Delta+ New variant of concern

[Thewiseoneincognito]

News outlets starting to report on a cluster of cases of a new version of the original Delta variant. Now called the Delta Plus and listed as a variant of concern. From Sky News...

India declares new 'Delta plus' variant of concern

The country has declared that a new variant, identified locally as "Delta plus", is one of concern.

Two dozen cases have been detected in three states, including the state of Maharashtra, federal health secretary Rajesh Bhushan told a news conference.

The ministry said Delta plus showed increased transmissibility, and it has told states to up their testing efforts.

The original Delta variant was first discovered in India and has managed to spread to the UK, now making up 99% of new confirmed cases.

Yeah, if only there was a way they could chose to browse another topic.

Yay for kitty pics! More please!

@MarshaBradyo

I don’t think people find it scary

The opposite probably

At this point it's like, another variant you say? How splendid Judith. Now, what's for supper?

I know viruses are meant to mutate to get weaker but I don't think covid does. It can transmit perfectly well before serious illness sets in so it doesn't matter if it kills the host.

@youshouldbeplotting

Each variant is becoming more infectious than the last. Hopefully we get to a point where Delta maximus the great III++ appears and infects everbody on the planet at the same time. Then we can be done with it all

I'd rather an asteroid hit and took us all out within seconds.

Me too.

So long as it only took out humans. What a win for animals, wildlife, and the environment. Humans gone. Planet earth saved.

I think the issue is that some people rush to post every scrap of potential bad news and seem to salivate over it (see also the earlier thread today about Australian shopping centres). This may be something to worry about, it may not. None of us can know yet.

Agreed Tealightsandd.

@youshouldbeplotting

I think the issue is that some people rush to post every scrap of potential bad news and seem to salivate over it (see also the earlier thread today about Australian shopping centres). This may be something to worry about, it may not. None of us can know yet.

And both Sky news and the BBC news are giving it a fairly high billing. It’s not wrong to want to discuss it.

Because when you read a title like that you immediately think "here we go again" and most people I know are tired.

Tired of flinching when your child starts coughing. Tired of wondering if your mum, dad, loved one...will be one of the 10% the vaccine doesn't work for. Tired of the constant shifting goal posts.

We just need to double Vax the vulnerable. Just need to double vaccinate the adult population, then we need to see about 12+. Oh and don't forget, we need to vaccinate the world.

It's never ending.

There's no surety or assurance, and
despite the bluster from our PM, I think it's dawning on the majority that we can't 'win' against this virus. We have to keep coping and resilience is thin. And yes, probably shouldn't have clicked on the thread, it definitely caught my interest in an anxiety inducing way.

I don't usually feel the need to hide the topic, but I don't think pouring over new variant stats is for me, and many other posters it seems, so would love a sub-section of Corona doom to
to be able to hide it!

No offence intended OP, crack on and I'll hide the thread

It can transmit perfectly well before serious illness sets in so it doesn't matter if it kills the host.

Yeah it's re-installing its 5G transmitter app, it's been blue-screening lately.

No it isn't wrong to want to discuss it, disposable

It's just that the discussions seem to me to be more and more polarised between anti-vaxxer/conspiracy theorist types and those who want to latch on to every single bit of bad news. There seems to be very little in the way of middle ground apart from a couple of threads..

Maybe it’s me. Tonkerbea is right. The answer is to hide this thread and maybe the whole coronavirus topic.

In order to bring posters on this thread together here’s a cat in some PPE.

Well I wasn’t expecting such polarised responses.

To those despairing at the news of another VOC, please don’t read the Coronavirus threads. There’s the Good News threads for those of an anxious disposition, or simply avoid anything Covid related on MN.

I see the usually suspects have all come along to comment though- Marsha etc, my fellow Coronavirus thread watchers.

Delta+ is something we absolutely do not want in the UK or anywhere for that matter. Choosing to not talk about it doesn’t mean it’s going to go away.

Loving the PPE cat!
On more serious note though we should be just as worried about other non Corona viruses mutating - whilst we’ve all been hibernating/isolating/quarantining wearing masks WFH social distancing etc etc our natural immunity to other things has been affected
I’ve been ill recently with a non Covid virus - of a degree that I’ve not experienced before - spread through family, friends and colleagues like a wild fire - despite all the Covid measures
I’m just as concerned about this aspect as another new variant

I’ve been ill recently with a non Covid virus - of a degree that I’ve not experienced before - spread through family, friends and colleagues like a wild fire

I hope you're feeling better now.

Confident I'll be jumped on for pointing this out (not by you) but fuck it. Of course it could be something else but even PCR tests are not completely accurate.

India definitely reported lots of false negatives with the Delta variant. I strongly suspect lots of 'flu' and other non Covid viruses right now are in fact... Covid.

indianexpress.com/article/explained/covid-tests-rt-pcr-coronavirus-negative-result-7297329/lite/

Does anyone else find it rather strange that posters who claim not to want to read about new variants are: (a) clicking on a thread entitled "Delta+ New variant of concern", and (b) posting on the thread so that it rises to the top of the board again?

@LilyPond2

Does anyone else find it rather strange that posters who claim not to want to read about new variants are: (a) clicking on a thread entitled "Delta+ New variant of concern", and (b) posting on the thread so that it rises to the top of the board again?

Yes. It's a little confusing.

Ffs not another variant.

I’m feeling much better thanks
More norovirus type as it happens and we’ve all tested Covid negative and are nearly all double vaccinated
My concern was more about my natural immunity to other bugs has been reduced due to the way we’ve all been existing for the last year plus

@Aposterhasnoname

What, a new variant, right as we’re about to drop restrictions you say. Well spank me rosy I didn’t see that coming.

This is just in India for the moment. The world is bigger than Britain.

Would it not be more sensible if these sorts of threads upset you, to put the good news thread (or the state of fear thread! for those so inclined) on your watch list, and then use the customise feature to put the entire coronavirus board on ignore?

Meanwhile, apparently, according to genomic sequencing by Indian laboratories, the Delta Plus variant displays: increased transmissibility, stronger binding to receptors of lung cells, and potential reduction in monoclonal antibody response. None of which is good news for India.

@TheClaws
If it is the Nepal variant its been in the UK since early June. 23 cases on the 7th June.

Hmm, obviously not so concerning that they will stop anything to do with the football, the 2500 football vips will still come in, there will still be huge crowds at Wembley so meh.

@DisposableNamechange
Strange that, had bbc on for about an hour its not been mentioned once.