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Chinese "Devil Virus" - anyone worried?

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Dantes: Applies for meagre £1100 faculty scholarship to complete groundbreaking computational fluid dynamics research
Faculty: How fucking dare you!
Dantes:
 
Faculty: Funds a new post to study the cultural significance of the BLM movement upon fluid dynamics research
Also faculty: Recruits white student to the post
 
Why the fuck are people doing fireworks in a lockdown? And what the fuck are these fireworks. It's like living in fucking Beruit, seriously. Fucking cunts. One after another, day after day. With the gaps filled by the sound of barking dogs. I have fucking work to do, unlike these cunts on furlough gathering illegally to pollute the air and spread their diseases amongst themselves.
 
I'd fucking love it if an ISIS cell uses this stupid idiocy as a cover to show the bastards what a real firework looks like.
 
Maybe if you’d done your work earlier and stayed away from the big D thread you would’ve been finished by now and not be distracted.
 
Looolz Dante cracking up... Slooowly.

Seriously though, I'm with you on the fireworks things.
Last few days my daughter the absolute wimp keep moaning about the noise.
But seriously it's now 11:15 and the fireworks are still going off.. now like whizzz bang ones but it's like a massive BOOOM outta nowhere.
I was just thinking imagine Syria Yemen etc when they have regular raids.. we ain't cut out for this ish
 
There's absolutely no evidence to support any of the allegations made in those tweets and I'm pretty disgusted that twitter hasn't removed them or at least put a fact check warning on it. It is entirely wrong to suggest that Kate Bingham is anything but a hard working politician trying her best to fight this terrible pandemic. Furthermore, she's an excellent representative and role model for young girls, showing them that women can be equal to men. We need more female politicians like her.

I'm disappointed in you Athens. You're better than this.
 
Pfizer have announced that their vaccine is over 90% effective. Good news I suppose, although if it's 90% effective what percentage of the population need to get it so we have this herd immunity that people like to talk about?

@dantes write something useful for once.
 
Athens said:
Pfizer have announced that their vaccine is over 90% effective. Good news I suppose, although if it's 90% effective what percentage of the population need to get it so we have this herd immunity that people like to talk about?

@dantes write something useful for once.
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No idea what they mean by effective. But the vaccine may or may not fail, the important point is that pfizer's stock will not.
 
What would the theory be for the vaccine? Do you give it to the spreaders (does it mean they can't catch and spread?) or do you give it to the vulnerable? Or both?

I would 100% take it if they started letting places open to those who opt in and have taken the vaccine.
 
dantes said:
No idea what they mean by effective. But the vaccine may or may not fail, the important point is that pfizer's stock will not.
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They made a pre announcement about 2-3 months ago so they must have known some positive news was on the horizon. If I were allowed to buy shares without going through mountains of red tape I may have had a dabble at that point.
 
Someone who lives in my block of flats is on viagra. I reckon it's the geezer one the first floor who is married to that fat lazy bitch who takes the lift every time instead of the stairs.
 
Brizzle said:
What would the theory be for the vaccine? Do you give it to the spreaders (does it mean they can't catch and spread?) or do you give it to the vulnerable? Or both?

I would 100% take it if they started letting places open to those who opt in and have taken the vaccine.
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You will still catch it, you'll just have the antibodies to fight it off before you spread it. The old vaccines would harvest bits of the virus, inject its remains into your body, and then let your immune system work out how to kill it. That takes a lot of the dodgy science out of the equation, since you're just introducing one bit of biology into another bit of biology, and letting nature take care of the science.

These new vaccines don't use the actual virus (which by pure chance makes them far cheaper and easier to roll off a production line, nothing to do with profit, just pure chance that that's the way it is). So they instead inject bits of its genetic code into your cells, your cells then start making the bits of the virus which correspond to that bit of code, and again your body figures out how to kill it. This requires more difficult science, an understanding of genetics, and protein synthesis, and trying to predict what will happen from the most basic building blocks possible. If the bit of genetic code they've picked out for this strain is (1) actually critical to fighting it off, and (2) common amongst all strains, then you've solved the problem. Otherwise you've done nothing but figure out a way to make lots of money for about the next year or so. I would bet on the money.

Also lots of people don't like the idea of having genetic code inserted into their cells, and having their body synthesise proteins selected by a virologists.
 
dantes said:
You will still catch it, you'll just have the antibodies to fight it off before you spread it. The old vaccines would harvest bits of the virus, inject its remains into your body, and then let your immune system work out how to kill it. That takes a lot of the dodgy science out of the equation, since you're just introducing one bit of biology into another bit of biology, and letting nature take care of the science.

These new vaccines don't use the actual virus (which by pure chance makes them far cheaper and easier to roll off a production line, nothing to do with profit, just pure chance that that's the way it is). So they instead inject bits of its genetic code into your cells, your cells then start making the bits of the virus which correspond to that bit of code, and again your body figures out how to kill it. This requires more difficult science, an understanding of genetics, and protein synthesis, and trying to predict what will happen from the most basic building blocks possible. If the bit of genetic code they've picked out for this strain is (1) actually critical to fighting it off, and (2) common amongst all strains, then you've solved the problem. Otherwise you've done nothing but figure out a way to make lots of money for about the next year or so. I would bet on the money.

Also lots of people don't like the idea of having genetic code inserted into their cells, and having their body synthesise proteins selected by a virologists.
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I suspect an awful lot of people will weight up the ethics of genetic code versus wanting to see friends, family, go to restaurants, the pub, the office etc. I know I certainly would be!
 
Brizzle said:
I suspect an awful lot of people will weight up the ethics of genetic code versus wanting to see friends, family, go to restaurants, the pub, the office etc. I know I certainly would be!
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Absolutely. But after you like. Best to wait and see the side effects for myself in the population before putting my life on the line.
 
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