From: slider@anashram.com

Matt Hancock has said he is "very worried" about the South African variant
of Covid-19 and that the country should keep an "eagle eye" on it.

The new variant is deemed to be more transmissible than the UK one, which
was already classed as being more prolific than the original coronavirus.

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-01-04/covid-matt-hancock-very-worried-by-south-african-variant

In order to stop the spread of the South African variant, flights to the
UK from the country have already been banned.

"I am very worried about the new South African variant that we've seen."
Mr Hancock told ITV News.

"That's why we've taken the very robust action to stop flights from South Africa.

"My concern is that it seems even more easy to transmit than the new
variant we've seen here [in the UK].

"Obviously, it's been a huge challenge controlling the new variant that
we've seen in the UK."

Only two cases of the new variant have been documented in the UK but
officials are desperate to avoid more at a time when almost 55,000 new
cases were confirmed on Sunday.

"Thankfully, there isn't evidence of very much spread of the South African variant here; we've seen two cases but we haven't seen any further cases
since then but we've got to keep an eagle eye on this one because it is
even harder to deal with than the UK variant."

ITV News Political Editor Robert Peston said that according to one of the government's scientific advisers, the reason for Mr Hancock's "worry"
about the South African Covid-19 variant is that they are not as confident
the vaccines will be as effective against it as they are for the UK's
variant.

Scientists at Porton Down are currently researching this.

### - if it's even 'more' infectious than the already 70% more infectious
uk variant, then we're in real trouble now aren't we huh... coz it'll just spread everywhere?

AND, the worry is, it might not respond to all these new vaccines either??

damn!

in which case the ONLY solution comes down to 2 very hard & difficult
choices:

a severe + 'total' lockdown until it actually dies out (iow: about 3
months of 'total' lockdown!)

or, the acceptance of letting this shit run riot worldwide until genuine
herd immunity levels are actually reached! something which requires
anything up to 80% of the population catching it in order to achieve
effective levels!

and even then (as if it could get any worse!) it evolves so rapidly
there's a good chance of 'reinfection' with different emerging strains
becoming the norm (like seasonal colds & flu) so that this shit is
virtually here forever?? it then only taking one new strain to be even
more 'deadly' than before (something they're 'saying' hasn't happened
yet...) and then people will be literally dying like flies!?

thus the only 'real' + long term solution is a total worldwide global
lockdown until it actually goes away??? something that would spell
widespread economic collapse with many nations actually going bankrupt!
(i.e., such a collapse being one of the end of the world scenarios of old)

what WILL we do i wonder!?

or could it simply be that nature's had enough of all our human fuckery
and is saying it's time for us to go?

all those wild animals wandering around our deserted cities during the
first lockdowns not being exactly a good omen for us humans in that
respect!

place yer feckin' bets!

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