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Speaker 1: Dam mission with Jones and Amanda. What's going on? I

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Speaker 1: saw a great thing I should put on my inst

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Speaker 1: of this woman saying I wish they'd stopped renewing COVID

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Speaker 1: variance for more seasons. The writing's gone downhill. Storylines are

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Speaker 1: becoming repetitive. We need a series finale asap.

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Speaker 2: Isn't this what viruses do? Though? They keep cycling because

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Speaker 2: the virus always wants to survive. So when Delta goes,

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Speaker 2: it begets to omicronics that well.

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Speaker 1: We've had a number of idea. They've been a number

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Speaker 1: of mutations, but they've been deemed not to be viable.

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Speaker 1: So the virus will constantly attempt to mutate, and scientists

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Speaker 1: have seen that in recent months. This one feels a

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Speaker 1: little bit different.

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Speaker 2: I saw, but that's what they said about Delta.

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Speaker 1: And it was a bit different.

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Speaker 2: It was a bit different, a bit more constageously. It

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Speaker 2: wasn't more deadly.

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Speaker 1: They don't know yet whether our vaccines, how effective our

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Speaker 1: vaccines will be against omicron. What they are saying is

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Speaker 1: that at this stage it does seem that it's got

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Speaker 1: in hants transmissibility, and we don't know yet how effective

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Speaker 1: our vaccines will be against it. Those studies are taking

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Speaker 1: place right now, so they're saying, don't panic, our best

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Speaker 1: scientists are on it.

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Speaker 2: Good.

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Speaker 1: I saw a bit of discussion when this we first

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Speaker 1: heard that omicron had come from Africa, people saying, this

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Speaker 1: is what happens when we don't vaccinate poor countries that

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Speaker 1: can't afford their own vaccination, and we've known this, this

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Speaker 1: is where the mutations will come. And then I was

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Speaker 1: reading that it's not a supply, isn't an issue that

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Speaker 1: some of those vaccines are being sent to those countries,

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Speaker 1: but there is some In some countries, there is vaccine hesitancy,

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Speaker 1: particularly let's talk about Africa. Ten percent of Africans have

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Speaker 1: had one dose of a vaccine. Their hesitancy been put

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Speaker 1: down to some times. By the time the vaccines get there,

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Speaker 1: they are out of date, so they're not viable. But

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Speaker 1: also there's no infrastructure there to make it easy. They

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Speaker 1: can't take a day off work to go and get vaccinated.

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Speaker 1: They don't have the transport to take them there. So

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Speaker 1: they've got the supply of vaccine, but not the infrastructure

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Speaker 1: that we have that make it easy for us to

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Speaker 1: get vaccinated. So maybe we need a vaccination policy an

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Speaker 1: education policy. Along with just sending vaccines to countries, maybe

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Speaker 1: we need an education policy as well to help people

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Speaker 1: navigate what this means and how they can go about it.

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Speaker 1: The vaccine itself and how in the future we can

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Speaker 1: find a vaccine that will make us safe to all

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Speaker 1: variations is obviously what they're trying to do. That's like

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Speaker 1: the flu vaccine where every year it's slightly different, but

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Speaker 1: you have the nut of it constantly. And this is

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Speaker 1: what I've been reading is what they're working on. So

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Speaker 1: you know how there's the shape of the shape of

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Speaker 1: the of the virus itself.

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Speaker 2: It's like a ball with those spik.

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Speaker 1: Spiky things are called heads, and the vaccine trains our

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Speaker 1: bodies to recognize the shape of those heads. But the

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Speaker 1: heads are changing. So what they're going to look at now,

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Speaker 1: what the best way for a vaccine would be a

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Speaker 1: generic vaccine for this for COVID, would be to knock

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Speaker 1: out the stork that supports the head. So there's that ball,

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Speaker 1: and there's a stork that goes from the ball to

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Speaker 1: the head, and what happens is that stork opens up

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Speaker 1: and lets the bad mutations and the bad bits go

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Speaker 1: into the human body. That stork when it lands on

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Speaker 1: your body, pushes all the information into the virus into

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Speaker 1: your body. So what they're trying to do is find

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Speaker 1: a vaccine that knocks out those storks, because once it

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Speaker 1: does that, it doesn't matter what variation comes on there.

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Speaker 1: If you knock out the stork, it can't mutake.

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Speaker 2: You just got the ball.

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Speaker 1: You've just got the ball. That's its vulnerability is the stork.

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Speaker 1: And that's what they're working on now. So you know,

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Speaker 1: it's exhausting thinking of travel plans. Lots of people I've

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Speaker 1: been reading about have been changing travel plans now for Christmas.

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Speaker 1: They're not going overseas. This is recalibrating us yet again

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Speaker 1: and reminding us that we're not through it. So still

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Speaker 1: get your boosters, do all that stuff. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: keep where bring a mask because you just we just

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Speaker 1: need to protect ourselves.

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Speaker 2: We're still in it.

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Speaker 1: We're still in it. Jonesy and Amanda's Nation