New variant Deltacron from Cyprus

[TalkToTheHand123]

Time for a lockdown?

No.

@TalkToTheHand123

Time for a lockdown?

Absolutely.

I'll get the welding machine out.

Where have you heard about it?

Here we go again...

New one in France too discovered fairly recently and we are still removing measure such as testing tracing etc etc

People really will make any old shit up won't they...

From another thread it’s a contaminated sample

Are you serious OP? You think we should have a lockdown now based on the currently known information?

Is this a thing? I've not heard anything but viruses do mutate so I didn't think omicron would be the last

@HerRoyalNotness

From another thread it’s a contaminated sample

Don't go bringing yer fancy pants facts round here!

They haven't yet ascertained if it's a new variant, or if it's lab contamination.

Further announcemts in the coming week

And yes, here we go again. Or rather, here it goes again. Even if this one comes to nothing, there will be new variants.

If you want a lockdown go lock down on your own. Why do you need everyone to lock down?

the new variants are less and less serious though...

so why jump straight to 'lockdown'?

I was more a 'here we go again' with all the threads on MN.

Honestly I think some people actually want lockdowns. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

@GirlInACountrySong

the new variants are less and less serious though...

so why jump straight to 'lockdown'?

Not necessarily

There's no particular evolutionary pressure either way, because it spreads before symptoms appear. It doesn't matter how ill or dead it makes the host once it has moved on.

@MajorCarolDanvers

Honestly I think some people actually want lockdowns. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

They do! they want to stay in their houses eating tinned tomatoes on loo roll forever.

@MajorCarolDanvers

Honestly I think some people actually want lockdowns. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

I think they're trading, and they always get bites

trading = teasing

Slooery fingers and DYAC !

So the one in France is an old one which was then out-competed by Omicron. The reason it has come up again this week is because a pre-print has been published this week. The Cyprus one is thought to be a lab contamination. The papers love to cause a scare

Widely discussed in the Twitter science community today as a contaminated sample. Nothing to see here

This scientist (who works in vaccine research and development) seems pretty confident it's just contamination: mobile.twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/1479950248562860038

Oh god aren't we passed the frantic stage of wanting to lock down??? 😩😩

Yay lockdown!
& get out the !