Africa is bracing itself for a Covid catastrophe

The Times ^ | May 13 | The Times

[RandFan]

Complacency and the rise of new variants are forming a lethal cocktail that could engulf the entire continent.

[RandFan]

This is Bill Gates and the globalists plan for depopulation.

Looks like they have chosen Africa to wipe out..

[rktman]

Billy boy is good with it.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Where is Wakanda when you need it?

[DuncanWaring]

Africa was always their planned starting point.

[BenLurkin]

COVID is bad, but it isn’t nearly as bad as things like Ebola.

[MinorityRepublican]

You’re right about this one. But Bill Gates didn’t create COVID-19. Anyway, Africa isn’t as densely populated as India or as old as the West. Time will tell.

[MinorityRepublican]

Ebola does not spread as easily.

[ctdonath2]

Hardly. Pandemics are a natural reality, and Africa is woefully under-prepared to ward off a serious one.

Occam’s razor still notes that a viable summary remains: someone ate a diseased bat, and a lot of people will naturally die as a result. If anything, it’s surprising that Africa _hasn’t_ suffered the expected “Covid catastrophe” yet.

[blueunicorn6]

Just take a right at the third elephant.

[dfwgator]

Everybody gets their turn, it’s what viruses do.

[SpaceBar]

Predicting continued outbreaks of infectious disease in squalid and impoverished parts of the world is like predicting the rising of the sun.

[Mr. Rabbit]

I’m surprised this didn’t happen last year to Africa and India, given their overpopulation and third world s**tholery. Maybe it got lost among all of the Malaria, starvation, violence, etc.

[cranked]

Welp, apparently, those who advocate against over-population/population control are giddy and happy? /s

[absalom01]

With the example of the states in India, and regions in Latin America that are using cheap, safe, and effective therapeutics, it may be hard for the authorities in the African nations to stick with the WHO “wait for the vaccine” strategy.

Can the truth be contained? We’re about to find out.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Natural selection???

[cuban leaf]

A lot of folks thought this was the goal of GRID, later renamed to AIDS.

[cuban leaf]

It does seem, however, that lately China is looking to Africa the same way Hitler looked to Ukraine.

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

I guess nobody was buying the India resurrgence of the virus.

[SpaceBar]

I predict that some time down the road we will find out that North Korea was hit exceptionally hard by Covid but managed to keep it covered up.

[Tell It Right]

Fun Fact: The Little Ice Age affected African nations much like it did Europe with the lower crop yields, harder to predict rains, and worse plagues. This is basically why most of the black kingdoms/nations changed their #1 export from crops to slaves.

Most of the slaves who died during transit did so before they left Africa because of the plagues. So plagues in Africa are nothing new. And the leaders have a history of handling them poorly.