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COVID outbreak at Antarctic station among fully vaccinated researchers like a horror movie
National Post ^ | 12-30-21 | James Crisp

Posted on 12/31/2021 3:46:00 PM PST by dynachrome

Two thirds of the 25 staff based at Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth Polar Station have caught the virus, the Le Soir newspaper reported, proving there is no escape from the global pandemic.

The outbreak took hold despite all staff passing multiple PCR tests, quarantining and living in one of the most remote places in the world.

The situation has echoes of the plot of John Carpenter’s 1982 horror classic The Thing, which was advertised on posters with the warning “man is the warmest place to hide.”

An alien life form infects workers on an Antarctic station in the cult sci-fi thriller starring Kurt Russell. Unlike the film, none of the infected Belgians have exhibited any severe symptoms – let alone been transformed into bloodthirsty beasts that can only be killed by incineration. All 25 researchers were fully vaccinated and one had a booster shot. Before leaving for the station, they had PCR tests in Belgium two hours before flying to South Africa.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 100percentdefective; antarctic; antivaxporn; belgium; covid; outbreak
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Well, they should have gotten their 20th booster shot.
1 posted on 12/31/2021 3:46:00 PM PST by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Great movie though.


2 posted on 12/31/2021 3:47:35 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: dynachrome

Oh no… the sniffles!! The nagging cough!! … they’re all TIRED!!!!

NOT the …SORE THROAT too!!!

Oh, the HORROR!!!


3 posted on 12/31/2021 3:47:58 PM PST by joethedrummer (We can’t vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: dynachrome

they will blame this on the others not being “boosted”.


4 posted on 12/31/2021 3:48:01 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: dynachrome

The last two years have been a tragic farce.


5 posted on 12/31/2021 3:49:09 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: dynachrome

Looks like COVID-19 has decided to take matters into its own hands and get the long-promised herd immunity reached.


6 posted on 12/31/2021 3:49:19 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: dynachrome

Goodness. Comparing the sniffles to a murderous alien. Sheesh...


7 posted on 12/31/2021 3:49:38 PM PST by Mathews (It's all gravy, baby!)
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To: dynachrome

“Journalism” now is so infantile.


8 posted on 12/31/2021 3:50:14 PM PST by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: Seruzawa

The original was great!


9 posted on 12/31/2021 3:50:39 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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Well, they should have gotten their 20th booster shot.
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Not if they all caught a cold while positive tested.


10 posted on 12/31/2021 3:51:38 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: BenLurkin

You are guilty of eminent sagacity....


11 posted on 12/31/2021 3:52:55 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: dynachrome

Well. Yes. They both are. Very uncommon in moviedom.

The original is just as creepy as ever. Try watching it again.


12 posted on 12/31/2021 3:53:32 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: dynachrome

James Arness starred as the ASPARAGUS.


13 posted on 12/31/2021 3:53:56 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees)
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To: dynachrome

All 25 researchers were fully vaccinated and one had a booster shot. Before leaving for the station, they had PCR tests in Belgium two hours before flying to South Africa.

This is as close to a sealed environment as one could find for an experiment. Yet with everyone vaxxed to the max and boosted there is still an outbreak of covid. Hell of a vaccine.


14 posted on 12/31/2021 3:54:08 PM PST by Flick Lives
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After everything we've learned, they don't suspect the tests?

~Easy

15 posted on 12/31/2021 3:54:14 PM PST by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see.#KAG )
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So, this is all about those selfish, irresponsible triple-vaxxed people putting the health of the heroic triple-vaxxed-AND-boosted people at risk

the Winter of “Severe Illness and Death” continues!!


16 posted on 12/31/2021 3:56:46 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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COVID outbreak at Antarctic station among fully vaccinated researchers

Will the drug companies give refunds?

17 posted on 12/31/2021 3:57:37 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: Seruzawa

I prefer the original movie from 50’s. First sci-fi horror movie I saw.


18 posted on 12/31/2021 3:58:07 PM PST by Hot Rod Garage (Shark)
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To: EasySt

The crazy people were right and the experts were wrong again.


19 posted on 12/31/2021 3:58:40 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: dynachrome

Karma, baby.

Be a shame if they all had massive heart attacks and died.


20 posted on 12/31/2021 3:59:10 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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