COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Bluesince1979]

Why the personal insult? You were on full rant again and simply spouted off

Okay Goodwill to all men and I apologise and drop the pleb accusation but I still think you knew what I was getting it. Let’s leave it there and happy Christmas

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Is everything a conspiracy these days?

It seems like it. I find it concerning that an overwhelming amount of people in this country believe in conspiracy theories.

 

[kaz7]

It’s a shame some posters keep pushing a North v South agenda on a what is a very good informative thread. This is impacting everyone wherever your from - no need to keep this tribal crap going.

Or pushing personal digs..

 

[grunge]

This ‘new mutant strain’ has clearly been around ages and the govt just decided it would be an opportune time to wheel it out to facilitate project fear and justify another U-turn and cancelling christmas. Purely a propoganda lever but look at the damage it is causing. Scandalous

In all fairness while the strain was identified in September it only started to gain traction in Late November.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Or pushing personal digs..

Yes, you should stop that aswell.

 

[Chippy_boy]

What I cannot get my head around is that the common cold is a coronavirus and yet after donkeys years of research into the common cold, we never managed to come up with a vaccine. And yet in a matter of months, with COVID-19, we have a vaccine.

Now there could be various reasons for this. Perhaps with a cold, we just didn't try very hard because it doesn't kill people. But in a way, that seems unlikely to me when you consider the misery colds cause, to billions of people every year. Another possibility is that it's really, really difficult to come up with an effective vaccine for coronaviruses. I believe the reason you can catch a cold every year - having already had one - is because the virus is constantly mutating. Maybe this is why its so difficult to come up with an effective vaccine? Just as it's impossible for the human body to naturally develop resistance to the common cold, maybe it's also impossible to cause the body to develop immunity by vaccinating, because the virus is always mutating to something which is not protected by the vaccine.

It seems extremely possible to me that this could be the situation we find ourselves in with COVID-19. What if the vaccines don't work on the new virus? What if people who have had COVID already, are not immune to the new variant? These are worrying concerns. It could well be the case that we are never going to get rid of this thing and our only approach is to accept that we have to live with it, and the best we can do is to try to find treatments which stop people from dying when they eventually catch it, as perhaps we all will?

 

[mosssideblue]

Okay Goodwill to all men and I apologise and drop the pleb accusation but I still think you knew what I was getting it. Let’s leave it there and happy Christmas

Appreciate that, cheers

 

[sky tot]

It seems like it. I find it concerning that an overwhelming amount of people in this country believe in conspiracy theories.

Oh yes mate . I was nearly falling out with 2 workmates last week over it ..
It’s only flu & the government just want to get us all in debt to control us !!!
Unbelievable

 

[Tricky_Trev]

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Looks like NW is 3 weeks behind London. Shit is going to hit the fan as we know our government will leave the national lockdown for when it’s too late.

This thing is going to escape the vaccines, you can just see it with the way we can’t catch a break right now. Our luck is well and truly out.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

What I cannot get my head around is that the common cold is a coronavirus and yet after donkeys years of research into the common cold, we never managed to come up with a vaccine. And yet in a matter of months, with COVID-19, we have a vaccine.

Now there could be various reasons for this. Perhaps with a cold, we just didn't try very hard because it doesn't kill people. But in a way, that seems unlikely to me when you consider the misery colds cause, to billions of people every year. Another possibility is that it's really, really difficult to come up with an effective vaccine for coronaviruses. I believe the reason you can catch a cold every year - having already had one - is because the virus is constantly mutating. Maybe this is why its so difficult to come up with an effective vaccine? Just as it's impossible for the human body to naturally develop resistance to the common cold, maybe it's also impossible to cause the body to develop immunity by vaccinating, because the virus is always mutating to something which is not protected by the vaccine.

It seems extremely possible to me that this could be the situation we find ourselves in with COVID-19. What if the vaccines don't work on the new virus? What if people who have had COVID already, are not immune to the new variant? These are worrying concerns. It could well be the case that we are never going to get rid of this thing and our only approach is to accept that we have to live with it, and the best we can do is to try to find treatments which stop people from dying when they eventually catch it, as perhaps we all will?

Not a nice post but it echo's my worries as well. I'm sure the usual hardy boys will be on in a minute to tell you to hide behind a couch for the rest of your life though.