Pandemic 2.0?

[RetiredGreyFox]

I've yet to see anything good come out of Africa, save an international flight home if you are someone unfortunate enough to have had to go there It's the Petri dish for all things unwanted.

My family lived in Nigeria, I loved it.

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

I've yet to see anything good come out of Africa, save an international flight home if you are someone unfortunate enough to have had to go there It's the Petri dish for all things unwanted.

So you dont like for example:

Coffee, you probably only drink water right
Mathematics, I guess Brexit supports never did maths so can see that one
Anything that uses cobalt, such as mobile phones
Nandos, foreign muck?
Heart transplants, first one was done in SA

I couldn't be bothered to list more. I suspect you wouldn't change your view anyway right.

Shouldn't you be done the fictional arms by now?

 

[Minusorange]

I've yet to see anything good come out of Africa

Diamonds ? Cobalt ? Platinum ? to name just a few resources

 

[Malevolence]

I wonder if this thread will age as well as this one - https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/covid-19-could-it-be-a-threat.18876159/

My most viewed thread ever.

 

[D.P.]

I've yet to see anything good come out of Africa, save an international flight home if you are someone unfortunate enough to have had to go there It's the Petri dish for all things unwanted.

such as homosapiens like yourself

 

[Dis86]

I wish people would stop shagging monkeys.

 

[CapitalOne]

Chris Wilson, the Alan Partridge of rural Staffordshire, spokesperson for the under-represented white west midland border phobic agricolarati (tm) and proud alumni of the readers disgest creative writing institute!

 

[jsmoke]

I've yet to see anything good come out of Africa, save an international flight home if you are someone unfortunate enough to have had to go there It's the Petri dish for all things unwanted.

That's a bit harsh and a massive sweeping generalisation.

 

[Minusorange]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1526953767115038727

Is he being alarmist, I seem to remember his tweets popping up when Covid first broke out ?

 

[Rroff]

He was on the side of alarmist, with some grain of truth, when it came to COVID. The study he is pointing to seems to be looking more at a what if it became aerosolised scenario rather than suggesting it has become aerosolised in every day situations.

I'm not seeing anyone else saying it is normally aerosol airborne to that extent, yet.

 

[Chris Wilson]

My family lived in Nigeria, I loved it.

Says the man now preferring to reside in Stoke on Trent...

I admit I have never been to Nigeria, but I have had plenty of quite remarkable, out of the blue, investment offers from the people there.

 

[RetiredGreyFox]

Says the man now preferring to reside in Stoke on Trent...

My family lived in Nigeria, I didn't, I just spent a lot of time there on extended holidays because they left me home alone at 16.
Try again.

 

[ltron]

From everything I've read it doesn't seem like we should be that worried about it. However, this does not mean we shouldn't take it seriously. We should nip it in the bud and not give it a chance to become a bigger problem.

Please God I hope I don't have to eat my words . Give us a break.

 

[Surveyor]

What’s that based on out of interest, deaths in Africa? Deaths in Western countries?

I'm not sure you ever ask a question just out of interest. Anyway, I took a figure from the OP to show why there might be different views on the level of risk.

 

[dowie]

I'm not sure you ever ask a question just out of interest. Anyway, I took a figure from the OP to show why there might be different views on the level of risk.

Eh? It seems pretty relevant to the risk - I was wondering is that figure the result, in part, of access to modern healthcare or lack thereof - it's surely easy to see why that might be relevant?

 

[GGizmo]

What ever the truth and context of this is, the media are sure hyping it up to be Pandemic 2.0.

 

[Surveyor]

Eh? It seems pretty relevant to the risk - I was wondering is that figure the result, in part, of access to modern healthcare or lack thereof - it's surely easy to see why that might be relevant?

Quelle surprise as you try and read something into my post that wasn't there. It was an illustration of how the risk might be viewed differently based on what was posted in the OP. It was not, and was never intended to be, a detailed analysis of the transmissibility of monkeypox or the likelihood of severe consequences if you do.

 

[dowie]

Quelle surprise as you try and read something into my post that wasn't there. It was an illustration of how the risk might be viewed differently based on what was posted in the OP. It was not, and was never intended to be, a detailed analysis of the transmissibility of monkeypox or the likelihood of severe consequences if you do.

I think reading into something that wasn't there is what you did in reply to my quesiton tbh...it seemed like a pretty logical question to ask re: a stat like this esepcially when individual risk re: pandemic stuff can be hyped a bit. I don't see why that's odd.

 

[Uther]

First confirmed case in Australia with a traveller from the UK. Also, 20 confirmed cases now but potentially a lot more undetected...

Monkeypox cases in UK more than double to 20 - as WHO says summer festivals could accelerate spread of disease

Eight countries in Europe, including Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK, have reported cases. The WHO said most are mild, but warned the disease can be more severe, especially in young children, pregnant women, and individuals who are immunocompromised.

news.sky.com

The 2020's are shaping up to be a really **** decade.

 

[Chris Wilson]

That's a bit harsh and a massive sweeping generalisat

Diamonds ? Cobalt ? Platinum ? to name just a few resources

They are inert minerals and ores, I was talking about living organisms like HIV, monkey pox, Dengue fever, chikungunya, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, anthrax, blah blah. The place is a Petri dish for viruses and disease, many of the inhabitants eat diets akin to those of wild beasts.