Covid-19 Virus

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by Hornet4ever, Jan 30, 2020.

  1. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    I like to learn nu things.
     
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  2. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Covid is more damaging than flu but coincidentally it's most damaging for the people who are also most at risk of flu. So the point I'm making is we use the same surveillance, prevention measures we already use with those groups, invest in and expand them properly and the rest of us crack on.
     
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  3. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    From my limited knowledge of viruses, mutations often trade off increased transmissibility for reduced levels of deadliness. Hopefully this Omicron variant may be the point that signals this for Covid19.
     
  4. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    On another level. Not even Ebola comes close.
     
  5. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    What surveillance and prevention? They get a vaccine.

    If the vaccine loses efficacy prevention means lockdown or nothing.
     
  6. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    We'll know better when the quality data (not anecdotes) starts flowing in.
     
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  7. wfc4ever

    wfc4ever Administrator Staff Member

    Apparently the Co-op and Iceland aren’t going to enforce the mask wearing rule.

    Probably don’t want the hassle of having to tell people to wear one or abuse from customers at such a busy time trade wise .
     
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  8. Cthulhu

    Cthulhu Keyboard Warrior Staff Member

    I like to try nu things, I once eta lambda pi
     
  9. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Wishing you well TVOR re your treatment.
     
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  10. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Lambda is a dance m8.
     
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  11. BigRossLittleRoss

    BigRossLittleRoss First Team

    So vomiting Space Dust into another persons face is not allowed .

    Not sure what else we re supposed to do for kicks .
     
  12. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    This new variant has really brought out the wet wipes on social media. Hard to believe some of these people have full-time jobs and responsibilities.

    It won't be enforced at any supermarket, it wasn't really before from what I could see.
     
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  13. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    There was a security guard posted at the door of our local Co op.
     
  14. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    That's Bristol for you
     
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  15. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Actually yes - despite being a frightfully middle class area there was a regular nutty lady who used to come in and nick the steaks. They've had to put security tags on them.
     
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  16. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Bet that mucks up the flavour when you go to cook it.
     
  17. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Bit chewy but OK if you slather peppercorn sauce over it.
     
  18. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Same at my local M&S - they had to move the steaks to the front of the store, near the tills, as there was a spate of steak thefts. Maybe your nutty lady branched out to the Hampshire/Surrey borders?
     
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  19. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Easy to do if you take the wrong exit off the M32...
     
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  20. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    I think you need to see a psi-chi-atrist.
     
  21. Manatleisure

    Manatleisure Squad Player

    All the best mate, hope everything goes alrite.
     
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  22. Manatleisure

    Manatleisure Squad Player

    Has there been any data on effectiveness of booster jabs after 3 months instead of the usual 6 against the new variant, and any side effects of having it sooner, or is it just guesswork by the committee?
     
  23. The Voice of Reason

    The Voice of Reason First Team Captain

    Quite frankly mate I think virtually everything about Covid has been guesswork from the start, but thankfully we have got lucky with quite a few of those guesses. Therefore with regard to your questions above, I think we will have to suck them and see and hope our latest, shall we say, EDUCATED guesses turn out well.
     
  24. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    Seeing this only got a name on Friday - I very much doubt it.
     
  25. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Had to take the 17 yr old to see a nurse at our local GP Surgery. While we were there, I asked for confirmation that the recommended gap between having a positive PCR and getting a second jab had changed for under 18s, from 28 days to 12 weeks. I needed to know because the change was so recent that I had already booked my daughter’s second jab for next week, a month after she had Covid, and wanted confirmation that I should reschedule it. The nurse told me that there had been no change and that the guidance was still 28 days. When I got home, I received a text informing me that she had double checked with their “vaccination expert” and that, yes, the guidance was now 12 weeks and that I should change the appointment. Slightly worrying that the guidance is changing so frequently that those on the “front line” don’t seem to know the correct advice to give.
     
  26. AndrewH63

    AndrewH63 Reservist

    I think thats generally true of Coronavirus viruses, like the ones that make up most common cold infections, but certainly not of all viruses.

    Measles is the most infectious human virus although not a coronavirus, it is spread by exhaled droplets. Measles developed from a common ancestor that infected cattle, and became a human disease about a thousand years ago. The current Measles epidemic strain evolved in the first half of the 20th Century.

    So we could have covid 19 with us for decades. Let’s hope it goes down the common cold path and not the measles one.
     
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  27. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    We will have it for decades at least...and the fact it is a coronavirus hopefully militates against it going down the measles route. In the end, it is not in the interest of the virus to be too lethal...best to keep cultivating the infection pool.
     
  28. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    But on the other hand reassuring that she thought to check.

    Frankly if she is a nurse doing all sorts of stuff it’s not surprising that she might not be fully up to speed with very recent changes.
     
  29. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Well, I asked her to check tbh but the post wasn’t a criticism of her personally.
     
  30. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    No, but you said she is in the front line. Is she? COVID is only one of a thousand things she will have to deal with in such a generalist role. The “expert” knew what the changes were: it would indeed be worrying if they didn’t. As a “team”, your surgery (eventually) gave you the correct answer, although perhaps she should just have checked in the first place rather than saying something which was incorrect.
     
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  31. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

  32. nornironhorn

    nornironhorn Administrator Staff Member

    I'm certainly no anti-vaxxer (double jabbed, got my first as soon as the booking slots opened) - but there does seem to be a lot of this kind of thing happening.

    Particularly a lot of footballers who seem to be having issues too - Fleck, Wyke, Ofoborh, John Herron (collapsed in the Irish League recently). I think Eriksen wasn't vaccinated when he collapsed and Aguero has a history of heart problems.

    It could of course be coincidence, or down to these people potentially having covid in the past. Or there might be something more to it.

    I think the shutting down of anyone who questions it doesn't help either 'side', and more research into this wouldn't be a bad thing.
     
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  33. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    That’s the trouble though, anti-vaxxers thrive in the grey area of ‘there might be something more to it’ and use those fears to dissuade the anxious. The consequences are poor souls currently being ventilated.

    As for more research, there is plenty. These may be the most researched medicines in history.

    The UK has terrible health for a wide range of reasons, so sure we should research the causes of that, I’m all for it.
     
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  34. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    I think there are no more allegedly suspicious deaths or collapsing footballers than usual; it's just being reported more. Some of the media do their usual 2+2=5 and put their spin on it to support their bias.
     
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  35. Lloyd

    Lloyd Squad Player

    Anyone who has given the mater due consideration and decided that, on balance, they would rather not be injected with the Covid vaccine, is not necessarily an 'anti-vaxer'. That's all. Carry on
     

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