Originally Posted by OLD BOY

I did miss that point, but to be fair it wasn't clear what point you were making.

We all knew that there would be variants, and indeed I said a while back that I was concerned about mutations. What hadn't been appreciated was that there was already a variant in circulation that was more transmissable.

While transmission causes mutations in some cases, I still maintain that the longer this drags on, the more problems we will face with this virus. Better to get it out of the way sooner rather than later, but clearly that's not going to happen. So, we will need to maximise the speed of the vaccination programme instead.

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The increased transmissibility was was what took everyone by surprise, not the existence of the Kent variant. That is well documented.

Originally Posted by Hugh

Point.
missed.
completely...

You were/are advocating the spread of the virus throughout the population, then you were surprised that a more transmissable variant arose.


The more the virus spreads, the more likelyhood of variants arising, and the more likelyhood of one or more of those variants being more transmissible.

Science...