India covid catastrophe

[zantax]

@JayJay

History repeats itself.

Travel advisory now is fixing the barn door after the horses have escaped.

I believe there’s at least two cases with the double variant already spotted in the US.

Why the lack of a global vaccination strategy has the potential to cause an utter disaster.

As long as this thing is percolating somewhere, the potential exists for a variant or variants that are a) more serious and/or b) resistant to the vaccine.

Same thing is true of the flu, it could also mutate into a more deadly strain at any time.

[JayJay]

@zantax

@JayJay

History repeats itself.

Travel advisory now is fixing the barn door after the horses have escaped.

I believe there’s at least two cases with the double variant already spotted in the US.

Why the lack of a global vaccination strategy has the potential to cause an utter disaster.

As long as this thing is percolating somewhere, the potential exists for a variant or variants that are a) more serious and/or b) resistant to the vaccine.

Same thing is true of the flue, it could also mutate into a more deadly strain at any time.

And we have a long history of vaccines, cross-immunity and therapies with the flu.

And during flu season we tell people to take precautions now don’t we?

[zantax]

@JayJay

@zantax

@JayJay

History repeats itself.

Travel advisory now is fixing the barn door after the horses have escaped.

I believe there’s at least two cases with the double variant already spotted in the US.

Why the lack of a global vaccination strategy has the potential to cause an utter disaster.

As long as this thing is percolating somewhere, the potential exists for a variant or variants that are a) more serious and/or b) resistant to the vaccine.

Same thing is true of the flue, it could also mutate into a more deadly strain at any time.

And we have a long history of vaccines, cross-immunity and therapies with the flu.

And during flu season we tell people to take precautions now don’t we?

What don’t we do? Shut everything down and force mandatory vaccines.

[Samm]

@JayJay

@Samm

@JayJay

I believe there’s at least two cases with the double variant already spotted in the US.

There is no such thing as a double variant, there are only variants.

That’s what they’re calling it as shorthand…it’s a variant that has two mutations that had each been seen as a singleton in two other variants.

There have been scores of variants. Variants of variants is still just a variant.

[Samm]

@zantax

@JayJay

History repeats itself.

Travel advisory now is fixing the barn door after the horses have escaped.

I believe there’s at least two cases with the double variant already spotted in the US.

Why the lack of a global vaccination strategy has the potential to cause an utter disaster.

As long as this thing is percolating somewhere, the potential exists for a variant or variants that are a) more serious and/or b) resistant to the vaccine.

Same thing is true of the flu, it could also mutate into a more deadly strain at any time.

It has done so numerous times.

[zantax]

@Samm

@zantax

@JayJay

History repeats itself.

Travel advisory now is fixing the barn door after the horses have escaped.

I believe there’s at least two cases with the double variant already spotted in the US.

Why the lack of a global vaccination strategy has the potential to cause an utter disaster.

As long as this thing is percolating somewhere, the potential exists for a variant or variants that are a) more serious and/or b) resistant to the vaccine.

Same thing is true of the flu, it could also mutate into a more deadly strain at any time.

It has done so numerous times.

As far as I know the chance of either doing it are exactly the same.

[Samm]

You could be right about that. Not being a virologist, I couldn’t say.

[zantax]

@Samm

You could be right about that. Not being a virologist, I couldn’t say.

On second thought, odds would be tied to the number of infected.

[Konssurvative1]

@altair1013 , what is AZs track record against this current variant running thru India. I heard Thursday only 2 to 3 percent of Indians have been vaccinated. At this point at 300,000 to 400,000 cases a day, aren’t they on their way to natural heard immunity anyway

I agree with your thought…but isn’t it like putting a bandaid on a bullet wound?

[STODR]

@Tom_Ch

Biden just implement a ban on travel to/from India. This is absolutely the right move. No way do we want any of that virus strain over here. Should have been done a week ago.

Biden bans travel from India amid COVID surge | Fox News

Strange I thought this wasn’t who we were. " [N]ow [Trump’s] adding more countries to his list of who’s not welcome in America. It’s not who we are — and we’ll prove that when we beat Trump this November and end the ban."

[WuWei]

@Tom_Ch

They put profits over their citizen.

On what do you base that damnation?

[zantax]

@STODR

@Tom_Ch

Biden just implement a ban on travel to/from India. This is absolutely the right move. No way do we want any of that virus strain over here. Should have been done a week ago.

Biden bans travel from India amid COVID surge | Fox News

Strange I thought this wasn’t who we were. " [N]ow [Trump’s] adding more countries to his list of who’s not welcome in America. It’s not who we are — and we’ll prove that when we beat Trump this November and end the ban."

Well that was banning muslims, good thing there are no muslims in India. Erp wait, that references the China ban.

[STODR]

@zantax

@STODR

@Tom_Ch

Biden just implement a ban on travel to/from India. This is absolutely the right move. No way do we want any of that virus strain over here. Should have been done a week ago.

Biden bans travel from India amid COVID surge | Fox News

Strange I thought this wasn’t who we were. " [N]ow [Trump’s] adding more countries to his list of who’s not welcome in America. It’s not who we are — and we’ll prove that when we beat Trump this November and end the ban."

Well that was banning muslims, good thing there are no muslims in India.

And Europeans

[rickt300]

Me too, If Biden had a brain he would consider all the covid positive people coming across the border a problem.

[7ranz]

Modi killing it again.

[7ranz]

Really cool of our country to piddle paddle with the patents for covid vaccines while this is happening by the way.

[Jezcoe]

@7ranz

Really cool of our country to piddle paddle with the patents for covid vaccines while this is happening by the way.

Yep… they need to release the patents and let anyone who can manufacture the vaccine do so.

[7ranz]

@Jezcoe

@7ranz

Really cool of our country to piddle paddle with the patents for covid vaccines while this is happening by the way.

Yep… they need to release the patents and let anyone who can manufacture the vaccine do so.

Absolutely.

[Scratch]

How could there be a catastrophe? I was assured by a Conservative poster on this very board that no countries worry about/ or are no longer at risk of any outbreaks of Covid.

[Jezcoe]

@Scratch

How could there be a catastrophe? I was assured by a Conservative poster on this very board that no countries worry about/ or are no longer at risk of any outbreaks of Covid.

India shows what the strategy like what Dr Atlas was advocating of letting it rip through the population to achieve herd immunity looks like.