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Quote Originally Posted by Ram59 View Post

I’m neither ‘stupid’ nor a liar, Ram.

You took exception to me referencing your comment on compliance and suggested I’d twisted your words.

Your words at 7.00pm on the 31st Jan...on the subject of ‘why our figures are so bad’ were, ‘Ignorance or just plain disobedience of some of the population’ before adding, ‘Our nature is not always to be as compliant as some other nations.’

As regards your questioning of the British virus/variant...call it what you will, you said, at 6.10pm on the 13th January on the ‘A Frightening Thought’ thread...

‘The thing is it’s not the British virus, it’s a strain of virus which probably arrived in Britain from Italy, which originated in China, but because of our superior laboratories, was first discovered in Britain.’

I don’t really want to carry the argument on either, but I don’t like being accused of dishonestly twisting anyone’s words.
I didn’t and I’m quite happy to ‘leave it there’, but I really do hope you’d no longer describe your position as ‘I know that I’m right’...that really would be a little worrying.
Can you not comprehend that virus and variant are two different things. The virus is the thing that we understand to have originated in China. This virus has since mutated into 1,000s of different variants of the original virus.

The original virus appears to have originated in China and then appears to have first surfaced in Europe in Italy and the evidence indicates that is where the early UK patients seemed to have contracted the virus before bringing it into this country. The virus found in Italy may well have been a variant of the original, but we didn't have the sequencing then, to find out.

The UK one, is a variant of the main virus, first identified in the UK, but possibly originating elsewhere.

If you can't understand the difference, then I'm crap at trying to explain it or you're thick, probably the former.

If you don't wish to be accused of twisting somebody's words, why did you miss out the word 'some' when posting a comment on my post? 'Some other nations' has a different context to just 'other nations', well it does in my interpretation.