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-04-at-09.59.42.png 862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-57864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-04-at-09.59.14-550x293.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-04-at-09.59.14-550x293.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-04-at-09.59.14-768x409.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-04-at-09.59.14-600x319.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-2021-07-04-at-09.59.14.png 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What is this government doing?<\/p>\n<p>Just for the record, this is one plot of what is happening with Covid in school-aged children:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;ve been updating this graph showing 10-14 year olds in Bristol for a while now, and it&#39;s been growing steeply -- exponentially -- so this shouldn&#39;t be surprising, but the rate per 100K has gone from 390 to 527 in one day. Gulp. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TjzgYFntaS\">pic.twitter.com\/TjzgYFntaS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Colin Davis (@ProfColinDavis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProfColinDavis\/status\/1411365982266970117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is reality: this disease is out of control. And that is government policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my Twitter account this morning: What is this government doing? Just for the record, this is one plot of what is happening with Covid<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/07\/04\/sunday-morning-thoughts-7\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}