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OldGreyFox

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South Yorkshire

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21-12-2020, 10:30 AM

Re: British Coronavirus

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...5c9880ffa6.jpg

Coming out of the EU on 1st Jan......Now there's a coincidence...

Donkeyman

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Melton,United Kingdom

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21-12-2020, 12:08 PM

Re: British Coronavirus

Originally Posted by OldGreyFox ->

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...5c9880ffa6.jpg

Coming out of the EU on 1st Jan......Now there's a coincidence...

I'm thinking the same too OGF ?

Donkeyman! 🤔🤔

AnnieS

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United Kingdom

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21-12-2020, 12:50 PM

Re: British Coronavirus

Originally Posted by OldGreyFox ->

Doesn't the flu virus mutate every year? Hence the need for a modified flu jab every year.

They keep saying Covid has a very slow mutation rate. Studies report half the mutation rate of seasonal flu. The lower the volume of transmission the less chance it has to mutate.

I don't understand how it could be more transmissible. Has it gotten smaller or faster? Seems as though we are all panicking.

Tedc

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Berkshire, UK

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21-12-2020, 01:01 PM

Re: British Coronavirus

Originally Posted by swimfeeders ->

Hi

Exactly right.

We will adapt and life will go on.

A bit insensitive considering that, for many, it won't!

Bruce

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Wollongong, Australia

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21-12-2020, 01:05 PM

Re: British Coronavirus

It was reported as 70% for contagious - no idea where that figure came from

The scenes at the Dover docks look like Brexit came early?

OldGreyFox

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South Yorkshire

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21-12-2020, 01:47 PM

Re: British Coronavirus

Together with the annual flu jab, it looks like we will need vaccines every month just to survive...

OldGreyFox

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South Yorkshire

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21-12-2020, 01:58 PM

Re: British Coronavirus

Originally Posted by AnnieS ->

They keep saying Covid has a very slow mutation rate. Studies report half the mutation rate of seasonal flu. The lower the volume of transmission the less chance it has to mutate.

I don't understand how it could be more transmissible. Has it gotten smaller or faster? Seems as though we are all panicking.

I agree Annie, it's not got superpowers...As I understand it, it has to find it's way up your nose, so you need to be in close proximity of someone who has the virus (and it only remains infectious for a short time) and it has to enter your respiratory system. Of the 65 million or so of the population, it has failed to do that. And of the two million that have been infected, lets not forget that this is a 'rolling' total over ten or eleven months. So although the figures seem worrying, there are not 2 million people walking round today waiting to infect the unsuspecting non mask wearing individual....

swimfeeders

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21-12-2020, 02:01 PM

Re: British Coronavirus

Originally Posted by OldGreyFox ->

Together with the annual flu jab, it looks like we will need vaccines every month just to survive...

Hi

We have beaten Smallpox, we will defeat this.

It just takes time.

A few years ago I would have been dead, medical science moves on.

OldGreyFox

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South Yorkshire

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21-12-2020, 02:05 PM

Re: British Coronavirus

Originally Posted by swimfeeders ->

Hi

We have beaten Smallpox, we will defeat this.

It just takes time.

A few years ago I would have been dead, medical science moves on.

Smallpox is not spread by airborne means Swim. Neither were most of the diseases that we were vaccinated against as children.

Omah

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21-12-2020, 02:10 PM

Re: British Coronavirus

Originally Posted by OldGreyFox ->

So although the figures seem worrying, there are not 2 million people walking round today waiting to infect the unsuspecting non mask wearing individual....

The ONS last estimated (18 December 2020) that there were 567,300 people within the community population in England with "live" COVID-19, equating to around 1 in 95 people.

Of course, that number will currently be increasing exponentially .....

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