The UK response - Part II - read OP

9 million doses going out this week to help those in need.

Fair enough the football may not of helped but imagine all those people around the world who have been having a bad time for the last year and a half. even if that gave those people a bit of hope that things can get better was worth it.

What were the Irish youngsters doing, sat outside in the cold having a pint with a mask on, thinking one day we will be doing that. Imagine if the final was in Ireland, you would of had cardboard cut outs in the stadium and everyone on the pitch two metres apart with masks on. 🤣🤣🤣

It's really weird seeing Irish people fly the union jack over this.

Tory incompetence gave the virus the opportunity to mutate into what was originally known as the Kent variant. We were all stuck in our homes for months because of it.

They're now doubling down on the same mistake, endangering us all again. And some Irish, of all people, are cheering them on.

Nuts

Have you got proof to back up your claim that the Kent variant was a mutation originating in the U.K. and not imported from anywhere else?

My standard is trying to get actual information rather than the same old Brit bashing.

Your link is very informational yet still says it based on a hypothesis only.

oh wait I remember you, are you offended that I didn’t agree with your ‘every Londoner isn’t wearing a mask diatribe?’ If you hate it so much what are you even doing there?!?! 😂😂🤦‍♂️

I’ve made this point before, it could just as easily have been brought in on a ferry or a dinghy. If the U.K. weren’t doing so much testing to isolate new variants then this would have been ‘first discovered’ somewhere else and been ‘their’ variant.

Comments like Tory incompetence caused the variant to mutate are ridiculous! There are currently 17 variants discovered, who’s government’s incompetence shall we blame for the others? Or maybe it’s because that’s how virals work 🤦‍♂️

There's thankfully only 4 variants of concern. Not 17.

Britain, South Africa, Brazil and India. I'm not sure about SA, but I'm quite comfortable with blaming the governments of the other three countries for being hapless, inept gobshites who've done significant damage to all our lives by letting the virus rip.

You can continue to praise them if you like, but it's really quite bizarre.

There are hundreds of Sars-Cov-2 variants.

The ones that become known to the wider public are the ones which become dominant.

The only goal of viruses is to replicate. Being able to replicate faster is a genetic advantage, that will result in a variant becoming dominant, and replacing older variants.

A comprehensive overview of Covid variants, and which variants are relevant in which countries, is available here:

https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global