Yep, exactly, from Kent, its to London M25 then M40 to lower midlands, then M6 around Birmingham and up to Glasgow. Carlisle is a place where people stop to piss.
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Pity this dataset is only England, there is a Lighthouse Lab in Glasgow that presumably uses the same test. If the contagion is spreading along haulage lines, we would expect it to attenuate significantly after clusters in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and be nearly non-existent in NW Scotland.
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If you Google best uk truckstops and overlayed that with a map of the covid variant hotspots you get some interesting results.
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Wha girls?
Then why were we told South Wales was rife with this new strain earlier in the week?
One of the Ebola books I read this summer described how a village noted for the place that made the best sorghum beer in the region was hit hard, because it was a favourite stop for the river trade.
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Didn’t see that, and again a shame that the Wales data is now shown either, but would that correlate with the M4, starting to attenuate around Llanelli?
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Bang on Holmes.
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Hard to control for the population fallacy, because the haulage patterns are so strongly correlated with population centers, but that really does continue to suggest a radiation pattern.
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Yeah very likley, Im not so much concerned with detail like you, I have advisors for that 
I think the hotspots around the south eastern ports point to more commercial travel routes than general commuting/holidaying particularly given the limits on the latter.
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Good video.
Explains in plain English why many virologists around the world (better than I have articulated) are not worried at the moment.
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This is what we’re up against. While there are people with that sort of attitude and there are quite a lot, we’ll never beat this virus.
Plymouth stands out, not many infections down there but much higher % S gene than surrounding area.
Also Portsmouth though fits in with radiation to a large extent.
Then there’s the region south of Norwich? That could be hard to fit in.
Noting that Carlise has been dealt with on this thread.
You would need a very good knowledge of the UK to find correlations I reckon.Definitely got radiation from ports.
Portsmouth and Plymouth are Naval ports and have ferry links to the continent noteably Le Harvre and Santander respectively.
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Felixstowe.
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I agree with the reasoning but doesnt multiple ports suggest multiple entry points?
Not in the area too far south, great Yarmouth or at a stretch Lowestoft? if your looking for ports.
I’m not familiar with that region when it comes to districts but it’s just south of Norwich and just touches the coast (I presume about Gt Yarmouth.
(My knowledge is from sailing on the broads never studied the districts).
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Just that the ports are linked. Perhaps Naval units? or just transports?
I didnt mean quite that, just if its originating in ports, isnt it a little inconceivable that its come in at multiple points simultaneously?
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Threat
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