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Originally Posted by Chris
Actually the prof’s verbosity seemed to me to be a painfully self conscious attempt to avoid being tarred a racist. Nobody wants to stick their head above the parapet and suggest that the Indian variant is doing so well because it has a foothold amongst large extended households that are simultaneously less willing to adhere to the public health advice and more likely to refuse to book their vaccination appointment. It’s less awkward to assume its rapid spread is entirely down to its enhanced transmissibility until data makes that assumption untenable.
Anyway, time will tell.
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Except of course any variant could do the same among groups who aren’t complying if it was truly, entirely down to a select few groups not adhering to rules that have been in place since Christmas.
Boris didn’t go on telly at 5pm on a Friday last week over a handful of immigrants in big households working in the cash economy.
Time will tell indeed.