Posted on 02/18/2022 11:08:53 AM PST by algore
Boris Johnson's top scientific advisers fear next week's bonfire of the remaining Covid rules could leave Britain battling a variant that kills up to a third of people it infects.
With the Prime Minister set to unveil his 'living with Covid' strategy on Monday, SAGE has raised alarm about the prospect of a new mutant strain emerging.
Documents released today from the panel's last meeting, just a day after the PM revealed he intended to scrap all the leftover curbs in England, warned that any sudden change to the rules carries the potential to accelerate the pandemic and trigger a 'rapid' rise in cases.
One paper discussed by SAGE, which delved into potential scenarios that could emerge over the next few years, dismissed the milder nature of Omicron as being a 'chance' event and argued that it's a 'common misconception' that viruses evolve to become weaker.
It warned of a 'realistic possibility' that a variant could spawn that is just as lethal as other coronaviruses known to strike humans, such as MERS, which has a 35 per cent case fatality rate. Mutations are more likely while circulation of the virus is high, the panel said.
Referencing the document in its minutes, SAGE warned that the scenario — which they've already floated before — remained a 'valid' possibility. But the report also admitted that it was equally realistic that the virus will mutate to become less lethal over time.
Experts accused SAGE of trying keep up the 'project fear campaign', saying people will be 'frightened' by some of the speculative scenarios presented and that they should be kept private.
Professor Keith Willison, a chemical biologist at Imperial College London, told MailOnline that any variant having a case-fatality rate anywhere close to 35 per cent was 'highly unlikely.
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Yawn.
Maybe they should be scared of a Dalek invasion instead.
Golly, did Neil Ferguson get his job back? The Fearmongering Playbook lives on!
Go to hell you Aholes!
“...’realistic possibility’ that a variant could spawn...”
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Spawn?
Silly choice of words. Are these scientists or 15yo gamers?
Yes, they do go on to suggest they are mutations, which are an obvious reality, but give no reason to support why they would become so much more pathogenic.
Why do these people want to press down so hard on the human population?
Is he preparing us for the wave of vaccine-induced deaths that some have predicted? Will these deaths be attributed to “long Covid” or a new variant?
Sounds like a Heads Up that the Vaxxed are about to be extinguished
That sounds serious. The only way to fix it is universal mail in ballots right now
No, the FED will kill everyone first, unless the housing crash kills them first, or the interest rates, or the Ukraine “invasion”, or the currency collapse, or Soros, or the hyperinflation, or the price of gas, the Central Bankers, or whatever is the screaming meemie worry of the day.
The Left has their scary fantasies and we have ours.
What is SAGE and why should anyone listen to their fear porn? Let’s just get on with the dying in the normal course of human diseases and ailments. There is nothing special about this 30-month run on of ever evolving flu viruses.
These charlatans have cried wolf too many times to be taken seriously.
"Could", "may" "possibly" and "experts say" are the tools of the fear mongers, and the sheeple lap it up.
"Could", "may" "possibly" and "experts say" are the tools of the fear mongers, and the sheeple lap it up.
So, I’ll be able to restaurant reservations. Sounds good.
Has there been any discovery of a new variant that deadly? Is this pure speculation or is such a variant reported?
And don’t lean on the old “new variants become more infectious and less deadly” stuff. That’s crap. Delta would not have been more deadly than original if that was so.
It’s purely random.
Chinese researchers are feverishly working to get it finished and distributed to the world.
Then again it could NOT Kill anyone
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