Originally Posted by
dorabella
Seems to me like a combination of lazy journalists (can't be bothered to go and seek out any significant news and over-hyping snippets of info about 'variants') plus the HSE and SAGE throwing out 'news' about a new 'variant' of the same old virus to stop the public getting too hopeful about a possibility of ending lockdown. Why they persist with this charade in the midst of successful vaccination roll-out and resultant efficacy, the seasonal respiratory virus naturally running out of steam as they do at this point in the year, and in the face of increasing 'lockdown fatigue; among the population is beyond me.
There will always be virus mutations, variants and waxing and waning as it becomes less of a pandemic and more an endemic population bug that we will ultimately have to learnt o live with. Why doesn't the government just let us get on with it??