UK scientists call for debate on allowing ‘big wave of infection’

[AtW]

“ Advisers to government warn of national discussion after most vulnerable are vaccinated

UK scientific advisers have questioned whether a “big wave of infection” should be allowed to flow through the country’s population once the most vulnerable groups in society have been vaccinated against coronavirus, in comments which may reopen the contentious debate around herd immunity.

With prime minister Boris Johnson preparing to set out the road map for lifting England’s Covid-19 lockdown on February 22, the scientists have warned a national discussion will soon be needed on the level of risk people are prepared to accept from the virus in the future.”

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Buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy ride and not everybody will make it...

[SueEllen]

What do you think they will call the mutate strain this time?

[Paddy]

Even better, lets have a big wave with flu, aids, smallpox, chlamydia, polio, diphtheria, tory worshipers, head lice etc

[vetran]

Even better, lets have a big wave with flu, aids, smallpox, chlamydia, polio, diphtheria, tory worshipers, head lice etc

Don't forget TB, head lice is endemic anyway. All the decent parents spend hours treating head lice but some parents don't bother.

[vetran]

What do you think they will call the mutate strain this time?

indeed


Boris's boo-boo?

Whitty whoopsie?

Join Covid Van Tam The virus from Brussels?

[AtW]

There you go - PR campaign to open up when “vulnerable’ are vaccinated (with 1 shot) -

Covid: We could live with virus '''like we do flu''' by end of year, says Hancock - BBC News

Like the flu innit -

Inside a Covid intensive care ward where patients learn to stand and speak again

Looks like New Zealand will become even more desirable, especially for retirement

[Fraidycat]

There you go - PR campaign to open up when “vulnerable’ are vaccinated (with 1 shot) -

Covid: We could live with virus '''like we do flu''' by end of year, says Hancock - BBC News

Like the flu innit -

Inside a Covid intensive care ward where patients learn to stand and speak again

Looks like New Zealand will become even more desirable, especially for retirement

Using history as a guide, spanish flu was worse than Covid, and it lives on today as seasonal flu although every few decades it does come back hard as a pandemic from animal mutations eg 1957 and 2009.

“The 1918 flu definitely lost its real virulence by the early 1920s,” says Taubenberger.

But what’s truly incredible, according to genetic analyses, is that the same novel strain of flu first introduced in 1918 appears to be the direct ancestor of every seasonal and pandemic flu we’ve had over the past century.

“You can still find the genetic traces of the 1918 virus in the seasonal flus that circulate today,” says Taubenberger. “Every single human infection with influenza A in the past 102 years is derived from that one introduction of the 1918 flu.”

All told, if 50 to 100 million people died in the 1918 and 1919 pandemic, and tens of millions more have died in the ensuing century of seasonal flus and pandemic outbreaks, then all of those deaths can be attributed to the single and accidental emergence in humans of the very successful and stubborn 1918 virus.

“We’re still living in what I would call the ‘1918 pandemic era’ 102 years later” says Taubenberger, “and I don’t know how long it will last.”


Why the 1918 Flu Pandemic Never Really Ended - HISTORY

[SueEllen]

There you go - PR campaign to open up when “vulnerable’ are vaccinated (with 1 shot) -

Covid: We could live with virus '''like we do flu''' by end of year, says Hancock - BBC News

Like the flu innit -

Inside a Covid intensive care ward where patients learn to stand and speak again

Looks like New Zealand will become even more desirable, especially for retirement

Well both Oz and NZ like entrepreneurs....

[AtW]

Flu is not as deadly to unvaccinated people, plus when was the last time flu mutated into much easier to spread virus?

SARS-2 is already much better than the flu at it, and let's not forget that SARS-1 was far deadlier, what would stop SARS-2 from evolving into more lethal version?

But what do I say, Ministers know better.

[Paddy]

Flu is not as deadly to unvaccinated people, plus when was the last time flu mutated into much easier to spread virus?

SARS-2 is already much better than the flu at it, and let's not forget that SARS-1 was far deadlier, what would stop SARS-2 from evolving into more lethal version?

But what do I say, Ministers know better.

Sadly flu is deadly to random people. RIP a local heathy 15yo girl and RIP a local 21yo very beautiful and friend and girl student with no health issues.