Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

I was grand after my first 2 shots, other than the achy arm. But I was wrecked after the 3rd shot with tiredness for about 24 hours.

Yeah that's good news too tbh given that the person was vaccinated.

Yup exactly, this thing could be going undetected for a while, we just don't know. If it's already spread far and wide then it may not be as bad as has been made out in the last 24hrs. It's a wait and see game on that front

Which is why I detest the hysterics whipped up by national media, lots of headlines, lots of quotes from 'experts' . At the end of the day nobody has a bloody clue which way it goes, it's all guesswork, but you'd swear it's all concreate information and that the sky is falling in etc

So that be 4 in 6ish months for people :)

Great attempt at sarcasm. Who says ignore it ? Report on it, but be accurate, it's ok to say 'we don't know' . Not these headlines of super variant, 500% more transmissible, more vaccine resistant , that's just causing panic amongst some people when none of that is actually known at this stage

Doomsday variant found in Belgium.

Travel restrictions to be announced later and will be immediate. Does that mean home quarantine for all travellers into the country along with vaccinated and pcr tests for everyone regardless of where you traveled from i wonder?

That groundhog day feeling is probably one of the more unwanted symptoms of this whole shebang; pre Xmas 2020 a Kent offshoot, then Delta flew by and now a S/African mutation to add to the mix.... seems like this is gonna run for a bit yet.... years probably.... stop/start... jab/jab.... booster.... masks et al. We'll probably be informed shortly that our current fourth wave has its basis in this SA variant. Any wonder why large swathes of Europe are clocking up record case numbers @ present? Sure the Pharma's can reformulate the jab mix but as OP's have pointed out it would be months before it enters our blood system via a needle. We need to have a <global> approach if we are to supress this beast IMO as these type of variants will keep popping up in the most underdeveloped & unvaccinated countries. Tis like all those horror films sooner or later a "variant of concern" might arrive and outrun us all. Isnt this what the scientists were worried about all along? For a virus to survive it keeps replicating and mutating. 19+ months into this hellhole and mutations are still happening? The SA version has 10 receptor mutations compared to Deltas 2 (cf. bbc news). But science will have the final verdict on how dangerous this SA version might be to us all (vaccinated or unvaccinated) one its examined by the lab boffins over the next few days. Suppose @ least the EU is slightly quicker of the mark re. stopping flights etc. but that Belgian case detected earlier may mean its had the opportunity to spread across Europe already. Hopefully not. And fingers, toes, knees crossed our present vaccines provide some level of protection. Oh for a time machine to take us all back to Christmas 2019 b.c. please!!!!

Still too early to say if the variant is good news or bad news, but pre emotive action in regards to flight restrictions is a good idea for now.