Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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jonnyboy316
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I don’t think we are getting complacent anymore. We are slowly unlocking after several months of severe restrictions. The government have been clear in their messaging that there could be a 3rd wave and that further unlocking will be dependent on meeting key criteria. I am a negative Niall by nature but there is good reason for optimism re the UK situation. Not just with the speed of the vaccine roll out but also the genomic sequencing. International travel/holidays forget about it for 2021 as far as I am concerned but a somewhat normal Domestic summer in the UK looks possible.
toffee82
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I didn't know it was that bad there!
What have the great bunch of lads got against Wigan lol
You seem a tad angry . Has nobody bought you an Easter egg ?
NilSatisOptimum
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Whose cost?
Barnfred 55
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None profit then.
Does it matter? It's the only vaccine that is and you should be applauding it but you won't. Why? Because it was designed and made in Britain. You're beyond a parody lad
Barnfred 55
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Wuhan
spectateur
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No, just put it on level 4 like other cities in the North.
Barnfred 55
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You don't need to barricade Wigan. Hardly anybody leaves or enters anyway
Barnfred 55
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They didn't know it was a new variant then in fairness. I agree with what your saying by the way. But the way your post was written it was like we knowingly exposed the world to the English variant
davek
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They sort of did....
6 JANUARY 2021
How the UK lost control of the mutant strain of Covid-19
In July, scientific advisers warned of the potential for a significant coronavirus variant to occur in the winter. But instead of preparing for the worst, the government created the ideal conditions for the virus to mutate – and thrive.Phil Whitaker.
.....In July, the government’s scientific advisory group Sage warned of the potential for a clinically significant mutation to occur during the winter. At the same time, the shadow group Independent Sage repeatedly urged the Johnson administration to take advantage of the summer hiatus to change its policy to a “zero Covid” strategy. This could have driven infection rates into the ground. Instead, we got “Eat Out to Help Out” and the progressive easing of restrictions that allowed daily case numbers to continue in four figures right into the autumn, pump priming the inevitable second wave. With countless billions of viral replications now occurring every day, the chance of advantageous mutations arising is high – far higher than in countries such as Taiwan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, where “zero Covid” policies have kept case numbers, and hence viral replications, at tiny levels. And our ailing TTI system, incapable of aggressive suppression of outbreaks, helped create conditions in which any new strain could start to flourish.
It was certainly bad luck that the VOC arose in the UK; there are many other countries with similarly compromised approaches to the pandemic. South Africa appears to have incubated an even more infectious variant, 501.V2, with a greater degree of structural change to the spike protein targeted by extant vaccines. But, like all “accidents”, the VOC wasn’t purely a freak occurrence. With its failure to heed warnings about quite how rapidly and seriously the Covid pandemic could change, the Johnson government has been caught playing with fire. As a consequence, we, and now the rest of the world, are going to get burned.
How the UK lost control of the mutant strain of Covid-19
In July, scientific advisers warned of the potential for a significant coronavirus variant to occur in the winter. But instead of preparing for the worst, the government created the ideal conditions for the virus to mutate – and thrive.
www.newstatesman.com
I'm all for building a huge wall around Wigan to keep the locals in, but it's nothing to do with COVID.
Barnfred 55
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There is a difference between knowing something could happen and establishing something has happened Dave.They sort of did....
6 JANUARY 2021
How the UK lost control of the mutant strain of Covid-19
In July, scientific advisers warned of the potential for a significant coronavirus variant to occur in the winter. But instead of preparing for the worst, the government created the ideal conditions for the virus to mutate – and thrive.
Phil Whitaker.
.....In July, the government’s scientific advisory group Sage warned of the potential for a clinically significant mutation to occur during the winter. At the same time, the shadow group Independent Sage repeatedly urged the Johnson administration to take advantage of the summer hiatus to change its policy to a “zero Covid” strategy. This could have driven infection rates into the ground. Instead, we got “Eat Out to Help Out” and the progressive easing of restrictions that allowed daily case numbers to continue in four figures right into the autumn, pump priming the inevitable second wave. With countless billions of viral replications now occurring every day, the chance of advantageous mutations arising is high – far higher than in countries such as Taiwan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, where “zero Covid” policies have kept case numbers, and hence viral replications, at tiny levels. And our ailing TTI system, incapable of aggressive suppression of outbreaks, helped create conditions in which any new strain could start to flourish.
It was certainly bad luck that the VOC arose in the UK; there are many other countries with similarly compromised approaches to the pandemic. South Africa appears to have incubated an even more infectious variant, 501.V2, with a greater degree of structural change to the spike protein targeted by extant vaccines. But, like all “accidents”, the VOC wasn’t purely a freak occurrence. With its failure to heed warnings about quite how rapidly and seriously the Covid pandemic could change, the Johnson government has been caught playing with fire. As a consequence, we, and now the rest of the world, are going to get burned.
How the UK lost control of the mutant strain of Covid-19
In July, scientific advisers warned of the potential for a significant coronavirus variant to occur in the winter. But instead of preparing for the worst, the government created the ideal conditions for the virus to mutate – and thrive.
But you already know that.
Same difference
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