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[bgmnts]

Unsure if it's anything to legit worry about but there is allegedly a newish strain on the scene. A hungry young strain coming out of Singapore, ready to put it all on the line for the title of shittiest covid.

A few links here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-13/xbb-bf-7-ba-5-1-7-new-covid-variants-renew-threats-to-the-world
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/omicron-subvariant-xbb-1-omicron-subvariant-xbb-1-news-omicron-news-coronavirus-a-new-worrying-omicron-subvariant-strongest-by-far-in-vaccine-evasion-101665552794838.html

Singapore govt insists all is well and not having the Thai fearmongering it seems.

[Chollis]

be fine i reckon

[Ferris]

arsed mate, vaccines

[bgmnts]

arsed mate, vaccines

Well, this claims to be vaccine resistant.

[Ferris]

Well, this claims to be vaccine resistant.

arsed mate, dead in WW3 soon anyway

[MojoJojo]

The language used, its a bollocks click bait article designed to frighten.

[Dex Sawash]

🎮b

[shiftwork2]

The language used, its a bollocks click bait article designed to frighten.

Yes.  Absolute state of this:

Since emerging in late 2021, the highly transmissible omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2 has splintered into a dazzling array of subvariants that are now driving fresh waves of Covid-19 cases around the world. The proliferation of such a diversity of variants is unprecedented, and pits numerous hyper-mutated iterations against each other in a race for global dominance. That's turbo-charged Covid, making it one of the fastest-spreading diseases known to humanity, and further challenging pandemic-mitigation efforts in a global population already weary of frequent booster shots, testing and masking.

That's turbo-charged Covid
That's liquid football.

If Bloomberg likes Covid so much why doesn't it fuck it?