I predicted A Covid-Ebola mutation over a year ago.
I predicted A Covid-Ebola mutation over a year ago.
I've lost a couple more geezers to the antivaxxer community. We're not talking about the highly educated and intelligent debate of the sort me and Magic present, no, unfortunately this is GB News, telegram channels called Tommy Robinson News and gems like this:
I don't mind them pointing to the 3m adverse drug reactions logged for the vaccine and factual (if lacking context) shite but don't fucking create straight up fake data ffs. That blue line isn't even accurate but the yellow line doesn't go above something like 0.2
On the plus side, it's really promoted the beautiful game amongst these cretins. Every player collapse is now flagged. Fabrice Muamba they've done you proud
Variant hokey cokey forever is an utter nonsense way of approaching human affairs.
It's real data but the devil is in the detail.Originally Posted by Don
I've lost a couple more geezers to the antivaxxer community. We're not talking about the highly educated and intelligent debate of the sort me and Magic present, no, unfortunately this is GB News, telegram channels called Tommy Robinson News and gems like this:
I don't mind them pointing to the 3m adverse drug reactions logged for the vaccine and factual (if lacking context) shite but don't fucking create straight up fake data ffs. That blue line isn't even accurate but the yellow line doesn't go above something like 0.2
On the plus side, it's really promoted the beautiful game amongst these cretins. Every player collapse is now flagged. Fabrice Muamba they've done you proud
You have to wonder what the hell the ONS are doing using an age range of 10-59 for, well, anything.
I'm not getting the vaccine again lol.
Nobody cares.
I see the border idiots are back. One group of people want open borders for migrants and closed borders for covid. Another group of people want closed borders for migrants and open borders for covid.
Both groups should be locked down and prevented from communicating with the outside world.
The response to this new variant from people who really should know better has been utterly ridiculous. No proof these mutations are bad, no proof the vaccine doesn't work against it, no proof it's any more deadly. Yet somehow, the sky is falling.
ONS data has more strata than that and is freely available for anyone who wants to download it and perform dishonest statistics. They've just collated age groups and removed people who die due to age related effects.
Closed borders for everyone without a blue passport. Problem - problems - solved.
Maybe my cursory glance at the excel was wrong but it looked like it was plain wrong rather than misleading.
Either way, London meet tomorrow boys. Magic and I are laying on a fine spread:
That's a prime slice of gammon to the bottom left.
Variant Omicron [Persei 8] has landed.
We're pretty much shutting down everything againhttps://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/1...tial-services/
Haven't the Dutch fully vaccinated over 70% of the population? We are truly running mad with this thing now.
Yep. I don't get it.
Yev, any dietary requirements for tomorrow?
It's got to the point now where entire political classes in most countries are locked into 'Well, we have to do something' mentality. It's almost like a shit approach to game theory. Take banning flights from southern Africa. The variant is going to get here. Everyone knows it's going to get here. Banning flights from southern Africa is not going to have any impact on whether it gets here or not. There is no greater risk in allowing flights than there is in banning them. Yet here we are - because the fear of being blamed for not acting is worse than the fear of being blamed for acting unnecessarily. This is rational in terms of politicians saving their skin, but absolutely nonsensical in terms of policy.
It's almost like the manager-itis that was mentioned in the jobs thread.
I'm not sure about that. The last South African variant didn't make a dent over here.
I enjoyed this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59434196
You have no chance Chrissy babes.
Surely banning flights and possibly delaying its arrival is pretty significant less than a month before all you gammons get together to rub dry Turkey meat into eachother's anuses, no?
Food doesn't go in there, silly.
What are they going to do with that time? It will make no difference.
Giggles will have his 8th jab by then and RL and buddies actually get called into work after December.
Another cracking protest in Melolbourne today
https://www.news.com.au/world/corona...aa89134c1afb86
Get as far through winter as possible is probably the thinking.
Skipping 'Xi' in the alphabet naming strategy is pretty lol. Also, read elsewhere - won't southern Africa be throwing up variants for the rest of time, seeing as half of them have HIV and will struggle to reach any sort of lasting herd immunity?
You know this is almost done when the new variants sound like teams from the Apprentice.
They haven't, have they?
What a shower of puppet shit the WHO truly are.
Agree with Jimmy. Banning flights from a handful of countries is completely pointless. I'd bet good money that the variant is already here but we have to be seen to bedoing something - no matter if its actually effective or not.
I'd be the first to call bullshit, but I can sort of see the logic here. Christmas is four weeks away and banning people coming in directly with it will slow the spread, while obviously not stopping it.
On being seen to be doing something, I think businesses are guilty of that, but governments have gone way past it - if ours was bothered about seen to be doing something they'd have listened to the loud calls to bring more restrictions from the vaccine denying mentalists back when cases started going up months ago.
I highly doubt Christmas is a consideration beyond the increase in travel that comes along with it. They probably have one eye on a potential lockdown to come, depending on how serious a problem the Kang and Kodos VARIANT turns out to be.
The thinking will be that having to lockdown now will probably see us back in lockdown by March. Where as, if we can string this out until January or February, we will probably get away with just the one lockdown as we know Covid looks after it's self in the warmer months.
That said, is there even any evidence that this is a VACCINE AVOIDING VARIANT yet? I've seen speculation, but nothing definite.
I'm yet to see any tangible reports that it's more deadly or spreads faster or beats the vaccine, or anything really. It has more mutations, but that's what viruses do, no?
Well, the Dutch have collared 60 positives from 600 passengers so far. Our numbers seem to wobble pretty regularly, like a pulse. We should be alright, especially given we've boosted 15 million of the people most likely to die from it.
There won't be any more lockdowns unless the bodies are about to start piling up - which is currently a long, long way from happening.
The European lockdowns are unbelievably over-cautious.
Yep. I'm seeing lots of drama and the stock market has shat its pants but I'm a bit confused as to why this variant has people freaking out more than the others have.
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I can only imagine that's the concern with this variant, but I'm not seeing anything that indicates that this should be the case. The more I look, the more it seems like panic for panics sake, with statements like "it's bad, but not a disaster... YET!". Nothing on what they actually think is going to happen though. Meh.
Viruses want to spread, so as time goes they tend to become both more contagious and less deadly.
Can't help but think that the focus needs to switch from 'let's give boosters to those already vaccinated', to 'let's try to at least vaccinate everybody in the world first'.
Ignore the media. Listen to Twitter.
One of these is considerably more difficult. It's a hearts and minds thing on top of a logistical nightmare.
Two cases found in the UK now.
Surely anyone who has been paying even the slightest bit of attention would know this isn't going to take us back to square one. And to add, even the BBC aren't saying that.
It depends who you're paying attention to though. There's people out there whose only source of news is the Express ffs. So for them this is very much back to square one, and it's all Camilla's fault.
In slightly more upbeat news, my November electricity bill is almost double the previous month.
Senior vaccine scientist and furry. Interesting combo.
Someone I know has had their Direct Debit put up to nearly £300 a month. I have no idea how it's possible unless he has some serious arrears, but I did lol.
Last week I found out my friend has been paying the estimated bills they send you for years. I was distraught.
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