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Post by registerme on Nov 25, 2021 18:21:22 GMT
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Post by michaelc on Nov 25, 2021 22:33:22 GMT
Now time for my favourite subject on the forum - why the heck am I forced to pay for this dangerous trash if I want to watch live TV from a BBC competitor? www.bbc.com/news/uk-59424269I mean come on. This is top of website at the time of writing and top of the article the journalist says " One expert described the variant, known as B.1.1.529, as "the worst one we've seen so far", and there is concern it has the potential to evade immunity." Who is the expert ? There is so much scary stuff in that article it shouldn't need me to pick out any more gory bits. What I will say, is that garbage like this is largely responsible for some folk being turned off vaccines. They don't believe it so why should they believe any other source? I'm annoyed mostly that in practical terms I have to pay for it.
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Post by ilmoro on Nov 25, 2021 22:57:02 GMT
Now time for my favourite subject on the forum - why the heck am I forced to pay for this dangerous trash if I want to watch live TV from a BBC competitor? www.bbc.com/news/uk-59424269I mean come on. This is top of website at the time of writing and top of the article the journalist says " One expert described the variant, known as B.1.1.529, as "the worst one we've seen so far", and there is concern it has the potential to evade immunity." Who is the expert ? There is so much scary stuff in that article it shouldn't need me to pick out any more gory bits. What I will say, is that garbage like this is largely responsible for some folk being turned off vaccines. They don't believe it so why should they believe any other source? I'm annoyed mostly that in practical terms I have to pay for it. This is being widely reported since yesterday so I think youll find the BBC competitor is churning out the same trash ... likely to be given a Greek designation tomorrow by WHO and is being treated very seriously by the scientific & epidemiologist community. (variant only identified on Tues so moving very quickly) Time will tell is its warranted concern. Coverage seems to read much the same as early reports of all the other variants that became issues. The most amazing thing is the speed the government has reacted.
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Post by travolta on Nov 25, 2021 23:21:40 GMT
Sajid Javit was just on the News @ 10 pulling hisfigurative hair about this one . Dammit , have a nice little trip to Lon Don planned this weekend .
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Post by bracknellboy on Nov 26, 2021 9:04:08 GMT
Now time for my favourite subject on the forum - why the heck am I forced to pay for this dangerous trash if I want to watch live TV from a BBC competitor? www.bbc.com/news/uk-59424269I mean come on. This is top of website at the time of writing and top of the article the journalist says " One expert described the variant, known as B.1.1.529, as "the worst one we've seen so far", and there is concern it has the potential to evade immunity." Who is the expert ? There is so much scary stuff in that article it shouldn't need me to pick out any more gory bits. What I will say, is that garbage like this is largely responsible for some folk being turned off vaccines. They don't believe it so why should they believe any other source? I'm annoyed mostly that in practical terms I have to pay for it. why is this "trash", let alone "dangerous trash" It may not be what you want to hear, but that hardly makes it trash. You may not want to pay for the BBC in order to watch competition, but that is surely a different subject.
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Post by adrianc on Nov 26, 2021 11:57:42 GMT
Now time for my favourite subject on the forum - why the heck am I forced to pay for this dangerous trash if I want to watch live TV from a BBC competitor? www.bbc.com/news/uk-59424269I mean come on. This is top of website at the time of writing and top of the article the journalist says " One expert described the variant, known as B.1.1.529, as "the worst one we've seen so far", and there is concern it has the potential to evade immunity." Who is the expert ? There is so much scary stuff in that article it shouldn't need me to pick out any more gory bits. What I will say, is that garbage like this is largely responsible for some folk being turned off vaccines. They don't believe it so why should they believe any other source? I'm annoyed mostly that in practical terms I have to pay for it. If you think the Beeb are somehow scaremongering, then here's pieces from Reuters and Nature saying basically the exact same thing. www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-meeting-friday-designate-new-variant-b11529-2021-11-26/www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03552-wDon't shoot the messenger because you don't like the message. You don't NEED to pay for a TV licence in the UK. You can choose not to watch TV. There's plenty of other media sources. Some of them are even as reliable and politically neutral as the BBC. ( "They don't share my bias" is not the same as "biased", btw) Which media sources DO you believe and trust?
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Post by keitha on Nov 26, 2021 13:09:13 GMT
Apparently Cardiff and Scarlets are in south Africa, the local reports are suggesting that despite a lockdown on flights from SA , if they can charter a flight and get home by 4am Sunday they don't need to isolate.
For me that is ridiculous they should be treated the same as any other traveller
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Post by jonno on Nov 26, 2021 13:19:40 GMT
Apparently Cardiff and Scarlets are in south Africa, the local reports are suggesting that despite a lockdown on flights from SA , if they can charter a flight and get home by 4am Sunday they don't need to isolate. For me that is ridiculous they should be treated the same as any other traveller Aren't they Egg Chasers? For that reason alone they shouldn't be allowed back into the country
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Post by michaelc on Nov 26, 2021 13:21:45 GMT
Now time for my favourite subject on the forum - why the heck am I forced to pay for this dangerous trash if I want to watch live TV from a BBC competitor? www.bbc.com/news/uk-59424269I mean come on. This is top of website at the time of writing and top of the article the journalist says " One expert described the variant, known as B.1.1.529, as "the worst one we've seen so far", and there is concern it has the potential to evade immunity." Who is the expert ? There is so much scary stuff in that article it shouldn't need me to pick out any more gory bits. What I will say, is that garbage like this is largely responsible for some folk being turned off vaccines. They don't believe it so why should they believe any other source? I'm annoyed mostly that in practical terms I have to pay for it. If you think the Beeb are somehow scaremongering, then here's pieces from Reuters and Nature saying basically the exact same thing. www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-meeting-friday-designate-new-variant-b11529-2021-11-26/www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03552-wDon't shoot the messenger because you don't like the message. You don't NEED to pay for a TV licence in the UK. You can choose not to watch TV. There's plenty of other media sources. Some of them are even as reliable and politically neutral as the BBC. ( "They don't share my bias" is not the same as "biased", btw) Which media sources DO you believe and trust? Yep I may have picked the wrong story there and I acknowledge it isn't the only scare mongering source but it is the only one I'm all but forced to pay for. The Nu virus may well end up being a big deal. Although it might not of course.... Still, they should have named their source, not used it or stated why. And what the heck is the picture of a green monster there? What is it? I also stand by the fact it was designed to scare. I would expect it to be a more balanced story.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2021 14:07:55 GMT
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Post by registerme on Nov 26, 2021 15:52:49 GMT
I also stand by the fact it was designed to scare. I would expect it to be a more balanced story. It is scary. Potentially very scary. Here's a more authoritative source for you - www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03552-w . I don't think that BBC news is designed to be perfectly authoritative, AND accurate, AND timely, AND perfectly balanced on EVERY possible subject, ALL the time. Expecting it to be so is bound to lead to disappointment. I'm happy to accept that in the main it is very timely, on the far more accurate than it is inaccurate, it's balanced, it's coverage is pretty good, and it can serve as a launch pad for more in depth study should I want to follow up on something (even if only via google). Oh, and I like Strictly. I'm more than happy to pay my license fee.
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Post by travolta on Nov 26, 2021 15:59:50 GMT
Well, at least its not Ebola.........
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2021 16:03:14 GMT
I think the BBC learnt from its "balanced" reporting of Climate Change. Sometimes there is no other argument.
I'm all for being scared over CC and Covid.
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Post by bracknellboy on Nov 26, 2021 16:42:14 GMT
I also stand by the fact it was designed to scare. I would expect it to be a more balanced story. It is scary. Potentially very scary. Here's a more authoritative source for you - www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03552-w . I don't think that BBC news is designed to be perfectly authoritative, AND accurate, AND timely, AND perfectly balanced on EVERY possible subject, ALL the time. Expecting it to be so is bound to lead to disappointment. I'm happy to accept that in the main it is very timely, on the far more accurate than it is inaccurate, it's balanced, it's coverage is pretty good, and it can serve as a launch pad for more in depth study should I want to follow up on something (even if only via google). Oh, and I like Strictly. I'm more than happy to pay my license fee. thanks for the link, not... It would seem likely - by the way it has 'taken over' in parts of south africa I guess it is very likely to be more transmissable. Which then leads us clutching at the hope that the large number of mutations on the spike protein don't give it a significantly greater ability to escape current vaccine protection.
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Post by bracknellboy on Nov 26, 2021 16:50:17 GMT
and of course all of this continues to demonstrate that the larger the pool of unvaccinated people across the world, the much greater number of mutations there will be, and therefore the much greater the risk that more deadly and/or more transmissable and/or vaccine evading variants will emerge to whack us all.
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