Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[MikeH72]

Reports from Cyprus of a new variant that combines delta and Omicron. Being called Deltacron. I can’t take much more of this

You do realise they will come up with new variants forever don’t you? Viruses mutate hundreds of times a year, don’t let this scare you just because the media have decided to name it to try and cause a mass panic (again)

 

[jonnyboy316]

You do realise they will come up with new variants forever don’t you? Viruses mutate hundreds of times a year, don’t let the media have you believe that this is something unique to covid.

It is the scaremongering behaviour of the media that is frustrating

 

[MikeH72]

It is the scaremongering behaviour of the media that is frustrating

Just humour it. They’re a joke at this point.

 

[efcfanwirral]

You do realise they will come up with new variants forever don’t you? Viruses mutate hundreds of times a year, don’t let this scare you just because the media have decided to name it to try and cause a mass panic (again)

Flurona and Deltacron within a week ?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

You do realise they will come up with new variants forever don’t you? Viruses mutate hundreds of times a year, don’t let this scare you just because the media have decided to name it to try and cause a mass panic (again)

It's like you eat every meal at McDonalds and then rage at how the junk food industry makes you fat. There are decent news sources out there, and with the web being what it is, there are plenty of sources from academia, government et al that publish on a regular basis that don't get sucked into the "if it bleeds it leads..." mindset the more sensationalist media often do. Maybe choose better quality information sources.

 

[MikeH72]

It's like you eat every meal at McDonalds and then rage at how the junk food industry makes you fat. There are decent news sources out there, and with the web being what it is, there are plenty of sources from academia, government et al that publish on a regular basis that don't get sucked into the "if it bleeds it leads..." mindset the more sensationalist media often do. Maybe choose better quality information sources.

I’m not raging, I’m literally telling the above poster not to let the sensationalist media scare him into thinking covid is the first virus to ever mutate.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I’m not raging, I’m literally telling the above poster not to let the sensationalist media scare him into thinking covid is the first virus to ever mutate.

So maybe you could point said poster to better sources of information? I mean if you consume tabloids as your primary source what can you really expect?

 

[maccavennie]

Tested positive this morning wow its took me of my feet, was getting the booster next week typical. Missus has barricaded me in the spare bedroom lol

Hope you get better soon mate

 

[maccavennie]

Haha wow. I just carried on as normal (in the house I mean) when the girlfriend got it!

Missed a trick there not giving yourself a week off from the missus lol

 

[Walken]

You insensitive ba***rd, what about Pfizer's money.. "I have natural immunity aren't I great" he says while not considering the vaccine manufacturer.

What a strange take

 

[Ghost Rider]

Let's face it if they get rid of free tests a large percentage of people won't bother any more.

I certainly wouldn't test multiple times a week. Potentially would buy/use one if I thought I might have symptoms but they'd some track of almost all asymptomatic cases.

To some extent though , isn't tracking asymptomatic pushing the endless element of covid rather than a potentially looking forward approach?

Admittedly I have no idea of what rates asymptomatic exists so it may be low with the variant or higher than others, really don't know.

But if you think about it, looking for people who don't have symptoms is looking for something that otherwise wouldn't be there. I have always been curious if someone can test positive and not be 'sick' , which can be applied to any virus.

At some point all of this paranoia and fear and all the rest of it has to end. Whether it's because of herd immunity , less severe variants or a mixture of the two. So spending time looking for the virus is just keeping all of that alive , when in the real world (off the internet), people wouldn't concern themselves anymore with covid unless they had symptoms.

We are now at the point where most symptoms of any virus is covid so once you hit the herd immunity / boosted / medicine point , do you need to look for covid?

Eventually, having covid will be the same as having the flu. Same precautions (yearly vaccine) , same isolation (through illness) and same don't want to get it approach.

 

[Walken]

A vaccine that doesn't stop infection followed by a pill for when you get infected, well played Pfizer ?

Its a massive conspiracy, thank the lord we have you to see through the data and reveal the charlatans of the medical world who have united across borders to con everyone. You have shown across many threads you have that unique mix of ignorance and arrogance to allow you to ignore expert advice with minimal knowledge. I'll pop you in the dholliday section where you belong

 

[Walken]

You do realise they will come up with new variants forever don’t you? Viruses mutate hundreds of times a year, don’t let this scare you just because the media have decided to name it to try and cause a mass panic (again)

What mutations have 'they' made up so far?

 

[Tipp blue]

What a strange take

 

[MikeH72]

What mutations have 'they' made up so far?

None of them, because it’s a virus that mutates like every single other virus in the world ever? Why is it newsworthy that a virus has mutated is more my point? Why doesn’t every new variant of the flu get named by “them”(the media)?