New Corona Variant, that might be very dangerous, spreads in South Africa

[badger2]

All I hear about is how fast this "variation" spreads. Nothing about how SEVERE it is. Okay, if it spreads like wildfire but is a cold....so what?

Why does no one ask these questions but just panics?

/nevermind, too late to ask reasonable questions I guess

Precisely. Let’s not forget the other puppet, Fau Chi, because until they’ve seen Fau get the mutation, D614G backwards in his video, they’ll not think to dig deeper into this CIA-sponsored Dem-Nazi media fear mongering. The South African Nu variant has the same mutation. The mutation increases pseudovirus particle production of a certain virus, but it’s not the virus you think. That mutation in SARS-CoV-2 increases production of VSV particles. VSV is the basis for ebola vaccine. These two POS punks are not laying all their cards on the table, and it also links to a Canadian pig coronavirus, circa 1962. Hang these two by their thumbs and butt-naked somewhere outdoors and get some video footage of it.

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

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This variant is already in several countries. There's no stopping it now. Travel bans will only slow it down for half a minute.

NOthing to worry about. Trump is not president. Right? Brandon got everything under control , right? Your dream come true . Morons.

 

[badger2]

I hope people realize the vaccine is causing these variants. There is no intention of wiping Covid out.

Vaccine selection pressure could be causing some of these new spike mutations.

 

[Foolardi]

U.S. to restrict travel from South Africa, 7 other countries as new Covid variant emerges


From the article:

• The United States will restrict travel for non-U.S. citizens from South Africa and seven other countries starting on Monday as a new Covid variant emerges.
• President Joe Biden was briefed on Friday by White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci. The briefing came as other nations announced travel restrictions on southern Africa.
• In addition to South Africa, the affected countries are Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi.

OP Comment(s):

Whoa there Joey Biden, sounds like a racist policy you done come up with, pal. Think of all the poor Africans you're about to discriminate against. Maybe we'll a have to start a callin' you Trump Lite. Like, you know, diet Trump? What a crock. Someone, anyone, please pass the jelly . . .

Well ya don't say.Cuz ya dint.That vaccination rates for Africa are around 8 %.
Africans don't cotton having needles stuck in their arms.On account Bill Gates
tried that hat trick.With devastating results.The Popular Black Conservative Ladies
Diamond & Silk went vocal about their not ever taking a vaccine created by Bill
Gates.In their words on account he " sought to make Africans his guinea pigs.
Gates has a history of being a Vaccine authoritarian.Even when his vaccines like
used on females in India proved disastrous.Disabling many.
Joe Biden is of the same mindset.POlus a huge hypoctiete.He and sidekick
V.P. Harris vocally admitting they wern't going to have a vaccine as long as
Trump was in office.

 

[ClaireH]

All I hear about is how fast this "variation" spreads. Nothing about how SEVERE it is. Okay, if it spreads like wildfire but is a cold....so what?

Why does no one ask these questions but just panics?

/nevermind, too late to ask reasonable questions I guess

The scientists don’t even know if it’s more contagious than Delta at this point. This article gives a few more details. It’s hard to tell if this is truly about alerting the public or fear promotion. I haven’t looked beyond the medical journals but I’m sure that the LSM is already lying to the public about it. LSM is one of the worst culprits with raising the panic button when there should be caution without panic.

Heavily mutated Omicron variant puts scientists on alert

Researchers are racing to determine whether a fast-spreading coronavirus variant poses a threat to COVID vaccines’ effectiveness.

www.nature.com

 

[Doc7505]

Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert​

Researchers are racing to determine whether a fast-spreading variant in South Africa poses a threat to COVID vaccines’ effectiveness.​

Heavily mutated Omicron variant puts scientists on alert

Researchers are racing to determine whether a fast-spreading coronavirus variant poses a threat to COVID vaccines’ effectiveness.

www.nature.com

26 Nov 2021 ~~ By Ewen Callaway

Researchers in South Africa are racing to track the concerning rise of a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The variant harbours a large number of the mutations found in other variants, including Delta, and it seems to be spreading quickly across South Africa.
A top priority is to follow the variant more closely as it spreads: it was first identified in Botswana earlier this month and has since turned up in a traveller arriving in Hong Kong from South Africa. Scientists are also trying to understand the variant’s properties, such as whether it can evade immune responses triggered by vaccines and whether it causes more or less severe disease than other variants do.
“We’re flying at warp speed,” says Penny Moore, a virologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, whose lab is gauging the variant’s potential to dodge immunity from vaccines and previous infections. There are anecdotal reports of reinfections and of cases in vaccinated individuals, but “at this stage it’s too early to tell anything”, Moore adds.
“There’s a lot we don’t understand about this variant,” Richard Lessells, an infectious-diseases physician at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, said at a press briefing organized by South Africa’s health department on 25 November. “The mutation profile gives us concern, but now we need to do the work to understand the significance of this variant and what it means for the response to the pandemic.”
~Snip~

Vaccine effectiveness​

To understand the threat B.1.1.529 poses, researchers will be closely tracking its spread in South Africa and beyond. Researchers in South Africa mobilized efforts to quickly study the Beta variant, identified there in late 2020, and a similar effort is starting to study B.1.1.529.

See:
Virology SARS-CoV-2 Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert

Commentary:
If this new variant turns out to be worse than Delta, like a number of scientists are saying is possible, there will be a return to massive lockdowns and restrictions on civil liberties. Especially if it affects the vaccinated like Delta did. So much for those vaccines. I appears they've done nothing to stop the new variant.
Funny isn't it, they've named it the "Nu B" variant - as in "Newby". Give us a break. We are not all stupid. It's the FLU!!!! And if you want to be specific - it's the CHINESE WUHAN FLU!!!
"Fear has a new name..." and Covid Virus is it's name.
I'm waiting for the CDC to announce the "Andromeda Strain of COVID virus" is so contagious you can get it by text messages. Fauci will urge people to wear quadruple masks, lock themselves in their homes for the immediate future and wrap their bodies in plastic wrap. Joe Biden swill appear in a hazmat suit to address the nation but is quickly rushed off stage as he apparently passed one of his rancorous farts while suited up fogging his visor and making it impossible to read his teleprompter.
Meanwhile, Joey Xi's bombastic remarks berating Trump for his handling of the Chinese Virus needs to eat crow.
Bai Dung has handled it much worse than any other president before him. especially since he was handed a vaccine before he took the oath of office, sufficient PPE supplies and respirators that were scarce at the beginning of 2020.
Surely a president with all the decisive failures he has provoked and presided over in the last 10 months does not deserve to be president.

​

 

[Nostra]

A new Covid variant has appeared in South Africa.

Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern

The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) is an independent group of experts that periodically monitors and evaluates the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and assesses if specific mutations and combinations of mutations alter the behaviour of the virus. The TAG-VE was convened...

www.who.int

This variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning. Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, as compared to other VOCs. The number of cases of this variant appears to be increasing in almost all provinces in South Africa. Current SARS-CoV-2 PCR diagnostics continue to detect this variant. Several labs have indicated that for one widely used PCR test, one of the three target genes is not detected (called S gene dropout or S gene target failure) and this test can therefore be used as marker for this variant, pending sequencing confirmation. Using this approach, this variant has been detected at faster rates than previous surges in infection, suggesting that this variant may have a growth advantage.


This news has disrupted the stock market and airlines.

Announcement of new virus variant alarms world, as stocks crash and flights are banned


President Biden is taking precautionary measures:

Senior Biden administration officials announced Friday that starting Monday, travel to the United States will be restricted from South Africa and seven other countries — Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The new policy, which does not affect U.S. citizens and permanent residents, was enacted “out of an abundance of caution,” officials said, as public health officials work to learn more about the new variant.


<snip>

Still, major questions remain about the variant’s transmissibility, whether it might make people sicker and whether it might be able to evade vaccines or therapeutics.

The omicron variant was first detected in Botswana, but scientists in South Africa convened a news conference Thursday and said they had linked it to an exponential rise of infections in their country. Cases have also been identified in Hong Kong and Belgium, Israel and other countries.

Racist!

 

[ClaireH]

Precisely. Let’s not forget the other puppet, Fau Chi, because until they’ve seen Fau get the mutation, D614G backwards in his video, they’ll not think to dig deeper into this CIA-sponsored Dem-Nazi media fear mongering. The South African Nu variant has the same mutation. The mutation increases pseudovirus particle production of a certain virus, but it’s not the virus you think. That mutation in SARS-CoV-2 increases production of VSV particles. VSV is the basis for ebola vaccine. These two POS punks are not laying all their cards on the table, and it also links to a Canadian pig coronavirus, circa 1962. Hang these two by their thumbs and butt-naked somewhere outdoors and get some video footage of it.

Badger, as you’ve been keeping the board most informed about mutations, this article suggests over 30 different changes detected with Nu-B.1.1.529.

“Researchers spotted B.1.1.529 in genome-sequencing data from Botswana. The variant stood out because it contains more than 30 changes to the spike protein — the SARS-CoV-2 protein that recognizes host cells and is the main target of the body’s immune responses. Many of the changes have been found in variants such as Delta and Alpha, and are linked to heightened infectivity and the ability to evade infection-blocking antibodies.”

Heavily mutated Omicron variant puts scientists on alert

Researchers are racing to determine whether a fast-spreading coronavirus variant poses a threat to COVID vaccines’ effectiveness.

www.nature.com

 

[WEATHER53]

The scientist and experts don’t know shit and that’s why the forced human experimentation continues. Never in the history have researchers spent so much time combing thru minutia and overturning rocks to discover the Next Ender of Mankind.

For Gods sakes let’s look at the Path we’ve been dragged down-
Vaccination
Another vaccination
Then a third
More now suggested. In perpetuity.
You need to be vaccinated too or mine won’t work.
Vaccinations work but wear a mask anyway
Get a vax card or get fired and maybe jailed

I guarantee you that 20 years ago when this Nation was dominated by thinkers that 7th graders would have been able to determine the fallacy of everything posted above
20 years later we got over half the adults in the Nation running to hide under their bed and trying to force everyone else there.

 

[Kondor3]

Good. A travel ban at least buys us a couple of weeks to try to make sense out of the new mutation.

 

[Foolardi]

Precisely. Let’s not forget the other puppet, Fau Chi, because until they’ve seen Fau get the mutation, D614G backwards in his video, they’ll not think to dig deeper into this CIA-sponsored Dem-Nazi media fear mongering. The South African Nu variant has the same mutation. The mutation increases pseudovirus particle production of a certain virus, but it’s not the virus you think. That mutation in SARS-CoV-2 increases production of VSV particles. VSV is the basis for ebola vaccine. These two POS punks are not laying all their cards on the table, and it also links to a Canadian pig coronavirus, circa 1962. Hang these two by their thumbs and butt-naked somewhere outdoors and get some video footage of it.

Has anyone ever bothered to think that maybe these Vaccines help
actually weaken one's immunity.One reason that many are not protected from
the Variant.We were told in no uncertain terms that once vaccinated one can
forget about wearing a mask because yer protected.
Now were back to mandating masks { Technically and scientifically of little use }.
Now 2 Vaccine stabs plus a Booster are being demanded.What a load of pap.
Plus failure by the CDC to release pertinent Data as to side effects and deaths.
The Hospitals are partly to blame.They are getting additional pay for each
Covid case.Doctors are also getting paid to put down on a Death Certificate
Likely cause ... Covid.The reason many good doctors and nurses are leaving the
profession.How come many Nurses refuse to take the Vaccine.
Half of the NIH and CDC are also reluctant to get the jab.
One reason your doctor may seem to care about your health and demand you
get vaccinated { no matter your health history } is they are forced into that decision.
If they don't play along they are denied Insurance coverage.Doctors cannot practice
medicine w/o Malpractice Insurance.The Major Insurance companies are Woke.
Like Coca-Cola and some airlines were.You either play their authoritarian game'
or don't bother showing up at your job.
'

 

[Circe]

20 years later we got over half the adults in the Nation running to hide under their bed and trying to force everyone else there.

Have to say, sounds a little kinky ----

 

[excalibur]

FJB's travel bans are xenophobic and racist.

Travel bans don't work. Fauci said so.

Travel restrictions 'irrelevant' if coronavirus becomes a pandemic, top US health official says

Stringent travel restrictions imposed on inbound flights from China to contain the coronavirus outbreak become "irrelevant" in a potential pandemic because "you can't keep out the entire world," a top U.S. health official said.

www.cnbc.com

 

[2aguy]

A new Covid variant has appeared in South Africa.

Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern

The Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE) is an independent group of experts that periodically monitors and evaluates the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and assesses if specific mutations and combinations of mutations alter the behaviour of the virus. The TAG-VE was convened...

www.who.int

This variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning. Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, as compared to other VOCs. The number of cases of this variant appears to be increasing in almost all provinces in South Africa. Current SARS-CoV-2 PCR diagnostics continue to detect this variant. Several labs have indicated that for one widely used PCR test, one of the three target genes is not detected (called S gene dropout or S gene target failure) and this test can therefore be used as marker for this variant, pending sequencing confirmation. Using this approach, this variant has been detected at faster rates than previous surges in infection, suggesting that this variant may have a growth advantage.


This news has disrupted the stock market and airlines.

Announcement of new virus variant alarms world, as stocks crash and flights are banned


President Biden is taking precautionary measures:

Senior Biden administration officials announced Friday that starting Monday, travel to the United States will be restricted from South Africa and seven other countries — Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The new policy, which does not affect U.S. citizens and permanent residents, was enacted “out of an abundance of caution,” officials said, as public health officials work to learn more about the new variant.


<snip>

Still, major questions remain about the variant’s transmissibility, whether it might make people sicker and whether it might be able to evade vaccines or therapeutics.

The omicron variant was first detected in Botswana, but scientists in South Africa convened a news conference Thursday and said they had linked it to an exponential rise of infections in their country. Cases have also been identified in Hong Kong and Belgium, Israel and other countries.

So....you guys are saying Biden is xenophobic and racist with these travel bans....right? Since you said that about Trump...right?

 

[excalibur]

Within hours of President Trump's decision to restrict travel from China on Jan. 31, top Democrats and media figures immediately derided the move as unnecessary and xenophobic -- and they are now beating a hasty retreat from that position as the coronavirus continues to ravage the economy and cause scores of deaths.

Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden led the way, quickly attacking what he called Trump's "record of hysteria, xenophobia and fear-mongering" after the travel restrictions were announced, and arguing that Trump "is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency." Biden, on Wednesday, didn't criticize the travel ban in any way, and instead accused Trump of "downplaying" the virus early on in remarks to Fox News.

"I had Biden calling me xenophobic," Trump told Fox News' "Hannity" on March 26. "He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in."

In March, another Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., conspicuously insisted at a Fox News town hall that he wouldn't consider closing the U.S. border to prevent the spread of coronavirus, before condemning what he called the president's xenophobia. The Vermont senator has since taken to promoting "Medicare-for-All" and workers' rights amid the outbreak, while deferring to health experts on border closings.

For many news outlets, the about-face has been stark. A Jan. 31 article in The New York Times quoted epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm as saying that Trump's decision to restrict travel from China was "more of an emotional or political reaction."​

After attacking Trump's coronavirus-related China travel ban as xenophobic, Dems and media have changed tune

Within hours of President Trump's decision to restrict travel from China on January 31, top Democrats and media figures immediately derided the move as unnecessary and xenophobic -- and they are now beating a hasty retreat from that position as the coronavirus continues to ravage the economy and...

www.foxnews.com

 

[Concerned American]

Have to say, sounds a little kinky ----

Yahoo!

 

[excalibur]

Within hours of President Trump's decision to restrict travel from China on Jan. 31, top Democrats and media figures immediately derided the move as unnecessary and xenophobic -- and they are now beating a hasty retreat from that position as the coronavirus continues to ravage the economy and cause scores of deaths.

Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden led the way, quickly attacking what he called Trump's "record of hysteria, xenophobia and fear-mongering" after the travel restrictions were announced, and arguing that Trump "is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency." Biden, on Wednesday, didn't criticize the travel ban in any way, and instead accused Trump of "downplaying" the virus early on in remarks to Fox News.

"I had Biden calling me xenophobic," Trump told Fox News' "Hannity" on March 26. "He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in."

In March, another Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., conspicuously insisted at a Fox News town hall that he wouldn't consider closing the U.S. border to prevent the spread of coronavirus, before condemning what he called the president's xenophobia. The Vermont senator has since taken to promoting "Medicare-for-All" and workers' rights amid the outbreak, while deferring to health experts on border closings.

For many news outlets, the about-face has been stark. A Jan. 31 article in The New York Times quoted epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm as saying that Trump's decision to restrict travel from China was "more of an emotional or political reaction."​

After attacking Trump's coronavirus-related China travel ban as xenophobic, Dems and media have changed tune

Within hours of President Trump's decision to restrict travel from China on January 31, top Democrats and media figures immediately derided the move as unnecessary and xenophobic -- and they are now beating a hasty retreat from that position as the coronavirus continues to ravage the economy and...

www.foxnews.com

 

[JGalt]

Viruses are the ultimate killers. They infect people, vaccines are developed, then the viruses mutate in the bodies of those vaccinated people, so an entirely new vaccine has to be developed. Natural immunity is the only way mankind will survive the biological weapon the CCP has wrought.

谢谢你，中国

 

[Esdraelon]

Joe Biden swill appear in a hazmat suit to address the nation but is quickly rushed off stage as he apparently passed one of his rancorous farts while suited up fogging his visor and making it impossible to read his teleprompter.

I damned near inhaled some diet coke on this ^
The visuals set me off

 

[WEATHER53]

Have to say, sounds a little kinky ----

You can be assured it would not be guy and girl kinky.