Coronavirus

[Fwiffo]

shit is poppin off

Britain will bar flights from six African countries as it investigates a new variant. (Published 2021)

The British health secretary said the ban takes effect on Friday. Earlier on Thursday, South African scientists said they had identified a new variant.

www.nytimes.com

I like this. African nations have no clout and get banned.

When the British detected the Kent variant, they claimed it was just a mutation. Then it was more transmissible but no additional deaths. Then it was transmissible and caused more deaths. But no one had the balls to ban the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

India - people did finally ban flights there, but it was too late and most countries use plenty of Indians as cheap labour so it already snuck through.

 

[güero]

I don't know guys, 500x more sounds like it could be a lot more.

Well 500x0 is still 0

 

[Dropbear]

New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529

I hope everyone in the States had a fantastic Thanksgiving (even if you’re a Dallas Cowboys football fan).

yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com

 

[Fwiffo]

WHO cautions against imposing travel restrictions due to new variant

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday cautioned countries against hastily imposing travel restrictions linked to the new B.1.1.529 variant of COVID-19, saying they should take a "risk-based and scientific approach".

www.reuters.com

From the same group who two years ago said there isn't any human to human transmission.

 

[Dropbear]

WHO cautions against imposing travel restrictions due to new variant

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday cautioned countries against hastily imposing travel restrictions linked to the new B.1.1.529 variant of COVID-19, saying they should take a "risk-based and scientific approach".

www.reuters.com

From the same group who two years ago said there isn't any human to human transmission.

This is what they actually said:

Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China,”.

 

[Fwiffo]

Covid: US joins EU in restricting travel from southern Africa

Flights from eight African nations to be blocked as new variant is classified as being "of concern".

www.bbc.com

"The variant, named Omicron, has also been identified in South Africa, Botswana and Hong Kong."

Herd all of those nationals into a pen of disinfectant.

 

[Fwiffo]

U.S. to restrict travel from South Africa, 7 other nations amid new Covid variant

The new variant, classified by the WHO as a "variant of concern," is blamed for a surge of cases in South Africa and has sparked fears over its high number of mutations.

www.nbcnews.com

Banned.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Well 500x0 is still 0

New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529

I hope everyone in the States had a fantastic Thanksgiving (even if you’re a Dallas Cowboys football fan).

yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com

We have a new variant. I’ve not seen this much anxiety ridden chatter among scientists about a COVID19 variant before. Even among the calm, cool, and collected scientists.

nothing to see here folks guero has us covered

 

[Grand Potentate]

Covid: US joins EU in restricting travel from southern Africa

Flights from eight African nations to be blocked as new variant is classified as being "of concern".

www.bbc.com

"The variant, named Omicron, has also been identified in South Africa, Botswana and Hong Kong."

Herd all of those nationals into a pen of disinfectant.

every time i see omicron i think of this

 

[Grand Potentate]

Israel warns of 'emergency' after detecting new virus strain

Israel's prime minister says the country is “on the threshold of an emergency situation” after authorities detected its first case of a new coronavirus variant in a traveler who returned from Malawi

abcnews.go.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

New Covid variant roils global markets with oil sinking 5%

Global markets went into a tailspin Friday following news of a new heavily-mutated Covid-19 variant first detected in South Africa.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

Dow tumbles 900 points for worst day of year on fears of new Covid variant, S&P 500 drops 2%

U.S. stocks dropped on Friday amid renewed Covid fears over a new variant found in South Africa.

www.cnbc.com

the pic on this one made me lol

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Pimpernel Smith in Florida

‘Tinfoil hat wearing tossers’: NT chief minister and Aboriginal elders hit back at Covid ‘false information’

Michael Gunner criticises ‘ridiculous, untrue rumours’ on social media about defence force involvement in Katherine outbreak

www.theguardian.com

The point is, the language being deployed by some politicians and health officials is, particularly in Australia is ugly and authoritarian. It's not going to win any argument with anti-vaxxers, or those who contemplate the ethical dilemma of mandatory vaccines on all, even if they're pro-vaccines.

You're seeing the can being kicked down the road and court cases coming in many jurisdictions, despite the rhetoric, mandatory vaccines to keep your job are likely unenforceable or will lead to massive payouts.

The political class in cahoots with the MSM haven't won the information war through a mixture of incompetence, deliberate use of misinformation and contradictory propaganda and treating the populance like thickos and Victory Gin drinkers.

Is that a sign that governments should apply restrictions by deaths and not cases? IE, PT, BE, DK, DE, NL have or are increasing theirs for the general populace.

In the Netherlands the restrictions are coming in again, new ones announced today, on the basis of ICU cases. But again, mega failure in the MSM we have reports of total ICU beds in the Netherlads varying from 750 to 1250+. Which one is it? The lack of attention to detail is what creates distrust and suspicion. FFS get it right across the board.

 

[Dropbear]

Michael Gunner today implored the online trolls to "get a life" and debunked theories that ADF members in the territory are carrying weapons.

"I urge people not to worry about the insane, unhinged stuff that's spreading online and that overwhelming come from people who don't live here and know nothing about us," he said.

99.99 per cent of the BS that's flying around the internet about the territory is coming from flogs outside the territory, mostly America, Canada and the UK.

"People who have nothing better to do than make up lies about us because their own lives are so small and so sad.

"We don't need to listen to them, listen instead of the Traditional Owners from yesterday — 'we are in lockdown because we're in the biggest fight of our lives'."

He said the COVID-19 measures are about attempting to protect the "oldest living culture on the planet".

'Please get a life': NT Chief Minister takes aim at international trolls over COVID-19 misinformation

www.9news.com.au

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

'Please get a life': NT Chief Minister takes aim at international trolls over COVID-19 misinformation

www.9news.com.au

He may be being trolled, certainy not by me, but Michael Gunner comes across as a horrid, torrid authoritarian little man. In a functioning organisation you wouldn't give him power over any division, department or sector. You'd keep in an office cage and humiliate him every time he came out until you could sack him.

 

[belinmad]

In a functioning organisation you wouldn't give him power over any division, department or sector. You'd keep in an office cage and humiliate him every time he came out until you could sack him.

I love your management style.

 

[Dropbear]

He may be being trolled, certainy not by me, but Michael Gunner comes across as a horrid, torrid authoritarian little man. In a functioning organisation you wouldn't give him power over any division, department or sector. You'd keep in an office cage and humiliate him every time he came out until you could sack him.

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, the wildly popular Chief Minister doesn’t give a toss what you think of him.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, the wildly popular Chief Minister doesn’t give a toss what you think of him.

It may well go down well over there, but the optics and language don't travel well.

 

[belinmad]

It may well go down well over there, but the optics and language don't travel well.

Few things seem to travel well to The Hague.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Few things seem to travel well to The Hague.

He’s talked to everyone in the Netherlands so he’d definitely know.

 

[Fwiffo]

Covid: Swiss back government on Covid pass as cases surge

Sunday's referendum is held in a country with one of the lowest vaccination rates in Western Europe.

www.bbc.com

"At a rally in Bern this month, thousands turned out to hear speakers, including renowned anti-vaxxer Robert Kennedy Jr, who hailed Switzerland as Europe's last great hope against what he claimed were sinister powers forcing people to get vaccinated, while at the same time, via the Covid certificate, introducing a draconian mass surveillance system."

I thought all anti vaxxers were Republican. This is a Kennedy of the Kennedy clan?

 

[Dropbear]

I thought all anti vaxxers were Republican. This is a Kennedy of the Kennedy clan?

RFK Jr has been an antivaxxers for over a decade, long before C-19. He was pushing the autism myth back then. long before Republicans took a hard turn into crazytown. Up until very recently, the antivaxx and antimandate brigade were solely hippies and the fringe of the far-left.

 

[QuandoDio]

Mask mandates back in the UK. Looking like a testy Christmas in the horizon...

 

[Fwiffo]

PCR test required when you land in UK or before you come? Isolation until negative test result known seems to be you do it when you arrive.

 

[Dropbear]

Mask mandates back in the UK. Looking like a testy Christmas in the horizon...

We just removed the masking recommendation for fully vaccinated folks. Right before the new variant popped up. Sigh.

 

[QuandoDio]

PCR test required when you land in UK or before you come? Isolation until negative test result known seems to be you do it when you arrive.

Yep, do it when you arrive. The Day-2 test that was the norm a while back. I imagine even if spending a night in the UK, you will be required to take said test.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Mask mandates back in the UK. Looking like a testy Christmas in the horizon...

It looks like last Christmas I gave you my heart again...

 

[belinmad]

I think, going into a new wave, we see governments, particularly pseudo-libertarian ones like Boris’, face a tough decision: new lockdown measures on a population with little patience left for it, or forced mandates for the unvaccinated. I sincerely hope its the latter.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Covid: US joins EU in restricting travel from southern Africa

Flights from eight African nations to be blocked as new variant is classified as being "of concern".

www.bbc.com

"The variant, named Omicron, has also been identified in South Africa, Botswana and Hong Kong."

Herd all of those nationals into a pen of disinfectant.

Fear not gentle reader:

Omicron variant symptoms ‘unusual but mild,’ South African doctor says

South Africa's Dr. Angelique Coetzee who first alerted authorities to the presence of the COVID-19 omicron variant reported that it presents "unusual but mild" symptoms.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Fwiffo]

Covid: Israel to impose travel ban for foreigners over new variant

Travellers from all countries will be banned from entering Israel for 14 days, local media report.

www.bbc.com

At least it's still better than Australian entry/exit rules.

 

[Fwiffo]

Covid: Netherlands tightens partial lockdown amid surging infections

The government says the three-week curbs are critical to protect hospitals from becoming overwhelmed.

www.bbc.com

Curfew pushed up.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Pimpernel Smith keep safe out there

Covid: 13 test positive for Omicron after S Africa-Netherlands flights

Thirteen people who travelled from South Africa to the Netherlands have tested positive for Omicron.

www.bbc.com

 

[Fwiffo]

But they don’t know whether mortality goes up, severity goes up, other than it is more transmissible and is more mutated. Allegedly some Africans recovered.

 

[Grand Potentate]

But they don’t know whether mortality goes up, severity goes up, other than it is more transmissible and is more mutated. Allegedly some Africans recovered.

I legitimately don’t know if you’re trolling or not but in case you’re not, just getting this thing is bad enough for MANY people.

 

[Dropbear]

It may be less virulent, but we don’t have enough data to know for sure.

Everyone should get their boosters now, though.

Go get your vaccine, especially with Omicron

It’s important that everyone gets vaccinated.

yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com

 

[QuandoDio]

It may be less virulent, but we don’t have enough data to know for sure.

Everyone should get their boosters now, though.

Go get your vaccine, especially with Omicron

It’s important that everyone gets vaccinated.

yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

why?

 

[Dropbear]

Fauci: ’I’m going to be saving lives and they're going to be lying’

Anthony Fauci said claims he lied about certain research funding in the Wuhan lab smacked of contempt for science.

www.politico.com

Q: How will we know the new mutation is a concern?

A: When you see Ted Cruz at the airport again

 

[Fwiffo]

I legitimately don’t know if you’re trolling or not but in case you’re not, just getting this thing is bad enough for MANY people.

No. I'm not. And I acutely remember they said Kent/London variant (aka Alpha) was just more transmissible. Then they changed the story it was more severe. Then they changed the story it causes more deaths.

Some Africans with primitive to no defence recovered from it but we seem to be acting like it's the zombie plague from Resident Evil.

 

[Pimpernel Smith]

Pimpernel Smith keep safe out there

Covid: 13 test positive for Omicron after S Africa-Netherlands flights

Thirteen people who travelled from South Africa to the Netherlands have tested positive for Omicron.

www.bbc.com

10% on those two last planes from South Africa tested positive for Covid and the latest is that 13 was for the new O variety. Up from 2 yesterday. Clearly, testing is not working the South African side.

According to the doctor who identified the new strain and he found it in 4 patients, all double jabbed, that it was no more than a runny nose and a mild cold. But there's some mutations on the virus itself that are unexpected. So we'll see in the next days and weeks.

Down at the mall of the Netherlands on Friday, you can see that restriction fatigue has set-in. The restaurants are not distancing 1.5m between tables, these are very small restaurants by the way. 15-20% of people are not wearing masks or wearing them covering the mouth only or hanging off their chin. I have my reservations that the normal populance can wear a mask correctly, especially when you're touching stuff, opening doors and then readjusting your mask every couple of minutes. Nevertheless, it's an easy quick fix to adhere too, so it shouldn't be an issue.

I'm that pilled-up with being double-jabbed, vitamin D, K2, Zinc and Magnesium and enough hot-toddy ingredients, I'm not sure any virus is going to cross my threshold with ease.

It's starting to get closer now, a number of the kids school chums have got it, and with the exception of my mum and a couple of my nephews and nieces all my family in the UK, double jabbed, have had it in the past couple of months, most in the last month and between a 3 day to 7-10 day bad flu.