The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

euronorris

There have been many, many, many variants already. Very few make the news though as they are weaker/less contagious and therefore don't become a 'common' variant. The ones we typically hear off are those that are either more contagious, or cause worse symptoms/higher hospitalisation/deaths, or both (such as the Delta variant). The scientific community will, of course, analyse and watch closely all new variants they become aware of to try and contain any problematic ones.

Managed to bring my second jab forward to 13th July today. 8 weeks exactly from the first one. And I see they are hoping to open up vaccinations to all over 18s by the end of the week, which is great news.

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The fifth Greek letter is Epsilon

monnagran

Well done Nargle.

Alpha Beta Gamma Delta Epsilon.................

I only did Greek for a year, and the alphabet is the only thing I've remembered,  though I always have a flounder after Sigma before finishing triumphantly......chi psi omega!

Blue_Doggy

Long ago when I was learning Greek, I found that the alphabet goes very nicely to the tune of “The Skye Boat Song”, and also, for a quicker version, to the tune of “She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain”.

LameWolf

I suppose when we run out of Greek and Thai letters, there's always the Elder Futhark Runic alphabet - only 24 characters, but it's 24 we didn't otherwise have.

Floss

Blue_Doggy said:

Long ago when I was learning Greek, I found that the alphabet goes very nicely to the tune of “The Skye Boat Song”, and also, for a quicker version, to the tune of “She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain”.

Go on then, give us the alphabet so we can try...

It's a bit like me being a Nellie the Elephant for CPR...

Floss

boazu said:

I'm not sure a real comparison can be made with Influenza and covid being very different entities. 

Actually, while they have different strand composition, they are both RNA viruses, and are quite similar in genome structure and both are RSV.

So there are real comparisons. And both mutate.

VJsmum

My Dd who is 24 has been able to book her 1st jab for Friday.   My 22 year old son can't book his yet though.. 

Edit - Well I thought I'd check for DS and could book his too!

thriftwizard

I'm taking DD2, 25, for her first jab tomorrow. DD1, at 28, was "done" a couple of weeks ago, but DS3, her twin brother, only received his invite the day before yesterday, the same day as DD2. Slightly bizarre...

In other news, DD2 & I had a glorious "day out" to a lovely sub-tropical garden on the coast to the west of us today, whilst on our way to another errand. It was interesting to note three kinds of people at the gardens; the "couldn't care less" home counties types barging round, braying at the tops of their voices, having to be reminded to wear masks indoors & completely unaware (apparently) of other people around them, the "shrinking violets" skittering away round every corner, trying to stay at least 30 feet from all other human beings & masked to the nines even out in the open air, draped with rain jackets & umbrellas despite the blazing sunshine (well, this IS the UK, after all) and the "relatively normals" who were polite, considerate of personal space & smiled a hello at people when passing. Sadly these were in the minority. The last year or so does seem to have exaggerated people's usual tendencies somewhat - but maybe I'm just more aware of things that have always been there? It just felt a bit like being inside an old-style Giles cartoon...

greenbee

monnagran said:

Well done Nargle.

Alpha Beta Gamma Delta Epsilon.................

I only did Greek for a year, and the alphabet is the only thing I've remembered,  though I always have a flounder after Sigma before finishing triumphantly......chi psi omega!

Blue_Doggy said:

Long ago when I was learning Greek, I found that the alphabet goes very nicely to the tune of “The Skye Boat Song”, and also, for a quicker version, to the tune of “She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain”.

Good to know two of you got a proper education! I tried Greek for a few weeks, but it was outside school hours and the other person doing it was really good so I gave up!