India Reports First Case of Highly Transmissible XE Variant (bloomberg.com) 64
Mumbai's city administration reported India's first case of the highly-transmissible coronavirus variant, XE, on Wednesday. From a report: The hybrid of two omicron strains BA.1 and BA.2 was detected in a 50-year-old woman who had traveled to the city from South Africa in February, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said in a statement. The asymptomatic patient had no cormorbidities and had been quarantined after being diagnosed almost a month later in March, the BMC said. The hybrid strain, which was first detected in the U.K., could be the most transmissible variant yet, according to the World Health Organization.
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That would likely be the story if it was still 2021. Nothing sells advertising like death and despair.
But nah. I think we're kinda done with that whole thing.
New thing is Ukraine/Russia atrocities. Try to keep up, dude.
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Maybe it's a good variant?? (Score:5, Informative)
You never know... [youtube.com]
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Given that typical coronaviruses are not particularly "bad" for most people, I'd think the mutation trend over time should head gradually that way. Not sure I'd say "good", though; it's not likely to mutate into the giving plague.
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Given that typical coronaviruses are not particularly "bad" for most people, I'd think the mutation trend over time should head gradually that way. Not sure I'd say "good", though; it's not likely to mutate into the giving plague.
It isn't gradually heading that way, it arrived in December of 2021. Omicron is the variant you're looking for.
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The big unknown is Long COVID. There are millions of people with it world-wide. For many of them it means they can't work, which is obviously pretty bad for them but also means that the economy of that country has a large number of people who are no longer productive and are now dependent on welfare.
It's a horrible, horrible condition. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. We won't know for another year how common it is with the newer variants like Omicron, but all these countries that have decided to just li
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break out the divining rods
What do you want with those? You lookin to drill a well?
https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Do... [wikihow.com]
Re: zomg covid (Score:1)
It's a very versatile instrument. It can ferret out witches and stealth covid cases too.
Here's how it works. You line up everyone who you think might have it (or be a witch) in a straight line. Then you pick up with rod with your non-dominant hand, close your eyes, and hop backwards on one foot along the line of people.
Whomever the rod whacks has covid. If he yelps in pain, he's a witch too.
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Whomever the rod whacks has covid. If he yelps in pain, he's a witch too.
That's actually a pretty inaccurate test, there are serious problems with false positives. To check definitively, you'll need a duck and some scales.
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It's a suppository...
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Agile methodology (Score:5, Funny)
Oh God, evolution seems to have bought into the whole Agile methodology fad. I'm not worried. Sure, it will have some cool-sounding features that make it appear to solve certain use cases such as rapid infection but then it will fail to produce the result of what a virus is supposed to actually do, which is to bump us off.
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A virus does not want to bump us off. It just wants to reproduce. Viruses that bump you off go extinct or evolve into variants that dont bump you off.
I doubt that viruses would have the consciousness to want stuff. Now, figuratively speaking, viruses don't really care if we do get bumped off, so long as they're able to reproduce and presumably transfer to a new host, before the host dies.
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I don't think they even care if that happens.
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Putinist/Trumpist Communist
This has to be a joke, right?
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Truth! Pravda!
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But also Lugenpresse and Fox News.
Hilariously the US "Failed Up" with COVID (Score:3)
And by "hilariously" I mean in the morbid fascination sense. Like something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel. And not a good one either. The kind that gets poor reviews for being too far fetched.
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President XE demands you be locked down (Score:1)
Yes we all know XE is not meaningfully different from X or E. We know that India is completely over covid.
We were just hoping you would cut us some slack and be scared shitless one last time so that we can make money off of your (f|t)ears. We professional trolls need to eat and support our families too. Have a heart, be afraid.
~The Media
All vulnerable people are already dead (Score:3)
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"asymptomatic" (Score:2)
Unless it's asymptomatic like the facehugger in Alien was, Lance Henriksen felt nothing more than an urge to consume calories like he was eating for two, and then ..., this isn't concerning unless there's a real risk that it could combine with a variant that can make us ill.
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That was John Hurt in the first Alien. Henriksen was in the second movie playing an android.
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Arrgh, you're right of course. I even remember Hurt's cameo in Spaceballs.
Why is China having so much problem now (Score:1)
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A large part of the Chinese population spent a large part of their lives in horrible air pollution, including lots of large particulate stuff. I would tend to believe it makes them more susceptible to getting it *and* having worse outcomes.
The Child (Score:2)