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Albert1434 · July 18, 2021

In case your confused

:rofl:

Marty · July 18, 2021

20 minutes ago, Albert1434 said:

In case your confused

You say the sweetest things. :blushing:

Bucket1 · July 18, 2021

16 hours ago, clochette said:

I wish it'd happen one day. Imagine the news show opening and the journalist saying "Good evening, nothing to report today, everything is perfectly fine all around the world. Thanks for watching. Bye"

On 18 April 1930, the BBC's news announcer had nothing to communicate. "There is no news," was the script of the 20:45 news bulletin, before piano music was played for the rest of the 15-minute segment.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39633603

Bucket1 · July 18, 2021

14 hours ago, Headstall said:

Walking in the bush in Australia... what could go wrong? Good luck, B.

The rain

It's stopped now but getting dark so no walk for this weekend. The upside is i didn’t book a tax appointment or send in the paperwork either. I wonder if I pick the right day I could do the boring tax stuff in the morning and then walk in the afternoon.

I will use your good luck wishes for that :hug:

dughlas · July 18, 2021

8 hours ago, Albert1434 said:

In case your confused

Pigs are one of mum's favorite animals ...

dughlas · July 18, 2021

19 minutes ago, Bucket1 said:

The rain

It's stopped now but getting dark so no walk for this weekend. The upside is i didn’t book a tax appointment or send in the paperwork either. I wonder if I pick the right day I could do the boring tax stuff in the morning and then walk in the afternoon.

I will use your good luck wishes for that

Sorry to hear your plans for the day were thwarted.

Marty · July 18, 2021

On 7/17/2021 at 2:41 PM, Albert1434 said:

French variant of Covid may evade vaccines, says SAGE expert😱😲

The World Health Organization announced Greek-letter names for important strains on 31 May 2021, so they could be easily referred to in a simple, easy to say, and non-stigmatising fashion, a decision .. partially taken because of criticism from governments on using country names to refer to variants of the virus, as it could cause discrimination towards locals of those countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variants_of_SARS-CoV-2

I suspect that the term French variant here is actually referring to the Beta variant, if only because there has been a recent spike in cases of the Beta variant on the French island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, nearly 6,000 miles from Paris.

While less infectious than the Delta, Prof John Edmunds of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has told the BBC: “it [the Beta variant] is able to escape the immune response to a better extent. Of the variants that are out there and known about, that one has always been a threat. There is some good evidence from South Africa it can evade the immune response generated by the AstraZeneca vaccine more efficiently.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/covid-cases-are-up-6000-miles-from-paris-france-baffled-by-uk-quarantine-change

The first recorded occurrence of the Beta Variant was in South Africa in May 2020 - and the first recorded occurrence of the much more infectious Delta variant was in India in October 2020.

Edited July 18, 2021 by Marty
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