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    Pmsl another university of Facebook lunatic
     
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    Just had a **** imagining the less fat one teasing my frenulum with her oversized tongue whilst chubby eats my sweaty arsehole
     
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    Any brilliant deaths today Johnny boy?

    Did you do a knee slide when you heard Betty White met her maker?
     
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    Trouble in wokesville

     
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    2022 preview: What will the coronavirus do next?
    HEALTH 29 December 2021
    By Michael Le Page



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    The delta variant, viewed using an electron microscope

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    WE HAVE been watching evolution in action as one coronavirus variant after another emerges and triggers further waves of infections around the world. There is every reason to think this will continue during 2022 – and there is no guarantee that future variants will be any less dangerous.

    For the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, survival is all about infecting as many people as possible. Variants that are better at spreading will outcompete other variants. A key part of this is transmissibility. When the original virus began spreading, every infected person infected two or three others on average. Delta infects six or seven. Omicron seems to be even more contagious.

    It isn’t yet fully understood how the virus is becoming more infectious. But with delta, it might be because it is better at replicating itself, meaning infected people shed more of the virus.


    Infecting people is no longer as easy as it used to be, however. Most people in the world now have some degree of immunity because of past infection or vaccination. So variants such as omicron are evolving to evade this immunity, typically through changes in the outer spike protein, the main target of our antibodies.

    There is a limit to how much more infectious the virus can become, but there may be no limit to its ability to evade our immune response. As happens with human flu viruses, we may see the continual emergence of new variants that evade immunity enough to cause wave after wave of infections.

    “Most people around the world now have some immunity from past infection or vaccination”


    It is possible that, over time, different viral lineages will persist and diverge, rather than successive variants wiping out all others and sweeping to dominance. This could require different vaccines to be combined into a single dose, as is done with the flu vaccine.

    It is often claimed that new viruses will evolve to cause milder symptoms. But because SARS-CoV-2 is most infectious just before symptoms appear, there is little selective pressure for it to do this. Smallpox was highly lethal and might have become worse over time. Flu still exacts a high annual death toll.

    Another concern is that the virus might be circulating in several other animals, generating new variants that could jump back into people.

    While it is possible that future variants may cause more severe illness in people with no immunity, most people in the world do now have some immunity. This is likely to continue to provide some protection against severe illness even if it fails to prevent infections.

    But we can expect this immunity to fade over time. Even if you have already had a booster shot, you could well find yourself standing in line to get yet another jab or two in 2022 to protect you from rho, sigma, upsilon or maybe even omega.
     
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    You should always listen to the experts.


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    That’s a sensible approach for an insane track and trace process .
     
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    70% of NHS covid hospitalisations are jabbed.

    They are taking up beds that normal people should be using.

    I think it's time we had the discussion to withdraw NHS care from people harming themselves with these dangerous medical experiments .
    Their irrational fear and selfishness is overwhelming are NHS.

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    Weird how the EU countries most mired in debt, seem to be the one fanatically jumping in and out of lockdowns and pushing forward with human digitisation.

     
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    Johnson suggests life will return to something 'much, much closer to normality' by end of month
    This is what Boris Johnson said to Steve Baker a few minutes ago when he suggested the life would get back to something “much, much closer to normality” by the end of the month. (See 4.22pm.) Johnson said:

    My plan is that is the one that we have in place. It is it is to get on with plan B ... it expires on 26th of this month. By then we hope to have greatly increased the already extraordinarily high number of people in this country who have not only been vaccinated but who have been boosted ....

    All we need to do now is increase that number of boosted members of the population and then as Omicron blows through - and it is very much my hope and belief that it will - I do believe that we will be able to get back to something much closer to normality.

    That doesn’t mean that there won’t be further challenges. But I think that life will return to something much, much closer to normality. It won’t be necessary to have the restrictions that we currently have in place. Business, investors will have all the confidence that they need.
     
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    If Boris said as above, then it most be true as they’ve been so honest about the whole thing from day 1.
     
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