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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (182491)	1/9/2022 2:06:54 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 217753

<<business>> Two reliable and quality mail order businesses I have used for a number of years have closed down. I suspect the damage overall is deep. Just think of all the "time and motions" studies that have been performed over the centuries to make things work. All of that just thrown out to make room for virus protocols. There is the question of continuity too. Businesses in Scotland are kicking up about it. Sturgeon furiously blasted for ‘destroying trust’ as businesses turn: ‘Follow England!’ \| UK \| News \| Express.co.uk ‘Follow England!’ Sturgeon furiously blasted for ‘destroying trust’ as businesses turn NICOLA Sturgeon has been savaged by Scottish trade bodies over Holyrood's coronavirus restrictions, which impose tougher measures on businesses in Scotland than those in England. By BRIAN MCGLEENON 09:19, Sun, Jan 9, 2022 \| UPDATED: 09:19, Sun, Jan 9, 2022 Two major trade bodies for Scottish hospitality said stricter restrictions imposed in Scotland, compared to England, had severely damaged the sector. The trade bodies added that the new restrictions had done nothing to curb the spread of the virus. UK Hospitality Scotland director Leon Thompson spoke to The Times and said: “There’s now a complete lack of trust in the Scottish government over its handling of Covid and its intentions for businesses and the Scottish economy.” He added: “The Scottish government must show a commitment to keeping businesses open. "This is just as it has committed to keeping schools open instead of constantly choosing to shut firms down. "The danger in this endless divergence in rules with England is that Scotland will not be seen as a reliable place to book a holiday or to stage large corporate events.” Mr Thompson added: “You have to ask whether the Scottish government’s different stance is working?” Nicola Sturgeon has been blasted over Scotland's coronavirus restrictions Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has now reduced the time for self-isolation from ten to seven days, aligning Scotland with the rest of the UK. But she insisted that other rules to rein in the deadly Omicron pathogen, including restrictions on spectator sports, the closure of nightclubs, and the resumption of table service in pubs, will remain in place. In England, Boris Johnson has resisted further restrictions. He has relied instead on people and businesses to take precautions and follow guidelines to test regularly. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (Image: Daily Record) Official statistics released last week showed Scotland recorded 1,900 cases per 100,000 people in the last week of 2021. However, in England, there were proportionally fewer, with only 1,600 per 100,000. However, a Scottish government spokesman, speaking to The Times, argued: “Official statistics show Scotland has a lower rate of coronavirus infection than England.” Stephen Montgomery, the spokesman for the Scottish Hospitality Group and owner of the Townhead hotel in Lockerbie, said the Scottish government had not listened to local business groups.

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (182491)	1/9/2022 4:45:19 PM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 217753

i thought legal seafood went out of business. ours closed at king of prussia pa. i miss the friend clams. expensive but worth the price for once a year splurge just checked the place is open again.

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (182491)	1/9/2022 9:33:18 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217753

Some developing and enveloping news. Neither good nor bad, but might be bad, and unlikely to turn out good, unless milder than Omicron and not worse than Delta bloomberg.com Cypriot Scientist Says Deltacron Covid Variant Isn’t Error Georgios Georgiou January 9, 2022, 7:12 PM EST Source: NIAID/NIH A Cypriot scientist defended his assertion that a new strain of Covid-19 exists that combines characteristics of the delta and omicron variants. Other scientists have speculated that Leonidos Kostrikis’s findings are a result of laboratory contamination. But he told Bloomberg in an emailed statement Sunday that the cases he has identified “indicate an evolutionary pressure to an ancestral strain to acquire these mutations and not a result of a single recombination event.” See also: Cyprus Finds Covid-19 Infections That Combine Delta and Omicron Deltacron infection is higher among patients hospitalized for Covid-19 than among non-hospitalized patients, so that rules out the contamination hypothesis, said Kostrikis, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus and head of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology. What’s more, the samples were processed in multiple sequencing procedures in more than one country. And at least one sequence from Israel deposited in a global database exhibits genetic characteristics of deltacron, he said. “These findings refute the undocumented statements that deltacron is a result of a technical error,” Kostrikis said. Small update: the Cypriot 'Deltacron' sequences reported by several large media outlets look to be quite clearly contamination - they do not cluster on a phylogenetic tree and have a whole Artic primer sequencing amplicon of Omicron in an otherwise Delta backbone. — Tom Peacock (@PeacockFlu) January 8, 2022 Viral genes determine the forms of proteins that perform a number of specific tasks. Omicron and delta each have mutations in the spike protein that affect their ability to enter human cells, with omicron becoming more infectious as a result. Recombinant forms of viruses can arise when there are multiple variants of a pathogen circulating, said Nick Loman, a microbial genomics professor at England’s University of Birmingham who studies the coronavirus. While a recombinant form of delta and omicron wouldn’t be a complete surprise, the finding from Cyprus is more likely a “technical artifact” that arose in the process of sequencing the viral genome, he said. Cypriot Health Minister Michael Hadjipantela said Sunday that the new variant isn’t of concern, and more details will be given at a news conference this week, Philenews reported. — With assistance by Sotiris Nikas, and John Lauerman (Updates with background on mutants in sixth paragraph. An earlier version of this story corrected a researcher’s affiliation in seventh paragraph.)