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Please note that this article was compiled way back in June 2022 towards the end of the main pandemic - for a more recent update you might want to look at the following: https://vivweb01.blogspot.com/2023/08/new-covid-variant-ba286-how-bad-could.html https://vivweb01.blogspot.com/2022/11/china-and-covid-2-sequel.html https://vivweb01.blogspot.com/2023/04/covid-update-new-variant-arcturus-first.html I also plan to compile an update in the near future, and will include a discussion on the likelihood of a new pandemic and the virus strains most likely to cause it.... A s predicted, the Covid case rate has continued to rise again in the UK, and shows little sign of abating. The latest UK-wide estimate is that 1 in 18 of the population is infected, up from 1 in 25 last week. Scotland seems to be the worst of the home nations affected with even higher rates. We should remember that both figures are much higher than the peaks seen in the first 2 Covid 'waves' in 2020. Given the high i...

  S o now we know….the long- awaited secret of what her majesty keeps in the Royal Handbag has been revealed. Or has it….. The fascinating glimpse we were treated to last weekend into a familiar, but hitherto completely opaque, receptacle actually poses more questions than it answers… Firstly there is the question of containment of the royal ‘emergency’ sandwich. My own experience of marmalade sandwiches is that they have minds of their own....  On the occasions when one is careless enough to drop a full-slice marmelade sandwich, not only do the wretched things always manage to split apart into their constituent slices on the way down, but both slices invariably end up preserve-side down on the deck.  I’ve never managed to divine how or why this happens, but I’m reliably informed it’s something to do with the Coriolis force….if so, it would be interesting to see whether the slices fall marmalade-side up in the Southern hemisphere. However, I digress….back to the to...