The Covid thread

[fazersharp]

thought the government haters pointed at Hong Kong as a lesson on the way to do things coronations

Trust you to bring the Royals into this 

I give up on some devices, puts the reply in the quote and auto corrects it.

[YamFazFan]

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[Grahamm]

So you agree then that he does look like he has had a stroke. Your hypothesis that he has brain damage would explain why he is staying tight lipped about his jab status. If he was to come clean and say he has not had it then he is either an anti vaxer like his brother or he has a medical condition that he wants to keep secret.

ROFL!!!

Oh fazersharp, you *really* aren't very good at this are you?

This is like trying to have a sensible discussion with a Flat Earther! Please, stop trying to put words into my mouth and make it seem as if I've agreed with your nonsensical and unproven speculation which is just an excuse to keep making digs at Jeremy Corbyn.

Now I'm not going to waste any more time on this rubbish.

[Dudeofrude]

Finally got my appointments sorted 🥳 going to get my first jab Friday 💉💉

[fazersharp]

[size=inherit]The World Health Organization has announced a new naming system for variants of Covid-19.[/size]

From now on the WHO will use Greek letters to refer to variants first detected in countries like the UK, South Africa and India.

The UK variant for instance is labelled as Alpha, the South African Beta, and the Indian as Delta.From the bbc -----a scientist said [size=inherit]the country was in the early stages of a third wave[/size] of coronavirus infections, in part driven by the Delta, or Indian variant.

It is thought to spread more quickly than the Alpha (UK; Kent) variant, which was responsible for the surge in cases in the UK over the winter.

Vietnam, meanwhile, has detected what appears to be [size=inherit]a combination of those two variants[/size].


WHO are a joke. People will now be even more confused with the stupid Greek re naming. Bbc feeling the need to add the old name in brackets. So what the veitnam scare variant now to be called then, Kent Alpha Indian delta FFS
Sounds like an episode of z cars.


And shouldn't the one from the Chinese lab be the one called Alpha. Where the foc is that one WHO ?. Seems like they are erasing it from history on the demand of their paymasters in China


 Wanna make it easy call it Wuhan 1   wuhan 2, wuhan 3 etc

[fazersharp]

Go on admit it. You thought it was a wind up until you googled it and found it to be true.

[fazersharp]

Stand by for the convenient alpha delta (Vietnam )variant  to be used as an excuse to stop the June 21 lockdown lifting. Funny how a new scary varent is found just before the government want to backtrack on somthing aded and abetted by the bbc.

[YamFazFan]

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[mtread]

It's because they've discovered it's very infectious for grumpy old men who complain a lot 

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[Grahamm]

WHO are a joke. People will now be even more confused with the stupid Greek re naming.

Or maybe it will just help stop racist idiots making a big deal about the *location* a variant was first detected.

Naming Covid variants after place of origin ‘stigmatises’ countries, says WHO

[YamFazFan]

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[fazersharp]

WHO are a joke. People will now be even more confused with the stupid Greek re naming.

Or maybe it will just help stop racist idiots making a big deal about the *location* a variant was first detected.

Naming Covid variants after place of origin ‘stigmatises’ countries, says WHO

WHO are a joke. People will now be even more confused with the stupid Greek re naming.

Or maybe it will just help stop racist idiots making a big deal about the *location* a variant was first detected.

Good thinking stupid WHO, now all Variants come from Greece. My local kebab shop has had its windows put in.  ?
Watch WHO backtrack on this.

[YamFazFan]

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[Captain Haddock]

I'll call in at Fred's Pie Stall instead

Don't do that FFS! The Pi variant is yet to be found.

[fazersharp]

The Quadram Institute in Norwich, UK, writing in New Scientist in March suggested that an approach similar to that used for naming storms might be useful for generating neutral and more memorable names for coronavirus.    These people are supposed to be cleaver FFS. So the first one could be Jacki Chan, the Kent one William Shakespeare, the Indian one Mahatma gahandi the South African one Nelson Mandela and the New one in veitnam Pol Pot.

[fazersharp]

I'll call in at Fred's Pie Stall instead

Don't do that FFS! The Pi variant is yet to be found.

Is that the one that recurs

[fazersharp]

“To simplify public communications, WHO encourages national authorities, media outlets and others to adopt these new labels,” the WHO said

"SIMPLIFY" Who the foc knows the Greek alphabet

[agricola]

I don't see much wrong with a nation being stigmatised for foccing about with virus strains and failing to secure the premises, resulting in millions of people dying, being hospitalised, or suffering from long term illness as a result, nations having to shut down their economies, and then raise citizens taxes to pay for it all.

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[fazersharp]

I don't see much wrong with a nation being stigmatised for foccing about with virus strains and failing to secure the premises, resulting in millions of people dying, being hospitalised, or suffering from long term illness as a result, nations having to shut down their economies, and then raise citizens taxes to pay for it all.

Under trump, China was the biggest funder of WHO. Seems that WHO are not so stupid after all and have one eye on their gravy train that they do not want to upset and seem to be wanting to erase all references to the China virus.