The Covid thread

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[size=1em]“To simplify public communications, WHO encourages national authorities, media outlets and others to adopt these new labels,” the WHO said[/size]

[size=1em]"SIMPLIFY" [/size] :eek [size=1em]Who the foc knows the Greek alphabet [/size]

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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.

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These people are supposed to be cleaver FFS.

Fazersharp, you really need to get that predictive text of yours fixed.  :lol


Mine was a problem too, when it seemingly said I'd referred to our PM as a cult.

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[size=1em]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.  :rollin 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 P[/size][size=1em]ot.[/size]

New one to add to the list. Tenzing Norgay but as the WHO would probably think thats too close to their bank rollers they will probably go with Edmund Hillary instead.

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Isn't Edmund Hillary a Kiwi though?.

'' Wasn't '' - past tense. Are we only choosing dead people so they aren't offended?


If so, the Kent variant could be named after Charles Dickens. In that 'how the Dickens have I caught this?'

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[fazersharp]

Isn't Edmund Hillary a Kiwi though?.

'' Wasn't '' - past tense. Are we only choosing dead people so they aren't offended?

No I was just struggling to find a famous person from Napal that wasn't tenzing. Edmund was the nearest I could get  :lol and he ain't from Nepal or UK :'( 

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Any way the WHO should forget about all the national variant names, there's only one and its Chinese. Lets have China 1 China 2.   

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Can someone do the math here. its from the WHO report on Nepal. 

Of the total COVID-19 positive cases, 75.94% (398,483) of cases have recovered and 22% (115,447) of cases are active.● Of the total active cases, 93.6% (108,071) of the active cases are in home isolation; 7,376 (6.4%) cases are undergoing hospital/institutional isolation of which 1,697 (1.5%) patients require ICU admission, amongst which 467 (0.4%) require ventilator support.

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I don't happen to think any foreign holiday travel should be allowed yet. But I feel that the UK travel is the fall guy as the government go all out to keep to the June 21st unlocking, various ministers mentioning a Nepal variant that the WHO know nothing about. Just like the people of Japan are under much more restrictions than they would be if there were no olympics.   

WHO Nepal@WHONepal3 Jun
 
WHO is not aware of any new variant of SARS-CoV-2 being detected in Nepal. The confirmed variants in circulation are: Alpha (B.1.1.7), Delta (B.1.617.2) and Kappa (B.1.617.1). The predominant variant currently in circulation in Nepal is Delta (B.1.617.2).

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They were interviewing a bloke on the radio this morning who owns a villa in Portugal. He said he was 'totally shocked' that the country had gone from green to amber. Yeah right, is anyone genuinely 'totally shocked' at anything to do with international travel any more?.

Another couple had retired to Spain and were 'so upset' that they're grandchildren couldn't get over to visit them. They were happy enough to leave all their family thousands of miles behind in the first place pre-pandemic though weren't they :rolleyes

I have zero sympathy for people who have gone ahead and booked foreign holidays who are now moaning. 

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Seeing how 'taking offence', or rather pretending you do, is now a national pastime I wouldn't be at all surprised if they started cashing in on it too.

Next you'll be saying Scott of the Antarctic was a snowflake!

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