Brand new strain of covid found in South Africa. Extremely contagious

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

Of course, because lockdowns have worked so well the last two or three times havent they?

No idiocy here mate, just someone who thinks for himself

Double post

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2

originally posted by: RMFX1

originally posted by: fusionfilm

originally posted by: PurpleFox
Isn't this the natural process of a virus?

Maybe so but right now there's over 18000 people in hospital with covid and its rapidly getting worse and almost at April peak levels.

Scary times

"With" Covid. Not because of covid.

Go tell that to those 18,000 folk.

How exactly is that supposed to be a rebuttal of RMFX1's accurate statement? Appeals to emotion do nothing to change that.

The South African Professor who released the info about the new mutation is angry at how the UK has twisted his findings:

But in a tweet, Professor Tulio de Oliveira, director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation & Sequencing Platform (KRISP), objected against the UK's description of the local variant as "more transmissible".

KRISP coordinates the nationwide analysis of genetic samples of the virus, and De Oliveira presented the findings on South Africa's new variant during a government briefing last week.

link

The UK is quarantining and placing restrictions on travel from SA'

So one release results & is punished? Part I

Twitter

This Professor goes on to comment:

Tulio de Oliveira
@Tuliodna
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1h
Unfortunately, it seems that the U.K. and South Africa are being sanctioned because they were transparent about the results of their genomic surveillance...

Same twitter feed link as above.

His bio:
Director KRISP at UKZN, South Africa. Associate Professor Global Health, Univ. Washington. Genomics, Bioinformatics and Outbreak response to emergent viruses.

a reply to: ZombieZygote

Let's all be totally lacking in emotion and empathy then. Would that satisfy your apparent fondness for semantics?

This is crap. Live your lives.

originally posted by: KingDoey
a reply to: Oldcarpy2

Of course, because lockdowns have worked so well the last two or three times havent they?

No idiocy here mate, just someone who thinks for himself

I did not accuse you of idiocy. Just pointed out that we here in the UK are not idiots.

a reply to: fusionfilm

Have you been to any townships since the lockdown started?

Millions of people bunched together not giving two #s about wearing a mask.

Most township dweller filter into the cities or suburbs where they work.

In an overcrammed minibus taxi.

Without wearing a mask.



We would all be infected if this was true.


But I heard a little birdy sing yesterday about another hard lockdown.

Very soon. Goodbye middle class.

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: ZombieZygote

Let's all be totally lacking in emotion and empathy then. Would that satisfy your apparent fondness for semantics?

"Semantics"? Using a test with an officially recognized absurdly high false positive rate to test people in hospitals being treated for varying co-morbidities, many of which are fatal, and then turning around and using those "positive" test numbers to confuse and terrify the population into accepting further draconian and inhumane measures isn't "Semantics".

It's asinine.

a reply to: ZombieZygote

OK. You just hand wave away a global pandemic and ignore independent expert medical advice because it's all an evil plan by TPTB or whatever. May I wish you well and Seasons Greetings but I am off to enjoy Christmas.

With no fear, just common sense.

I recommend it to you.

Try it sometime.

Happy Christmas!

🥂🥃🇫🇴🇬🇧🌼

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: ZombieZygote

OK. You just hand wave away a global pandemic and ignore independent expert medical advice because it's all an evil plan by TPTB or whatever. May I wish you well and Seasons Greetings but I am off to enjoy Christmas.

With no fear, just common sense.

I recommend it to you.

Try it sometime.

Happy Christmas!

🥂🥃🇫🇴🇬🇧🌼

Keep repeating yourself over and over, I have zero doubt you will find many on these boards to commend you for your perpetual virtue signaling.

a reply to: ZombieZygote

Same to you, matey. Nice drawings. Now get your crayons out and colour them in.

Then please realise that there is a very real global pandemic going on and stop it with your hand waving and disrespecting people who have actually died from it.

Or just go on about vacuous allegations of "virtue signalling" like a good little keyboard warrior.

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: yuppa

Well, yes I do generally have a sense of responsibility and concern for others, pandemic or not.

So, what's your point? Don't you?

I'm guessing not, from your posts.

Free will is what i espouse. If you are a stranger to me i do not care for you past you just being another human being who gets the same attention as legally required that avoids me getting in trouble for interacting with you.
I wear a mask to make YOU feel better not because it actually works. i wore mask,still got the virus. So i know personally it does not work.

a reply to: yuppa

So you are espousing throwing the baby out with the bath water?

Did you wash your hands regularly?

Masks alone are not a magic thing.

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: yuppa

So you are espousing throwing the baby out with the bath water?

Did you wash your hands regularly?

Masks alone are not a magic thing.

Did it all. No some people will just naturally get it.

originally posted by: yuppa

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: yuppa

So you are espousing throwing the baby out with the bath water?

Did you wash your hands regularly?

Masks alone are not a magic thing.

Did it all. No some people will just naturally get it.

And all the measures are only meant to slow it down to manageable levels for health care..nothing is any guarantee.

Any place putting up temporary hospitals again like they did when this first started?? I haven't heard of any. That tells me it's not as bad as April.



Merry Christmas to all.

a reply to: fusionfilm

Take care of the vulnerable and then live your life as you see fit.

There's always going to be something scary around the corner.

We cannot let fear determine our fates.

originally posted by: mikell
Any place putting up temporary hospitals again like they did when this first started?? I haven't heard of any. That tells me it's not as bad as April.



Merry Christmas to all.

Nightingale hospitals are ready. Hoping we don't need them.