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Flurona??!!

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will it ever end......
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It's not a new virus.
It's just when people have both flu and corona at the same time. The two are common in society at the moment so it's not unlikely that a few people will have both.
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I see the UK PM is apparently making plans to treat Covid like flu thanks to the Omicron variant being not as bad as the previous variants.

Maybe KevC can shed some light here but is there not just as much chance that the next variant could be worse again?
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GTI wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:35 amI see the UK PM is apparently making plans to treat Covid like flu
He’s been making a mockery of all other things Covid related lately, maybe he’s forgotten that the 1918 influenza pandemic infected an estimated 500 million and killed (many were youngsters) 50 million worldwide.
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GTI wrote: Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:35 am I see the UK PM is apparently making plans to treat Covid like flu thanks to the Omicron variant being not as bad as the previous variants.

Maybe KevC can shed some light here but is there not just as much chance that the next variant could be worse again?
I've also thought for a while now that the UK would try and go for herd immunity with omicron. At the rate it's been spreading (reported yesterday at 1 in 15!) that's probably not far off. It's a short term, mild infection so it would make sense to do that. But you're right to be cautious. The 'job' of a virus is to keep going and mutate to evade the blocks in its way. The next major variant could be better or worse, we just don't know. It's worth remembering though that we haven't just had 4 variants. There are thousands but they are the only ones that have been 'variants of concern'.
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