Coronavirus: COVID-19

Anteater · 12-20-2021, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Ja and it spread via some magical ether that doesn't involve humans rejecting a readily available solution to the problem.

77 countries in less than 30 days is quite the record.

**Frownland** · 12-20-2021, 10:34 AM

Impressively done, magical ether that absolves me of all personal accountability, impressively done.

rostasi · 12-20-2021, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

Eh. Omicron has likely been circulating in all kinds of places for several months before anyone actually identified what it was. And in all that time, we get like what, one death in the U.K. from it?

America’s Tests Are Too Slow for Omicron

First: It was discovered and named less than a month ago, but you seem to have some kind of a *hunch* that it's been around for "several months."

Second: you seem to conveniently have in your mind that there's been "one death" in the UK when there's actually been at least 7 deaths and nearly 100 hospitalizations directly related to Omicron and that the estimate for this winter's death rate from COVID is to be at least 20% higher than last winter due to this variant alone.

Third: You provided a link to an article that confirms Frown's response.

Fourth: So, what is the motive behind trolling? I mean, really?

Anteater · 12-20-2021, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Impressively done, magical ether that absolves me of all personal accountability, impressively done.

American Airlines - the ultimate superspreader.

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Originally Posted by rostasi

First: It was discovered and named less than a month ago, but you seem to have some kind of a *hunch* that it's been around for "several months."

Second: you seem to conveniently have in your mind that there's been "one death" in the UK when there's actually been at least 7 deaths and nearly 100 hospitalizations directly related to Omicron and that the estimate for this winter's death rate from COVID is to be at least 20% higher than last winter due to this variant alone.

Third: You provided a link to an article that confirms Frown's response.

Fourth: So, what is the motive behind trolling? I mean, really?

1. You have no idea what you are talking about. It has clearly been circulating longer than the point it was actually identified.

2. You might want to wait on that a bit. There's literally no information on anyone publically available yet. We don't even know any details about the first person who supposedly died from it.

3. Frown seems to think boosters will magically eliminate Covid-19 or something along those lines. You missed the point of the article.

**Frownland** · 12-20-2021, 10:53 AM

American Airlines: the number one choice for magical ethers getting to their travel destinations. No humans allowed.

rostasi · 12-20-2021, 10:56 AM

Update on my last post - with the numbers quickly climbing...

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Twelve people across Britain have now died after catching the Omicron variant of Covid.

The latest figures from the UK Health Security Agency also show 104 people have been admitted to hospital with confirmed Omicron infections.

Some 12,133 new confirmed cases of Omicron were also reported on Sunday, bringing the total across the UK to 37,101.

However, these figures are likely to be undercounting the true numbers, as not all Covid cases are checked in labs to ascertain if they are the Omicron variant or not.

Experts on the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) have warned there are probably already hundreds of thousands of new Omicron infections every day in England alone.

rostasi · 12-20-2021, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

1. You have no idea what you are talking about. It has clearly been circulating longer than the point it was actually identified.

So, you "know" this, but you don't know of the extent of Omicron in the UK.

Uh, huh.

Anteater · 12-20-2021, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by rostasi

So, you "know" this, but you don't know of the extent of Omicron in the UK.

Uh, huh.

Maybe you should go actually look at what they've said about Omicron in South Africa and use a little common sense. As virulent as Delta is, it also circulated awhile before it was properly identified.

**Frownland** · 12-20-2021, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

3. Frown seems to think boosters will magically eliminate Covid-19 or something along those lines. You missed the point of the article.

Nah I just recognize that widespread use of the vaccine would mitigate the spread of new variants by not giving them a vessel to mutate within because I'm not retarded.

Anteater · 12-20-2021, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Nah I just recognize that widespread use of the vaccine would mitigate the spread of new variants by not giving them a vessel to mutate within because I'm not retarded.

Well sure...in a world where antigenic drift doesn't exist.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	American Airlines: the number one choice for magical ethers getting to their travel destinations. No humans allowed. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x