Nooooooooo…“we” need mail in balloting. No IDs…that’s racist. No signatures…that’s racist. Illegal aliens should be able to vote toooooooooo. They pay cazillions in taxes and not doing so is…guess…wait for it…come on now…racist.
Lordy- yes this new variant has been created by Biden/Soros/Liberals to help the Left politically. And it’s been placed in South Africa but will be brought to the US to help win elections. Y’all…what happened to common sense?
Anyways, this variant does look extremely dangerous if it can outpace vaccine protections. I personally think we should ban all airline traffic coming from South Africa and maybe neighboring countries until we get an understanding of how dangerous the variant is.
If travel restrictions are imposed because of the new South African variant by Biden and liberals, it will also be time to close the southern border - people from hundreds of countries freely enter while some are COVID positive. The illegals are a petri dish of infections.
If there is truly a risk, the federal government is negligent in protecting our country unless the border is closed.
Now how many variants have come out of South Africa? What is going on down there? Is there a gain of function research facility stashed away in that country?
Not sure- but. CFR is only part of the question. Virulence is the other. If something has a high CFR but rarely passes to others then it’s not an important metric. If it passes easily then even a low CFR is extremely dangerous.
It looks like “Nu” is easily transmissible and has taken over Delta as the most common form of Covid.
Actually there may be a more rational reason why COVID mutation come from South Africa, Many of the country’s 8.2 million HIV-infected people are immuno-compromised and scientists say they can harbor the coronavirus for longer, allowing it to mutate as it reproduces.
A study of an HIV positive 36-year-old woman showed that Covid-19 stayed in her body for 216 days and mutated rapidly.