Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Reply #2093 –
What is the significance of a state border to a corona virus, is it stopped by Trump's wall, maybe we should build one too?
The UK/SA/Brazil variant hasn't simply "spread", they now know it's appeared as a similar mutation occurring independently in several locations, they know this because the genomes show a different lineage. Get enough people infected and you get a new variant, eventually, somewhere.
A lot of public media commentary seems to imply you can stop this by border closures and diligence, but you can't it's already here, it's already endemic, and the appearance of mutations is inevitable.
We might be the first location for the next big variant, they all have to start somewhere!
I wish there was a simple answer, for the benefit of everybody, but there isn't. While it's a very very remote chance, you could easily be sitting on the train next to a stray fart and you'd be fecked!