Is F*** Pattaya Official Policy ?

[Brad the Impala]

All these comparisons between the health impact of covid against road accidents or heart disease etc miss the point. This isn't an Either/Or scenario. What makes the impact of covid so meaningful is that the health issues/deaths are on top of all the existing health issues.

That's why the treatment of covid patients puts health services under strain, why we are still hearing in the UK about ambulances queuing outside hospitals where A&E are too busy to accept additional patients. This results in significant delays in ambulances reaching new emergencies, and increasing morbidity in the UK, excluding the Covid figures.

[cdnmatt]

Apparently, we have the Omnikron variant to worry about now.

I'm wondering who's in charge of naming these variants. What happened to Omega?

Also, it's only another year or so before we run out of letters in the Greek alphabet, so what happens then? Do we double up on letters, and get variants like Beta-Gamma or?

[StevieWonders]

Apparently, we have the Omnikron variant to worry about now.

I'm wondering who's in charge of naming these variants. What happened to Omega?

Also, it's only another year or so before we run out of letters in the Greek alphabet, so what happens then? Do we double up on letters, and get variants like Beta-Gamma or?

Whenever I hear the phrase "Send in the clowns" there's one poster who springs immediately to mind. EVERY news channel is reporting "The World Health Organization declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of Covid-19, first detected in southern Africa, to be a variant of concern and renamed it Omicron"

[cdnmatt]

Whenever I hear the phrase "Send in the clowns" there's one poster who springs immediately to mind. EVERY news channel is reporting "The World Health Organization declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of Covid-19, first detected in southern Africa, to be a variant of concern and renamed it Omicron"

I'm blind, apologies for getting some spellings wrong.

I was calling Covid Kovid for the longest while.

[Nirish guy]

What happened to Omega?

I can already feel the Christian (rarely) right rising up in disgust / protest at the idea of using "Omega" - you know what with that that being one of their names for their favourite poster boy Jesus himself and all.

[dinagam]

It would not be wrong to predict that by the end of the month the vaccine manufacturers will be coming out with the right vaccine against the new strain, and their agents will be making vaccination mandatory for the entire world, at the prospect of billions of dollars in profits.

[StevieWonders]

It would not be wrong to predict that by the end of the month the vaccine manufacturers will be coming out with the right vaccine against the new strain, and their agents will be making vaccination mandatory for the entire world, at the prospect of billions of dollars in profits.

Surely even in your socialist workers' paradise the announcement from Pfizer this morning that it will take "100 days" has slipped through the great firewall

[Moses]

Surely even in your socialist workers' paradise the announcement from Pfizer this morning that it will take "100 days" has slipped through the great firewall

Today Gamaleya made announce what after reading new stamm's structure they are sure - their nasal spray "Sputnik M" (vaccine) will be effective against Omicron. Sputnik M - new vaccine in form of nasal spray, that is in phase 2 testing including kids 5-16 yo. Few days ago Putin had "sniff" of Sputnik M.