Asthehills Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 15 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said: Disagree...there's a billion of them...far more chance of a variant springing up there than here where most are vaccinated. Maffs. WTF??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 5 minutes ago, Asthehills said: WTF??? It's a very popular company here that provides quite tasty food. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Fortunately not everyone is insane. EU calls screening of travellers from China unjustified https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64119080 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 2 minutes ago, TheTeapot said: Fortunately not everyone is insane. EU calls screening of travellers from China unjustified https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64119080 Not everyone is insane? Really? World War 1 then World War 2 Variant 1, 1a, 1b... then maybe variant 2, 2a, 2b China is 1/6th of the worlds population, a billion mostly not properly vaccinated. It's a potential cess-pool of new variants. Best keep them out till they catch up with the rest of the world I say. China on covid is where the uk was 2 yrs ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banker Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Channel Islands are still keeping scare going with weekly statistics, masks in hospitals, recommending LFTs before attending health settings & PCRs if you have symptoms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 26 minutes ago, Asthehills said: WTF??? dunno......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 2 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said: Not everyone is insane? Really? World War 1 then World War 2 Variant 1, 1a, 1b... then maybe variant 2, 2a, 2b China is 1/6th of the worlds population, a billion mostly not properly vaccinated. It's a potential cess-pool of new variants. Best keep them out till they catch up with the rest of the world I say. China on covid is where the uk was 2 yrs ago. For a new variant of the SARS-Cov-2 virus to have a dramatic and significant effect on the western world it would have to do impossible things. Your argument is flawed, because you do not understand that point. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 10 minutes ago, TheTeapot said: For a new variant of the SARS-Cov-2 virus to have a dramatic and significant effect on the western world it would have to do impossible things. Your argument is flawed, because you do not understand that point. I disagree...in a billion unvaccinated chinese bodies it might just achieve that over time... ...as it did the first time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 It's impossible. It's really ignorant to argue otherwise. It goes against absolutely everything we already know about how everything works. Then, the way some people were over covid at least its in keeping. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asthehills Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 37 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said: It's a very popular company here that provides quite tasty food. WTF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 9 minutes ago, Albert Tatlock said: I disagree...in a billion unvaccinated chinese bodies it might just achieve that over time... ...as it did the first time. That's because it was a new virus (and I have a few issues about that). Who knows how many variants are circulating outside of China? I haven't done a test for months, and many others haven't either. Then you have to take another view and that is to take mother nature on and expect to win you are on to a proper arse whipping. Best we can do, and should do, is look after our individual health. There will be casualties, but we will all be casualties at some point and some before our time. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thommo2010 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 The media have got bored of Ukraine so I'd expect a scare campaign involving covid to pop up. In years to come people will look back and be amazed at the lengths we went to in 2020 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 6 minutes ago, Gladys said: Who knows how many variants are circulating outside of China? Scientists do, and you can too, cos that information is public https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global/6m and as I mentioned earlier there is enough testing going on to spot new ones very quickly, even though we are at the point where it no longer matters cos everyone has been exposed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genericUserName Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 10 minutes ago, thommo2010 said: In years to come people will look back and be amazed at the lengths we went to in 2020 Smart people will look back at a breakthrough era around mRNA research. All of the incredible progress which that points towards. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 3 minutes ago, TheTeapot said: Scientists do, and you can too, cos that information is public https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global/6m and as I mentioned earlier there is enough testing going on to spot new ones very quickly, even though we are at the point where it no longer matters cos everyone has been exposed. Well quite, but do we care? We have to look at the whole picture, not just Covid prevention, it is the financial, social and unintended consequence health cost of Covid prevention that will be longer lasting than Covid itself. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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