New Variant 'IHU' Identified In France, May Have 46 Mutations

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  1. FatBack

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    Oh goodness so many things to fret and worry over and stay in a perpetual state of anxiety!!!

    Where do I even begin? Is it covid that'll kill me? How about white supremacy? Rising sea levels?

    I just don't know what to do!!!
     
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    It is true.
     
  3. Heartburn

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    That's what I said.
     
  4. independentthinker

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    They don't get it less. That is a government lie. The government is only counting those hospitalized as "getting it". Meanwhile, tons of the vaccinated get and spread the virus. This is why cases are soaring everywhere, because many of the vaccinated are getting it and spreading it.
     
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    You're depending on people to fall for your nonsense.
     
  6. independentthinker

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    You're making some progress. But, it's not just football stadiums. It's a multitude of different things. It is being fueled by people believing that just because they are vaccinated, they can't spread the virus. The lefty misinformation campaign is causing the surge.
     
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    I don't know anyone who think that just because they are vaccinated they can't spread the virus. Everyone I know are vaccinated and we all test ourselves before meeting up before a night out or before we meet vulnerable people such as our parents
     
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    LOL. The virus is surging and it is surging because of the vaccinated feeling invincible. Just the fact that there are many places who only let in the vaccinated is the proof that shows that the vaccinated feel invincible and feel they can go anywhere and do anything. For God sakes man, we've got 80,000 vaccinated people going to football games and we're keeping out the unvaccinated and many of those 80,000 people are spreading the virus. And, we've got hospitals firing the unvaccinated and allowing Covid positive workers to work after five days. The left need to be slapped upside the head on how stupid that is. By the way, vaccinated get the virus so if you are vaccinated, test yourself before going to some event (I'm not so sure I really believe that), you can still get and spread the virus from going to that event you feel you have done such a good job of protecting yourself.
     
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    None of us vaccinated feel invincible hence why we test ourselves at home before socialising or meeting our parents. Which bit don't you understand?
     
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    You have defended yourself well but I really doubt that you speak for all the vaccinated.
     
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    1) Okay, if you think it's your business to directly force people to lose weight and get fit, go ahead. I do NOT agree with that method - at all. \

    2) I don't think it's any of my business. If people want to stay fat and unhealthy, knowing full well that it'll likely get them killed, that decision doesn't involve me in any way. But yes, obviously the only way to enable better choices is to stop shielding people from consequences. The consequences of being fat and unfit are many, yet we immediately leap to the rescue. How about we just don't. Classify them as extremely high risk, so that any health insurance is twice the price it is for others - and public health is limited to treating only conditions not associated with their obesity etc. That will stop people thinking they can risk poor health, faster than anything. AND it's done fairly.

    3) I'm not proposing anything.

    4) I'm not talking about vaccinations - at all.

    5) I'm not.

    6) No more is needed. Mother nature gives all the grief needed, to convince people to make better choices. It's when we interfere with that process, that we perpetuate this personal irresponsibility relating to health.

    7) I'm not proposing anything, again.

    8 ) I'm not talking about vaccinations - at all.

    9) No, I'm saying either you're PRO bodily autonomy (pro choice), or you're not. You can't have it both ways. Besides, a woman who is not raped is not 'forced' to be pregnant - that's an absurdity.
     
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    Sorry, but that's nonsense. We've known for nearly a year, that the vaccines prevent serious illness, not infection.

    Anyone claiming they still don't know that, is lying through their teeth.
     
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    The bit where you are implying that everyone does what you do. Most don't. I don't believe many, if any at all, get tested before they fill up an 80,000 seat football stadium. And, I still don't understand why the unvaccinated get fired from their health care related jobs while it is OK for a Covid positive health care worker to be able to return to work, not even being required to take a Covid test to do so.
     
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    Then why do 80,000 vaccinated people believe they can go to a football stadium, believing they won't be spreading the virus?
     
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    They apply the Democrat riot exemption to football. Much better use of a Kings X.
     
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    I did not say everyone, I said "everyone I know". I'm in a large social group and regularly there will be more than 20 of us meeting up and we are all double vaccinated (some of us 3 times). We all test ourselves before meeting up. It takes just a couple of minutes to do using our free LFT kits. Result available in 15 minutes. I can't speak for those vaccinated people I don't know.
     
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    Who said that they don't believe they won't be spreading it? What is known is that a much higher majority of vaccinated people who get the virus will have mild symptoms unlike the unvaccinated hence those 80,000 are at much less risk of filling up hospital ICUs than if the unvaccinated were allowed to enter those stadiums
     
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    At one point in history, racism meant, When you feel superior over another race". Now it seems to mean, Anything said that I don't like about another person".

    ****-hole country is not racist. I'm English, and I live in the UK. London is a ****-hole city. So by your definition, I'm racist?? Bizarre.

    As for COVID, from the very start, the experts stated that the virus will continue to mutate to a point it's no more than a common cold. Omicron is following that path, remains to be seen what these mutations out of France are like.
     
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    Unvaccinated types are filling up our hospitals. Everyone has to throttle back if we want to avoid overrunning our healthcare system.
     
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    You're making up position for me.
    Are you intending to charge smokers more? Drinkers? How about people with risky jobs or hobbies?
    Just because I think there are exigent circumstances that might cause me to support a military draft or forced vaccination, it doesn't mean I have to support outlawing abortion.
     
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    Don't you have to be in close contact with someone for at least 15-20 minutes to get it? I mean, or at least a big droplet, which the masks protect against. I know 5 people who got it because they were watching a sporting event at a bar. It was loud. They were close to each other for over and hour and a half and drinking, talking loud, likely even spit-talking which is pretty regular at bars when people are drunk and talking loudly.

    To this date I don't know anyone who got it being over someone's home, yet, but Omicron will probably change that. Good thing it's less lethal.
     
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    Someone mentioned to me that Africa isn't doing so poorly, but I haven't seen that in any official news or study to date. What's up with Africa?
     
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    Well you might not, but I know a whole bunch who certainly do, even travelling to distant locations like Mexico during a pandemic. That certainly sceams that these one feel invincible. The ones I know that travelled got Omicron too, btw.
     
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    You can't control what happens in Africa so there's nothing you can do to stop the circulation of the virus. So the best thing to do is just live with it. You might cough a little bit might get a little bit of a fever but you probably had that before.
     

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