Not data in the modern sense, but there are certainly death records going back four or five hundred years. For influenza, we know quite a lot. Precise mortality, of course not, though mortality is always linked to the overall health of the populace. For smallpox, there certainly compelling evidence it was a deadly disease for several millennia. Obviously, COVID is too new to know any of this.
Right, we know a great deal about the killers that are still killers, particularly the ones that have been prominent in the past 150 years or so. But we have very little information about some of the ‘plagues’ that swept the world at various intervals - there is now an emerging consensus that the Russian flu of 1889-90 was a coronavirus, where even 5 years ago it was thought to be an influenza. Some of the killers in the past may now be in a benign form happily spreading among humans who don’t notice.
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Certainly could be. Maybe COVID will be the one where we learn something about that, given how fast it is mutating.
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Again, how the fuck was this individual able to leave the UK?
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and where did the individual go?!?
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My guess is Calais…
Well that rules out Pritti Patel then.
First cases of omicron in Canada, 2 in Ottawa, recent travel from Nigeria. We don’t sequence 100% of positives AFAIK, so it is not 2 of ~50 positives in Ottawa, but 2 in whatever that sample size is. Almost certainly more than 2 cases.
Fuck.
Just reading that two Welsh provincial rugby sides Cardiff and the Scarlets are stuck in South Africa. Can’t get back. The Cardiff side has Covid cases which include the Omicron variant.
We are a long way behind on tracking this one
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Read this on another forum…with the snowfall in the UK and here, perfect piss-taking.
I refuse to put on winter tires because:
This is my car, my choice, my freedom.
The effectiveness of winter tires isn’t proven, unless it’s from studies conducted by the manufacturers (you’re surprised).
My neighbor Fernande was in an accident after putting her winter tires on.
Some are already at their 3rd game of tires, this proves their inefficiency.
We don’t know what they are made of
Tire giants scare us with winter just to get rich.
Btw, it was the tire giants who invented snow and spread it at night when you sleep.
If I have tires the government can follow me in the snow.
Educate yourself, open your eyes, stop being a sheep!
This year winter tires I say no!
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Ok, so we already have community transmission in Scotland.
The South African escalation curve is proving that the initial take on Thursday was fundamentally correct - natural R for this version must be up there with measles.
Its time for Omicron to shine! Step back Delta!
Quick work for the GIF library!
100% this is making it onto Fox News in the next week as an explanation for this being a Democrat Plandemic
What may happen after its replicated (whether you live or die) doesnt really factor into evolutionary pressures that dictate how it evolves.
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