Non - Pandemic

I've got high hopes for Stan the Van...if he steps up a gear..the bloke is actually quite intelligent and capable of far better and more deeply penetrating responses than he is currently being goaded into.

The chances are Stan ...that you will have your Glory on here....so keep at it...but find a decent mentor and expand your Vocab!
 
Jules said:
The only spiders I eject are false widows. They’ve got a particularly nasty bite.
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Don't believe all that you read. False widows can bite but unless you suffer a reaction, it's a lot less painful than a wasp sting. The woodlouse spider is the one you don't want to bite you. Those fangs are designed to penetrate the carapace of woodlice but you're unlikely to get bitten as they rarely enter houses other than in log piles. Having said that, ejecting them is much more preferable than killing them. Kenya Cherrie killing spiders is a sign of ignorance.
 
billythekid said:
Haven’t heard from him for a while and he comes up with this.

So who will pay for their hotel quarantine when they come back from a Red listed country?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1393429110349729793
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Never mind the "who will pay" issue. Is there a stupider idea than saying covid travel exemptions should be made if people want to visit close family of people known to have died of coronavirus?
 
stanthevan said:
Don't believe all that you read. False widows can bite but unless you suffer a reaction, it's a lot less painful than a wasp sting. The woodlouse spider is the one you don't want to bite you. Those fangs are designed to penetrate the carapace of woodlice but you're unlikely to get bitten as they rarely enter houses other than in log piles. Having said that, ejecting them is much more preferable than killing them. Kenya Cherrie killing spiders is a sign of ignorance.
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Experience of bites myself unfortunately! Our son had a huge reaction too with a bruise the size of a tennis ball. He was (when younger) the archetypal bug boy and used to bring all sorts of invertebrates into the house and that included wood louse spider which nipped him too. He used to ‘play’ with them and woodlice...
 
stanthevan said:
Don't believe all that you read. False widows can bite but unless you suffer a reaction, it's a lot less painful than a wasp sting. The woodlouse spider is the one you don't want to bite you. Those fangs are designed to penetrate the carapace of woodlice but you're unlikely to get bitten as they rarely enter houses other than in log piles. Having said that, ejecting them is much more preferable than killing them. Kenya Cherrie killing spiders is a sign of ignorance.
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We’ve had some of them in our garden - horrible looking things !
 
stanthevan said:
Don't believe all that you read. False widows can bite but unless you suffer a reaction, it's a lot less painful than a wasp sting. The woodlouse spider is the one you don't want to bite you. Those fangs are designed to penetrate the carapace of woodlice but you're unlikely to get bitten as they rarely enter houses other than in log piles. Having said that, ejecting them is much more preferable than killing them. Kenya Cherrie killing spiders is a sign of ignorance.
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Unless it’s this one :eek:

 
Oxford University reckon both Pfizer and their own AZ jab are nearly as effective against this Indian strain as they are earlier strains.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...ffective-against-the-indian-variant-2rdqx5bdr

Early findings from the urgent laboratory study into the B.1.617.2 strain show there is only a small loss of protection from the vaccines’ effect.

AstraZeneca and Pfizer doses still create enough antibodies to neutralise the highly contagious Indian strain and significantly diminish the risk of hospitalisation and death.

Sir John Bell, Oxford’s Emeritus Professor of Medicine, told Times Radio’s T&G programme: “It looks like the Indian variant will be susceptible to the vaccine in the way that others are.

“The data looks rather promising. I think the vaccinated population are going to be fine. And we just need to pump our way through this.”
 
dsr-burnley said:
Never mind the "who will pay" issue. Is there a stupider idea than saying covid travel exemptions should be made if people want to visit close family of people known to have died of coronavirus?
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What the Dope didn't make clear was that he wouldn't allow the Indians back in again after they had seen their relations and wanted to come home.
 
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