Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Oh splendid. Another new variant

In South Africa, called B.1.1.529. They say it's very contagious in young people. More BS on the left? Another way to sell more vaccine? Is this the 15th time it's been posted? I just got up and the coffee's not done yet.

WHO meets to discuss new, ‘heavily mutated’ COVID-19 variant
Variant seems to be most heavily mutated so far in outbreak
By Edmund DeMarche | Fox News
The World Health Organization is holding a meeting Friday to discuss the dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases in South Africa that has been blamed on a new variant of the virus.

Joe Phaahla, South Africa’s minister of health, identified the new variant as B.1.1.529, and said it seems highly contagious among young people.

The BBC reported that the new variant seems to be the most heavily mutated so far in the outbreak. James Gallagher, the health correspondent, wrote that one scientist described the variant as "horrific." He said the meeting of the WHO will likely result in the variant receiving a Greek code-name, like the delta variant.
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"This variant did surprise us," Tulio de Oliveira, the director of the Center for South Africa’s Epidemic Response and Innovation, told the news outlet. "It has a big jump on evolution [and] many more mutations that we expected."
Health Minister Joe Phaahla on a site visit at the Grand West Casino on August 20, 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Nature magazine reported that the variant was first reported in Botswana earlier this month. The report said scientists are trying to determine if the variant can somehow evade the immune response. One researcher in Johannesburg said, "We’re flying at warp speed."
Aris Katzourakis, an expert at virus evolution at the University of Oxford, said, "A burning question is does it reduce vaccine effectiveness because it has so many changes."
The British government announced that it was banning flights from South Africa and five other southern African countries effective at noon (1200GMT) on Friday, and that anyone who had recently arrived from those countries would be asked to take a coronavirus test.

U.K. Health Secretary Sajid Javid said there were concerns the new variant "may be more transmissible" than the dominant delta strain, and "the vaccines that we currently have may be less effective" against it.

Grant Shapps, the British transportation secretary, called the move essential, according to Reuters. He said the spike protein was "dramatically different" from the virus that the vaccines were designed to counter.

The Israeli Health Ministry says it has detected the country's first case of a new coronavirus variant in a traveler who returned from Malawi. Naftali Bennett, the prime minister, said the country is close to declaring a state of emergency over the variant.

So will this variant also fail to kill more than diabetes globally and somehow miss most of the 2nd and 3rd world?

Im still waiting for the largely unprotected, overcrowded and disobedient populations of about 75 african, asian and south american countries to start clocking up the 50-100 million deaths a year this disease was supposed to be able to cause.

.. Covid 1.0 barely beat diaorhea deaths golbally, delta barely beat diabetes deaths. I tell you if this was a chinese bioweapon all those scientists should lose their jobs because its a complate fail. All they can come up with including that idiot talking rat creature fauci is something 3 x less likely to kill westerners in their lives than being fat.

I think the most damage the chinese could do would be to buy stocks in Mcdonalds and insist on slightly more grease in the burgers

Life goes on.

It wasn't intended to kill people. It was intended to remove Donald Trump from office.
Dave

I can tell you the stock market doesn’t like it.

Viruses always mutate, usually to less harmful strains. My wife and I both learned that in achool, but neither of us learned it until after high school.

In other news: Water is wet.

I was expecting this closer to midterms.

Is anyone surprised?

It'll take that long to bring it from South Africa. I'm sure Pfizer is already working on your new booster.

Still waiting patiently for Ebola and West Nile to thin the herd.

and people don't believe that the social elite is wanting to wipe out about 90% of the world's population, to make more room for themselves?

surprise, surprise.

It will be most deadly in nations that get CNN.

The sooner everyone stops paying attention to those peddling death and destruction, the better off we'll be.

Truth.

Calamity du jour.

Next.

From blue backers to vax pushers and beyond, all humans have a basic need to identify and monitor a threat. You'd go squirrelly without. My favorite so far was the cold war and threat of atomic annihilation as that threat was more convenient to live under.

Is your local hospital still overran with idiots?

LOL

Sure thing, Booster Boy.

LOL

covid bodies stacked to the ceilings in all Montana hospitals in anticipation of the new deadly variant. Viruses previously throughout history always, without exception, mutated to a less lethal variant as to not kill the host.

Lets go Brandon and time to make money in the market again.