Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[grandjoeblue]

tbf Joe, whether it be headlines in a newspaper or on TV or radio, their job is to think of the most standout, dramatic headline they can come up with.

I mean last night on News at Ten, the main news was the super variant could be able to evade all vaccines......straight after that piece was the next segment telling everyone to get the booster jab to be extra protected.

All we can do is do what we can to help each other which is get the vaccine, get the booster if you get the chance, get the flu jab, help each other out for those that may need a little bit of help and for thr love of God will someone give maccavennie tomorrow's lotto numbers

I know mate I agree but when this thing destroys people's mental health its not ideal that they put these headlines to make money. I get thats how the world works but preferably they wouldn't go down that route.

 

[Billy Dean]

Am I going mad? When this all started, and we had the Kent variant, wernt we told that as a virus mutates, it can either become more infectious, but less transmissable, or the other way round? Like Delta did.

Either way, pretty confident the egg heads in Cambridge will have an angle on this new one.

According to that thread I just posted, this new variant seems to so far be causing mostly mild cases

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Omicron is the name given! Delta is dead, long live Omicron.

 

[Billy Dean]

Omicron is the name given! Delta is dead, long live Omicron.

I'm definitely in favour of them getting more interesting names in future

 

[Amw79]

Are we allowed to call the BBC anti-science if they fail to report this scientific information?

 

[Toast]

What is one of these?

I clicked the Twitter account expecting hairy minges all over the gaff. Not going to lie.

I need to know the answer to this as well please..

 

[Billy Dean]

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Illuminating interview a few months back, particularly on variants and vaccine efficacy: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...demic-has-created-a-market-for-gloom-and-doom

 

[Billy Dean]

According to that thread I just posted, this new variant seems to so far be causing mostly mild cases

Sorry @roydo i might have been wrong on this. I think she actually just said that cases discovered outside of SA have been mild so far, rather than all of them

 

[coollino]

What is one of these?

Good lord you are in for a ride

Furry fandom - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Cereal offenders: Tony the Tiger begs furries to stop tweeting him porn

Kellogg’s Frosties mascot asked social media users to ‘keep things gr-r-reat’ after being inundated with lewd anthropomorphic images

www.theguardian.com

 

[MikeH72]

Good lord you are in for a ride

Furry fandom - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Cereal offenders: Tony the Tiger begs furries to stop tweeting him porn

Kellogg’s Frosties mascot asked social media users to ‘keep things gr-r-reat’ after being inundated with lewd anthropomorphic images

www.theguardian.com

Good grief I’m glad I got off Twitter before this.

 

[tsubaki]

https://www.patreon.com/posts/lockdown-fascism-58907079?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare

This is a good read

Agreed with all that except the defence of the Instagram influencers going to Dubai; that was something that shouldn't have happened.

 

[Haydn]

I'm definitely in favour of them getting more interesting names in future

The Rondon variant has arrived.

Found in China, Deffo not lethal, zero risk of overtaking any other variant.

A 50% Booster dose, known as a Boo is being trialled in the UK to combat long term infection.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

 

[LinekersLegs]

Not sure how legit this person is but I shall choose to believe this thread

Fwiw I’ve found Chise a really reliable source of useful data, summarizes and links to lots of in depth studies from Lancet etc.