Poor old Corona beer suffered though. I think most of us can agree that it's crap beer anyway, regardless of its name.

I agree about the beer. It's almost as bad as Budweiser. The US one and not the real one.

They don't even taste good ice cold.

Real ale for me. Lots of hops, room temperature, low levels of CO2, thin glass, good company, no lockdown. I can dream!

I am not for a moment underestimating the seriousness of the pandemic or the importance of understanding how it started so that the global community can learn the lessons and take steps to avoid other outbreaks in the future.

Once again though you are jumping to conclusions and attributing blame. If you think that making assumptions prior to the facts being established is wise then it is your priorities that need serious thought.

The priority is to discover all that happened and to do so in a way in which China fully co-operates. Blaming her before the truth is known will likely make her defensive and uncooperative. Indeed it probably already has.

Trump playing politics with the pandemic has done us all a grave disservice and those who fall in line with him are not helping.

Edited by Wisbech Eagle (04 Feb 2021 11.54pm)

That's a big number Ted. But in context, it is extremely small. If you compare millions/billions to time, 2.2m seconds is about a fortnight. Whereas 7.7b secs is about two and a half centuries. These are rough averages though, so don't quote me.

I am not for a moment underestimating the seriousness of the pandemic or the importance of understanding how it started so that the global community can learn the lessons and take steps to avoid other outbreaks in the future.

Once again though you are jumping to conclusions and attributing blame. If you think that making assumptions prior to the facts being established is wise then it is your priorities that need serious thought.

The priority is to discover all that happened and to do so in a way in which China fully co-operates. Blaming her before the truth is known will likely make her defensive and uncooperative. Indeed it probably already has.

Trump playing politics with the pandemic has done us all a grave disservice and those who fall in line with him are not helping.

Edited by Wisbech Eagle (04 Feb 2021 11.54pm)

Suspect a mix of 2 & 3. My understanding, and gleaned from some serious people, is that when the virus is studied there is something in the protein strand that seems to suggest the part of it that is to do with how a virus replicates/transmits looks 'older' than it should. How you might expect a new virus to evolve over a 30 year period rather than just emerge.

THere was a Sunday Times article last year that put forward a theory that the virus itself may have been first discovered about 10 or so years ago. Some guys had been sent into an old mine working to clear out Bat poo and all fell ill. They were isolated and treated. It's possible that this was how the virus ended up in the Wuhan laboratory.

Of course all speculation but there is definitely something odd about Covid 19 in viral terms, specifically in how it spreads in the manner it does. On the whole new viruses emerge pretty deadly but also difficult to transmit. Since their only purpose is to replicate, the evolutionary pattern is for them to become less dangerous but more easily transmittable. Covid-19 appears to buck this later part.