I like how the headline is for +70% increased spread but at the end they slip in that there is another strain that is +80%-90% with increased viral load. But that's in Africa so it doesn't really count I guess?
I like how when people do that whole masks, social distancing, and hygiene thing, but not enough to wipe it out completely, this just creates selective pressure.
Not only that but one solid month of real lockdown, no leaving your house level shit, would have been waaayyy less damaging to people and society then these last 9 months of half measures
we basically picked the worst of both worlds because "the economy" obviously got fucked anyway
Yep. I have to keep reminding myself that it's not that their plan didn't work; it worked perfectly. It's just that the goal of the response was to save the economy not stop the virus
We half-assed our response to a viral pandemic allowing it to mutate. Good fucking gravy.
Exactly. These mutations aren't popping up in NZ or China because they didn't let the virus bounce freely around their population for the past 9 months
Bolsonaro sprouting Akira-style mutant arms and crushing a room full of reporters is the 2021 I'm here for.
I honestly think this is just to deflect or excuse "cancelling" christmas last minute. Like guys we couldn't have seen this coming, sorry for lieing to you 4 days ago that covid would take 5 days off for festivities :/
The UK. BoJo basically allowed people to gather for the holidays.
*Christian holidays
Other religions weren't afforded the same option
‘We don’t want to cancel Christmas… I think that would be inhuman,” the prime minister said just last Wednesday in response to calls from scientific experts to reduce the relaxation of social restrictions allowing households to mix over Christmas.
Four days later, he was forced to abruptly change course in light of alarming data indicating a steep increase in infection rates in London and parts of the south-east and east of England, thought to be linked to a new and more easily transmitted variant of Covid-19. The government was right to immediately impose tougher tier 4 restrictions on these parts of the country and elsewhere to restrict indoors household mixing to Christmas Day only.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/20/observer-view-boris-johnson-christmas-u-turn
