A slew of nations has moved to stop air travel from southern Africa in reaction to news of a new, potentially more transmissible COVID-19 variant. Stock markets have also been impacted, with major indexes falling in Europe and Asia.http://apne.ws/FA1btfx
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Aka "make sure the poors continue dyïng for the economy'.
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Two weeks to lower the curve.
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Did you stay in for that two weeks?
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It's only because SA has a variant detection system so sophisticated it could detect this variant, that does not automatically make it a 'ground zero' for this strain.
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Should’ve been a knee jerk reaction in December 2019 and January 2020. But they hesitated and the rest is history and unfortunately the present
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This from the person who last year said move fast and don’t aim to be perfect. Exercising precautionary principles for a week or two isn’t knee-jerk - travel inconvenience for a few days is a small price to pay.
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Why not? We’ve knee jerked our way through the entirety of this. Why stop now?
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Ummm…Dr Ryan…a lack of decisive fast responses is what got us here in the first place. By the time you figure out how dangerous this new variant is, it’ll have spread to the four corners of the globe.
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