I do not believe in this hysteria over asymptomatic spread, but I do, or I’m careful at least with pre-symptomatic spread. The thing there is going about usual activities until the vulnerable are vaccinated, you can’t tell who is asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic or early symptomatic, so you can’t change for one or the other even if you wanted to.

The asymptomatic fear spreading doesn’t help when trying to come out of this or convincing the hysterical lot life has to continue. And of course there’s the figures and the whole narrative running on asymptomatic infections. All fvcking nonsense. It’ll be the first illness spread by people unaffected by it, when in truth the infected person has probably been somewhere or with someone who’s had symptoms during that time or maybe recently recovered.

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This makes sense. I've always worried about the period between infection and realising you're infected. Does make protective testing in some instances almost irrelevant as a result. Hence why it's better to simply view everyone as infected when out in public.

Very interesting article in wired recently about mutations, specifically the Kent variant. They think that the most likely source of the 17 (yes 17) rapid mutations that have caused the increased infectiousness was one person. Most likely to be immunosuppressed or incapable of destroying it from their body entirely, therefore allowing it to remain in the body for much, much longer giving it an opportunity to effectively mutate and 'better' the immune system.

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"People with weakened immune systems provide viruses like Sars-CoV-2 with a unique environment. Instead of clearing an infection quickly, an immunocompromised person might only partially wipe out an infection, leaving behind a population of genetically-hardier viruses that rebound and begin the cycle all over again. In these people, a virus can evolve at remarkable speed. “The whole time, their immune system is effectively beating [the virus] up. So the virus has a chance to learn how to live with the human immune system”

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Apparently some guy was s***ting out Poliovirus for 28 years because he had 'common variable immune deficiency, which decreases the number of antibodies in the blood and makes it harder for the body to fight off infections.'

They were genuinely concerned that he'd spark another Polio resurgence.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

They keep trying to extend the restrictions. Of course targets can slip but they’re now talking about October, with some restrictions continuing after that, by which time there will probably be another few variants causing concern and the most vulnerable will only be weeks away from needing their next jab. There was also advice about wearing two masks (a cloth one over the other).
Boris Gump needs to muzzle these “experts”.

There must come a tipping point where collateral damage from lockdown surpasses its usefulness.

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They seem willing to give dates when schools can re-open.
At the current rate there will be people still locked up nine months after being vaccinated.

Exactly. Too many people still saying this. All you can do is be vaccinated or healthy or young. There’s going to be very few dying from this soon, along with summer in Britain, unless they count people with a positive test with next to no symptoms after being vaccinated. Oh they already are. It’s got to be this summer and early this time. Then plan for vaccinations and variants if they think it’s needed, especially if the NHS won’t be able to cope.

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