If we want to think about the risk from #BA286 I think it's very important to keep two scenarios in mind.

We have seen #variants emerge with high variation from prior ancestors

1. that did not take off
2. that exploded

in the population. Both scenarios have happened.

The recent lab studies suggest (1) is more likely than (2). However, we don't have a great track record yet of predicting which variants will (or won't) take off.

So be careful sighing with relief over the recent "good news, it's tame" reporting. It may be right, it may not be.

We won't *know* which of these scenarios are materializing until we see waste water surveillance & hospitalization data. We can watch various bellweather countries & states for early indications.

If you are #precautionary, then it's time to get out your respirators again and reactivate your airborne precautions.

Of course, some of us have never stopped with the airborne precautions, because we can't risk making the impact we are living every day any worse.
#sars2 #sarscov2 #wave #covid19

Regulations for persistent substances must be #precautionary to prevent their poorly reversible accumulation in the environment, and NOT just #reactionary like the #StockholmConvention, requiring proof of - or damage from - accumulation in the environment.

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@vdignum @pettter @kfort @emilymbender @timnitGebru And the danger is that if one part of the community of discussion is always easily painted as oppositional -- always taking a #precautionary or risk-first approach in encounters with technology -- the "booster" side will see the scope for productive discussion and compromise as very narrow.

We have secured that the #precautionary principle remains in the text as a guiding principle for the market surveillance authorities (yet, from my point of view, the Commission proposal that included the principle as a guiding principle for the entire regulation is better). 3/8

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[台灣紅十字會推文] @TAIWAN_REDCROSS@twitter.com:「 #COVID19 is still around us. Please continue to practice the 3⃣ #precautionary Ws: 💡 #WashYourHands 💡 #WearAMask 😷 💡 #Watch your #PhysicalDistancing ↔️ 」