Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge

Re:Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge by twoslide on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:34PM (#25637485)

One of the things that irritates me most is that Boris portrays the variant as a kind random piece of bad luck. Don't know much about genetics, but I guess such a variant becomes more likely when there are many infections (more of the virus to mutate), and the strategy has consistently been to run things "hot" and tolerate high case counts.

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Re:Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge by JohnCohorn on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:43PM (#25637606)

If other countries(like the US!) are running it hot it could just as easily develop there and still have spread to the UK.

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Re:Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge by twoslide on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:44PM (#25637630)

Good point, we’re a small share of global cases. I’ll temper my wrath a bit.

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Re:Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge by Veen on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:43PM (#25637615)

> Boris portrays the variant as a kind random piece of bad luck

That's pretty much the definition of a mutation.

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Re:Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge by twoslide on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:25PM (#25639130)

Yes, but you have a lot more chances to have the bad luck if the virus is spread widely

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Re:Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge by f6v on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:50PM (#25637725)

> Boris portrays the variant as a kind random piece of bad luck

It’d be hilarious if UK blamed China for engineering the virus in the lab at the same time. Or they do?

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