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Bristolians & Scousers are we too doomed?

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3asAbird · 02/02/2021 14:39

New reports concerning varients in Bristol and LIVERPOOL.

What does this mean?
No mass testing here or doomed postcodes.
Wish they wouldn't reveal this with no further details. .

www.cityam.com/more-mutations-of-concern-found-in-bristol-and-liverpool-says-matt-hancock/

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ButterflyBitch · 02/02/2021 19:59

@BoreOfWhabylon

So I think that means it is a weird Bristol mutation.

Coronal virus?

Lols.
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3asAbird · 02/02/2021 20:29

@BoreOfWhabylon

So I think that means it is a weird Bristol mutation.

Coronal virus?

Bloody hilarious. Not sure our own unique strain for someone from Kent visited Bristol and we have run of the mill Kent varient. Liverpool just have a normal but slightly mutated original edition if the varient. Only 8 specific postcodes have the super exiting south African varient not Liverpool or Bristol but be on safe side Hancock told us don't leave the house. Not sure everyone got message as husbands said queues for banks in High Street were bad and the retail park seemed busy.

Bristol County Council emailed and said its Kent varient and they will discuss testing.
Its been months since we been to a test centre.
I know south glos been offering extra testing don't think Bristol has unless you a student and bit sure they allowed to come back.

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PicsInRed · 02/02/2021 20:34

@BoreOfWhabylon

So I think that means it is a weird Bristol mutation.

Coronal virus?

😲😂🤣🤣👏👏
ScouseQueen · 02/02/2021 20:39

Where are the Liverpool postcodes for this being named?

Also, Liam Thorp's all right. He spends plenty of time calling out the conspiracy twats and quite right too.

reformedcharacters · 02/02/2021 20:45

I don’t understand the reports of Liverpool as the postcode reported is Southport (PR9)

User133847 · 02/02/2021 20:50

@ScouseQueen

Where are the Liverpool postcodes for this being named?

Also, Liam Thorp's all right. He spends plenty of time calling out the conspiracy twats and quite right too.

Yeah, he's a good bloke and local journalist.

It's just the one thing after another aspect in the Echo. We've already had three huge spikes in the city which the Echo have as you'd expect incessantly reported on every day (March/April, September/October and then from new year due to the tier 2 folly over December and Christmas). We get a grip on the January explosion of cases with cases around two thirds down from a month ago and now we get this.

Redcrayons · 02/02/2021 21:32

@reformedcharacters they mean Liverpool city region.

reformedcharacters · 02/02/2021 21:45

Redcrayons just read in the Echo that apparently 5 members of staff at Liverpool Women’s Hospital tested positive for the new variant in early January, may have attended an event not connected to the hospital maybe a funeral.

Didn’t realise Southport was LC region?

Itstheprinciple · 03/02/2021 07:45

The SA variant was found in Southport (PR9)

A mutated version of the original virus has been found in Liverpool (not seen which specific areas)

Itstheprinciple · 03/02/2021 07:47

But yes, Southport is also classed as Liverpool City region as its in Sefton. Southport have got widespread non symptomatic testing because they come under Liverpool.

User133847 · 03/02/2021 09:13

More of an explanation here:

twitter.com/LiamThorpECHO/status/1356684492518391811

notevenat20 · 03/02/2021 09:16

Any details about Bristol?

User133847 · 03/02/2021 09:20

@PicsInRed

If it's in both Bristol and Liverpool, it seems likely to have filtered out of Surrey and through Greater London.

So it'll be in London too.

Why the FUCK is the border still open. Rita Ora just flew to Oz for essential 🤣 The Voice judging.

Fuck fuck fuck. FUCKERY.

Read a headline story before imploring people in areas with the variant not to go out at all or do food shopping if they have food in the house. The borders are open though.
Bloatstoat · 03/02/2021 09:58

@BoreOfWhabylon
Grin coronal virus has given me my first proper laugh in days, thank you!

deeplybaffled · 03/02/2021 10:13

@reformedcharacters - as I understood it, it is two separate things, the Southport one is a cluster of the South African variant and the Liverpool one is the original virus with a mutation to the spike protein?

reformedcharacters · 03/02/2021 10:33

deeplybaffled

Yes that’s my understanding based on news reports.

PurpleDaisies · 03/02/2021 10:33

[quote deeplybaffled]@reformedcharacters - as I understood it, it is two separate things, the Southport one is a cluster of the South African variant and the Liverpool one is the original virus with a mutation to the spike protein?[/quote]
Yes, and the Bristol one is a mutation to the Kent strain.

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3asAbird · 03/02/2021 10:37

[quote deeplybaffled]@reformedcharacters - as I understood it, it is two separate things, the Southport one is a cluster of the South African variant and the Liverpool one is the original virus with a mutation to the spike protein?[/quote]
Yes they 2 separate strains

1 is exotica south African in just 1 postcode
The other 32 cases in Liverpool are the original version of covid 19 with some mutations those pesky numbers appear in its sequencing.

Well Bristol public health playing down this weird concerning mutation.
Yet Hancock telling us we must stay in the house.
Very confusing

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55906365

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/matt-hancock-warns-people-mutant-4959675

All I had heard on Facebook gravepine about bristol

Director of Public Health in Bristol has said it has been found on borders with South Glos, so we need to be very vigilant

But quite a few postcodes sit on Bristol South glos borders in East and North Bristol.

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PicsInRed · 03/02/2021 17:09

Read a headline story before imploring people in areas with the variant not to go out at all or do food shopping if they have food in the house. The borders are open though.

Exactly. The fuck am I going to subsist on fried flour patties and multivitamins when cheeky fuckers are still flying in and out for hols. They can fuck right off with that nonsense.

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3asAbird · 03/02/2021 17:42

Bristol live calling it Bristol mutation
Hybrid mix south African and Kent varient.
Won't reveal postcodes
I risked a dog walk earlier and husband went to morrisions.
Another thrilling day.

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-covid-mutation-thought-more-4960948

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Yiayoula · 03/02/2021 17:52

Yes, wondering why Bristol’s Public Health Director doesn’t feel it’s “ appropriate “ for us to be told which postcodes are involved.

Mushroom principle is alive and well here ...

PurpleDaisies · 03/02/2021 17:54

I really don’t understand the postcode secrecy thing, especially since the postcodes involved with the South Africa variant have been released.

PicsInRed · 03/02/2021 17:56

Hybrid mix south African and Kent varient.

No Ebola hybrid yet high five 🙏 not today yussss

OverTheRainbow88 · 03/02/2021 17:58

I know so many people living in Bristol still going to London 3 times a week for meetings. Then stopping off in bath on the way home!!

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3asAbird · 03/02/2021 20:37

@OverTheRainbow88

I know so many people living in Bristol still going to London 3 times a week for meetings. Then stopping off in bath on the way home!!
Bonkers doesn't surprise me. I was so law abiding at Christmas I didn't go Wales visit family. I didn't do Xmas shopping in Bath or Swindon as lower tier. I must admit when Bristol went into tier 2 I went to pub in town whilst trying condense all Xmas shopping in 1 day. I didn't go mall as that was tier 2. God the drama of Bristol and South glos being different tiers was hilarious.
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