Thai Covid Center’s general in charge of day to day operations says no national Covid-19 lockdown after New Year

[Capella]

For many people in Thailand, lockdown is a starvation order. I hope it doesn't happen. 

[WingFat]

On 1/2/2022 at 3:07 AM, jacko45k said:

Who designed it then?

There is a lot of conflicting info out there as who or what "designed" this virus. What I think is consistent no matter who/how it was designed, the on-going slew of new variants is no accident...IMO. 

[bristolgeoff]

They shut down test and go to the end of mth,so the lockdown will affect the people allready there.Have the lockdown because you just killed your high season again

[jacko45k]

12 hours ago, WingFat said:

There is a lot of conflicting info out there as who or what "designed" this virus. What I think is consistent no matter who/how it was designed, the on-going slew of new variants is no accident...IMO. 

I thought it was more natural occurrence wrt variants in the midst of high numbers of people infected, hosts where the virus can effectively reproduce.... make errors multiplying.  

[WingFat]

13 hours ago, jacko45k said:

I thought it was more natural occurrence wrt variants in the midst of high numbers of people infected, hosts where the virus can effectively reproduce.... make errors multiplying.  

Yes, I agree with what you are saying; once an original virus has been let out of the bag, it will be natural for it to mutate as it infects more and more people. What I am saying is depending on the original structure of the virus, it could be capable of more rapid transmission and mutation; i.e. "gain of function". That's what I was inferring by "design".