Coronavirus

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Originally posted by Quincy
I'll take a Wuhan Virus but can you make mine British Variant and served American Conservative Style (Without a mask)
😂

All this stuff about them putting tracking chips in the vaccine, just going to say this; If you don't own a mobile phone and a few credit cards then the government doesn't think you're important enough to give a single, solitary fvck about, if you do own those things then they already have the means to track you, so get a grip.

Originally posted by samhain
All this stuff about them putting tracking chips in the vaccine, just going to say this; If you don't own a mobile phone and a few credit cards then the government doesn't think you're important enough to give a single, solitary fvck about, if you do own those things then they already have the means to track you, so get a grip.
So ****ing true!

Don't forget your Fitbit....

But I think you can use NordVPN when you take your vaccine....it should hide your whereabouts.

Originally posted by Smasandian
Don't forget your Fitbit....

But I think you can use NordVPN when you take your vaccine....it should hide your whereabouts.

😂 👆 on a more serious note has everyone seen this?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/jan/22/uk-covid-live-coronavirus-latest-news-updates-500-payment-boris-johnson-downing-street-borders-travel?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

UK Corona variant 30% more lethal, bloody worrying.

It's worrisome. But the key thing is that vaccines seem to be able to deal with it.

In reality, my largest worry about all of this is people fear for vaccines.

COVID-19 has literally come at one of the worst times and the worst locations. It didn't help that the virus originated in authoritarian China, where information was most likely not conveyed in a timely matter. It hit the world when populist governments were becoming stronger. It hit the US with the dumb **** of a President.....and it hit a time when anti-vax is all time high....the worst situation.

I already know two smart people I know who was not planning on taking a vaccine because it was too quick......

Originally posted by Smasandian
It's worrisome. But the key thing is that vaccines seem to be able to deal with it.

In reality, my largest worry about all of this is people fear for vaccines.

COVID-19 has literally come at one of the worst times and the worst locations. It didn't help that the virus originated in authoritarian China, where information was most likely not conveyed in a timely matter. It hit the world when populist governments were becoming stronger. It hit the US with the dumb **** of a President.....and it hit a time when anti-vax is all time high....the worst situation.

I already know two smart people I know who was not planning on taking a vaccine because it was too quick......

This is the problem, they really need to read this to understand it's speed. This is 2021 now and the guy whose Institute this 2020 article is talking about is who Elon Musk would really like to be, Craig Venter. The JCVI explain here how the artificial RNA vaccines work.

Also the South African variant may elude immune response believe it or not. I actually suggested this could happen months ago.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00121-z

Originally posted by Robtard
Well we crossed 40K deaths today (or was it yesterday?) and [certain types of] people are now upset because some doctors and nurses danced a bit to blow off steam if what has to be a stressful situation?

Shocking, really. These same types of people had a problem with Michele Obama doing a dance routine (girl can dance too), called it "not becoming" and they threw a fit because AOC danced back in college and made a video.

40K to almost 440K in 9 months.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
40K to almost 440K in 9 months.

What happens with taking a "it's not really happening" style of approach, now it's out of control, has been for a long time and it's going to take a long time to turn that around.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday that the lack of truthfulness from the Trump administration regarding the Covid-19 pandemic "very likely" cost American lives.

"Particularly when you're in the situation of almost being in a crisis with the number of cases and hospitalizations and deaths that we have -- when you start talking about things that make no sense medically and no sense scientifically, that clearly is not helpful," Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, said on CNN's "New Day" Friday.

Asked by CNN's John Berman if the lack of candor over the last year and lack of facts, in some cases, cost lives, Fauci said, "You know, it very likely did."

He warned that it's "not helpful" when "you're starting to go down paths that are not based on any science at all," adding that he doesn't wish to rehash the ways in which the Trump administration steered away from science. -snip

What an honest and human response.

Trumps handling of Corona really was atrocious.

Originally posted by Darth Thor
Trumps handling of Corona really was atrocious.

Imagine being Fauci and having to sit and listen to Trump and his nosferatu pet Stephen Miller try and handle a pandemic with their feelings instead of scientific data. Honestly surprised Fauci didn't quit.

Originally posted by Robtard
Imagine being Fauci and having to sit and listen to Trump and his nosferatu pet Stephen Miller try and handle a pandemic with their feelings instead of scientific data. Honestly surprised Fauci didn't quit.
He was a good man with moral purpose and integrity trying to do what he could in very difficult circumstances imho.

^ Yeah but he was wasting his time with those jokers in charge. Might as well have resigned.

Originally posted by Darth Thor
^ Yeah but he was wasting his time with those jokers in charge. Might as well have resigned.
True, but I honestly think he was a good man who was trying and felt without him it would be even worse.

Yup, glad he didn't quit

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
He was a good man with moral purpose and integrity trying to do what he could in very difficult circumstances imho.

He has always been a pushover. He was the same way under Reagan with regard to HIV/AIDS. I wonder how much better off the U.S. would be if there was someone in his position with a spine.

Anyone remember when Whirly, bragging because by first degree he is a biologist said, even for RNA vaccines mutation might cause a hurdle in reaching herd immunity?

Whirly remembers Voltron poo pooing this.

Well,

Earlier, footage emerged showing Matt Hancock, the health secretary, saying there was “evidence in the public domain” that the South African variant reduces vaccine efficacy “by about 50%”.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Anyone remember when Whirly, bragging because by first degree he is a biologist said, even for RNA vaccines mutation might cause a hurdle in reaching herd immunity?

Whirly remembers Voltron poo pooing this.

Well,

Earlier, footage emerged showing Matt Hancock, the health secretary, saying there was “evidence in the public domain” that the South African variant reduces vaccine efficacy “by about 50%”.

Whirly also stated whilst usually mutations are less virulent and deadly, that is not a hard rule and we have no idea of the mutation rate. E mommy said the mutation rate for Covid was low, Whirly said we have no idea. We do not have enough data. Biological systems are much more complex to model than emommy and right wing newspapers applying economically statistical rules due to the randomness factor. Or words to that effect.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/22/new-uk-covid-variant-may-be-more-deadly-says-boris-johnson?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Otherhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/22/new-uk-covid-variant-may-be-more-deadly-says-boris-johnson?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Boom!