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    Re: Covid Variants

    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??
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    Quote Originally Posted by dorabella View Post
    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??
    Trouble is, the govt will always get it in the neck whatever the event.

    They're pretty much always damned if they do and damned if they don't over nearly everything, and regardless of whichever PM/party is in power too.

    The MSM and the serial 'know-it-alls'/
    'Karens' on Facebook, Twitter, etc are sadly now 'the govt' as far as I'm concerned!!

    I bet you a tenner in 6 month's time when we're hopefully more back to normal again we will no doubt be panicking about terrorism, violent crime, the economy, etc all over again.

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    Re: Covid Variants

    Apparently another UK variant is suspected, according to the BBC website, with about 16 infectees, but all had tested positive on or around 15th Feb, so like the first confirmation of the Brazilian variant within our shores last Sunday, it's already been around within a similar timeframe.

    So far, PHE don't believe that any major threat is currently posed.

    Again, for all we know, they in turn could already be on the mend by now, just like those infected with the Brazilian variant.

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    Re: Covid Variants

    This certainly is a persistent little bugger eh? Makes the flu look like an amateur!

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    Re: Covid Variants

    Quote Originally Posted by Fishmanpa View Post
    This certainly is a persistent little bugger eh? Makes the flu look like an amateur!

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    At least the authorities are now (at least here in the UK) are being far more proactive in managing the situation, and in particular, whenever and wherever any newer variants crop up.

    A far cry from a year ago when this country was still mostly carrying on as normal (apart from the great stampede for toilet rolls and some other items) where people were still jetting off on holiday abroad, visiting pubs, theatres, cinemas, live music concerts, etc, and Bozzer still didn't believe in full-on lockdowns but finally relented on 23rd March last year by the time the original Covid situation here in the UK was becoming really dire.

    At least the situation is much better defined one year on and we now have two vaccines being doled out, plus more to come in the not-too-distant future.

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    Re: Covid Variants

    Strangely the BBC haven't even mentioned on their website the newly-discovered variant in the UK so far this morning whose currently-known infectees first tested positive almost 3 weeks ago on 15th Feb.

    Obviously not much else to report on it ATM, so no news is good news.

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    Re: Covid Variants

    That must be the Whitehall variant? Impossible to eradicate but can be controlled at the flick of a switch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fishmanpa View Post
    This certainly is a persistent little bugger eh? Makes the flu look like an amateur!

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    At the moment it does FMP and right now influenza appears to have vanished. However, what's the betting that it returns with a much more transmissible mutation due to our mask wearing etc? Evolutionary pressures and all that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pulisa View Post
    That must be the Whitehall variant? Impossible to eradicate but can be controlled at the flick of a switch.
    LOL Pulisa!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by pulisa View Post
    That must be the Whitehall variant? Impossible to eradicate but can be controlled at the flick of a switch.
    A bitch of a virus that also has financial aspects: it files it's travel expenses as it spreads.
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