Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Tubey]

Yeah as I said a few pages back, I don't believe at all China created this in a lab - but as long as they're held accountable for all this then I don't really care if others want to believe that or not. Whether on purpose or through negligence, it's their fault.

 

[JLW]

I thought it didn't count if you were within the airport but don't quote me on that.

Yeah that's what I'm thinking but i need to be 100% or its 10 day quarantine at a cost of 1,700 quid.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Paris]

Pretty sure that even transiting a red zone country airside means a quarantine in the UK, if you're a UK national / resident / Irish national (other foreigners cannot enter the UK if they have been to/through a red zone country).

Indeed. It did last year when I was transiting in France.

 

[Paris]

Indeed. It did last year when I was transiting in France.

Please note that I said transiting and not transitioning.

 

[Mrk]

Please note that I said transiting and not transitioning.

I mean, that would have explained a lot...

 

[Jebus_lives]

Yeah as I said a few pages back, I don't believe at all China created this in a lab - but as long as they're held accountable for all this then I don't really care if others want to believe that or not. Whether on purpose or through negligence, it's their fault.

How would this practically work?

Because any 'country' could feasibly be responsible for a pandemic. If China has only a handful of cases, but countries completely fail to address it, how do you quantify culpability and contributory blame. China might well say 'we did as much as we could and gave been successful. It's your fault if you have let it run through your population'.

Does the UK take responsibility for spreading variants across the world through flights or lack of adherence to isolation? Do countries of new variants take any responsibility?

 

[MikeH72]

How would this practically work?

Because any 'country' could feasibly be responsible for a pandemic. If China has only a handful of cases, but countries completely fail to address it, how do you quantify culpability and contributory blame. China might well say 'we did as much as we could and gave been successful. It's your fault if you have let it run through your population'.

Does the UK take responsibility for spreading variants across the world through flights or lack of adherence to isolation? Do countries of new variants take any responsibility?

No because they’re just variants, and there are hundreds and hundreds of variants of every virus. Covid isn’t the first virus to ever mutate. You’d probably have to hold the country where the virus originated in the first place responsible.

 

[Jebus_lives]

No because they’re just variants, and there are hundreds and hundreds of variants of every virus. Covid isn’t the first virus to ever mutate. You’d probably have to hold the country where the virus originated in the first place responsible.

Why would that make a difference? It's naturally developed just as the initial virus has.

I could see sanctions based around lack of adherence to process and reporting, but not for it being the origin.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

First under the bus.





"kin hell love, leave me alone eh? I just do houses and flags, not my fault that fat shithouse won't come on yer telly program"

Think I've found the PM, have heard he is on the detail how to grow grass as with the Hillsborough and Grenfell inquiries, plenty of lessons there on how to scurry away.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[navidson]

How would this practically work?

Because any 'country' could feasibly be responsible for a pandemic. If China has only a handful of cases, but countries completely fail to address it, how do you quantify culpability and contributory blame. China might well say 'we did as much as we could and gave been successful. It's your fault if you have let it run through your population'.

Does the UK take responsibility for spreading variants across the world through flights or lack of adherence to isolation? Do countries of new variants take any responsibility?

They are culpable because they knew the virus was a thing, knew that it was rife through a certain element of their population and decided to hide the information from the rest of the world

 

[LinekersLegs]

Long but interesting read about one of the India vaccines

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Tubey]

How would this practically work?

Because any 'country' could feasibly be responsible for a pandemic. If China has only a handful of cases, but countries completely fail to address it, how do you quantify culpability and contributory blame. China might well say 'we did as much as we could and gave been successful. It's your fault if you have let it run through your population'.

Does the UK take responsibility for spreading variants across the world through flights or lack of adherence to isolation? Do countries of new variants take any responsibility?

It was Chinese negligence that led to the circumstances for a virus to emerge. They had the warning with the wet markets, this isn't the first virus to emerge in this way.

Negligence should mean they are held responsible, to the point where they pay massive reparations to the world.

It won't happen, but it should happen.

Your reasoning is akin to someone releasing a rabid tiger into a shopping centre, and then blaming those attacked for not defending themselves. It doesn't make sense. Ultimate culpability rests with China and China alone.