Reply To: Show us zee papers.. Passports of your not coming in ever….

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@zorg – the reason for the high degrees of concern is that it’s *an airborne virus* and roughly one in three people spreading it have no symptoms (so have no idea they are spreading it). You can catch it just by breathing the same air as other people. So people either need to keep apart, or mitigate against being close by being vaccinated and wearing masks.

It’s not scaremongering to say “guys, you might be spreading the virus because you don’t even know if you’ve got it”. There *are* plenty of other diseases (plenty that kill a higher proportion of people who catch them) but they are less transmissible – i.e. you can’t catch them by simply walking into the same room as someone with the disease.

Researchers *are* working on other diseases too – just not at the same rate as they did with covid *because of the urgency due to it spreading as an airborne virus*. In fact, the two women who came up with the Oxford/Astrazenica vaccine were on the radio last week, explaining how it isn’t a “fully new vaccine” invented “in a rush” – but they had been studying SARS since 2004 and working on ebola for the last few years; this vaccine was built on the back of years of work on trying to cure other diseases.

Seriously, where do these ridiculous ideas come from? Not working on anything else….