Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the New Covid Strains – According to a Top Virologist
A new COVID-19 variant, BA2.86 or ‘Pirola’, has been detected in a few countries. Despite over 30 unique genetic changes, experts aren’t overly concerned, as there’s no evidence of increased severity or spread. The Telegraph has more.
A new, multiply-mutated form of Covid has popped up, spawning some alarming, clickbait headlines. But I’m not overly concerned, and I’ll certainly be off to wish my 102 year-old grandmother “happy birthday” shortly. Here’s why:
Dubbed BA2.86, the new Omicron spin-off comes hot on the heels of the EG5.1 ‘Eris’ variant – named after the Greek goddess of strife – which first elbowed itself onto the Covid scene in July. Eris is accounting for about 15% of the Covid-19 cases we’re seeing at the moment. Some have suggested that, combined with summer travel, bad weather keeping people indoors and waning population immunity, Eris might be behind the recent uptick in cases.
BA2.86, on the other hand, has been detected in only a few countries so far, including Israel, the U.S. and Denmark. Last week, the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) confirmed one case in this country. This new variant doesn’t earn itself a Greek letter for a name, but instead scientists have nicknamed it ‘Pirola’, a moniker allegedly adopted from social media after an asteroid that loiters between Mars and Jupiter.
Reassuringly, the recorded cases of the new variant have not been more clinically extreme than other circulating forms of the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling BA2.86 a VUM – variant under monitoring – because there’s no evidence that it’s linked to any increase in disease severity or enhanced spread. It’s this that would earn Pirola the title of a VOC – variant of concern – at this stage.
Like Eris, Pirola should also be detectable with a lateral flow test. The guidance for what to do if you think you have it remains the same as for other forms of COVID-19: stay home, manage the symptoms – which include cough, running nose, headache and a temperature – with simple remedies like paracetamol.
Whether Pirola will end up in our orbit and be linked to an outbreak, or is destined to remain consigned to the wilderness in virological space, is impossible to say at this stage with only six cases so far to go on.
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Same as before then, gotcha.
Thanks top virologist, but I really don’t worry about them any more!
A giant flame grilled couldn’t give a fu£k burger! …to be precise!
Exactly Dinger. If you come from a time before alcohol gel was a thing I think you’re sorted for life!
https://twitter.com/il0venostalgia/status/1694097582224490694
‘top virologist’ – equivalent to ‘top entrails reader’
another non-science
I wasn’t worried about the original bio-weapon and I won’t worry about scariant BS 24_7 either.
I wasn’t worried then, nothing has changed.
I wasn’t worried about the “old COVID strains”.
The problem is that so many people have f-Ed up their immune systems, it would not be surprising to see a bad flu and or cold season coming. Ironically, the mass administration of the LNP spike generating bioweapons may create the very crisis that didn’t really happen last time.
it’s not impossible to imagine what would have been nothing much to see turning into a genuinely scary cull (for the heavily jabbed that is).
The sheep aren’t my problem.
They are when they all turn and run towards you…
Oh no! Zombie apocalypse!!
The gene pool needs a clear out.
I think that our great immunologists/virologists should go back to basics.
Can anyone please explain how a “random” chain of GATACA can “mutate” and cause harm. Nobel Prizes await.
The kicker is that there are approx. 40 million in every cubic metre of air.
So, why are an infinitesimally few apparently dangerous?
And yes, I am familiar with the works of Janeway, Medzhitov, Rosenberg, Matzinger etc. But I’ve never been inculcated with the miracle of modern medicine. I escaped med school thus enabling me to think with a clear mind.
It’s all predicated on kill the antigen – then the patient will be fine.
It simply doesn’t work. Well, only for bigpharma the saviours of mankind.
Most modern pharmeceuticals, especially mRNA and traditional jabs are nothing more than Voodoo medicine –
We inject our kids with mRNA, aluminium hydroxide, Alauminium salts, formaldehyde, squaleyne, peanut oil etc. and wonder why we get sick.
Jesus Christ.
And we have the gall to laugh at Witch Doctors.
I swore never to read another article on this rubbish again and so have not read this piece, but know as soon as you see ‘Convid’ mentioned in anything, be it for or against the nosense, you are being lured into a process of legitimisation.
The whole charade that has played out over the last 3 years has been what will probably be marked as one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, crimes against humanity in history.
Pay absolutely ZERO attention to anything that has ‘Convid’ mentioned unless it has to do with trials and, dare I dream, capital punishment.
😆 Same here. Didn’t read it because I have zero worries. Preaching to the choir here really. We all know the score plus it all gets incredibly samey leaving duplicate comments ad nauseum. If you don’t know by now that it’s bugger all to do with a virus then you’re a lost cause.🤷♀️
I’d say face nappies 24/7, recordings of Matt Hancock pretending to cry on permanent loop and needles in the arm three times a day.. a much more fitting punishment.
Short rope, long drop.
Long rope, long drop. Enough time to scream
Long drop, no rope!
No drop at all but feet off the ground. Or possibly crucifiction, as slow as possible. No Roman Soldiers to help either.
Crucifixion’s a doddle!
Your television set, and the media in general with the likes of the mainstream giants like the BBC and others at the helm, really are just tools of social engineering, manipulative messaging and generating mass compliance, masquerading as entertainment.
I have had a monumental shift of worldview over the past three years, during which it has dawned on me the astounding level of mass-hypnosis people have undergone just by staring at their tele-screens every day!
I still stand firm with my opinion that the majority of people’s experience of the “pandemic” was primarily that of an overbearing state, scare stories on the other side of a screen, and people around us hysterically bleating in unison about it… NOT primarily the experience of a virus! Of course, people died of the virus, and my heartfelt sympathy goes out to them. But for 99% of us the worst we got was a bad cold for which we had to suffer lockdown and coerced vaccination!
“Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the New Covid Strains.”
I wasn’t worried about the original version of the C1984.
CGAF!
Theres people still testing themselves 😂😂..
How fecking idiotic can they be.. There really is no hope 🤦♂️
Conversation overheard this Sunday with some work colleagues:
Does anybody want some Covid tests? I’ve got a couple of boxes. They expire in October.
“I’ll have a couple. Always handy to have some in.”
“Can I have half a dozen please?”
I’ll have some”
“Me too.”
I let out an audible FFS.
Frikkin’ Sheep!
You should have enthusiastically claimed the lot then binned them like the useless rubbish they are.
I’m a Conspiracy Theorist doncha know and I have standards to keep. I cannot be associated with pseudo science.
“Pirola should also be detectable with a lateral flow test.” Why?
Word on the street in USA ! Covid restrictions ( the full Monty ) starting late September lockdowns the lot , to run right through the Elections 🤔
…I’m not worried at all, but the multi-vaccinated should be..as they now have very little in the way of a natural or robust working immune system…
Geert Vanden Bossche on Del Bigtree’s The Highwire….
https://thehighwire.com/watch/
No politician has ever died of Covid
No member the the World Economic Forum has ever died of Covid
Too little and over three and a half years too late, but it makes a refreshing change to see a non scaremongering story in the MSM.
Wasn’t worried by the original bug.
The simple fact is that it isn’t “covid” evolving which is the problem.
The problem is that the jabbed have had their immune systems trashed, they are the ones that are catching it and spreading it.
Do not fall into the trap of believing that there’s something special/highly virulant about covid 19 per se.
There isn’t, well only for the jabbed.
Geert Vanden Bossche.
The recommendation to take paracetamol (acetaminophen) is disappointing, given that it has long been known to make things worse:
Endless alarmism about new variants – not the subject of any conversation I’ve been a part of or overheard since last Christmas! It’s about as newsworthy as celebrity gossip. A bit like how every day is a weather warning on BBC weather.
As per the shepherd in the parable, what will happen when the “wolf” really does come?
Indeed. Probably just another flash in the pan. The virus has already played its best cards long ago, and has basically since devolved into the new common cold. Cold and flu viruses mutate like crazy all the time, after all.
(Yawn)
And of course, whatever you do, DO NOT COMPLY!
The sane and intelligent thinkers among us didn’t worry about the first, mild, Cold-causing coronavirus so its descendants hold no terrors for us.