IOM Covid removing restrictions

[dilligaf]

1 hour ago, horatiotheturd said:

Yep.  Totally cringey knowing its bei g broadcast round the UK.

Having said that I have seen several thousand comments from people wanting to move here or visit (probably in jest) this could be really positive coverage if handled properly.

We basically said that we are ok because we didn't break rules and the UK are rule breakers who deserve what they get ffs

Our friends in Bavaria say it was well covered on their TV stations too, not just the UK.

[quilp]

Blimey, Howard did all reich then. 

[Max Power]

14 minutes ago, dilligaf said:

Our friends in Bavaria say it was well covered on their TV stations too, not just the UK.

No publicity is bad publicity  

[Andy Onchan]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/01/joy-isle-of-man-covid-lockdown-ends

[quilp]

What will they be saying though when we have another, inevitable lockdown? 

[horatiotheturd]

1 hour ago, quilp said:

What will they be saying though when we have another, inevitable lockdown? 

Go on then.

Why is another lockdown inevitable now that the things that lead to this last one can't happen  anymore?

[quilp]

3 minutes ago, horatiotheturd said:

Go on then.

Why is another lockdown inevitable now that the things that lead to this last one can't happen anymore?

Roxanne unwittingly answered this trollbite dressed-up as a question perfectly. 

[TheTeapot]

Having poked my head outside this morning, I've decided to extend my lockdown an additional day.

[Happier diner]

9 hours ago, Roxanne said:

Because this virus is mutating all the time, more especially in areas where it is out of control and travellers are coming from the UK which has the highest rate of infection and deaths in the world. Not all are isolating, not all wear masks, not all socially distance.

Our system is not foolproof.

 

 

It's not inevitable. However it remains a risk. It is a real possibility.

The probability of another infection is proportional to the level of infection in the UK and the number of people who cross the border. 

The measures we have in place significantly reduce the probability but unless there is full quarantine, there remains a small risk.

[TerryFuchwit]

11 hours ago, quilp said:

What will they be saying though when we have another, inevitable lockdown? 

I'm not sure another lockdown is inevitable.

 

[thommo2010]

We went what 6/7 months of normal living, hopefully with the vaccine roll out then we will get lucky again and not have another lockdown.

[WTF]

so the south african variant has sprung up for no apparent reason without foreign travel,   will it occur to anyone that viruses can mutate on any continent and what is putting the willies up the powers that be in the Uk probably mutated in the UK to be similar or identical to was first identified in SA ?

[Banker]

Howie on GMB with piers this morning and also good article on good morning Britain just now with Gyles Brandreth saying how much he loves IOM

[AcousticallyChallenged]

24 minutes ago, WTF said:

so the south african variant has sprung up for no apparent reason without foreign travel,   will it occur to anyone that viruses can mutate on any continent and what is putting the willies up the powers that be in the Uk probably mutated in the UK to be similar or identical to was first identified in SA ?

Anywhere it's rampant will give a perfect place for it to start picking up new mutations. It has to compete with other strains of the virus and people who've already had it. The SA variant is scary because it has come to fruition where many people have already had it, there's a pressure on it to be resistant to antibodies.

[wrighty]

4 minutes ago, AcousticallyChallenged said:

Anywhere it's rampant will give a perfect place for it to start picking up new mutations. It has to compete with other strains of the virus and people who've already had it. The SA variant is scary because it has come to fruition where many people have already had it, there's a pressure on it to be resistant to antibodies.

I really don't like this personification of a virus we see all the time.  "It has to compete", "Pressure on it to be resistant" etc.

It's just a strand of RNA carried in a protein envelope.  It mutates all the time because RNA replication is imperfect. It's simply natural selection (as Darwin explained) in action such that if a random mutation means the virus is more transmissable, or less attractive to a person's antibodies it's more likely to spread to the next person such that over time that mutation becomes predominant.  Until there's another one that's even more transmissable/resistant.