Theresa May on Variants

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Could not agree more with Theresa May, never thought I'd say it.

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Same.

Call it India / Delta / Johnson. Doesn't change the fact that there are 7 billion other humans and more than a couple of animal reservoirs all capable of incubating variants. Even with 100% vaccination we will still be capable of incubating our own further variants.

In the latest research Delta has completely usurped Kent as the dominant UK variant and now makes up 90% of cases. The Yorkshire variant seems to have gone by the board and in Glasgow Delta cases are on the wane. It seems unlikely vaccines will ever keep up with mutations, just as they don't with flu.

Waiting for someone to suggest we barricade Edinburgh just in case we end up with a Festival variant.

She nails it.

Perfectly put. Time to be pragmatic.

I completely agree with her and I believe she and Jeremy Hunt would have handled the pandemic much better than Johnson and Hancock

Even with 100% vaccination we will still be capable of incubating our own further variants.

Clearly the entire concept of herd immunity has flown a few million miles above your head.

my cats could have handled the pandemic better then Johnson and Hancock

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

I completely agree with her and I believe she and Jeremy Hunt would have handled the pandemic much better than Johnson and Hancock

Yes, I agree with that too. I'm no fan of Theresa May - far from it - but I do believe that she is motivated by a genuine sense of public duty. Unlike Boris, who is motivated by his ego alone.

Agree with every word she has said. It’s gone viral (pardon the pun)

Basically this.

1 we can’t eradicate Covid
2 there will always be variants
3 sadly some people will die

Therefore it’s crazy that one of the most vaccinated countries in the world is the most reluctant to ease restrictions

@IGotFat

my cats could have handled the pandemic better then Johnson and Hancock

So could mine and I don't have any.

& let’s not forget she is saying this as a T1 diabetic.

She’s spot on and would have got us through this a lot better than Boris and his bunch of lockdown loving cronies!

If only we had a grown up like Theresa at the helm
Instead of Boris Ken Dodd Johnson

Agree with her. My sister's new grandchild is going to be grown up by the time we are allowed to travel.

Totally agree with her and wish she was still running the country! (And I don't vote Tory)

she's spot on BUT neglecting the elephant in the room which is that we're only in the pickle we're in right now because the government was so slow stopping people coming in from India DESPITE us having one of the most strictest anti-travel policies in the world.

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

I completely agree with her and I believe she and Jeremy Hunt would have handled the pandemic much better than Johnson and Hancock

Hate to say it as I loved Boris but you are right !

@strangeshapedpotato

Even with 100% vaccination we will still be capable of incubating our own further variants.

Clearly the entire concept of herd immunity has flown a few million miles above your head.

Is that directed at me?

I thought the party line was that you could still carry and pass the virus if vaccinated (and therefore create variants), hence the scare tactics on social distancing? Or is that just bullshit?

@QioiioiioQ

If only we had a grown up like Theresa at the helm Instead of Boris Ken Dodd Johnson

Agreed

Presumably all the mutations which the virus acquires are inherent to the virus and therefore can and will arise in any population?

It’s crazy that one of the most vaccinated countries in the world is the most reluctant to ease restrictions

Crazy, yes, but utterly predictable
It's been interesting to read the thread about how other nations are coping, and as I've said from the start the UK were always going to be the ones dragging their feet, prioritising cronies and looking for another committee to form while others started to move forward

This is what I have really struggled with.

If zero Covid is not possible/ sustainable.

If the vaccine is not enough to eradicate Covid.

If there will always be variants of Covid forever and ever until the end of time.

What on earth is the end goal? When can we consider ourselves ‘safe’ or even ‘safe enough’?

I do not want to live like this forever. When is the point when we say enough is enough, we need to just take the risk.

When is the point when we say enough is enough, we need to just take the risk.

Now. We've rolled over for a year and it needs to stop. Vaccinate everyone, fine, but enough of the restrictions on normal freedom.

@PinkSparklyPussyCat I don't agree that Theresa May and Jeremy Hunt would have handled the pandemic better. I know and would think it a fact they would have handled it better.

We need to get to the point where it is an inconvenient illness not one that puts you in hospital or kills you. Which I think vaccination can do.

As for restrictions, wearing a face covering and not having Old Trafford or any other sports stadia completely full for a few months more, and having screens at supermarket tills I think are reasonable to continue.