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Nearly Sane

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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3975 on: February 02, 2021, 08:39:53 PM »
Stricter international quarantine to be introduced in Scotland. Not sure, why, if we can do this now, we couldn't earlier. Though it may be a wrinkle about introducing the mandatory quarantine as a principle.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-55907162
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3976 on: February 02, 2021, 09:05:47 PM »
You mean UNDER 65s.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3977 on: February 02, 2021, 09:06:55 PM »
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3978 on: February 03, 2021, 11:09:58 AM »
Really???

"None of us were able to predict" coronavirus would mutate or variants would emerge - Dido Harding, head of the National Institute for Health Protection
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3979 on: February 03, 2021, 11:14:50 AM »
My husband is due to have his vaccination tomorrow, I haven't yet heard when I am to have mine.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3980 on: February 03, 2021, 11:15:25 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on February 03, 2021, 11:09:58 AM
Really???

"None of us were able to predict" coronavirus would mutate or variants would emerge - Dido Harding, head of the National Institute for Health Protection

One has to question who she means by "us".

It is pretty clear the virus is evolving, after all that is how it jumped to us from bats. The wider it spreads the faster its development. The whole point of test and trace is (or was) to stop that spread.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3981 on: February 03, 2021, 11:18:31 AM »
Quote from: Udayana on February 03, 2021, 11:15:25 AM
One has to question who she means by "us".

It is pretty clear the virus is evolving, after all that is how it jumped to us from bats. The wider it spreads the faster its development. The whole point of test and trace is (or was) to stop that spread.
Indeed! If she was someone randomly opining, the 'us' wouldn't be so scary. Given she's been in charge of a £20bn failure, her complete lack of knowledge is a bit more concerning.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3982 on: February 03, 2021, 11:46:57 AM »

Johnson visited lab knowing there was an outbreak of  Covid on his pointless trip to Scotland.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/prime-minster-boris-johnson-slammed-23433901
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3983 on: February 03, 2021, 12:21:17 PM »
Matt Hancock watches the best films!


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55917374
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3984 on: February 03, 2021, 01:35:55 PM »
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3985 on: February 03, 2021, 04:24:05 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on February 03, 2021, 11:09:58 AM
Really???

"None of us were able to predict" coronavirus would mutate or variants would emerge - Dido Harding, head of the National Institute for Health Protection
I found it hard to believe she might have said that, but unfortunately, I have found a citation that confirms it.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/reactions-as-harding-claims-nobody-could-have-predicted-covid-virus-would-mutate/03/02

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Between that business plan being published and us going into the lockdown that we are in now we have seen the virus mutate. We have seen the new variant emerge, which was something that none of us were able to predict

It's false because they did predict it. That's why there were efforts going on to sequence the genome of as many virus samples as possible, but I guess they didn't predict that exact variant at that exact time which is why we relaxed the lockdown at Christmas.

I'm actually a bit more unhappy about the terminology "business plan".
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3986 on: February 03, 2021, 07:46:56 PM »
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3988 on: February 04, 2021, 06:37:06 AM »
 Dido & Granteus - making the UK look more intelligent by the day.

But where, oh where are the mourning cupids.
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« Reply #3989 on: February 04, 2021, 07:55:50 AM »
Quote from: Trentvoyager on February 04, 2021, 06:37:06 AM
Dido & Granteus - making the UK look more intelligent by the day.

But where, oh where are the mourning cupids.
"Dido, Queen of Carnage", as Marina Hyde (I think) called her in the Grauniad.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3990 on: February 04, 2021, 09:32:28 AM »
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3991 on: February 04, 2021, 11:09:11 AM »
I had a phonecall from our surgery earlier today to say a nurse will come over to vaccinate us both sometime this morning, WOW. I was supposed to take my husband over to a Rainbow Hospital in a town about 5 miles from here at lunchtime just have his, I was still awaiting a communication about when I was to have mine. I wasn't looking forward to driving over there due to the heaps of roadworks every mile or so.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3992 on: February 04, 2021, 11:28:51 AM »



Hotels not heard from govt about quarantine plans

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-55932464
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3993 on: February 04, 2021, 12:06:27 PM »
My husband and I had the Oxford Astra Zeneca jab, the nurse was here about 5 minutes. We get our next one on April 22nd.
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3994 on: February 04, 2021, 01:23:37 PM »
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3995 on: February 04, 2021, 01:33:26 PM »
Thanks NS! ::)
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3996 on: February 04, 2021, 01:51:24 PM »
Meanwhile Piers Corbyn arrested over vaccine 'Auschwitz leaflet'


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55933373
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3997 on: February 04, 2021, 02:11:07 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on February 04, 2021, 01:51:24 PM
Meanwhile Piers Corbyn arrested over vaccine 'Auschwitz leaflet'


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55933373

What a lovely man he is. >:(
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Re: Coronavirus
« Reply #3998 on: February 04, 2021, 07:20:44 PM »
International travel 'biggest impact' on deaths - there's a shock!


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-55919040
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Re: Coronavirus
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