Government is being seduced by travel industry, but mandatory quarantine must be stepped up, writes Julien Mercilehttps://t.co/tPjVpFfXdz
— Independent.ie (@Independent_ie) May 23, 2021
Saturday’s Irish Independent.
Pillow-lipped progressive turned despotic doorman.
KN writes:
What the hell happened Julian Mercille?
Anyone?
Indian variant a game changer and must not be made welcome (Julian Mercille, Independent.ie)
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To be fair, what is sauce for the goose…many might also question, “what happened to Bodger and Broadsheet?”.
+1
Another humanities graduate offering epidemiological advice – just what the world was crying out for
Time to call in Ivor and get some proper analysis
You know the way the Kent Varient was 70% more transmissible and now the Indian varient is 50% more transmissible again. Are we currently dealing with a version of Blackadder’s ‘a fate worse than a fate worse than death’.
Transmissibility does not equal severity. Many viruses mutate and become more infectious, but also, less severe. There is no indication that any of these (minor) variants are any more serious than previous.
As for India- they are the first country to license Ivermectin against Covid-19, which may explain the sudden drop in fatalities now- time will tell.
1. They have been using Ivermectin in India for over a year.
2. there hasn’t been a sudden drop in fatalities. Deaths have been plateauing around 4,000 for the last 17 days. e.g. 3,741 two days ago (4,454 yesterday)
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2021-01-01..latest&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=total_deaths_per_million&Metric=Confirmed+deaths&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=false&Align+outbreaks=false&country=~IND
What’s this you say about Ivermectin? No mention of the side effect of kidney damage. Say no to Covid, yes to dialysis. No thanks all the same.
Obvious CIA stooge is obvious.
Spooks gotta spook.
> Indian variant is already in the UK, and spreading rapidly
> We have a permanently open land border with the UK, that 60,000 people a day cross
Therefore:
> We must expand mandatory hotel quarantine for arrivals from other countries
The logic is…insane.
sure why start now :)
How many of the 60,000 have come from “the mainland” UK? I’d guess that the vast majority live within 20km of the border.
Belfast has approx 30 flights a day landing from “the mainland” as you call it in its two airports, thats 5,000 to 10,000 people a day arriving. Nevermind the ferries. Any variant of concern present in the UK will spread rapidly from them to the rest of the Northern Irish population, and from there across the border to down here.
Investing hugely in MHQ for other countries to keep out the Indian variant, when we have such a huge volume of traffic to and from the UK via Northern Ireland with no control, is akin to paying a fortune to get triple glazed windows on your house to keep your heat in but leaving the front and back door wide open. Its a complete waste of time and money.
Belfast: 15 flights today; City has 9;
What planes are they landing in Belfast that hold 333 people?
EasyJet fly
A321 – max 235 seats
A320 – max 186 seats
Airlingus flys
ATRs 72 or 98 seats
A320 – max 186 seats
I’ve no idea how full the planes are, but 24 flights has a upper limit of 5,000 people.
But I take your point. We should shut down the border too.
The opening line from Mercile in that piece was astonishing to me and I didn’t read further.
Paywall?
MHQ seeks only to delay the inevitable – any variant that is more transmissible or has vaccine evading powers will inevitably become dominant across most of the world and will get into this country even with the most stringent of quarantines.
Unless we shut ourselves off totally from the outside world (and NI?) we will never be safe from “the variants”.
Of course safe is a relative term, most of the variants pose no real risk to us given we have the majority of vulnerable groups vaccinated already. But dont let that get in the way of your fearmongering.