How Do You Know Which Variant?

[Barsel]

When you do a test for Covid, if it came back as positive, how would you know which variant it is?
I read today that a few cases have been found in Greater Manchester of the new variant, but how do they know?

[Barsel]

Ha ha, well I believe you are one of the same and I think the others know this and are playing a part.
I am leaving this now as if I am making a fool of myself, I need to stop digging.

[Mamyalynne]

Have a lie down for a while :-)

[Peter Pedant]

I am not he - and he is not me
there must be something in the NT about that ( I know the Prof doesnt read the bible in greek - he is far too busy )

ὁ Πειλᾶτος καὶ ἐφώνησεν τὸν Ἰησοῦν καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Σὺ εἶ ὁ Βασιλεὺς τῶν ...
and Pilate asked are you the King of the jews and Jesus answered....

bit biblical but that is not surprising - er it comes from the bible

Please do not ask an OAP law graduate if he is a prof of biochem
it irritates profs of biochem ....

(yeah yeah I dont mind and I suppose it makes profs wife chortle....)

[Peter Pedant]

have a lie down for a while - - who with hur hur hur

[Peter Pedant]

// Among all the twaddle posted,//
out of the mouth of babes
oh lord they know not what they say ( bible again)

[theprof]

Thank you Lie-in King.

Togo that's very useful advice. Thank you.

[Zacs-Master]

Somewhere, in a Galaxy far far away, there's someone who understands PP's posts.

[naomi24]

Barsel, I think you're doing the prof - and those of us who value his knowledge here - a great disservice.

[naomi24]

PP, //oh lord they know not what they say ( bible again) //

Nope. That would be 'they know not what they do'.

[Peter Pedant]

lgw / poiew - I didnt read Greats....

Barsel - if you have a question - then ask...
do not fall for the usual twaddle - "your questions is stupid but mine of course is not" - hidden censorship,I call it.

Blaart away - your education and thirst after knowledge shold be encouraged and not criticised.

oh in case anyone wondered - Coetzee ( covid-ologist and not Nobel Prizw winner in Lit) said: we have had no one in hospital ....
hence the conclusion that omicron is mild. ( for anyone who can follow scientific induction)

[bednobs]

oh yeah, definitely encouraged.
do you call your response encouraging then?
"if you had actually read some of my posts you would know
but all you did was blaaart - "wot all that den?" and a host of other side-splitting fresh one-liners"

[ToraToraTora]

I'm holding on for the Pi variant. It's pretty mild but it does have symptoms that never repeat.

[minesapint]

PP seems it's you that's full of twaddle. Our education and thirst for knowledge is hardly met when you post drivel that Angelique Coatzee is a covid-ologist. Wots at? as you say.

Angelique Coatzee is a gp with 33 years experience. That's it. Still who would expect a law graduate to know. Horses for courses old bean.

[Peter Pedant]

Angelique - I missed the GP bit

I saw her on tee vee as a beeb instant sarf efrican expert on covid
or - - - covidologist. I would NOT expect a british GP to say - "covid is mild you know, no one has died and no one's been admitted"

Did anyone catch Prof Alan Parker from Cardded 0650 Radio 4?
" The cap " said he on the Beeb " of the adenovirus vector is strongly electorpositive (*) and interacts with an site on Platelet factor 4 and is recognised as an epitope or - - antigenic determinant in a very small group of people. This explains the very rare (TTS) ( ? Terminal Thrombotic Syndrome?) seen with the vaccine"

(*) foo long words for a lawyer

yeah anyway and I fort - wow! lorks a mercy", lardy lardy!
anyone on AB hearing that would immediately go into
"wow wot dat den" mode, "foo twaddle !" ( thx Naomi)
and God knows what else!

erm no one seems to have heard....

[Peter Pedant]

// you post drivel that Angelique Coatzee is a covid-ologist.//

oh come on be fair! I was correct when I said she wasnt the Nobel Prize winner for Lit - so I did get SOMETHING right (*)
and you dont really exxpect me to spell Coetsee and van der merwe correctly do you?

(*) something of a record I like to think on AB - getting something right

[woofgang]

@theprof. Have posted a question for you in news if you are around please?

[Peter Pedant]

On 1st Dec 21 minesapint wrote, as a crushing dismissive one-liner on AB:

// Angelique Coetzee is a gp with 33 years experience. That's it. Still who would expect a law graduate to know. Horses for courses old bean.//

in fact it turns out she is chair of the S African Medical Ass so WAS in fact empowered to speak for all her colleagues - appeared again today 14 Dec 21

moral of the story: be very very careful of listening to Abers in full one-liner mode ! (zat)

[davebro]

//Somewhere, in a Galaxy far far away, there's someone who understands PP's posts.//

Without positive proof I absolutely doubt that!

[Bobbisox1]

I always look forward to seeing the posts by the Prof, thank you

[davebro]

He's as boring with his varied claptrap as others are with their repetitive claptrap!