A new variant of the virus... so far I am not too concerned about that. All I feel is, now that, right before Christmas, and when they're about to flog the vaccine.
Is it true, or is it part of the fear-mongering program?
And like Blondey said, it has mutated before, if memory serves the first time was very early on, when Covid had just caused major problems in China and was about to spread further. So I guess around Febr/March 2020.
What I find peculiar is that China hasn't had a big problem at all anymore while numbers in the rest of mostly the Western world are sky-rocketing.
Africa is doing okay too and no, that has nothing to do with poor testing facilities etc.
Anyway, too early days to say. Faster spread doesn't mean it's worse. Wait and see and fingers crossed.
Remember the SARS out break in China back in 2002? Its a form of the corona virus, thus China has had a head start in dealing with this, this is also likely how the covid19 virus started as they were doing the research of corona virus. If its a new strain they would probably call it covid20 or something, but it just a mutation as viruses do. China has check points everywhere, people need their cell phones to get thru the check points and their cell phones are also tracked as is everybody in China. They have quarantine for people who even remotely come into contact. They also have fewer restrictions on creating vaccine. The reason for such sudden world wide spread is China has become a major world player. People are traveling to China, and some of the Chinese population is also now able to travel the world. Much like when the Pilgrims arrived in America killing off millions of Indians with the disease they brought had to do with the Indians immune system never encountering such things, very possible Chinese have developed at least some immunity to corona thru the years.
Africa? When was the last time you planned a trip to Africa? How many people from Africa do you see traveling abroad? Ya, I'd like to go shoot a lion and elephant and have them stuffed, but I doesn't excite me to go see the jungle of a 3rd world country with a high risk of dying or getting sick. Haven't heard a lot about Ebola getting out if Africa?
They keep bringing up the influenza out break of 1918 (Spanish flu) and we still deal with the flu and new strains every year, we lose some people and it causes some inconvenience but we have never put a stop to it. I like to think of what is going on more like the Polio outbreak of the late 40's early 50's where people locked down in fear. The thing about that is it affected more young then old. Some of the first vaccines had issues but for the most part it was a huge player in the control. Sometimes thinning the heard isn't a bad thing, makes the healthy more healthy. You know why we can afford insurance or medical care? OLD PEOPLE! Then people who have a life suffer because they can't get the care they need. People are selfish, that we already know, its unfortunate that people can't accept this fact and do something about it to make others lives better.
