He’s a political hack, who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I’m glad you were able to see through that after reading one line out of context.
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Yes, you were suggesting that we should wait and see. There were others who weren’t though who then got offended.
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Well the conclusions just follow a posteriori
You will probably have also seen some science around the mutation being around the protein spike. This being the rationale.
The science on this is also very shaky and hotly debated in science community.
This paper published late November showed that there is not evidence of increased transmissibility from any variant.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19818-2
It was simply the founder effect (basically chance) or marginal benefits.
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One slight problem. They knew about it in September.
See the post immediately above yours.
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see above as a possible answer to that. mutations appear to be a common happening. The author of the tweet is a science journalist at the Times. He says that although they were aware of it, the consequences of what it does were not known until just recently.
Last 100 or so posts are nothing short of intellectual dishonesty, barring a few even minded posters. I hope we all realise the issue, or charge, that the UK is hiding behind figures will never be proven; the debate and interpretation will go on and on. What it does show are the underlying prejudices.
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I dont 100% buy that because they were immediately concerned that cases were rising quickly due to the new variant.
Apparently we had to wait 2 months for it to be recognised as a problem despite knowing it was a potential problem in late September.
That doesn’t add up to me. It just sounds like closing the gate after the horse has bolted.
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Or allegiances 
I’m basing my thoughts on previous performance. A team fighting relegation doesn’t become league champion material overnight not even with Klopp in charge.
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By the way, completely meaningless post this, but my players, after many years of bad experiences, always tends to prioritice upgrading willpower/morale. Except in Call of Cthulhu. In Call of Chutlhu you do tend to live longer if you run the hell away, (as long as you are not unfortunate enough to lay prone in front of something awful in a catatonic state of course :). In other games, failing the dreaded “fear test” is often a death sentence.
The “Pandemic Game” is very much like Call of Chtulhu…
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This is a case where the UK government exaggerating or simply being overly cautious would actually be good news, for the UK and the rest of the world.
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Sorry I understand the premise, I dont get the conclusion, which is?
A different perspective would be that the government has eroded trust to such an extent, that we can not longer take what they say at face value. That’s an indictment of the government not an intellectual dishonesty.
Sure there is underlying prejudices. But its classic boy who cried wolf. Over the last year the behavior of this government has been worse than any in living memory. They have been the architects of The Trump style of politics where there is a purposeful obfuscation of the truth, flat out lies, mental gymnastics (real intellectual dishonesty) and corruption.
For me its not intellectual dishonesty to not take this government at their word. Because their word holds little value.
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Thats a further degree removed conclusion; it is intellectually dishonest to post the conclusions that have been posted on the data available. The rest is perspective, and I am surprised at you, to even think you believed simply *any government word holds value. All of them. This remains a huge charge though and the data is not there to found the conclusions. There is an indictment on the government, but no evidence.
That is the conclusion. Let’s all hope they’re wrong.
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