Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36091688)

Partly, but it has been modified to tackle the variant.

As for the first part of your post, this is your imagination working overtime. Things can be fast tracked, and the South African variant was known about last year and hasn’t arrived on these shores in any great numbers yet.

You are looking for problems where there aren’t any. Solutions are now at hand.

Sorry, mate, but you are going to have to go back to normal. I’m not sure what you are worried about, whether it’s furlough being terminated, going back to the office or what, but whatever is motivating your desperate wish to keep restrictions in place, you will just have to get used to it. It is all at an end now (and hopefully, overseas travel will soon be back to near normal as well).

Originally Posted by jfman (Post 36091694)

As you’ve been told a million times, there’s no going back to 2019.

Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36091695)

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36091697)

The focus switched to the Alpha variant earlier in the summer and I believe some updated vaccines are about to arrive which target that. I suspect the focus has now further switched to delta but the planned alpha batches will have to come through first.

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36091699)

Beta is the variant formerly known as South Africa IIRC?

In any case it’s good news that they’ve managed to make progress with a Delta vaccine. I suspect by this time next year we will all be getting a single-dose boost of a Delta variant jab, if not from Pfizer then from one of the other manufacturers, as I suspect they’re all making similar moves.

Of course there is still a shed-load of original flavour vaccine sloshing around, and that’s what we’ve all been jabbed with this year. I expect the various advisory boards will continue to recommend this is used up rather than discarded, given the level of protection it affords.

Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees (Post 36091704)

Here you go.... taken from the bbc


Delta or B.1.617.2, the dominant variant in the UK
Alpha (B.1.1.7) first identified in the UK but which spread to more than 50 countries
Beta (B.1.351) first identified in South Africa but which has been detected in at least 20 other countries, including the UK
Gamma (P.1), first identified in Brazil but which has spread to more than 10 other countries, including the UK

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The above are variants of concern, however the WHO have announced another variant of interest entitled 'Mu'

One wonders if it's justified & ancient or does it perhaps drive an ice cream van.......

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36091706)

Or indeed if it knows what time is love

Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36091707)

That's the burning, million Pound question. ;)

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 36091706)

Or indeed if it knows what time is love

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36091713)

3am, surely?

Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36091738)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/h...-b1912567.html

We've got complacent. Schools and Unis back soon, the Govt wanting everyone to commute on packed trains into packed offices and autumn/winter on the way.

What could possibly happen? Answers on a postcard....

Originally Posted by Sephiroth (Post 36091744)