Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 13077391)

It's a full on gong show. The media love the fear of the variants. We'll go through this every 3 to 6 months.

I bet the poor South African's wish they'd never said anything.

Originally Posted by OrangeMango (Post 13077469)

Seems like we're back with quarantine again, vaccinated or not, doesn't seem to matter. But it seems only about 2 days home isolation until test results are there for the vaccinated?

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...box=1638314446

Originally Posted by ChrisBan (Post 13077494)

yep not clear who foots the bill. Big win for the scam PCR companies; next to no choice on who to use here so naturally they charge hundreds. At least in the U.K. there’s hundreds of approved providers so you can get a test done fairly cheaply.

Originally Posted by Paul_Shepherd (Post 13077471)

Agreed.... the media lap this up... todays mainstream media is one big sh!t stirrer. They are worse than ever.

Originally Posted by Paul_Shepherd (Post 13077471)

Agreed.... the media lap this up... todays mainstream media is one big sh!t stirrer. They are worse than ever.

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 13077542)

The alternative? People bleating about why we weren't alerted.

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 13077543)

See...this is what happens when the likes of Shelley come on and sew seeds of doubt with her links and false claims about "noted scientists"...people start to rely less on mainstream ie responsible media. Just one step away from looking at alternatives themselves.

Originally Posted by Paul_Shepherd (Post 13077555)

..."this could signal a return to lockdown and other restrictions"

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 13077590)

Interestingly a google search on those words shows results on the first page from The Lancet - a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal among the world's oldest and best-known general medical journals. That's the very first result.
Next came a business advisory agency followed by another scientific journal.
This was followed by Global News Canada and then the BBC.
Then the New York Times, then something called OECD - an intergovernmental economic organisation with 38 member countries - followed by CBC, Healthline and the Guardian.

It's a hell of a long way down the list before finding something as unreliable as, say, The Daily Mail.

I don't know about you but I consider those organisations to be quite reasonable.

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 13077590)

Interestingly a google search on those words shows results on the first page from The Lancet - a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal among the world's oldest and best-known general medical journals. That's the very first result.
Next came a business advisory agency followed by another scientific journal.
This was followed by Global News Canada and then the BBC.
Then the New York Times, then something called OECD - an intergovernmental economic organisation with 38 member countries - followed by CBC, Healthline and the Guardian.

It's a hell of a long way down the list before finding something as unreliable as, say, The Daily Mail.

I don't know about you but I consider those organisations to be quite reasonable.


I think that might say something about those people or where they get their information from. Perhaps pay attention to those sources listed above and read the information calmly and sensibly instead of flying off on one. Just read it logically instead of looking at the first few words and brainlessly heading for the hills.

Do that rather than go to Facebook where people circulate the names of supposed "noted" experts having done so little fact checking themselves that their sharing merely shows how they all can't even get the name right (they're duplicating the error as well as the misinformation) and a minimum investigation yourself shows the so called expert to be a proven crackpot.

Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 13077600)

You shouldn't- those articles under your search term are all months ago which shows you how long the fear mongering has been going on. It's ongoing click bait to drive advertising revenue. That is how media companies make their cash.

The WHO has confirmed we don't really know anything so the mass hysteria isn't necessary https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-...ate-on-omicron

Originally Posted by ChrisBan (Post 13077494)

yep not clear who foots the bill. Big win for the scam PCR companies; next to no choice on who to use here so naturally they charge hundreds. At least in the U.K. there’s hundreds of approved providers so you can get a test done fairly cheaply.

Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 13077600)

You shouldn't- those articles under your search term are all months ago which shows you how long the fear mongering has been going on.

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 13077650)

Or it shows that the current "fear mongering" is somewhat exaggerated if there aren't many current results.

Originally Posted by JamesM (Post 13077600)

You shouldn't- those articles under your search term are all months ago which shows you how long the fear mongering has been going on. It's ongoing click bait to drive advertising revenue. That is how media companies make their cash.

The WHO has confirmed we don't really know anything so the mass hysteria isn't necessary https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-...ate-on-omicron

Originally Posted by Danny B (Post 13077656)

Even the WHO get it wrong sometimes.

https://arichlife.com.au/that-who-tweet/