Kowabunga
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6 hours ago, nudge said:
At this point it's still unclear how long the immunity lasts. Could be weeks, months, or years - we simply have no way of knowing yet for sure, as it hasn't been around long enough. However, similarity to other coronaviruses suggests that the immunity should last for 1-2 years, likely.
In terms of providing additional 'hope', there is also suggestion/speculation that having passed common colds caused by certain coronaviruses different from SARS-CoV-2 may offer partial immunity to some extent as it has been reported the existence of SARS-CoV-2-reactive CD4+ T cells among individuals not exposed to COVID-19.
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30610-3
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Is Boris going to compromise with ERG in terms of conditions of lockdown in a trade-off with the stance with negotiations with EU or he does not need that given favourable parliamentary arithmetic?
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11 hours ago, Harry said:Still come if your sick guys.... It's your right.
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BALCONY POLICE
The magazine for those who believe every neighbor is guilty until proven otherwise.
FIND YOUR TOTALITARIAN SIDE. Embrace stalinism in less than two weeks.
· Having a medical justification
· Go to work to the hospital
· Suffering from a personal emergency
And other assumptions not exempting you from receiving the corresponding spittle.
POLICE VIOLENCE
Why cheering on the vulneration of fundamental rights is better than Netflix.
GIFT!
A Deliveroo coupon. Because the only person having the right to be at the street is the rider bringing you Cheese nachos.
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16 minutes ago, CaaC (John) said:
This fucking stockpiling is a joke, Tesco's run out of toilet paper but we managed to get 4 rolls in Semi-Chem and the lady in the shop there said they have restrictions on how many rolls people can buy but she said that does not work as you will get the wife buying and then they will send the likes of hubby, son & daughter or family go and buy some more after, it's a joke.
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19 hours ago, Cicero said:Out of curiosity, what are the main differences between influenza and coronavirus?
In general, the family of Coronaviruses mutate/evolve slower than influenza. That said SARS-CoV-2 is new, we don't fully know it and we can only assume it is going to behave following that pattern. It seems to be somewhat better at propagating than common influenza (2x?), which is no slouch in that regard.
There is no immunity. Vaccines and antivirals do not work with SARS-CoV-2 (if laboratories had kept onto researching on the 2003 SARS virus and produced a vaccine the latter MAY have worked to some extent, but as it was the epidemic was contained investigation stopped, sad). So we've got to wait for a vaccine for quite a bit of time.
The death rate is reportedly between 4 and 50 times higher, but we need to take this with a grain of salt as the amount of unreported cases (many of them asymptomatic) may be huge (thus considerably lowering the death rate, possibly one order of magnitude).
Hopefully after one, two or three infections, immunity can be acquired passively, and although becoming endemic, the virus may turn to only affect children in a very mild way until they acquire immunity to the virus (and hopefully to similar viruses from the same family).
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5 hours ago, Harry said:
A good friend is flying back from Japan on Thursday, and on Saturday my brother in law returns from Germany via Singapore.
To think they could be infected and contagious for a week before they even know they have the virus does make me concerned, particularly given I have young kids, which are surely a high risk category of person to be affected by this.
Not really.
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7 hours ago, Inti Brian said:
Also, any chance this spreads to South America? I'm gonna be in Peru by the end of the weekend and gonna stay there for a month.
If there is any country in South America with links to China though it's Peru
Up to this point the current dengue outbreak looks more worrying in Peru than the coronavirus one.
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2 hours ago, nudge said:
Latest update from China:
11821 confirmed cases (+2101 since yesterday) - 1795 of those in serious or critical condition (+268).
17988 suspected cases (+2750).
259 deaths (+46).
243 recoveries (+72).International data:
156 confirmed cases in 23 countries + Hongkong, Macau and Taiwan. UK, Russia and Spain recorded their first cases today.
In La Gomera! 20,000 inhabitants, no airport
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10 hours ago, Azeem said:
Is it any true that corona is a result of China's bio warfare ? or it's just American propaganda
If we apply Ockham's razor it looks to be bogus. Many people in contact with many different species of living animals (in turn also in contact between them) already makes a strong case for a zoonotic explanation, currents doubts about if it is a snake a bat or whatever notwithstanding.
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22 hours ago, Cicero said:
Xavi maybe. Valverde should’ve been sacked ages ago. After the Liverpool defeat
Crazy idea! How could Xavi leave Qatar for the prospect of working in an authoritarian regime?
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10 minutes ago, Stan said:
@Fairy In Boots where do you copy and paste your posts from
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I saw on FoxesTalk someone mentioned the exact same first 3 lines that they'd seen from another forum. So copied one of the lines in to Google...
https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/off_belay/what_no_jon_ashworth_thread-713440
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1204521836874227712.html
https://millwall-forum.vitalfootball.co.uk/threads/boris-and-the-sick-4-year-old-kid.39713/page-7
Seems a bit odd you'd do it word for word as well
"What are gods for if not to sit in judgment over men? The Many-Faced God does not weigh men's souls, however. He gives his gift to the best of men as he gives it to the worst."
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VAMOOOOOOOOOO..
Vote Labour. Unseat BoJo and Iain Duncan Smith.
For the many!
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Alan Moore is voting for the first time in 40 years. He is voting Labour.
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She is so full of herself, isn't she? She rejoices at all the wrong things. If this is a winning discourse, the outbidding dynamics between Tories and UKIP/BrexitParty has tilted the UK strongly towards a political landscape where only far right nativism can be competitive.
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On 29/09/2019 at 14:30, SirBalon said:
This is Brexit and Brexiters... THIS IS ENGLAND!
Disclamer: Have to omit Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar (Wales is a different kettle of fish, they seem to be SM fanatics)
Sadomaso?
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On 26/09/2019 at 21:34, Dr. Gonzo said:
Even if a party tried to hold another referendum without while staying technically neutral... you'd have the same issue. A divided electorate that's firmly divided on the issue and has grown more divisive. The Brexit side is not going to want to have their vote split with "Leave with No Deal" and "Leave with a Deal," so you'll always have accusations of one side flaunting democracy and the will of the people - and it'll just create further divisiveness on the same fucking issue. And what then if that divisiveness keeps growing? Referendums on the UK's membership in the EU for eternity - as public opinion on the EU sways back and forth?
A second referendum is something that sounds good to me in theory, but I just think in practice it'll be very difficult. If it's not worded the exact same, I think you'll have leave voters up in arms complaining about how it's not fair that their vote is split. Meanwhile, if you've got the wording the exact same as the first time, then it's not really specific enough - there are probably still voters out there that want to leave the EU but they don't want to leave with no deal. Have their opinions changed now that they've seen how Brexit negotiations have gone? Maybe. But I don't fucking know how these people think.
But it's my own personal opinion that the referendum was very reckless in the first place - it asked too broad of a question for the electorate to decide. Especially with disinformation campaigns and flaunted election laws (broken with no real punishment either). And I'm not sure that another referendum can "fix" the reckless decision to have the first referendum. IMO this is Parliament's job to resolve and get the best result for the UK. If Parliament ultimately decides another referendum will decide our EU membership (or lack of it)… I really fucking hope it's come after we've withdrawn Article 50 so we can start the process over again though.
As irritating as starting the process over again might be... a new "original" referendum can probably be done in a way that's less deceptive and misleading to the public. If there has to be another referendum on this. Don't ask me how we'd make a new and better referendum because I have no idea. But to be honest, I doubt anyone around Westminster knows what the fuck to do either. Since Article 50 was submitted, we've needed some sort of creative problem solving from the political leadership in all our parties and... well we don't have it.
Also we should all throw stones at David Cameron if we ever see that twat.
Cancelling A50 and starting negotiations again would be clearly seen as a case of perversion of rules by the EU and EU member states. Surely, the EU would offer the May Deal and refuse to engage into any new negotiation.
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On 20/09/2019 at 10:30, SirBalon said:
(Note: There is no Middle Eastern EU member State, the Middle East isn't part of the continent of Europe
Spain is partially MENA, though.
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"£350m a week will be spent on our NHS"
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"there will be adequate food"
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"corpse piling is going to be run smoothly"
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