DOOM: "Omicron Covid cases ‘doubling every two to three days’ in UK"

[mattster]

Well yes, it's obviously different or else it wouldn't be novel, but it is still a strain of flu!

[AtW]

Well yes, it's obviously different or else it wouldn't be novel, but it is still a strain of flu!

"Flu" just like "Coronavirus" are classes of viruses.

SARS-CoV-2 is a coronavirus, but it's not a strain of MERS which also is (or was) coronavirus.

Any more questions, son?

[mattster]

Any more questions, son?

No, I am giving up.

[AtW]

No, I am giving up.

Winners never give up - you should have been more diligent in your Bio 'n Chemical Weapons 101 course.

[SueEllen]

Winners never give up - you should have been more diligent in your Bio 'n Chemical Weapons 101 course.

Those Russians....

[AtW]

"BBC exclusive: The number of people needing hospital treatment from the Omicron variant may reach at least 1,000 a day in England by the end of the year without extra restrictions being put in place - Sage scientists have told ministers. 1/n"


Thread: https://twitter.com/jim_reed/status/1468593513034039299

[OwlHoot]

Is this the same Professor who ignores nearly 200 years of immunology research that says that if you have had Covid you are immune from catching the same strain again?

Yes, and I think he's the same professor whose doom-laden advice led to the needless slaughter of tens of millions of healthy animals during the last Foot & Mouth epidemic

[WTFH]

It's worth looking back at some of the threads over the last 2 years see who provided correct information and who ridiculed anything that upset them.

[mattster]

Yes, and I think he's the same professor whose doom-laden advice led to the needless slaughter of tens of millions of healthy animals during the last Foot & Mouth epidemic

Any sort of role where you have to advise on how to prevent a potential bad outcome that isn't 100% certain to happen either way is a very tough gig. Whatever you advise is going to annoy someone, get it "right" and prevent the bad outcome, and some people will think the measures taken were too harsh, get it "wrong" and allow the outcome, and everyone will be on your back. See also: Climate change, IT security, Y2K etc.

[d000hg]

Well yes, it's obviously different or else it wouldn't be novel, but it is still a strain of flu!

Even if that is the case, so what? Laurel is a type of cherry but you wouldn't eat a big bowl of the berries.