On 4/12/2021 at 6:08 PM, NeoDinosaw said:

 

I was about to make this point myself.  The most likely source of this virulent form is France !   It arrived in UK carried by an illegal imigrant crossing the English Channel into Kent and then spread in the UK. It has subsequently spread, from France, within the EU.  The route to Thailand was probably  by someone from France visiting their ex-colony -  Cambodia -  from whence it spread to Thailand through illegal border crossings or migrant workers.   The fact that it is refered to as 'the UK variant' merely acknowledges the brilliance of British scientists in identifying and tracing different strains, not the origin of the strains themselves!

No your wrong it was first discovered in the UK, the French did genome testing too. There is no proof it originated somewhere else.

 

I don't get it why the people from the UK get so worked up about it. Also proven by the fact that the strain was far more prevalent in the UK then anywhere else . If it came from immigrants then it should have shown up in Europe earlier.

 

Anyway nobody blames you guys, but seems a lot of people from the UK have a problem with it.

 

What is the point viruses appear and mutate and nobody can be blamed for it unless you make them or let them escape from a lab.

2 hours ago, robblok said:

No your wrong it was first discovered in the UK, the French did genome testing too. There is no proof it originated somewhere else.

 

I don't get it why the people from the UK get so worked up about it. Also proven by the fact that the strain was far more prevalent in the UK then anywhere else . If it came from immigrants then it should have shown up in Europe earlier.

 

Anyway nobody blames you guys, but seems a lot of people from the UK have a problem with it.

 

What is the point viruses appear and mutate and nobody can be blamed for it unless you make them or let them escape from a lab.

The UK variant was found before it spread widely in the UK because their monitoring system is effective. The EU has fumbled deploying vaccines, so they are now risking the appearance of distinct variants, especially in their member states using inadequate vaccines, Hungary for example.

 

A worse example is India where there is apparently a new, bad variant. Nonetheless, they permit a huge festival with millions jammed together not wearing masks. Hope we are not debating the arrival of their variant here any time soon....

5 minutes ago, placnx said:

The UK variant was found before it spread widely in the UK because their monitoring system is effective. The EU has fumbled deploying vaccines, so they are now risking the appearance of distinct variants, especially in their member states using inadequate vaccines, Hungary for example.

 

A worse example is India where there is apparently a new, bad variant. Nonetheless, they permit a huge festival with millions jammed together not wearing masks. Hope we are not debating the arrival of their variant here any time soon....

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/16/india-covid-variant-found-uk-specimens-taken-february

 

The first of the 77 cases of the India variant of coronavirus found in the UK were detected in specimens dating back to February, the Guardian has learned.

On Thursday Public Health England (PHE) revealed that 77 cases of a variant first detected in India, called B1617, had been found in the UK, with 73 cases in England and four in Scotland.