Coronavirus (2021) thread

[cleavers]

dont think we have seen the last of these mutations going in the wrong direction,what if one mutation we simply cant controll in any shape or form and the mortality rate is 3 4 or 5 x more than what it is now

We certainly won't have seen the last of these varients, but it's really not in the virus's best interest to kill more people, it just wants to be more effective at spreading, if it kills all it's hosts, it kills itself.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

We certainly won't have seen the last of these varients, but it's really not in the virus's best interest to kill more people, it just wants to be more effective at spreading, if it kills all it's hosts, it kills itself.

It wants to spread to it can control the population by killing off the weak and making room for other species to propagate. It’s doing a good job at both at the moment. Nature is incredible.

 

[ctwrd]

Right now it feels like this year is going to be more restricted than last year was. Talk of no proper relaxation until may and even then only baby steps.

ridiculous if this carries on by then when they should have vaccinated the most vulnerable. Assuming they don’t botch it up by going with the untested unapproved 12 week gap.

I bet there’ll be some poor souls who get a mix and match of one dose of one and another of another. Like that sounds sensible.

 

[cleavers]

My nan was told it was the Oxford one, in advance I think.

My missus (dental worker), my dad, and my mum were all told in advance which one they were getting, my missus and dad have the Pfizer, my mum (despite going to the same place as my dad) got the Oxford one.

They all have a card confirming which one it was.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Sadly, the Tusami of new varriant Covid is hitting Portugal and Spain is only a day or so behind. Today...
Portugal had 16,000 new cases 2.55 times the UK caaes per head of population.
Spain had 42,885 new cases 1.5 times the UK cases oer head of population

Everywhere is going to get the new strains at some point, it’s going to be a shitstorm.

 

[Del_Bosque]

All this talk of varients at the minute does feel like they are about to announce the lockdown being extended.

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

We have hand washing and mask wearing but we should go back to the old adage ”coughs and sneezes spread diseases” we might have to change “protect the NHS” for the slogan, as it’s not working. People don’t care about the NHS.

 

[BlueHammer85]

An overpopulated nation with not much room to move and a lot of poverty let’s not forget, which during this virus is increasingly unable to feed themselves

i'd go along with this despite the Governments handling

 

[BlueHammer85]

We certainly won't have seen the last of these varients, but it's really not in the virus's best interest to kill more people, it just wants to be more effective at spreading, if it kills all it's hosts, it kills itself.

''have that virus!'' we can all say when we're dead

 

[crooky]

All this talk of varients at the minute does feel like they are about to announce the lockdown being extended.

When was it due to officially end anyway?

I've got it in my head that it'll be mid to late March when we come out of lockdown. But even then I'm not sure as they'll want to be certain that this is the final lockdown and not release restrictions too early.

 

[cleavers]

Shops and offices open with social distancing.

Reckon that will be in place for a long period summer onwards but think we can all live with that.

We should live with some of it forever to be honest, I'm not keen on masks, especially outdoors, but work places (in general) are better places.

I've never been a big fan of wiping down desks mice keyboards and phones at work, but i'll be keeping that up, I always thought it was OTT, but I don't any more. When out in normal life, I'll be much more cautious about what I touch, and I'll use hand sanitizer if I do have to touch stuff, it should prevent catching other stuff as well as covid19, which will be with us in some form or other forever.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Avoidable how exactly

By:
1. Shutting the frontiers at the start of February.
2. With strict isolating quarentine for those returning from abroad.
3. By use of an isolation app that checks you are roughly in your house by being near your smartphone with random phone calls and image recognition tech checks. (Massively successful in Twain and South Korea).
4. Paying people while sick with covid so they don't try and work.
5. Fining people massively for breaking quarantine or isolation.
6. Massive distribution of 4000 IU (100ug) of Vitamin D - 6000 IU for really obese people.
7 Enforcing mask wearing in Supermarkets - if you can't wear a mask then wear a visor.
8. Closing schools when the test and trace report indicated school sourced cases were above 25% of total

How many would an alternative government have done? ONE is the answer.

 

[BlueHammer85]

if we have to live with masks for years... it will be the death of the office.

 

[cleavers]

It wants to spread to it can control the population by killing off the weak and making room for other species to propagate. It’s doing a good job at both at the moment. Nature is incredible.

Perhaps a bit fanciful, but I can see what you mean, and nature is definitely incredible.

At the end of the day it created the biggest virus of all, humans, killing their own planet slowly because we became too good at reproducing, and failed to see that there being too many of us would create a whole host of problems.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Everywhere is going to get the new strains at some point, it’s going to be a shitstorm.

Sadly true.

 

[cleavers]

''have that virus!'' we can all say when we're ALL dead

Corrected but yes.

 

[Indaparkside]

Anyone thinking there going to be lying on a sandy beach this year is delusional, don’t waste your money on any holiday this year it won’t be happening any time soon

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Anyone thinking there going to be lying on a sandy beach this year is delusional, don’t waste your money on any holiday this year it won’t be happening any time soon

Plenty of sandy beaches in the UK.

 

[Indaparkside]

Plenty of sandy beaches in the UK.

At about £2,000 a week everyone will be wanting to book a week away at the seaside it will be bedlam mate

 

[cleavers]

Anyone thinking there going to be lying on a sandy beach this year is delusional,

Plenty of out of the way beaches in the UK ;-) we will almost certainly be able to visit places in the UK this year.