More deaths than...

[vetran]

I felt the need to exhibit misandry

FTFY

Gibbon explained it clearly and without condescension, if you have problems accepting explanations because of your gender please keep them to yourself.

[ladymuck]

But the answer is inbreeding - simply put if two brown eyed offspring carrying the blue gene in some of their reproductive DNA mated then there's a good chance (well there was obvs.) you get blue on blue, the rest is easy.

CBA to see where this arose but that's not quite true. You can get the effect you're describing without the need for inbreeding.

Blue/Brown eye colour is used as a nice simple example to explain how dominant and recessive genes work albeit they don't explain hazel, green and other eye colours.

The gene for Brown eye colour is dominant and the gene for Blue is recessive. Due to us having pairs of chromosomes, everyone carries two genes (alleles) for eye colour (excluding the complexities I mentioned above). You will have Brown eyes if you inherit two Brown genes (homozygous) or one Brown, one Blue gene (heterozygous). You will have Blue eyes if you inherit two Blue genes.

If your mother has Blue eyes and your dad has Brown eyes then for you to have Blue eyes, your dad will have to be heterozygous for eye colour. Somewhere back in his family history is someone who had Blue eyes and their Blue allele has been passed down. The individual chance of offspring from your parents having Blue eyes is 0% if your dad is homozygous or 50% if your dad is heterozygous. You can work this out by drawing a punnett square.

(Note I am assuming there has been no interference from the milkman)

[SueEllen]

CBA to see where this arose but that's not quite true. You can get the effect you're describing without the need for inbreeding.

Blue/Brown eye colour is used as a nice simple example to explain how dominant and recessive genes work albeit they don't explain hazel, green and other eye colours.

While everyone talks about the main two genes there are actually more than two genes that code for eye colour which is why you get hazel, green and grey eyes. This also means even people with the same eye colour e.g. brown eyes don't all have the same shade.

(If you talking about dominate and recessive genes main blood groups is probably a better example e.g A, B, O and AB as there are no random variations.)

[AtW]

You can work this out by drawing a punnett square.

Jesus, you and SueEllen would do great at any party...

[ladymuck]

Jesus, you and SueEllen would do great at any party...

Yes we would! We're awesome.

[ladymuck]

While everyone talks about the main two genes there are actually more than two genes that code for eye colour which is why you get hazel, green and grey eyes. This also means even people with the same eye colour e.g. brown eyes don't all have the same shade.

(If you talking about dominate and recessive genes main blood groups is probably a better example e.g A, B, O and AB as there are no random variations.)

Yes, that's very true. Blue/Brown is the dumbed down version of events. If the example hadn't already been bandied about, I'd probably have chosen a different one.

I suppose the only 'complication' with blood types is Rhesus positivity/negativity but you can do the blood type bit without reference to it.

When I found out my mum is O- (and so is in high demand as a universal donor), I signed up for blood donation but I turned out to be O+. So I'm a potential donor to only 50% of the population.

[vetran]

Jesus, you and SueEllen would do great at any party...

I love when they get Fruity!

[vetran]

Covid has gone from primary to 24th cause of death

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/e...s-b941441.html

In March it dropped from top spot to third place, before falling to ninth place in April and then down to 24th last month.

The ONS also said that the age-standardised mortality rate (ASMR) of deaths due to Covid-19 had dropped for the fourth month in a row to 7.1 deaths per 100,000 people in England – the lowest rate since August 2020.

May was also the second consecutive month that deaths in England were below the five-year average (10.7% lower) since August 2020, the ONS said.

We now should learn to live with it according to the scientists.

[d000hg]

Covid has gone from primary to 24th cause of death
We now should learn to live with it according to the scientists.

Which "the scientists" are you referring to? F-I-L worked at AZ and is still in that community, they don't seem to be of this opinion.
He was recommending this group's updates (YouTube, etc): https://www.independentsage.org/

[vetran]

Which "the scientists" are you referring to? F-I-L worked at AZ and is still in that community, they don't seem to be of this opinion.
He was recommending this group's updates (YouTube, etc): https://www.independentsage.org/

It was a virologist from one of the universities on LBC& GBnews.

so don't you think there is a transition point where the cost of lockdown does more health damage than Covid?

Its coming soon we should be planning.