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Originally Posted by jfman
My bold.
Pantsdown hasn’t actually said anything of any note here. And even what he did say did not necessarily relate to the spin in the article.
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Actually the prof’s verbosity seemed to me to be a painfully self conscious attempt to avoid being tarred a racist. Nobody wants to stick their head above the parapet and suggest that the Indian variant is doing so well because it has a foothold amongst large extended households that are simultaneously less willing to adhere to the public health advice and more likely to refuse to book their vaccination appointment. It’s less awkward to assume its rapid spread is entirely down to its enhanced transmissibility until data makes that assumption untenable.
Anyway, time will tell.