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Re: COVID19

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2022 9:00 pm
by Mellsblue
Blimey. This is quite the thread. I was hoping it was an unreliable account but it’s followers look suitably qualified.


Re: COVID19

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2022 9:39 pm
by morepork
Jaysus. You really want to nail your colours to a mast backed by cheesy pop music? Who is qualified in this anecdotal wank-fest?

Re: COVID19

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:19 am
by Mellsblue
As stated, I had a look through the poster’s followers and there’s plenty of people with the correct qualifications, or at least what they purport to be. It was also retweeted by someone who advised the UK govt. during the pandemic. Finally, it’s China, a totalitarian state, who run concentration camps, re-educate ethnic minorities and are widely reported to use very stringent lockdowns enforced by the military. It’s not that much of a stretch to believe what those videos show what is actually happening.

Re: COVID19

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:53 pm
by morepork
It's still a social media post. With cheesy production values. May be accurate, may not be, and we will never know on the strength of that alone.

What are the qualifications, BTW?

Re: COVID19

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2022 3:10 pm
by Sandydragon
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/05/chin ... index.html

Travel bans in China are making the news.

Looking at that video I don't think you need to have a PHD in biology to recognise that armed personnel in those outfits aren't there for shits and giggles. If thats recent then it would suggest that China is still taking its lockdown policy seriously for zero covid.

Re: COVID19

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2022 3:25 pm
by Mellsblue
morepork wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:53 pm It's still a social media post. With cheesy production values. May be accurate, may not be, and we will never know on the strength of that alone.

What are the qualifications, BTW?
Feel free to look into the quals, the info is on the site.

Re: COVID19

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2022 3:28 pm
by morepork
I wonder how effective the vaccines China used/uses have actually been? I know some countries that have been using them (Thailand, Malaysia, etc) have had mixed efficacy results in the face of new COVID variants. I'd say they are dealing rolling outbreaks.

I deal with a couple of China-based biotechs from time to time and apart from some quarantine requirements, travel in and out has been and is going on. That is not to say that the unwashed public isn't getting shafted harder. Point is taken regarding ethnic minorities.

No way I'm getting lost on Twatter passive-aggressive boy.

Re: COVID19

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2022 6:59 am
by Which Tyler

Re: COVID19

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2022 7:53 pm
by Mellsblue
Plunging post lockdown attendance rates in free school meal pupils:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpoli ... 4604e007a8

Re: COVID19

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 9:50 am
by Mellsblue

Re: COVID19

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 4:21 pm
by morepork
I'm starting to think these updates from you are not really about the biology of COVID.....

Re: COVID19

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 4:55 pm
by Mellsblue
They most definitely aren’t.

Re: COVID19

Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 5:40 pm
by morepork
Fair enough.

Re: COVID19

Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2022 11:28 am
by Galfon
They must have seen this coming, given how thngs have moved on elsewhere.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-63771109

Re: COVID19

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2022 4:35 pm
by Mellsblue

Re: COVID19

Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 11:06 am
by Which Tyler
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... to-isolate
Travellers from China who test positive in UK for Covid will not need to isolate

Transport secretary says infection data collected at airport ‘for surveillance purposes’


People arriving in the UK from China will not be required to self-isolate if they test positive for Covid-19, the transport secretary has said.

Covid cases in China continue to surge after Beijing’s abrupt decision to end most of its severe pandemic restrictions.
Just what our health service needs right now!

Re: COVID19

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2023 8:59 am
by Which Tyler

Re: COVID19

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:25 pm
by morepork
Oh look. Controlled clinical trials lead to a drug that is effective against a known pathogen. What a surprise. That's not what my social media angry search algorithm told me to expect. Let's make a podcast and flog colloidal silver.

Re: COVID19

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:38 pm
by Puja
morepork wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:25 pm Oh look. Controlled clinical trials lead to a drug that is effective against a known pathogen. What a surprise. That's not what my social media angry search algorithm told me to expect. Let's make a podcast and flog colloidal silver.
On a related tangent, have you come across the conspiracy theory about "15 minute cities" yet? I heard about it today and it's absolutely wild - people are raving and spewing hate about a sociological idea that a city should be laid out so that every house has certain amenities within a 15 minute walk or cycle, to reduce driving and create a more people-centric city, because they've managed to convince themselves that this is the first part of a plan where we're all going to be locked inside our 15 minute zones because the government's looking to corral and separate us for... some reason.

Just utterly bizarre.

Puja

Re: COVID19

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2023 7:13 pm
by morepork
Climate is the next front on the Crazy War. Any government supported, or mandated, strategies to mitigate more frequent severe weather events and droughts and fires and shit will be violently opposed as some affront to personal freedom. It's a self-perpetuating clusterfuck of epic proportions and we are pretty much going to get rogered hard by it.

Re: COVID19

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2023 7:32 pm
by Sandydragon
Puja wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:38 pm
morepork wrote: Thu Feb 16, 2023 6:25 pm Oh look. Controlled clinical trials lead to a drug that is effective against a known pathogen. What a surprise. That's not what my social media angry search algorithm told me to expect. Let's make a podcast and flog colloidal silver.
On a related tangent, have you come across the conspiracy theory about "15 minute cities" yet? I heard about it today and it's absolutely wild - people are raving and spewing hate about a sociological idea that a city should be laid out so that every house has certain amenities within a 15 minute walk or cycle, to reduce driving and create a more people-centric city, because they've managed to convince themselves that this is the first part of a plan where we're all going to be locked inside our 15 minute zones because the government's looking to corral and separate us for... some reason.

Just utterly bizarre.

Puja
Bit like King Charles’ eco towns. Sadly to retrofit into a city would be very expensive and to us not likely to happen but no reason why we shouldn’t be doing this for new towns and other developments.

Re: COVID19

Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 7:55 pm
by Which Tyler


No wonder Sunak wants maths taught at school for longer, if he was party to these discussions.
Not to mention that he's trying to fight his actual science advisors with a misquote from the financial times.
ETA: and well done Dom Cummings for putting on his idiot-explaining pants, to actually explain things in (hopefully) Boris-friendly bites.

Re: COVID19

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 4:52 pm
by Which Tyler

Re: COVID19

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 7:12 pm
by morepork
Science. It's real bitches.

Re: COVID19

Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 7:55 pm
by cashead
Which Tyler wrote: Sun Apr 23, 2023 4:52 pm
Boris Johnson lied? That's the exact opposite of unheard of!