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Right now, with Singapore entering a lockdown again, it feels like a repeat of 2020 in more ways than one. The most interesting thing to me is that, in my local conversations, we are talking about the variants in a way that people in the West aren't.

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Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

May 18, 2021

The biggest thing is that local spread is happening despite nearly-100% masking and despite vaccinations. Which prompted the government to trigger a lockdown. A friend put it best: "it seems like we're back to uncertainty again, with some of these variants."

Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

May 18, 2021

Some direct sources, so people can evaluate for themselves: straitstimes.com/singapore/one- straitstimes.com/singapore/spee Seems to be some combination of: variant is able to infect fully vaccinated people, variant has longer incubation period, and variant is more transmissible.

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also "our model is wrong, virus is airborne/aerosol"

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Dr Kristen Coleman on COVID-19 being "airborne"

Scientists have been arguing for some time that COVID-19 is airborne. That opinion now has backing from the WHO and the US Centers for Disease Control and Pr...

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If they came up with an mRNA solution to the original virus in 2 days, why can't they come up with a similar solution to all the new variants within a week? And then just upgrade the Moderna and Pfizer factories with v1.1 of the code

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Oh, that would be the dream! Of course, given how conservative the SG government is, we’ll probably have to wait for it to be tested elsewhere again …

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