Wuhan Killer Sneeze (thanks Tea)

[william_kent]

a virus needs a host to survive and replicate, it's just figuring out that it needs to NOT kill the organism it lives off - DNA figured this out centuries ago, but the lab creation is like a toddler learning

 

[martin]

a virus needs a host to survive and replicate, it's just figuring out that it needs to NOT kill the organism it lives off - DNA figured this out centuries ago, but the lab creation is like a toddler learning

Oh OK - so if Delta's more lethal, there's more dead bodies = end of the line for the virus? But Omicron gets to stick around inside us for the next how ever many years?

 

[luka]

i was in the pub and we ewre the only ones there v. eerie

 

[william_kent]

Oh OK - so if Delta's more lethal, there's more dead bodies = end of the line for the virus? But Omicron gets to stick around inside us for the next how ever many years?

the Professors I've talked to have said that it's a case of learning to live with covid

 

[Mr. Tea]

fabricated or not it's a rotten piece of glurge

What does that mean, and why would it be fabricated?

 

[Mr. Tea]

"Since June, I have never seen a horrible case of someone who was vaccinated"

How does that square with the large majority of UK Covid deaths having been vaccinated?

Does this not suggest that the article is completely fabricated?

I see you're still at the level of "Most drivers killed in accidents were wearing seat belts, therefore we should ban seatbelts".

There really is no hope for you.

 

[hmg]

Oh OK - so if Delta's more lethal, there's more dead bodies = end of the line for the virus? But Omicron gets to stick around inside us for the next how ever many years?

It's more about tranmissibility than lethality. SARS-CoV-2 and its variants never got into the MERS, Ebola, Marburg virus lethality big league, it was never self-limiting in that way.

 

[line b]

If you want something reasonable rather than partisan, on where things are at with the virus

I agree with all of this, but that were at this point means all fun is forever cancelled. The solutions proposed here would solve everything but the fun angle, not that there may be a solution for that at this point.

 

[line b]

I really hope that this current winter isnt now our standard endemic seasonal cycle, Id really worry about general mental health.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

I wonder whether the tests are picking up some colds and putting them in the Omicron bracket too

 

[luka]

I wonder whether the tests are picking up some colds and putting them in the Omicron bracket too

theyve literally told us that if we have a cold its unicron

 

[mixed_biscuits]

theyve literally told us that if we have a cold its unicron

Yeah, so even if the tests don't pick it up, they've covidified the coldspace of human experience

 

[luka]

my friend banned another friend of ours from coming to the pub yesterday for having a cold
but tbh i dont want a cold either so i dont mind

 

[luka]

it was eerie out, im sure i said it yesterday, but we were literally the only customers there. in a street of bars we might have been the only customers in fact. a lot of venues closed too of course.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

 

[shiels]

Given the cost of lockdown and where money is spunked… with ‘protect the NHS’ as main reason for lockdown. Why isn’t there currently massive massive investment to increase worker capacity, even seasonally now it’s pretty much endemic. And that should include paying health workers fairly. Is that an ideological decision? And has massively incentivising testing and isolation been considered?

 

[luka]

mad innit. youd think they would be all over it. no subjects taught in school except doctoring. fast track all children into hospital jobs.

 

[Mr. Tea]

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Vaccine uptake in the over-70s is 96%.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Vaccine uptake in the over-70s is 96%.

The point is that the large majority of hospitalisations and deaths in the UK are vaccinated, which easily contraverts what you claimed

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Given the cost of lockdown and where money is spunked… with ‘protect the NHS’ as main reason for lockdown. Why isn’t there currently massive massive investment to increase worker capacity, even seasonally now it’s pretty much endemic. And that should include paying health workers fairly. Is that an ideological decision? And has massively incentivising testing and isolation been considered?

'Protect the NHS' and the Covid crisis are smokescreens behind which the NHS is swiftly being dismantled, the elderly and vulnerable are being bumped off and huge health problems are being set up for the future.