Covid - news and views

So far SARS-CoV-2 has shown itself to be much less agile than Flu.  Like SARS-CoV-2 Flu is a corona virus which spreads, mutates, and kills thousands every year despite millions being vaccinated against it and herd immunity has never been reached.  We live with it. 

SARS-CoV-2 will most likely be with the same as Flu; it will remain active and we will have to live with it also.  The current vaccines will for the most part prevent people getting seriously ill, although that is not guaranteed.  They do not guarantee that you will not catch the virus, nor do they guarantee that you will not spread it if you do get infected. noticeably or asymptomatically.

Bearing in mind that the primary objective of the virus is to replicate, the later mutations seem to be residing more heavily in the upper respiratory tract of those infected making it much easier for the virus to be spread by aerosol (coughs and sneezes spread diseases). 

One thing we have yet to see is the SARS-CoV-2 virus becoming less dangerous.  It can't replicate if it kills its hosts so it may yet become more able to easily spread but less of a killer. 

If you take every media comment at face value then maybe there is a clamour but if you leave aside those motivated, understandably,  by seeing their businesses going down the tubes then I dont see it.

As for leaving it to the government and their advisors,I take it this means you are in favour of 'Eat Out To Help Out 2' which has just been mentioned on Radio 2 as a way of getting things moving in April?

I no more disapprove her action than Cummings. I greatly disapprove of much of the press for shallow reportage - including BBC

(I know the name Amanda Holden but that, and the fact that she is involved in that popular dance programme is the limit of my knowledge of her and the recent press reports)

If every day is a learning day then Friday was the day that she learned that its best not to do what she did when the neighbour is a, reportedly, a police officer!

Well, I would never have come across this celebrity story if it hadn't been for CT! 

Other than reading the basics on the BBC website, I've no knowledge of the incident but I do wonder what sort of emergency is best resolved by driving from London to Cornwall and back? 

If they opened their eyes the "neighbours?" should have noticed many more would be seen probably doing just the same, ,but then they probably would not have got paid by media outlets for others

Yes, you're probably correct there. Seems a shame that the neighbours were unable/unwilling to assist the elderly couple in the first place - or that the elderly couple didn't feel able to ask the neighbours for assistance.

Still, just another celebrity (non) story - no such thing as bad publicity,  eh? 

Well worth the £200 or so for the self publicity.  But I'm just an old cynic. 

I'm wondering if I've been conned.  I got the paperwork and second appointment but as far as reactions go - nothing.  It was so quick I did not see it happen, I did not feel it nor have a mark (hole) or any reaction whatsoever and that was 15 days ago.  

Strangely enough the answer is yes John.  One sunshine pill each morning with my Weeties .   

Neither of us have had a reaction after yesterday ! It's a very odd feeling though now having had the first jab - a sort of limbo land until the booster!