CV and mad panic behaviour

[DJC]

How about you wait till they have 800 deaths before getting excited.

Hopefully it won't come to that MBB. 

The NSW Government is getting stuck into the Commonwealth about the vaccine rollout, and so they should.

Insidious threat, but we knew that long ago.  We're all gonna have to live with this and the massive hit on the economy.  Wuhan wet markets, my arse.

The Commonwealth has really dragged the chain with vaccination and quarantine, the only two realistic measures with the potential to limit COVID's impact.

On a slightly different topic, I am reading Alice Roberts "Ancestors" and I was interested to read that the scientists extracting DNA from ancient human skeletal remains also extract ancient disease DNA and are able to track the evolution of those diseases.  For example, the plague was around much earlier than previously known and underwent mutations that changed its method of transmission and mortality.

Now there's a study published in "Current Biology" that found a coronavirus epidemic broke out in East Asia around 25,000 years ago and lasted 20,000 years  :o
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=...%2900794-6

I should add that there's another study indicating that a major COVID-19 genetic risk factor is inherited from Neanderthals!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2818-3