Bird flu is next

https://news.sky.com/story/bird-flu-...firms-12510294

And then there is Flurona.
https://www.nationalworld.com/health...ariant-3512540

Anyone fancy a sportsman's bet with me that Omicron will be the variant that turns this 2 year pandemic to an endemic?

Hate to be a gloomster but according to the iSage scientists: 1. there is no reason to assume that new variant will follow Omicron; 2. the four benign coronavirus' that lead to the common cold tok hundreds of years to evolve.

Having said that, I do hope we will be in endemic post-Omicron, and that will be in early 2022.

Endemic implies the virus is prevalent in some parts of the world and not in others. If vaccination efficacy is very high, we developed countries might well be safe (in the short term). What's critical is to start allowing lesser developed countries to produce the vaccine license free.

Too early to tell, but apparently the common cold may also help protect against COVID. I hope so because my nose is like a tap right now, I bloody hate colds.

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...finds-12512900

Let's hope something like that does emerge to totally subdue COVID. Good luck with the cold you have.

It worked against the invading aliens in WOTW.

So it did ! Ulllaaaa

No one would have believed…

... in the last years of the 19th century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space.

...and yet across the gulf of the globe a virus with a mind immeasurably superior to ours, quickly drew its plans against us....

Almost ! But as it's from memory, and likely decades back memory, well done !!

Yes it was from memory and tailored to suit our predicament. . I remember a lot of it....still listen to it now from time to time.....one of my all time favourite albums. pretty much unheard of here in Canada.

Anyway we shall see if ol' covid sucumbs to the same fate as the Martians.... my feeling is it will... but we will always have non threatening Martians hanging around.... with a decidedly less exalted Ulllaaaa. if you know what I mean!

Unvaccinated Quebecers without medical exemptions will have to pay if they don't get 1st dose soon

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...ebec-1.6311054

That soundtrack used to give me the heebie jeebies when I was a kid.