Cable news had story last night about a man in Ukraine who evacuated his wife and children to Hungary, and when he returned home to Ukraine, called his Father in Russia to let him know what is happening to his grandchildren. The father/grandfather denied that anything was wrong in Ukraine and quoted Putin’s propaganda. There was his son, telling him the harrowing story of evacuating his daughter-in-law and young grandchildren to remove them from Putin’s bombs, and the father is denying that Putin is in the wrong. The son hung up on him. The son then did research and started an online program “The 11,000” (I’m not sure exactly the name, but there are close to 11,000 families with connections in Russia) trying to get Ukrainians to contact their family (parents, aunts, uncles, et al) in Russia and TELL THEM THE TRUTH about what Putin is doing to Ukraine, and if they don’t believe on the first call, call again and again. The son did call back, and the father began to realize Putin is lying to Russia.
Here’s what we know about the Omicron sub-variant BA.2
New South Wales Health Minister Brad Hazzard said cases could “more than double” in six weeks due to new Omicron sub-variant BA.2, as the state recorded 16,288 cases on Thursday, its highest number since January.
Across the globe, countries have experienced a surge in cases credited to BA.2, including Denmark, the UK, Norway and Sweden, according to Danish research institute Statens Serum Institut
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says studies have shown the BA.2 variant appears to be more transmissible than BA.1.
UNSW School of Population associate professor James Wood said the new sub-variant was about 25 per cent easier to catch than the original strain.
NSW Deputy Chief Health Officer Marianne Gale said for a new strain to become dominant it had to be more transmissible or be able to evade vaccines and the immune response.
Despite being potentially easier to catch, the WHO says infection data from South Africa, the UK and Denmark suggest there is no difference between the severity of Omicron’s BA.1 and BA.2.
Dr Wood said there was “no real evidence” that it was more serious.
“Denmark hasn’t experienced a surge in deaths … I’d say it’s similar,” he said.
“We can expect a rise in hospitalisations and intensive care … [but] we have progress in booster coverage — that’s the sort of thing that will help keep severe disease down.”
Dr Gale said the severity of BA.2 compared to its predecessor was still unknown.
Concretionist about 2 years ago
I wish those folks were correct. I’m hanging onto my masks and test kits though.
saobadao about 2 years ago
Ode to Slim Pickens, Dr. Strangelove
GOGOPOWERANGERS about 2 years ago
Yippee kai-boom
FreyjaRN Premium Member about 2 years ago
Putain is evil.
GiantShetlandPony about 2 years ago
Someone needs to give Putin Covid.
The Nodding Head about 2 years ago
Back to The First Noble Truth.
Godfreydaniel about 2 years ago
How all occasions do conspire against us! (To misquote Hamlet—or possibly Benny Hill. Never COULD tell those two apart…..)
paranormal about 2 years ago
It’s ‘Yea’ not ‘Yay’ and it’s ‘yeah’ meaning yes…
JenSolo02 about 2 years ago
Cable news had story last night about a man in Ukraine who evacuated his wife and children to Hungary, and when he returned home to Ukraine, called his Father in Russia to let him know what is happening to his grandchildren. The father/grandfather denied that anything was wrong in Ukraine and quoted Putin’s propaganda. There was his son, telling him the harrowing story of evacuating his daughter-in-law and young grandchildren to remove them from Putin’s bombs, and the father is denying that Putin is in the wrong. The son hung up on him. The son then did research and started an online program “The 11,000” (I’m not sure exactly the name, but there are close to 11,000 families with connections in Russia) trying to get Ukrainians to contact their family (parents, aunts, uncles, et al) in Russia and TELL THEM THE TRUTH about what Putin is doing to Ukraine, and if they don’t believe on the first call, call again and again. The son did call back, and the father began to realize Putin is lying to Russia.
moondog42 Premium Member about 2 years ago
Out of the virus pan, into the (line of) fire
Rich Douglas about 2 years ago
I’m hoping Russia has the same safeguards in place that prevented The Former Guy from doing it.
schaefer jim about 2 years ago
Damn funny flick, a tip of the cowboy hat to Slim.
Chris Sherlock about 2 years ago
From @FreyjaRN: “Putain is evil.”
No argument from me.
Scoutmaster77 about 2 years ago
Missed it by that much…
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 2 years ago
I trust that all the posters waxing nostalgic about Dr. Strangelove remember how it ends, right?
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Here’s what we know about the Omicron sub-variant BA.2
New South Wales Health Minister Brad Hazzard said cases could “more than double” in six weeks due to new Omicron sub-variant BA.2, as the state recorded 16,288 cases on Thursday, its highest number since January.
Across the globe, countries have experienced a surge in cases credited to BA.2, including Denmark, the UK, Norway and Sweden, according to Danish research institute Statens Serum Institut
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says studies have shown the BA.2 variant appears to be more transmissible than BA.1.
UNSW School of Population associate professor James Wood said the new sub-variant was about 25 per cent easier to catch than the original strain.
NSW Deputy Chief Health Officer Marianne Gale said for a new strain to become dominant it had to be more transmissible or be able to evade vaccines and the immune response.
Despite being potentially easier to catch, the WHO says infection data from South Africa, the UK and Denmark suggest there is no difference between the severity of Omicron’s BA.1 and BA.2.
Dr Wood said there was “no real evidence” that it was more serious.
“Denmark hasn’t experienced a surge in deaths … I’d say it’s similar,” he said.
“We can expect a rise in hospitalisations and intensive care … [but] we have progress in booster coverage — that’s the sort of thing that will help keep severe disease down.”
Dr Gale said the severity of BA.2 compared to its predecessor was still unknown.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-10/what-we-know-about-covid-omicron-sub-variant-ba2/100899980