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

R&D was up in 2020 over the previous year, but don't let facts get in the way of a good rant.

Maybe we could take a tiny amount of virus and insert it into people somehow? Not enough to make them sick but just enough to get them to produce antibodies against it.

Why is no one working on that?

High BMI is used as shorthand for being overweight and obese, but it is rarely used alone as a measure. There tend to be other issues that medical people will look at. Heavily, or moderately trained bodies very easily come into that category as muscle is heavier than fat and suggested healthy weight dips to almost anorexia at the bottom end. It was created in the 19th century, by a mathematician, when people were a lot shorter and had far less muscle mass on average.

I don’t know. It’s just what she told me. It could well be bollocks and she just wanted more time off work 😂

They’re all just warming up for the call to Joe Duffy today.

”and ye got the covid Mary?, go on, go on, go on”

”no Joe, worse again, I got the Omicron, Joe! and I wasn’t anywhere Joe, I swear, didn’t leave the house, but my sister in London has the Omicron and ye never guess Joe, when she got it the first thing she did was ring me, devastated so she was, in tears on the phone but this thing is so transmissible she spread it to me over the phone, honestly Joe!”

“But I thought Mary they just inform ye you have Covid by text and not what strain you have?”

”Im a breakthrough Joe, that’s why they told me, first ever transmission of the disease through a mobile phone, Joe, there might be something to this whole 5g thing Joe, I’m special they reckons”

”sweet Jesus Mary I better get ye off the phone, this could be a super spreader event here this phone call and the nation listening, we will end up with bodies in the street and the army in, actually better phone the UN”

“Nah you’re grand Joe, I’m clever, I’m wearing a mask talking to ye, I better go Joe, have to update me Facebook profile and going to ring the guards about those two neighbours kids in the garden next door talking to one another and laughing with no mask, great lads they think they are, learned to walk last week and think they can go around spreading the virus like that, we’re all in this together joe, hold firm”

Well not quite, we don't make the vaccine infectious, at least as far as I know, you can't 'pass on' the vaccine to someone else because you were just vaccinated and are in close contact with them. At least, I don't think covid or flu vaccines can work that way...

But it couldn't be done deliberately, for all sorts of practical and ethical reasons...

Vaccines aren't contagious, no.

For this plan to work you'd need to physically put the vaccine into nearly everyone in the country....oh, wait ✋

Well, we do the spreading manually, for, you know, safety reasons :)

not an expert by any stretch but id be getting antigen tests at the very least if i were you, probably even book a pcr to be sure

hope they come back negative for u

I'd call your GP to be honest. The HSE guidelines are that you shouldn't get PCR tested again unless you're symptomatic, but if she's only recently recovered, there's a very high chance that she'll test positive one way or another. The GP might have the cop on to just see her without insisting on a PCR test. What you don't want to happen is that she tests positive for covid, and the GP refuses to see her for ten days, meanwhile the actual cause of her cough gets worse.

Quick rule of thumb we've been using in our house is that if the cough sounds productive, it's probably not covid. It's not foolproof, but it's worked so far. Someone here has been sick every week since late October, and everyone has been tested multiple times. So there are many, many illnesses going around, especially in primary school kids.

It's been suggested a number of times, but the reality is that it's science fiction. We're not that far ahead in our understanding of DNA that we can edit part of a live virus and have 99.9% certainty that we know what will happen next.

One big problem that you cannot direct the evolution of something that's out of the box, and you cannot prevent evolution unless you prevent replication (which is basically a vaccine). A virus which has been engineered to spread, therefore is capable of replication, and therefore will evolve. You might release the virus today and end the pandemic, but 5, 10, 50, 5000 years later it's descendant emerges with the same level of infectiousness and a 30% fatality rate.

No.. Stopping going to the shop is stopping going to the shop. Some people got tesco delivery even before the pandemic.

Keeping one's distance from other people has both pros and cons.

Sorry to hear about your friend. Presumably you wouldn't try to suggest to her that people who don't go to the shop are as badly off as she is, even if that melodrama just rolls off the tongue here on boards.