Renton

Honestly your drawing huge conclusions there based on nothing. To establish a no fly zone you effectively have to take out all ground based air defence, which would include those on Russian soil. You can't say with confidence that wouldn't escalate things further and you can't be confident it would have deterred Putin who has not been acting intelligently or even rationally. I think the west has played this as best they could so far (I mean the present conflict, I don't know enough about Crimea to even comment. Do any of us, is there even a post on it?).

What would you like the west to do? It's fucking horrible what Russia has and is doing to Ukraine, but it looks like Ukraine could well defeat Russia without our intervention anyway. Seems the Russian military isn't up to much. And it'd pretty much guaranteed now the long term future of Ukraine is to be drawn into the bosom of the west whilst Russia can continue it's decline.

What MF said but also the weather. We have a blocking anticyclone with almost no air movement, so local pollution is building up in these areas.

ITS Berlusconi with 24 hour bunga bunga parties on board.

Peggy the Pegger. MF's ears light up.

Why probably not but I'm just joining the age of disinformation.

The constant lying. Every single word these cunts utter. It's endless, and ultimately numbing. I guess that's the point.

Whoever thought these are good optics I guess. A republican amongst the royal staff perhaps?

Honestly man, what type of arsehole does this?

I was thinking headaches, blurred vision, etc. From memory anti-epileptic drugs can have some unpleasant adverse effects, such as sedation, fatigue, mood changes. Avoid valproate if he intends to get pregnant. Also they can affect how other drugs are metabolised, I assume its quite likely your Dad is on multiple medications at his age. Nothing too bad and definitely worth it if it keeps him driving etc.

Didn't see or hear it today. Sickening to see Boris Bullshitter come out with shit like this.

Iirc he will have a provisional diagnosis of epilepsy due to having two seizures in quick succession. But fairly sure he will need more diagnostic work up. God knows how long that will take post-covid. There could be lots of causes, I think the fact that these seizures have spanned several months might be a good sign in a way. Any other neurological symptoms? Lots of drugs for preventing seizures, none of them very nice I'm afraid. Best of luck.

Honestly though, that article doesn't really address the points I made about upper vs lower respiratory infection. I'm definitely saying its impossible we could get a more dealy variant, but I can't understand how a more deadly one (that targets the lower respiratory tract) could be more infectious? Also I'm yet to see data which shows alpha and delta were more severe than the original wild type. The presence of mass vaccinations and natural immunity confuses matters somewhat of course.

Always assumed the actions of failing Grayling were by accident and not by design, but maybe not.

See, is that first sentence true? As I've said, I'm no virologist, I'm thinking here from first principles, but my understanding is omicron took over because it was more contagious and out-competed delta. This was because it was more effective at infecting the upper respiratory tract, but the flip side of this was less effective at infecting the lower respiratory tract, which causes more serious consequences like pneumonia. The virus can't do both (due to its molecular anatomy), its a matter of trade offs, which suggests to me the evolutionary pressure should be in favour of the virus being more effective at infecting the upper respiratory tract whilst sparing other organ systems. I think in general respiratory viruses which are unstable tend to mutate in a more benign direction, which is why there dozens of strains that cause common cold which whilst being unpleasant, are fairly harmless. Thoughts?

Exactly what I was thinking. I can't find any reliable data on it.

Still a lot of questions. Does omicron, seemingly being milder, cause less long covid or less severe long covid? Are people who have repeated infections likely to get long covid? The data around long covid seems quite scant so far, but anecdotally I get the impression it is related to severe first time infections. I'm happy to still wear a mask etc, but given the infectivity of the omicron new variants, it is feeling pretty pointless. Anybody who isn't immune (for whatever reason) is going to get this, possibly multiple times.

He was like Quiff with none of the good bits.

Is that feasible long-term though? I mean possibly forever? Two bastard years of this now. Nearly everyone I know has had it now, vast majority symptoms of a mild cold, some more akin to influenza. Don't know anyone who has become seriously ill requiring treatment, and this includes CEV people in their 70s and 80s. Questions I'd like to know, not being a virologist, is there anything fundamentally different to covid-19 to other endemic coronaviruses that poses a long-term threat to us? Or will this just join the group of viruses, including other coronaviruses, associated with the common cold? The main difference I can tell at the minute is it seems to be much more contagious than other cold viruses and for some reason you can get repeatably re-infected within a short space of time. Why is this and why has it happened?

The RMT union lobbied for Brexit, the stupid cunts. It's only British staff being made redundant, not French or Dutch, who are protected by EU non-discrimination rules. Then of course the government blocked the fire and rehire bill. It's a shit show all round, but this was the wholepoint of Brexit, to remove workers rights and environmental protections. So to listen to the fucking hypocrisy of the government - AND the RMT, is frankly nauseating.

Micky Take? I mean, it might be. I was referring to the fat mess of blubber on the beach, and I'm not talking about a stranded whale.

The state if this.

Also Ukraine are desperate to join the EU. Russia hates the unity of the EU, which he sees as a threat, and is the cause of this war. He's a thundercunt.

Can't imagine a pipeline from St Petersburg to China or India would be feasible? Where are the actual gas fields?

Meanwhile Rodenberry...... Although if I remember utopia starts after WW3, not WW2.