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Bluemanc100 said:
Who the hell is buying mink these days anyway or is this a conservation project?
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Still heavily farmed in parts of Europe for their fur I believe. Same could be said for Pangolins (the species where the entire pandemic is suggested to have perhaps originated from)...not a big thing over here obviously but the most trafficked animal in the world.
 
ayrshire_blue said:
Still heavily farmed in parts of Europe for their fur I believe. Same could be said for Pangolins (the species where the entire pandemic is suggested to have perhaps originated from)...not a big thing over here obviously but the most trafficked animal in the world.
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The Pangolin trade is disgusting but largely exploited in China I believe.. this Mink farm is in Denmark FFS
 
According to the Zoe App data, the UK ‘R’ is down to 1 and down to 0.9 in NW and Scotland as of Nov 1st. This is usually very well aligned to the ONS data as well. In fact, the outlier always seems to be the government data.
Still, I’m sure some graph predicting the end of the world will be in production for the next presser but I’d view this as pretty positive.

 
The irony of Nicola Sturgeon's post is that, assuming the study I referred to yesterday about the dangerous mutation of the virus that might compromise a vaccine from working well given how it works IS the one involving mink, then that report said it actually was first seen IN Scotland in March. But only in a few hundred human cases and fizzled out. Before cropping up around the world now.

Though she is right, of course, to emphasise the need for doing what we can to prevent importing it now from Denmark.

Hopefully it will stop the desire for wearing mink. Long overdue.
 
Bluemanc100 said:
Who the hell is buying mink these days anyway or is this a conservation project?
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According to BBC, more than 50 million mink a year are bred for their fur, mainly in China, Denmark, the Netherlands and Poland. Animal welfare group Humane Society International applauded the Danish PM for taking ‘such an essential and science-based step to protect Danish citizens’ and said it hoped that losing so many mink to the coronavirus causes fur farms to get out of the business
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
According to the Zoe App data, the UK ‘R’ is down to 1 and down to 0.9 in NW and Scotland as of Nov 1st. This is usually very well aligned to the ONS data as well. In fact, the outlier always seems to be the government data.
Still, I’m sure some graph predicting the end of the world will be in production for the next presser but I’d view this as pretty positive.

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Looks promising, lets hope its not like the pause that seems to have happened in Spain and France.
 
A further 355 coronavirus deaths have been reported in the UK in the past 24 hours - along with another 23,287 cases.

Friday's daily deaths figure is 23 lower than yesterday's 378.it is also lower than Wednesday's 492 deaths - which was the highest number of daily deaths since 19 May, when 500 were reported.

news.sky.com

Coronavirus: UK reports another 355 COVID-19 deaths

The latest figure has been revealed after government scientists said the R number remained unchanged at 1.3.
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Blue Maverick said:
ffs lighten up, if anything it shows how stupid some of the rules are
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Yes, but I'm just not sure some people have the brains to understand that this is not actually about stopping them having a pint - no one actually wants to ban going out and having a beer. I have a relative that's been a staunch anti-lockdown / covid denier type. Now she has tested positive for covid (thankfully no symptoms as yet beyond taste/smell) and is counting the long list of like-minded loons she's been freely socialising with recently that she needs to let on to - pointless, like Freddy Mercury in 1990 trying to work out who he caught aids off.
 
For those that know far more about vaccines than I, is there real cause for concern with the mink coronavirus jump?
From what I picked up on here, the CV19 was RNA based (which normally makes it more likely to mutate anyway) unlike DNA. However, so far, it doesn't look like it's mutating a great deal (unless this mink story urinates over that....)
 
somapop said:
For those that know far more about vaccines than I, is there real cause for concern with the mink coronavirus jump?
From what I picked up on here, the CV19 was RNA based (which normally makes it more likely to mutate anyway) unlike DNA. However, so far, it doesn't look like it's mutating a great deal (unless this mink story urinates over that....)
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I asked that yesterday as not sure it is the same strain that started in Scotland in March.

Surely if it is they have worked something out by now?

Two scientists today have said it is too early to know even if this will spread TO humans easily - suggesting it cannot be the mutation that started in Scotland I would have thought as that reached multiple countries after infecting 300 there which tends to tell you yes.

Perhaps it has mutated further since?
 
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