New strain stuff.....

[MistressoftheDarkSide]

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/18/boris-johnson-calls-crisis-meeting-to-discuss-response-to-new-covid-strain

So,it's just a variant, nothing to see here, blah blah blah..... I'm pretty sanguine about this stuff but dropping this late at night as a headline right now..... I'm getting mightily pissed off with the uncertainty and the subtle fear mongering......

Any thoughts?

"Sheeple" ✔️

That's a tick as in a bingo box ticking tick, btw, not a fucking endorsement of those views!

Full fucking house!

Apologies I'm bringing the level of discourse on this thread down by responding to that, aren't I? I'm finding the thread very useful, the science bits I mean not sheeple comments.

The figures are alarming today. I just saw the case rates for Thurrock on the BBC "CV rates in your area" page.

1,292 cases per 100,000 people in the latest week 13 Dec-19 Dec. The average area in England had 226.

2,253
cases in the latest week 13 Dec-19 Dec

+1,193
compared with the previous week

7,262
total cases to 23 Dec

YuleAreBeingUnREASTIEable Me too, Yule, me too.

@IAmAMalenkyBitPoogly

That's a tick as in a bingo box ticking tick, btw, not a fucking endorsement of those views!

Full fucking house!

I'm surprised there was no demand to 'WAKE UP'.

[quote Firefliess]@SRY A very big number can still be half of another very big number. If vaccination /distancing managed to halve the rate of infections, then that would halve the opportunities for mutations surely? [/quote]
The mutation rate in this case follows a Poisson distribution, so the mean number of mutations is typically directly proportional to the number of viral genomes produced by all cells in all organisms. In other words, a set proportion of genomes will have mutations, with equal probability of being deleterious. selection acts on this, but so do random events, founder effects, long-lasting illness and super spreader events. So maybe 15 in a billion people affected produce this variant or 75 in 5 billion people produce it, it makes no difference the proportion remains the same.

Its pointless to tell people that are in a coma to wake up .

Que?

Sorry if this has already been posted but some interesting data about the prevalence of the new strain by region
twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1343525128819404802?s=21