Off Topic Covid And WHO

I like long walls but ancient ones.

what’s a hairdresser?

 

I’ve always wondered why they are called hair dressers? 1.) they cut not dress and 2.) there’s no additional clothing involved?

 

I think it's because in the 17th/18th century hair tended to be dressed with ribbons, flowers, lace, feathers jewellery etc as well as cut - guess the name just stuck

 

Should we compensate half the world for our special variant?

 

Don’t think it was special to us. We just announced it when we found it. Unlike other countries.

 

That wouldn't particularly hurt the Chinese though. They would hit us with retaliatory tariffs which would affect British jobs. The increase in price would affect British consumers. The government makes many many times more income from VAT on British goods than it would from tariffs on Chinese goods.

The net result of all the above would be less British jobs, higher prices for British consumers and a drop in income for the British government. So the people paying for the pandemic would end up being those hit hardest by it - workers, consumers and the NHS.

 

so basically the Chinese have us by the short and curlies, which ever way you want

 

They are a bigger market than us and a bigger economy than us with far more clout. So in this instance, yes.

Tariff wars tend to hurt both sides, but they usually hurt the smaller economy most.

 

It has to have mutated somewhere. Unlikely it would happen in multiple places at once. However there are now numerous variations of the virus - don’t think UK can be penalised as it happened to produce a more transmissible one.

It would be great if we could trace it back to the actual individual though and then charge him for the cost of this current lockdown.

 

My point is that in the whole World just because we reported it first isn’t evidence that it mutated here first.

Anyway I blame Pardew.

 

I promise I'll never have bat chow mein again if you keep quiet.

 

No, it’s a hybrid of the original, and it first came from South Africa.

 

and we were on top of our game and first to find it. Makes you wonder how many countries had it before us but didn’t have the skills to find it. Or maybe did and covered it up...

 

Seems like things have been relaxed somewhat and 10 virologists/scientists have been allowed entry now. Whether they ever leave or are seen again like is a completely different matter I suppose but we can only live in hope (we're pretty good at that by all accounts).

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19...in-investigating-origins-of-pandemic-12187327