Coronavirus - Part Two.

[apelike 10]

1 hour ago, Baron99 said:

And that's the problem.  Even if people have had 2 jabs, it doesn't stop you catching the virus or carrying it asymptomatically,......

The current evidence at the moment suggests that vaccination also helps stop transmission by between 40-60% which means the likelihood of passing any infection on is basically halved. There is also evidence that the mRNA vaccines also reduces asymptomatic transmission as well.

 

1 hour ago, Baron99 said:

then there's the opportunity for the virus to continue mutating in the host body & someone passing on an entirely new variant for which we have no protection, despite an excellent vaccination programme.  Then its back to square one again. 

At the moment all the vaccines seem to be effective against the variants as well so it not all bad news.

[Baron99 781]

No more 'Kent' or 'Indian' variants anymore.  WHO to assign Greek letters to variants to stop countries being stigmatised. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57308592

 

[altus 538]

19 minutes ago, Baron99 said:

No more 'Kent' or 'Indian' variants anymore.  WHO to assign Greek letters to variants to stop countries being stigmatised. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57308592

 

Are they going to switch to Egyptian Hieroglyphs if people complain about that?

[*_ash_* 88]

1 hour ago, Baron99 said:

No more 'Kent' or 'Indian' variants anymore.  WHO to assign Greek letters to variants to stop countries being stigmatised. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57308592

 

I can't read greek

32 minutes ago, altus said:

Are they going to switch to Egyptian Hieroglyphs if people complain about that?

haha

[Guest makapaka]

3 hours ago, GabrielC said:

In Vietnam they have found that the Indian variant and the UK variant have mutated to create an new stronger variant lets hope flights are stopped not holding my breath on that one.

Super-hydrid-mutant-hero variant?

[Guest makapaka]

1 hour ago, Baron99 said:

No more 'Kent' or 'Indian' variants anymore.  WHO to assign Greek letters to variants to stop countries being stigmatised. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57308592

 

To be fair the country of Kent has had some hammer.

[apelike 10]

1 hour ago, Baron99 said:

No more 'Kent' or 'Indian' variants anymore.  WHO to assign Greek letters to variants to stop countries being stigmatised. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57308592

I suppose it make a little bit more sense especially as we are already using ancient Greek at the moment to describe what's happening. Pandemic for instance has the Greek God Pan as its root.

[Carbuncle 0]

8 minutes ago, makapaka said:

  1 hour ago, Baron99 said:

No more 'Kent' or 'Indian' variants anymore.  WHO to assign Greek letters to variants to stop countries being stigmatised. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57308592

 

Seems like a good idea. Thank goodness Greek letters aren't associated with any particular country.

[Guest makapaka]

1 minute ago, apelike said:

I suppose it make a little bit more sense especially as we are already using ancient Greek at the moment to describe what's happening. Pandemic for instance has the Greek God Pan as its root.

Perfect sense......

[Longcol 598]

5 minutes ago, apelike said:

I suppose it make a little bit more sense especially as we are already using ancient Greek at the moment to describe what's happening. Pandemic for instance has the Greek God Pan as its root.

Was there a Greek God Epi?

[*_ash_* 88]

why not just use numbers like the professionals?

 

We all use numbers. Aren't people bright enough these days to put a few numbers together?

 

I'm sure numbers aren't racist/countryist

Edited May 31, 2021 by *_ash_*

[Carbuncle 0]

Cripes, the Peruvians have just changed their death toll figures. They already had high per capita death rates (eg higher than UK) but after review have increased them by a factor of two and a half. Its good that they are being transparent but still its a crushing number.