New Variant 'IHU' Identified In France, May Have 46 Mutations

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  1. Pollycy

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    New Variant 'IHU' Identified In France, May Have 46 Mutations

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    https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/new-variant-ihu-identified-in-france-may-have-46-mutations-2688072
    https://africatimes.com/2022/01/03/french-scientists-report-new-covid-variant-traced-to-cameroon/
    https://www.deseret.com/coronavirus/2022/1/4/22867327/new-covid-19-pi-variant-symptoms
    https://www.newsweek.com/ihu-covid-variant-b-1-640-2-mutations-identified-france-1665299a

    Opinion: Once again, it appears that yet another visitor to a backward, African 'shithole' country (Cameroon) has brought something new and threatening back to 'civilization'.

    This new 'variant' has 46 mutations -- more than the 37 mutations of Omicron.

    So -- less than two months after Omicron barged onto the international scene, now we've got yet ANOTHER variation to worry about. When are we going to finally realize that the only thing that makes sense is to totally quarantine these dangerous pestholes until First-World countries can clean them up and disinfect them (at our expense, of course), so that they no longer pose continuing threats to the health of the entire human race!
     
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    I have a better idea - how about we do nothing and just move on with our lives? Not everyone is so scared of this virus as to do onto Africa what you described above.
     
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    could you possibly make this less racist?

    We were told from the beginning that unless we stopped the virus circulating it would mutate
     
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    Why ask a question you already know the answer to?
     
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  5. Pollycy

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    Viruses make no distinction between which members of which races they infect... but the liberal Left rushes to frame everything in the world in terms of "race", whether that's a bullshit assertion or not....
     
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    Or just test people when they come into our country legally and don't allow illegal entry period. Pretty simple, but Biden cannot control the borders because he is incompetent and won't provide the support or tools to do so.

    We do need to move on with our lives, but there is no reason to be careless. The EU sucks at migration issues even more than we do but hey that's their problem. We can test them when they come here too.
     
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    Sorry but terms like “shithole countries” are racist

    They add nothing to your points except to show your thought processes around humanity and as far as I am concerned not in a good way

    This could have arisen in America just as easily
     
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    The Omicron variant has more mutations to the spike protein (37) compared to the IHU variant and more total mutations.

    From your first link:
    "Fourteen amino acid substitutions, including N501Y and E484K, and nine deletions are located in the spike protein."

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    I think Russia, China, Mexico, Iran are all shithole countries. So does that make me racially equitable in my racism? Sorry, I am still learning wokism works.
     
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    So you want the same testing requirements that exist in the EU yet apparently they suck? Proof of negative test before getting on a plane and prior booked PCR test when in US. Then into quarantine until negative PCR result including US citizens. So at what point are they to be tested? Does this not already happen?
     
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    Perhaps you should learn how mutations work? You should be thanking Africa for the Omicron variant, the variant that will lead to the end of the pandemic, the variant that will provide protection against this new variant. Oh, one last thing, there are hundreds of new variants
     
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    Yes
     
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    No, Bower, 'shithole countries' are MADE, not BORN... and they are what they are -- which is exactly why I have advocated for months that we, the so-called great and wonderful First-World, home of all that is grand and glorious in the world, should marshal the resources, the medical teams, the military teams (where needed), and undergo all the effort and the EXPENSE of cleaning these places up!

    How is a plan like THAT somehow "racist"...?! Libs love to flaunt their supposedly superior knowledge about everything imaginable, and yet they remain totally OBLIVIOUS to much of what causes epidemics to spread, and what we must do in order to keep horrible viruses from infecting the rest of humanity!
     
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    It's those damned unvaccinated Trump supporters. If they would get their shots then these mutations coming from other countries to other countries wouldn't be happening.
     
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    You are probably 'painting with an overly-broad brush' to say that the fault is "those damned unvaccinated Trump supporters"... but, statistically, most of the big hospital ram-jam mess we're seeing now is due to the 'unvaccinated' -- no matter what their political affiliation.

    I'm not taking any chances... I'm twice-vaxxed and 'boostered', too. I don't believe a hell of a lot that 'the authorities' tell us because, either they have orders from on-high not to 'spook the herd', or, they just don't KNOW what the real situation is from one day to the next. For quite a while I am much more inclined to put my faith in folks like this Forum's 'Dr. Center', @CenterField .

    Consider: Here's this brand new "IHU" virus-variant that has just appeared in France from down in Africa (yeah, Africa... again!) Have you heard one (ONE) word about it in any of the mainstream media...? Yeah, me neither! Yet, it has at least 46 mutations and nobody mentions it at all -- but everybody was having an apoplectic fit over Omicron in late November, even though it sported only 37 mutations! People are funny -- until they end up, pop-eyed with confusion and fear, in a hospital bed!
     
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    They suck at controlling illegal immigration.
     
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    The term 'shithole countries' is not racist if one is juxtaposing the 1st and 3rd worlds. Now if one used the term 'painted with the **** brush' to describe the people inhabiting a country, that would be racist as painted with the **** brush is a term used to describe persons of color during jim crow, particularly mixed race persons.
    But calling Camaroon a shithole is hardly a stretch, its an armpit even for the 3rd world.
     
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    If a shithole country is ran by whites but the citizens/people are black or something, similar to Brazil. Is calling it a shithole country, racist against the whites running the country or the blacks who just survive within the tyrannical hellhole of a country?
     
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    It is when you couch it in the language you are using - how about instead of expending all that money and resources we simply empower them to meet us on the world stage?
    https://medium.com/@samamanma5/exploitation-of-natural-ressources-in-africa-44755ae5fe90

    This is hugely complex web of international exploitation, local corruption, lack of eduction, unreliable climate and lack of infrastructure. Forcing change from the outside will NEVER work and America has a really really poor history in this regard.
     
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    Racism is not just about skin colour - it is how you treat the “other”. Mexicans are not that much different in skin colour to the generic WASP (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) and yet they are I am assured treated very very differently
     
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    For many decades it's been shown that whenever 'rich' countries just dump millions or billions of dollars on Third-World countries, the money always ends up in the hands of dictators who are servile to large corporations in those same rich countries, and/or in the hands of military 'strong men' who hog all the wealth for their personal pleasure and the well-being of their own stooge-supporters. The money is typically 'laundered' by using stand-alone orgs like the International Monetary Fund, and the United States is by far the largest 'contributor' to it... three years ago we gave $155,000,000,000 to the IMF to support a variety of 'client-governments' located throughout the Third World, and other 'emerging' nations... although with very (VERY) questionable motives. Link: https://www.americanactionforum.org...the-international-monetary-fund-imf-a-primer/

    No, Bower, to clean up the large numbers of failed or failing countries throughout the world, we, the 'rich' nations would have to actually go in and do something effective ourselves, and not rely on some bunch of corrupt, tin-pot dictators or military 'strong men' to do it instead. But, as we have seen for so long -- in Africa, South America, and other areas, too, this hasn't happened, and probably never will.

    So, for the foreseeable future, every time some new epidemic disease appears in these places, all the rest of us can do is try to develop effective vaccines as rapidly as possible and hope for the best. But this is getting to be an uncommonly frequent occurrence.... :cynic:
     
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    Not true.
     
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    A lot of Countries in Africa are Shitholes, nothing Racist about it. They're full of Crime and Murder and their Governments murder their citizens, so that's the very definition of a Shithole Country. There are Shithole areas in the United States also, but just because one race or another is the predominant one in that Shithole country or area doesn't mean it's Racist to call it what it is. Calling it a Shithole full of Murder and Crime is much more attention grabbing instead of Sugar coating an awful place and calling it a misunderstood poor place that happens to have a lot of life ending things happen in it.
     
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    I just point out the hypocrisy of the left. The unvaccinated in the US have absolutely nothing to do with mutations around the world. In fact, every single bad mutation found has come from somewhere else to here. In other words, if 100% of the US had been vaccinated, we would have still come down with Delta, Omicron, and probably IHU. And yet the left blame the unvaccinated for the pandemic not ending. The unvaccinated in the US had zero to do with the mutations I mentioned and many others that came from elsewhere.
     
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    What did the poster say that was RACEist? He/she never once mentioned race, or anything like race.
     

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