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  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,486
    Nigelb said:

    For @Morris_Dancer , an illustration of what is meant by weather, as opposed to climate.
    https://twitter.com/ScottDuncanWX/status/1378617128643932160

    It's utter hyperbole though.
    Temps this week will be in the normal range for early April, mostly.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,598
    Nigelb said:
    More interesting is flu and pneumonia didn't drop in the US. It has crashed in many other countries.
  • PulpstarPulpstar Posts: 78,202

    Nigelb said:
    More interesting is flu and pneumonia didn't drop in the US. It has crashed in many other countries.
    Very difficult to transmit the flu if people are distancing appropriately for Covid.
  • BournvilleBournville Posts: 309
    [preface: I'm instinctively against vaccine ID cards, I think they're worryingly authoritarian and pose a massive risk for personal liberties]

    I suspect the reason why the Government is pushing for these ID cards is that they're worried about Covid-19 becoming endemic in less economically developed countries through 2021-23, giving it ample opportunity to mutate and one or more of the mutations being resistant to our current vaccines. If this happens, ID cards won't stop it, but they will make it easier to track who has been vaccinated against what. I also suspect the infrastructure behind the ID card scheme will be built to be extended to other businesses as the Government sees fit - so if some new current vaccine-resistant variant emerges and becomes a real problem in the UK, businesses like pubs and restaurants will be allowed to stay open, but only for people who have been given whatever new vaccine is developed to fight the resistant variant.
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