Coronavirus

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7pm tomorrow: Triggernometry Live with Brett Weinstein "Did Covid come from a lab?"
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[UncleFester]

So the Chinarus adapts to those it can infect .... most folk will be vaccinated soon. Double vaccination and the suggested 2 to 3 weeks after that to be fully effective seems to be working in terms of numbers needing more than just a few days in bed IF infected at all.

Leaving the antivax lot and Chickenman

It's a good job you don't like many folk and see even less. You'll probably be OK. Probably.

Out of casual interest, given the mortality rates of 'cancers' ( allegedly 1 in 2) I wonder how many of the concerned AntiVaxx brigade have made a trip to their GP to see if they have teh bad aids .....

Even if i end up carking it from that it's a fact that will amuse me to my grave.

Almost like a bunch of desert dwellers concerning themselves with the side effects of frostbite and polar bear attacks whilst ignoring how to deal with sunstroke and sunburn.

As far as delaying restrictions - vaccinating another 10m people fully is worth the wait. Most stuff is trickling into open anyway. After this long, another 4 to 6 weeks isn't the end of the world.
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It's not just that Lab here's a piece in the Independent they are all notoriously leaky.
Https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/scott-gottlieb-covid-wuhan-lab-leaks-b1856813.html

The last (smaller) foot and Mouth outbreak in the UK was caused by a lab washing stuff down the sink which rain into a ditch in cow pasture because the drain had been broken for years.
Complacency always creeps in and usually nothing bad happens.

There is a school of thought that nothing particularly bad has happened this time either but the 'pandemic' is largely being maintained by PCR testing indicating positives from any trace of viral particles which people may have harmlessly carried for years.

It's not much of pandemic when most victims don't know they have it and death rate is below normal for several weeks now.
But lets just control and regulate peoples lives for month after month because the hospitals might get overwhelmed.
It's like Health and Safety gone mad.

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[UncleFester]

I don't think it will extend past that - if there's a continuation of masks / good hygiene then who cares, it's good practice.

I don't think the Govt have any desire to drag this out despite what the conspiracy theorists might want people to think.

If a strain comes along that totally bypasses the vaccines effectiveness then time for a rethink but if it's just the odd one or two here and there who are carking it and there's a few off work sick ( like the flu and with flu like symptoms at worse) then it's back to business as usual.

That's my 'faith' in Govt and science. I completely see why it's good sense to delay until 10m more are double vaccinated.

How each individual wants to play within the scope of what's available as options is down to them.
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[UncleFester]

The problem is that none of this affects me. None of it will change my behaviour.

Open / not open. Restricted / Not restricted.

Until the vaccination program is completed ( well as near as possible) I'm quite happy trundling along as I can do all of the things that i reasonably want to do with the sole exception of Air Travel abroad. Dirty feckers who are at least vaccinated i'll take my chance with if the desire for foreign travel is strong enough.

I'd already accepted that common sense dictated 2022 at least so my expectations are realistically set.
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[Polarbear]

Why don't you all go back and re read this thread where we (nearly) all slagged off the lockdown and how corona was nothing bad. Then the second wave was never coming (it did). Most of us were talking utter shite then because it all rather turned to ratshit.

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=329639&start=250&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

Really, if we get another wave despite the vaccine we (as in the country) are going to blame Boris and the gov for not locking down. If there is no spike we are going to blame him for not opening up. Rightly so, he gets paid the pennys to do the job of looking after 70 million cunts.

So to sum up the situation at present.........

Starmer will wade in with utter bollox and Diane will say Blacks never had it so bad. Every other FB article will ask for money for our brothers and sisters in India. WWF want donations for polarbears . Macron will still hate us. Val won't turn into a frog. I will drink a bottle of rum this weekend and everyone on here will still spout rubbish. (But no where near as much as any politician).

Have a nice day.
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At the moment, the Government is not consulting parliament, and lock down policy is done on the fly with a whisper in the PMs ear, rather than full and open debate.

People have lost all perspective, we're operating under war conditions, against a virus. A virus with a low overall death rate.

I calculated over the next 30 years, covering on average 4k miles per year, I'm around 4.8% likely to die while riding a motorcycle.

This is way higher risk than dying of/with Covid, unless I die while riding within 28 days of them swabbing my decapitated skull for a positive PCR test.

Will I stop riding? What about fatty bum-bum smokey boozer people who engage in unprotected sex against a skip round the back of the chippy? Will we as a nation protect them from themselves for the benefit of reduced NHS expenditure or overloading?

What about-ism aside, oh lockdown is only for three weeks, three months, just another three weeks, oh we've had lockdowns before, what harm is another one, two, five?

We're being protected from ourselves by the overseers, without being allowed to be ourselves.
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