Belgium confirms case of new, heavily mutated Covid variant

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  1. TheAngryLiberal

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    Good grief, is this Nightmare ever going to end, now come a new and improved Terminator version of Covid-19. Just when you think we are beginning to get a handle on this Pandemic crisis and here comes a new one. I know one thing for sure, I ain't buy anything for China for Christmas. Ain't GAIN of FUNCTION testing just grand, Jesus! what the Hell was the purpose of that research for.
    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/26/belgium-confirms-case-of-new-heavily-mutated-covid-variant.html
    Are the European Union, United Kingdom and Israel going to be accused of being Xenophobic against South Africa, like Donald Trump was accused by Liberals for wanting to ban travel from China.
    https://www.foxnews.com/health/new-covid-variant-southern-africa-nations-travel-ban
     
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    When is the world going to wake up and say enough is enough and bring massive sanctions and punishment to China, for unleashing this plague?
     
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    We should be careful not to punish the Chinese people in such a way that it forever entwines their destiny with the communist dictatorship that controls them. It has been proven that these types of dictatorships can be defeated with minimal bloodshed. We must do anything to expose the lie that their system, with one all powerful man capable of any decision, is the best system for the Chinese people, and the world.
     
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    Most of the stuff required in our day to day life is manufactured and imported from CHINA and that is the result of our corporate greed in allowing all our manufacturing to be sent to countries with the cheapest labor. Now it is biting us in the ass.
     
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    The beating will continue until the mood improves.
     
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    America sold it's soul to China decades ago and President Beijing Biden was their Manchurian candidate.
     
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    Not only Belgium but other European countries are seeing ICUs fill up with unvaccinated people. It will hit us too, and while Biden says there will be no lock-downs, the economy will take a hit no matter what since it is in fact a global economy, and if Europeans shut down, it will worsen the supply crunch.
     
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    Yes, we have integrated our economy of many businesspeople seeking profit with an economy that is ultimately controlled by one man, whose motives may include profit, but also include the ideological.
     
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    The more information the Chinese people have the better. But they have a more powerful propaganda arm at the switch. The problem with letting them get away with it is that they won’t have any compulsion to do it again. Because why not? Look at the damage it’s done to our population? They don’t have to worry about anything we have to worry about here because their people are essentially modern day slaves, except for the elite. And they’re not concerned with lives lost or their people suffering. They dont care. At least our leaders feign some sort of compassion and empathy. Chinese leadership has none and don’t even have to act like they care.
     
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    We need Zuckerberg and others to turn their subtle censorship tactics from conservatives toward the Chinese dictatorship. We can do much, but it will take a mindset shift in our elites AND public.
     
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    We need more ICU's. We need to be very prepared in establishing field hospitals. I'm getting tired of this apparent attitude of throwing your hands up and blaming the unvaccinated for filled hospitals. I know what we were capable of in WWII. Governments need to stop blaming private citizens and do their jobs. BUILD MORE. Handle it.
     
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    Israel is on verge of national emergency after one person was infected by the African super variant.

    Israel Is on the Verge of a State of Emergency Over Variant, PM Bennett Says
    Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a news conference about the new Covid-19 variant after the strain was detected in a man who returned to Israel from Malawi. Scientists are still trying to determine whether the new variant, called B.1.1529, is more transmissible or more lethal than previous ones.
     
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    The "throwing your hands up" idea was hatched in your brain, not mine.
     
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    It takes years to train efficient ICU staff. You just can't go on LinkedIn and hit the recruit button.
     
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    No, it's a general narrative I see.
     
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    So we better get started. I think we have years. It's already going on 3.
     
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    Not sure hopw many young people want to go into ICU after seing the working condition since the start of the pandemic. My niece has been on long shift and no vacation since march 2020. mShe lnows when she has to go to work but is never sure when she'll be back home.
     
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    We only need Covid specific facilities or caregivers. They don't need to know how to assist in brain surgery.
     
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    Well, since Covid is also linked to neurological after effect, yeah they kind of do...
     
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    Are you prepared to go and take your brand new vaccine because surely the ones already out there won't cover this one?
     
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    I've got news for you...
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    Anyway, IF this strain is as bad as it seems, the minute it gets to the USA it will trigger another massive change in "business as usual".

    Sadly, b/c of the USA's large percentage of those who have bought into Absurdist Conspiratorial Anti-vaxx Propaganda, the scenario could devestating.
     
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    If more available personnel who can provide basic Covid care and detection will save lives, we should get them. I'd much rather do something like that than my current job.
     
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    Which is driven by the American (and world) appetite to buy the cheapest products. Businesses aren't just doing it to "make the most money". If they don't complete, they don't survive, and all your 'average worker' heroes are unemployed.
     
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    Apparently it does cover as is evidenced by the fact that the people in ICU are mostly unvaccinated.
     
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    No problemo! Biden will mandate all insulin pumps be confiscated and converted into vaccine pumps so's ya can get ya daily booster... diabetics will just have to suck it up for the cause. :)
     
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