Padraig seems a decent chap, quit the Billy big Balls routine.
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Of all the nonsense regarding Covid, the shite talk on how contagious the virus is takes the biscuit. In the reporting from the UK, government officials are quoted as saying the R number is increasing from 1.1-1.2 to 1.4 due to this new strain. It’s complete horseshit. The basic reproductive number R0 is at least 3 and maybe 5 or 6. The actual transmission rate Rt depends on a multitude of factors, but it basically comes down to how many people are interacting closely with other people in a location where the virus is in circulation. What drives the Rt up is people’s behavior, far more than the genomic sequence of the individual strain.
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They let them in and put them straight into a quarantine camp for 2 weeks at their own expense.
I think it’s the latest in a series of clownish pronouncements from the UK government, yes. I’ve seen zero science to back up their bullshit.
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Why are NIron officials stating they’ve had a couple of cases? Seems a very weird line of hoax to be taking put maybe you’ve evidence to prove so.
2022 for Pints regardless
But Chris Whitty and John Edmonds are saying it’s real. Now, who knows, maybe I’m naive, but these are actual experts, and I don’t think they’d make stuff up for the fun of it.
If there is even a chance that what they are saying is true, then it’s a very serious development and countries are right to shut down travel from the UK.
Would you agree that a virus with the same effects but with 70% increased transmissibility would be a very serious public health matter, more serious than the already serious situation?
And that therefore, approaching the situation on the basis that this news is true is by far the most rational approach for policy makers?
I don’t think the new one is as bad. More infectious but less virulent.
Are flights still going to Belfast? And then ypu can drive back to the free state?
The one in South Africa is reported to be more dangerous to younger people.
I think a lot of the reports are to keep people locked down while a vaccine is imminent.
The virus in circulation is already highly infectious, the main reason efforts to suppress it are failing. The mutation of the spike protein that made it more infectious happened back in January and became the dominant strain over the following months. As I said I’ve seen no evidence that this claimed English strain is any more infectious than the virus in circulation in the rest of Europe and the US.
I suspect the UK government are looking at rising numbers and panicking.
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Your credibility re anything Covid related is shot to shit. Stop spamming the thread.
Its all so very sad. On the plus side however @Padraig_O_Gammon looks like being an outstanding addition to the forum and I for one just cannot wait to hear his views on the recent election held in the USA
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Are you out from under the bed?
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An attempt at humour, that’s better.
Games gone
Have a good christmas Tassoti:grinning:
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Boris getting advice from the likes of Gupta and Tegnell and look at where they are now. A lot of unnecessary deaths. Trump and Johnson have some amount of blood on their hands. In fairness to Tegnell he thought he was doing the right thing.