CV and mad panic behaviour

[capcom]

The Who's second largest benefactor is China so we can't associate them with Covid origins by having names that make them upset can we...

Heresy against doctrine [member=57]ElwoodBlues1[/member] ... but the walking dead from Delaware will look after it.

[tonyo]

The biggest concern with the Omicron strain is the press hyperbole that follows it - the media scrum is creating their own spin which almost inevitably will be far worse than the reality.  That is more dangerous than the virus itself, as it will lead to an ill-informed public that demands that the politicians do something, and we don't need knee-jerk reactions right now.

Agree on stopping flights from Africa, but let's not all crawl back into our bunkers....

[dodge]

Hope you see the humour in this, Thry.

[DJC]

China isn't a WHO benefactor.  They make a substantial assessed contribution based on their GDP, as do all members, but they don't make a voluntary contribution.  WHO's major benefactors are the UK, Sweden, Norway and Australia so, if anyone's pulling strings, it's Boris (the UK's assessed and voluntary contributions exceed China's assessed contribution).  China doesn't give money away.

According to WHO: “‘Nu’ is too easily confounded with ‘new’, and ‘Xi’ was not used because it is a common last name ... best practices for naming disease suggest avoiding causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups”.

In fact, Xi is the 708th most common surname, so I guess there's some merit to WHO's reasoning, but I wonder if they consulted with Ms Goodrem before naming the Delta strain 

[madbluboy]

If it was called "Trump" they wouldn't have thought twice about it.

[ElwoodBlues1]

China isn't a WHO benefactor.  They make a substantial assessed contribution based on their GDP, as do all members, but they don't make a voluntary contribution.  WHO's major benefactors are the UK, Sweden, Norway and Australia so, if anyone's pulling strings, it's Boris (the UK's assessed and voluntary contributions exceed China's assessed contribution).  China doesn't give money away.

According to WHO: “‘Nu’ is too easily confounded with ‘new’, and ‘Xi’ was not used because it is a common last name ... best practices for naming disease suggest avoiding causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups”.

In fact, Xi is the 708th most common surname, so I guess there's some merit to WHO's reasoning, but I wonder if they consulted with Ms Goodrem before naming the Delta strain 

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/china...ove-2020-4
The above is my point.....they suddenly got over generous when questions got asked and when the USA under Trump pulled money.
They manipulate when it suits their political agenda...

[DJC]

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/china...ove-2020-4
The above is my point.....they suddenly got over generous when questions got asked and when the USA under Trump pulled money.
They manipulate when it suits their political agenda...

Even with that contribution (not yet listed on the WHO website), China is still well behind the UK and, presumably, the USA again, now that Aurangzeb has gone.  You're right, they don't give money away for nothing and they were quick to exploit the vacuum created by Aurangzeb, but their influence over the WHO isn't as great as they would like, and considerably less than the West. 

[DJC]

My son in law is a partner in a graphic/industrial design company.  They have been working from home until recently but all partners and staff returned to the office two weeks ago.

One of the team was an anti-vaxxer, as was his wife.  The wife's father is now very sick with COVID so they changed their minds and had their first shot.  I believe that the former anti-vaxxer remarked, "COVID is real!".  Unfortunately, the bloke became ill and tested positive for COVID.  He was infectious while at work so the entire company had to isolate and test.  My son in law and his other colleagues are all fully vaccinated and all tested negative on day 6 of isolation.  Their building was being deep-cleaned today and they're all working from home again.  The former anti-vaxxer is not seriously ill but he's not all that popular at the moment.  :

[Lods]

The Who's second largest benefactor is China so we can't associate them with Covid origins by having names that make them upset can we...

The Who haven't been any fun since Keith Moon died.

[madbluboy]

My son in law is a partner in a graphic/industrial design company.  They have been working from home until recently but all partners and staff returned to the office two weeks ago.

One of the team was an anti-vaxxer, as was his wife.  The wife's father is now very sick with COVID so they changed their minds and had their first shot.  I believe that the former anti-vaxxer remarked, "COVID is real!".  Unfortunately, the bloke became ill and tested positive for COVID.  He was infectious while at work so the entire company had to isolate and test.  My son in law and his other colleagues are all fully vaccinated and all tested negative on day 6 of isolation.  Their building was being deep-cleaned today and they're all working from home again.  The former anti-vaxxer is not seriously ill but he's not all that popular at the moment.  :

They obviously don't know how it works.
J Brown and his radio co host both got it and spread despite being full vaxxed.