The Corona Virus

[The Bedlington Terrier]

There's more chance of me biting my own thumb off without anaesthetic...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...CMP=GTUK_email

[Balanbam00]

BT:

Fake news sites and conspiracy theories are multiplying as fast as the Delta strain is spreading, but those opposed to getting the life-saving jab are only a small number of 1.1 million Israelis still unvaccinated and they must be handled with care, not threats or ostracism.

The number of confirmed believers of fake news about the coronavirus pandemic is rising quickly and threatening to surpass the number of infections from the Delta variant of the virus. The number of confirmed believers of fake news about the coronavirus pandemic is rising quickly and threatening to surpass the number of infections from the Delta variant of the virus.

The human tendency to believe conspiracy theories is a malignancy that has descended into violence and threats against senior medical professionals who have devoted their lives to saving others.
"Kill yourself before you urge one more human being to get a shot," someone wrote on social media about Professor Gili Regev, director of the infectious disease unit at Sheba Medical Center, Israel's largest hospital.
"May you suffer from paralysis until your dying day," another wrote.
Public health chief Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis was branded "a daughter of a whore" at a Zoom meeting of the Knesset Constitution Law and Justice Committee that included some 70 people. The culprit was not identified.
As the number of COVID cases in Israel rises, so do the cries of virus deniers who are waging war on reality.
Approximately 1.1 million Israelis have yet to receive the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, but only a small percentage of them are hard core anti-vaxxers.

Israel has proven the advantages of the vaccines and must convince COVID deniers, anti-vaxxers and anyone else still refusing to accept the obvious facts that the vaccines prevent deaths and protect against serious illness from coronavirus.
Despite the spread of the Delta variant that put a premature end to the illusion that the pandemic was defeated, data collected in the UK shows 10 times fewer deaths now compared to earlier waves of the pandemic when the vaccines were not available.
The government's efforts should not be to shame, ban or frighten those still holding out. It should try to bring them into the fold and show them the error of their ways.

[Supersub6]

There's more chance of me biting my own thumb off without anaesthetic...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...CMP=GTUK_email

BT trying to convince us that he falls into the 'young' category. No matter what your mindset, BT, your Birth Certificate will tell the truth, unlike quite a number from some other countries ---which shall remain nameless ---don't wish to upset anyone!

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Your efforts of persuasion are all well and good Balan, but blood clots and me do not make good bedfellows.

[sinkov]

"Fake news sites and conspiracy theories are multiplying as fast as the Delta strain is spreading,"

Would this be one of the conspiracy theories, on one of the FAKE NEWS sites, being referred to above Balan ?


"Covid cases could hit 200,000 a day in the UK this year and cause “major disruption” to the NHS, according to the scientist whose initial modelling helped shape Britain’s coronavirus lockdown strategy. Prof Neil Ferguson said it was “almost inevitable” that Monday’s final phase of unlocking would bring on 100,000 daily cases, with about 1,000 hospitalisations – despite roughly half the UK being fully vaccinated. He added that he could foresee a situation in which the case rate expands to twice the size."

“The real question is do we get to double that – or even higher,” he told BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday,. “And that’s where the crystal ball starts to fail. I mean, we could get to 2,000 hospitalisations a day, 200,000 cases a day – but it’s much less certain.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rategy-england

Cases currently around 25,000 a day, hospitalisations around 700 a day. But this sort of FAKE NEWS is far more dangerous than that on obscure, little read websites, our government bases it's policies, affecting our lives and health, on this sort tripe from FAKE NEWS merchants employed by the Government on SAGE. The BBC and all the MSM gave prominence to this FAKE NEWS as well, it really is a problem isn't it.

[Balanbam00]

Israeli research shows US drug can stop progress of COVID-19
Orally available antiviral drug candidate Molnupiravir has the potential to prevent hospitalization if it is given to mild or moderate patients.

https://www.jpost.com/health-science...tes-yes-676558

Some 50% of the patients needed have been recruited to complete a Phase III trial of an American-developed drug that “might be a game changer” in the battle against COVID-19, says Hadassah University Medical Center’s Prof. Yosef Caraco. His team recently completed its part of a successful Phase II trial of the orally available antiviral drug candidate Molnupiravir, developed by Merck Pharmaceuticals ( MSD), a drug meant to slow the progression of coronavirus from mild to severe disease. The professor presented the data from the study at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in July. The study was conducted at 80 medical centres around the world in which about 300 coronavirus patients in mild or moderate condition took part. Some received Molnupiravir and others a placebo.
“The general conclusion from this stage is that, first of all, the drug is safe,”
“We can cautiously say that the drug has the potential to prevent hospitalization if it is given to mildly or moderately ill patients, especially if given early in the course of the disease.”
“Up until now, we have been very busy trying to research drugs to treat the most severe patients in the hospital,” Caraco said. “This is quite obvious because we are speaking about people at risk of death.”
“The idea is that if we can treat them, we can prevent the progression to severe disease, this is a total change in the way we are trying to tackle the disease. This is a paradigm change.”

''When there is a plague, the most important and efficient way to struggle against it is to prevent it. That is why we are giving so much attention to the vaccines.''

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I am neither anti-vaccine nor pro-vaccine Balan, I just want the freedom to choose whether or not I want my mRNA manipulated and whether or not this $hit is going in my arm.

Many of us do not want to get vaccinated, do not do so out of some twisted ideology, but because we have serious misgivings about this vaccine model, which is really no more than a global experimental mass vaccination.

Being a guinea pig does not and will never work for me.

[army88]

Your reading too much internet garbage again BT , imagine sacrificing your football for a pin prick
In your arm.
I’ve said this to you before and I’ll re iterate it again now , if you went back two years and went to your doctor and he said to you your really ill and you need to take this to save your life - you wouldn’t have thought twice about it you’d have just done it.

The maniacs are dangerous with platforms like the internet to get there five minutes of fame

[wanderlust]

BT:

Fake news sites and conspiracy theories are multiplying as fast as the Delta strain is spreading

Fake news and conspiracy theories are a fact of life these days so don't be surprised. How do you think Brexit happened? It wasn't as if 70 million Turks actually did move in next door was it? Or that there's even a snowball's chance in hell of Turkey ever joining the EU. And even though life is so much more unstable, risky and expensive in the UK than it was in 2016 - and getting worse by the day - nobody will admit it and will try to dig out every excuse under the sun for price rises, food shortages, rising inflation, skills shortages, reduced public services, increased debt, tax rises and curtailment of freedoms rather than accept they were conned.

That's the real power of conspiracy theories and fake news - the gullible will defend their belief in it with their dying breath.

[wanderlust]

Being a guinea pig does not and will never work for me.

With over 4.79 billion vaccinations having already been given I don't really think you could be considered as a "guinea pig" amigo.

Unless your theory is that it has a delayed effect which will be triggered by an evil alien mastermind when the time is right for global domination?