Apparently Ivermectin was known to DARPA as an effective treatment for covid long before the outbreak.

>>39751

OH MY GOD I CAN'T EVEN.

Seriously, what part of it do you disagree with? If you've got a substantive point of disagreement, then air it and you might persuade someone. If you're simply reacting based on the tribal notion that Good People are worried about COVID and Bad People aren't worried about COVID, then you're part of the problem. Our response to COVID in 2020 was based on the facts in 2020; our response in 2022 should be based on the facts in 2022.

>>39752

That's obviously impossible, because ivermectin is not an effective treatment for COVID. If you want to dabble in conspiracy theories, I'd point you to the ADEPT programme, through which DARPA has been funding development of mRNA and rapid antigen test technologies for more than a decade. Obviously this is evidence that the US government agency responsible for funding cutting edge scientific research has been funding cutting edge scientific research, but you can do with it what you wish.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2797483

>>39752
SARS and MERS existed long before covid but are very fundamentally similar.
A lot of vaccines and antivirals had the groundwork laid down following those outbreaks and were conveniently a headstart on developing covid treatments. However many covid conspiracies misrepresent this as supposed evidence that governments, companies, and universities and their students were working on treatments for covid before it existed.

>>39754
This. There's a reason the virus behind COVID-19 is called SARS-CoV-2.

Everyone is cured at last!

>>40089

Well, it's been fun.

Until next time then.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/all-countries-dangerously-unprepared-future-pandemics-says-ifrc-2023-01-30/

Are they any closer to discovering the source of the Covid-19 outbreak or is this impossible because the Chinks covered it up?

>>41193
I wish I could hogtie you, puncture your lung and watch your lips turn purple, you worthless fucking cocksucker.

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>41194

>>41194

Barristerlad, this is what I was on about the other night. Could this lad be arrested and sent to jail for this post?

>>41196

Is a threat believable if both parties know that neither knows who the other is?

>>41194
I'll take that as a no then.

Why aren't the Chinks being held accountable for Covid-19?

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>41198

The evidence that it's a lab leak is purely circumstantial and there's basically no evidence that they did anything reckless or malicious. There's an argument that the Chinese covered things up in the early days of the pandemic, but a) that probably wouldn't have made much of a difference given how slowly the rest of the world reacted and b) it's not illegal. It's not clear that there's anything that they should be held to account for, and even if that were the case there's not really any mechanism for holding them accountable.

It doesn't really matter whether it was a mutation in the wild or a lab leak, because the lessons are the same either way. Whether or not it was a lab leak, we need better regulation of biosecure labs; whether or not it came from a bat or a pangolin, we need better research into diseases with a high risk of zoonotic transmission and better regulation of trade in wild animals. Having someone to blame might make us feel better, but it doesn't do anything to help us prepare for the next pandemic. This pandemic originated in China, but the next pandemic could just as easily start in Nigeria or Vietnam or any number of other places.

>>41199

It really does matter whether it's a lab leak, because it was announced unequivocally not to have been with a rushed article in Nature, and those who thought otherwise were dismissed as conspiracy theorists by Fauci himself.

>>41198

Because frankly the only reason to point fingers at the Chinks in the first place is so Western (mainly the Yanks, but ours are perfectly happy to go along with it) establishments can misdirect public anger from their own piss poor preparation and response, and just another aspect of the soft-cold war pantomime.

China's own response was robust to the point of being excessive, we all saw the videos of them welding shut doors and so on. Those things were also played up for propaganda over here, but it still shows the difference between China's priorities and the West's. China knows it is facing a demographic crisis and can't afford to lose swathes of its populace, so it took the pandemic very seriously- In the West, life is cheap, so our governments did as little as they could get away with.

Not that it necessarily worked, mind you- I have a feeling this is a big factor in the Tories current unpopularity. People might not be able to articulate it, but I think the pandemic really took the wool off some people's eyes that the government simply isn't there to look after us in the way it used to be. I think particularly for the older generation, it finally got the message through that the post-war social-democratic civil contract has been completely slashed and burned.

>Covid is "well on the way" to becoming seasonal, Prof Hunter says, with flu likely to cause more deaths from now on. And eventually, Covid will become "just another cause of the common cold", like the other coronaviruses that circulate.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66994137

So now that Covid is apparently just another seasonal cold, does that mean we'll get more colds or do you reckon it'll be about the same?

>>41198
>Chinks

You're spending too long hanging around with septics.

>>41202
What did your friends and family when you were growing up refer to a Chinese takeaway as?

>>41203
A Chinese, Nigel.

Beyond an ethnic slur you're also equating the actions of the Chinese Communist Party with the people. Something it does itself so that nobody imagines life without the party and any criticism of its actions becomes a criticism of the Chinese people.

>>41204
Well, lah-di-dah. I didn't realise I was speaking with Lord Poshington, who's never used the word Chinky in his life.

>>41202
>>41204

I feel like "chink" has got to be one of the least offensive racial slurs. And it shouldn't be hard to tell that anyone using it in this kind of context is doing it in a deliberately provocative way, which sort of means it doesn't count, because you're taking the bait if you bite like this.

>>41206
Sorry, Baddiel, we've done the laddish, ironic, racism bollocks before and it was shit then. It should stay dead in the 90s, like thinking psychologists are magic and the threat of a Cold War gone hot.

>>41207
You leave Derren Brown out of this.

>>41207

I can't tell what level of irony you are operating to come out with something this topsy turvy, but it terrifies me that it might be none at all.

Anyway stop being an anti semite, you anti semite. You do realise that's worse than rape, misgendering someone, or voting LibDem combined, right? I bet you're on rudgwicksteamshow.co.uk right now sympathising with Hamas daft militant wogs just because they're 10 year olds or pregnant women.

https://news.sky.com/story/deadly-cat-virus-that-swept-cyprus-found-in-uk-everything-you-need-to-know-13008892

>Deadly cat virus that swept Cyprus found in UK: Everything you need to know

>Thousands of cats in Cyprus have died from feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), which is caused by a cat coronavirus. Now the strain of the virus has been found in the UK - with an expert warning it's "pretty terrifying".


ITZ!!

>>41265
No idea what the potential for crossing species is here, but this may be the opportunity for people to get COVID-24 before it's cool.

>>41266
>COVID-24
Surely it’ll have a proper name by then. “Coronavirus” didn’t work because they’re all coronaviruses, plus I think that was the virus and Covid-19 was the disease it turned into, like HIV and AIDS. But “CoViD-19”, as I presume the correct capitalisation must be, is short for “coronavirus disease 2019”, which again isn’t really a proper name, just a description. It’s not like gingivitis or yellow fever. And neither of those caused half the global panic of Xi Jinping’s unnamed mind-control coof.

If I can, I’d like to propose Dung Lung because it’s shitty, it affects your lungs, and that name does sound a bit Chinese.

>>41267
>Surely it’ll have a proper name by then.

Catrona virus.

>>41268

CATVID-23.


Which vaguely sounds like overpriced cat food.

WHO declares mpox global health emergency

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg35w27gzno

ITZ

>>41656

>mpox

>The highly contagious disease - formerly known as monkeypox

Some woke nonsense going on there?

>>41657

https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2022-who-recommends-new-name-for-monkeypox-disease

>>41658

I would never call a Black person in or from Africa a monkey. Or any other racist slur like that. I understand that not everybody feels as egalitarian about race or ethnicity as I do, but censoring the word "monkey" from a pox strain that can (among other host species) be found in monkeys is a bit much.

In the end, we're all monkeys apes anyway.

>>41659
Shut up.

>>41656

Warning over antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea cases

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceq5j784n7go

MANKY BITZ

>>41661
>So far all cases found were in heterosexual people. Most were in their 20s and got the infection abroad.

Can't we just work out what's keeping the people who permanently live on shagaluf alive? That or we quarantine the island and make people spread out a little with where they go for holiday bonks.

>>41661

>>41662

>Can't we just work out what's keeping the people who permanently live on shagaluf alive?

It's not the locals or expats doing much of the careless shagging. It's Johnny Big Bollox from Chelmsford on his annual £400 package holiday with his mates spending the whole time off their tits.

>>41664

The Club 18-30 reps and the nightclub touts must be absolutely riddled.

>>41665

You're probably not wrong. They must be knee deep in clunge every night.

>>41669

>>41670

The age restriction on that video dignifies it more than it deserves.

>Sweden's public health agency has recorded what it says is the first case of a more dangerous variant of mpox outside the African continent. The person became infected during a stay in an area of Africa where there is currently a major outbreak of mpox Clade 1, the agency said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gqr5lrpwxo

Well that didn't take long. Do you reckon I need to panic buy loo-roll now?

>>41665
Could be worse. I went to uni with a lass who did it as a summer break when she turned 18.

I met her as a mature student because she'd come back home pregnant and with no idea who the father was because there a game the various groups of lads would play to shag her as she was borderline a midget. She eventually married a guy she was friends with in school

>>41672

One of my cousins grew up in Majorca because my uncle has been an expat there for many years. My cousin got a lass from Leeds pregnant who was there on holiday, on a night out in Magaluf. The details were apparently that they ended up fucking literally on the beach there that night.

Given mpox is spread by intimate human contact, I'm not sure why the three of us have would need to worry.

Need more hours incase furlough comes back.

>>41674
Hey, just last week otherlad gooshed inside a woman. He could already be dying even!

Congo’s health minister said Thursday the government is on alert over a mystery flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of people.

Authorities have so far confirmed 71 deaths, including 27 people who died in hospitals and 44 in the community in the southern Kwango province, health minister Roger Kamba said.

Calling it now lads, we'll be on lockdown by June.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/congo-government-says-it-s-on-alert-over-mystery-flu-like-disease-that-killed-dozens-1.7134550

Um Bongo.

>>41963
>a mystery flu-like disease
Hey, that's what I've got right now! I haven't been to either of the Congos either, so clearly it's out and about in the wild here already. I, erm, hope I don't die.

>>41963
>>41964
I was just wondering when beefy posting was going to come back as I stirred in some bovril. There's a homosexual at work who has been going off sick with a flu a lot lately and it's been coming into my mind.

>>41963

>Calling it now lads, we'll be on lockdown by June.


Won't be much of a change of routine for us three shut ins.

Just like last time.

>>41963
Contaminated batch of Um-Bongo?