Covid- 19 - Second wave

[walrus]

I’m hearing “UK variant” quite often here in the US is quite bad. I find saying “UK variant or “SA variant racist”

[X]

I’m hearing “UK variant” quite often here in the US is quite bad. I find saying “UK variant or “SA variant racist”

Well, I’m not surprised. It was the US who labelled the 1918 pandemic as ‘Spanish flu’, even though it probably originated in the US.

The Spanish had a much freer media at the time, so it was the first country to actually report the outbreak.

The ‘UK’ or ‘British’ or ‘Kent’ variant was simply gene sequenced and identified in the UK first. I doubt even COVID could have spread so far and wide during international lockdown unless it was already present in lots of places already?

It’s odd, you guys are usually keen to take the credit for stuff, like capturing the German Enigma machine or showing the Samurai how to fight wars .........

[El Kabong]

I’m hearing “UK variant” quite often here in the US is quite bad. I find saying “UK variant or “SA variant racist”

Well, I’m not surprised. It was the US who labelled the 1918 pandemic as ‘Spanish flu’, even though it probably originated in the US.

The Spanish had a much freer media at the time, so it was the first country to actually report the outbreak.

The ‘UK’ or ‘British’ or ‘Kent’ variant was simply gene sequenced and identified in the UK first. I doubt even COVID could have spread so far and wide during international lockdown unless it was already present in lots of places already?

It’s odd, you guys are usually keen to take the credit for stuff, like capturing the German Enigma machine or showing the Samurai how to fight wars .........

Spain's media was free due to their being neutral/uninvolved in WW1

[X]

​Yes, Lyle, I think that’s right - even though Franco was a bit of a proto-fascist himself

[El Kabong]

​Yes, Lyle, I think that’s right - even though Franco was a bit of a proto-fascist himself

It was 21 years til Franco took power, Alfonso XIII was King in 1918 and the Prime Ministers were: Antonio Maura, Manuel Garcia Prieto, Alvaro de Figueroa.

Alfonso caught that flu which many believe also lead to the naming of that H1N1 strain.

[walrus]

Damn got a little pissed today. My state is still pretty much locked down, I can’t see clients except on “emergency” conditions. Restaurants closing, small shops out of business crazy restrictions on so many things and today I just found out our states transmission rate is 1.6%. I probably should have been looking it up but tbh I just kind of take in my surroundings and figured we are at 10%. I have poor sob’s in a group home can’t take a walk down the street. Think how that feels for someone with mental health issues. Now granted our state is pretty high on the list of vax per capata but our governor needs to let go of these emergency powers. He was on TV and actually said “there isn’t much reason to put more restrictions on restaurants people are scared to go out to eat anyway.” Good job king you scared the shit out of everyone. But they filled the coffers on capital gains taxes and housing price increasing as we border NY and everyone in NY is scared shitless looking to move to the suburbs. Fuck me man I feel like we been scammed. And I have respect for viruses. Ever since I took several trainings on Hep C it got me interested in viruses and they are nothing to sneeze at, especially that frickin flu I had last year that shit was no joke. So yeah I’m like in the medical field but I’m no doctor or nurse or anything but I have to take this shit seriously but damn 1.6% transmission rate and I gotta work like death is around every corner, camon man I got people walking the ledge here.

[Master]

Damn got a little pissed today. My state is still pretty much locked down, I can’t see clients except on “emergency” conditions. Restaurants closing, small shops out of business crazy restrictions on so many things and today I just found out our states transmission rate is 1.6%. I probably should have been looking it up but tbh I just kind of take in my surroundings and figured we are at 10%. I have poor sob’s in a group home can’t take a walk down the street. Think how that feels for someone with mental health issues. Now granted our state is pretty high on the list of vax per capata but our governor needs to let go of these emergency powers. He was on TV and actually said “there isn’t much reason to put more restrictions on restaurants people are scared to go out to eat anyway.” Good job king you scared the shit out of everyone. But they filled the coffers on capital gains taxes and housing price increasing as we border NY and everyone in NY is scared shitless looking to move to the suburbs. Fuck me man I feel like we been scammed. And I have respect for viruses. Ever since I took several trainings on Hep C it got me interested in viruses and they are nothing to sneeze at, especially that frickin flu I had last year that shit was no joke. So yeah I’m like in the medical field but I’m no doctor or nurse or anything but I have to take this shit seriously but damn 1.6% transmission rate and I gotta work like death is around every corner, camon man I got people walking the ledge here.

People are allowed 20 minutes outdoor exercise/walk/fresh air here.