Coronavirus & stuff

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Tomous** » Fri Apr 08, 2022 9:17 am

Well after a few days respite but symptoms seemed to have returned :fp:

Great timing with the weekend coming up. Still testing negative though.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Grumpy David** » Fri Apr 08, 2022 9:33 am

Mommy wrote:Sore throat today but testing clear. I still don't get my head around how Omicron "overtook" Delta. Was it a natural progression for the virus across the world, that delta will turn into Omicron and then something else? Otherwise it doesn't make sense.

Delta didn't mutate into Omicron.

Omicron's lineage goes back way before Delta existed and is a mutation from the Wuhan strain, it even predates Alpha.

Delta has been outcompeted by Omicron in the same way that Delta outcompeted Alpha, Beta and Gamma. Delta is essentially extinct in the UK now. Whilst the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron is gradually replacing OG Omicron.

With most of the variants, the leading explanation seems to be that an immune suppressed individual carried the virus for many months without being able to fully clear it and this repetitive cycle led to the rapid evolution of new variants. Omicron being so radically different however has had another explanation of it incubating in mice / rats and jumping back into humans.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Buffalo** » Fri Apr 08, 2022 11:33 am

4th jab yesterday. CEV’s get on it if you haven’t heard anything.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Grumpy David** » Mon Apr 11, 2022 4:58 pm

twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1512974880463114241

Twitter thread getting longer and longer with the various aspects of zero-Covid issues in Shanghai. Brutally tough lockdowns, food shortages and creepy dystopian drones flying about (and a dog robot) saying “Please comply with COVID rules. Control your soul’s desire for freedom. Do not open window to sing.” People are also retuning home from Covid detention camps to find their cats/dogs have been killed by the Chinese Communist Party.

Weirdly despite all the extreme policies, they've not required the elderly to get vaccinated.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Memento Mori** » Mon Apr 11, 2022 5:00 pm

Relying on the less effective sinovac vaccine rather than a mRNA one isn't helping either.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Memento Mori** » Tue Apr 12, 2022 9:59 am

Went in the office Friday for my monthly visit, my boss has tested positive today. I'm the only person in the entire building who wears an N95 mask all day so I'm probably fine.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Victor Mildew** » Tue Apr 12, 2022 10:00 am

My boss had it last week, and the guy I sit next to is off with it now.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Jenuall** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 12:24 am

Deaths now higher than the January peak. We did it folks! :toot:

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Grumpy David** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:53 am

Had my 4th jab yesterday of either OG Moderna or half OG & half Omicron specific Moderna.

Bit of a sore arm this morning but that's a pretty minor side effect.

Valneva COVID-19 vaccine approved by MHRA

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/valneva-covid-19-vaccine-approved-by-mhra

Javid: Valneva vaccine would not have got UK approval

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58510519

Edit: removed a word.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Jenuall** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:58 am

They've started to roll vaccines out to kids in out area now - two of ours got jabbed yesterday (third couldn't have it because he had Covid too recently)

The place they've setup to administer it was great, really well thought through for making it friendly for children. It was worryingly quiet though - I'm not convinced the uptake is going to be great amongst kids

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Victor Mildew** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:59 am

OPEN THE JUNGLE GYMS!!!!

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Lagamorph** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 11:23 am

My brother and his wife are insistent that their daughter (who is about to turn 6 so is eligible for vaccination now I believe?) will "never" get the Covid vaccine. It's mainly driven by his wife, who has fallen down some anti-vaxx rabbit holes. She's had the first two jabs but refuses to get the booster (Despite working in a care home) and insists that their daughter won't have it because "there's a risk that the vaccine will effect her fertility in future", which is an anti-vaxx myth I've seen floating around for the covid vaccine before.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Memento Mori** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 11:26 am

Being dead from covid affects fertility more.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Jenuall** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 11:30 am

Exactly. After our son had such a scare with it a couple of weeks back there's no way I'd refuse anything that provides them with greater protection against the virus

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Grumpy David** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 11:32 am

Jenuall wrote:They've started to roll vaccines out to kids in out area now - two of ours got jabbed yesterday (third couldn't have it because he had Covid too recently)

The place they've setup to administer it was great, really well thought through for making it friendly for children. It was worryingly quiet though - I'm not convinced the uptake is going to be great amongst kids

Apparently the "too recently" isn't just recovered within the last 28 days like it is with adults but is actually 90 days. (Might explain why it seemed quiet since so many young children would probably be impacted by that requirement).

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Jenuall** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 11:39 am

Grumpy David wrote:
Jenuall wrote:They've started to roll vaccines out to kids in out area now - two of ours got jabbed yesterday (third couldn't have it because he had Covid too recently)

The place they've setup to administer it was great, really well thought through for making it friendly for children. It was worryingly quiet though - I'm not convinced the uptake is going to be great amongst kids

Apparently the "too recently" isn't just recovered within the last 28 days like it is with adults but is actually 90 days. (Might explain why it seemed quiet since so many young children would probably be impacted by that requirement).

Yeah, he can't have it until June now. Hopefully that kind of thing is why it was so quiet, but I fear there are just a lot of parents who are either ignorant, afraid or have fallen down rabbit holes

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Cuttooth** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 11:47 am

In fairness if the medical bodies here aren't going to push that hard for child vaccination then I can't see that many parents opting for it.

Isn't the UK a bit of an outlier in things like chickenpox vaccination where the official advice is still that natural infection is better?

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **poshrule_uk** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 11:50 am

Someone who was in the office yesterday tested positive for COVID, I didn't go near them but the person who drove sat next to them all day did.

I had COVID a few weeks ago so I imagine I'm covered unless it's a new variant.

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Moggy** » Tue Apr 19, 2022 1:14 pm

twitter.com/telegraph/status/1516327063988445190

twitter.com/telegraph/status/1516327075753435142

twitter.com/telegraph/status/1516327093814149123

PostRe: Coronavirus & stuff by **Tomous** » Tue Apr 19, 2022 1:19 pm

Minister for Government Efficiency wants to force people back into the office so the Government can continue to spend money on unnecessary office space.

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