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Will the "Corona Virus" turn into a worldwide epidemic or fizzle out?

  • Yes

    Votes: 37 49.3%

  • No

    Votes: 9 12.0%

  • Bigger than SARS, but not worldwide epidemic (Black Death/bubonic plague)

    Votes: 25 33.3%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 4 5.3%
  • Total voters
    75
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It might be jumping the gun to say this variant originated in South Africa. Interesting post from Twitter:

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This may be preaching to the converted but I thought Dr Z message regarding Plandemic was worth highlighting.

Plandemic was/is the war cry of the COVID conspirators

 
Interesting, true or not?
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Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche explains how mass vaccination w/ leaky vaccines drives the acceleration of escape mutants:

“What mass vaccination has done, it has, within a short timeframe, generated an excellent breeding ground for these more infectious variants so that now their propagation has exploded as a result of the mass vaccination.”​
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Those on ASF who are familiar with the Greek Alphabet will have ,I am sure, not failed to notice that the next sequential letter in the alphabet ,Xi, was bypassed and Omicron used for the latest mutation.
I suppose it would have been too much to have a variant named after the head dictator in the country from where it emanated.
Mick
 
mullokintyre said:
I suppose it would have been too much to have a variant named after the head dictator in the country from where it emanated.
Mick
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The world is governed by: dictatorships/oligarchies, mob-rule democracies that pilfer other lands, and incompetent sideliners ruled by little girls wearing flower hats.

There is no good or bad. There is only the rule of the fist. Whoever has the biggest military and most effective propaganda machine determines who is bad and who is good.
 
Belli said:
Software is used to designate the lineage of the virus not humans deliberately picking a name.
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Not sure where you got that info, but I read the following from MSN News
A WHO source confirmed the letters Nu and Xi had been deliberately avoided. Nu had been skipped to avoid confusion with the word “new” and Xi had been ducked to “avoid stigmatising the region”, they said.

Since May, new variants of Sars-COV-2 have been given sequential names from the Greek alphabet under a naming convention devised by an expert committee at the WHO.

The system was chosen to prevent variants becoming known by the names of the places where they were first detected, which can be stigmatising and discriminatory.

Initially, most commentators assumed the B.1.1.529 variant, which was first found in Botswana, would be given the name Nu - the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet - but plays on the word “new” immediately spread across the internet.

Then on Friday evening, after a meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE), the WHO announced that two letters would in fact be skipped and the new variant named Omicron.

The reasoning for avoiding the numeral Xi, which is also the name of the Chinese premier, was not officially spelt out by the WHO in its press statement on the virus but was explained to The Telegraph on inquiry on Friday evening.
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Mick
 
Belli said:
Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance.

It can be better to cease a diet of tinfoil and ingest something more nutritious.
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And perhaps you might actually quote the source of this information rather than just sticking out a name.
I provided the URL for the source I quoted .
I went looking for the organisation you mentioned, but could not find any reference, not that this means one does not exist.
And here is one from the WHO talking about the collaboratation of naming of variants, but there is no mention of Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance.
I will reinforce my tinfoil hat with some ivermectin horse tablets and move well away from the 5G tower as well.
Mick
 
mullokintyre said:
And perhaps you might actually quote the source of this information rather than just sticking out a name.
I provided the URL for the source I quoted .
I went looking for the organisation you mentioned, but could not find any reference, not that this means one does not exist.
And here is one from the WHO talking about the collaboratation of naming of variants, but there is no mention of Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance.
I will reinforce my tinfoil hat with some ivermectin horse tablets and move well away from the 5G tower as well.
Mick
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If you checked the reasons for nomenclature you would have learned that representatives from GISAID, Nextstrain, Pango and additional experts in virological, microbial nomenclature and communication suggested easy-to-pronounce and non-stigmatising terms.
The Greek letter "x" is pronounced to sound like "kai", while "xi" sounds like "see" (as in taxi) in Greek. In China and now often elsewhere as a result of Xi Jinping's prevalence in news, "xi" is pronounced "shee". These allophones - "see" and "she" - clearly have different meanings to a covid strain variant - based on the term "xi" - so it was not difficult to exclude it.
 
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To be honest I consider any angst over naming convention is nothing but a distraction from the main objective in regard to the virus.
 
Belli said:
By using web search "Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance" it took longer to type this post. As to why you were unable to find it I won't hazard to guess.

Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance – Data-driven Decision Making

www.pathogensurveillance.net www.pathogensurveillance.net
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Heres your original comment.
Software is used to designate the lineage of the virus not humans deliberately picking a name.
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I supplied two references to where the WHO does the naming.
When I questioned that you provided the name of an organisation.
I was looking for the evidence that supported it, you put up the name of an organisation.
I did a google searching looking for where you might haver found evidence that the organisation you quoted used software to designate the lineage of the virus. You did not provide it, went on a tangent.
Still waiting.
Mick
 
Interesting to note pfizer apparently said: "vaccine in 100 days".

Do we know enough to jab again. Seems like fear mongering at this stage
 
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