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COVID Outbreak In Belgian Research Station In Antarctica
ABC News ^ | 01/04/21 | Mary Kekatos

Posted on 01/08/2022 10:52:00 PM PST by Enlightened1

A research station in Antarctica is battling a COVID-19 outbreak despite being located in one of the most remote corners of the world.

Since mid-December, 11 of the 33 workers at Belgium's Princess Elisabeth Polar Station have tested positive for the virus.

Joseph Cheek, a project manager for the International Polar Foundation, which manages the outpost, told ABC News that the first case was reported on Dec. 15 in a worker who had traveled to Antarctica with a group via South Africa despite strict testing and travel requirements.

Before arriving in South Africa from their country of origin, the workers were required to have a negative PCR test at least 72 hours prior to the flight. The employees then had to quarantine in South Africa for 10 days and take another PCR test five days into the quarantine period.

Once the quarantine period was over, each person was required to take another test 48 hours before their flight to Antarctica and five days after arrival.

It was on the sixth day after arrival that the first worker tested positive followed by two more workers.

The three patients were evacuated on Dec. 23 but, following their departure, an additional eight people were confirmed to have the virus.

The workers had all been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with at least one having received a booster shot.

Cheek said all the cases have been mild and there are currently no cases at the Princess Elizabeth station.

 

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: antarctica; covid; outbreak; vaccinated
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100% vaxxed. 100% remote and quarantined.

All members must be vaccinated and tested BEFORE they can enter the station.

Guess what happened?

2/3 got infected with COVID. But don’t worry. It isn’t serious.

This is a perfect example of how well vaccines work.

1 posted on 01/08/2022 10:52:00 PM PST by Enlightened1
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(100% vaxxed. 100% remote and quarantined.)

🤔


2 posted on 01/08/2022 10:57:22 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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Didn’t I read this story a week ago? Antarctica team with Covid outbreak and they referenced the movie The Thing by John Carpenter.


3 posted on 01/08/2022 11:00:23 PM PST by Blue Highway
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Oh Nos!!!
Send in the chicken soup!


4 posted on 01/08/2022 11:00:40 PM PST by griffin (Don't ever forget. In RW#1, Tyrants were SHOT IN THE FACE. A LOT. Remember!!)
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Didnt they all get the 5 addition boosters!!?? How could this EVER happen? Could the injections just be......A SCAM???


5 posted on 01/08/2022 11:02:38 PM PST by griffin (Don't ever forget. In RW#1, Tyrants were SHOT IN THE FACE. A LOT. Remember!!)
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Didnt they all get the 5 addition boosters!!?? How could this EVER happen? Could the injections just be......A SCAM???


6 posted on 01/08/2022 11:03:49 PM PST by griffin (Don't ever forget. In RW#1, Tyrants were SHOT IN THE FACE. A LOT. Remember!!)
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So, the experimental vaccine a 100% fail.


7 posted on 01/08/2022 11:08:57 PM PST by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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The vaccines don’t work but you should risk the side effects anyway because... um.. science or something.


8 posted on 01/08/2022 11:13:13 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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vaccines work fine.

the jabs are not vaccines. they are gene therapy. an entirely different concept.

as a bonus, by definition, they offer no immunity

so yes, it makes sense covid got in down there since someone came in within the last 3 weeks. they were carrying it.

my recommendation for such a situation:
1. forget the jabs. they’re pointless.
2. isolate any incoming personnel for 2 weeks.
3. during that time, put them on ivermectin + zinc to kill off anything in their system

that’s it.


9 posted on 01/08/2022 11:16:51 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style )
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Vaccination does not prevent infection. It prevents disease. You will still test positive for Covid for a brief while following exposure ..until your immune system has had a chance to clear out the virus.


10 posted on 01/08/2022 11:30:12 PM PST by libh8er
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No, it does not prevent disease, and they cause health problems (based on all the peer reviewed studied I have read


11 posted on 01/08/2022 11:55:00 PM PST by algore
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12 posted on 01/09/2022 12:00:06 AM PST by RomanSoldier19 (Res ad Triarios venit; )
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To: libh8er

Have other vaccines allowed for a virus or bacteria to grow to detectable levels in the body before an immune response occurs?


13 posted on 01/09/2022 12:02:08 AM PST by LukeL
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14 posted on 01/09/2022 12:05:09 AM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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Must have been because of all the "super-spreader events" they attended while at the remote Antarctic station - rock concerts, pro-Trump rallies, and the like.

Or maybe it was because of all the unvaxxed penguins in the region. It must be their fault! Yeah, that's the ticket!

Regards,

15 posted on 01/09/2022 12:31:22 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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I agree that these shots are not a vaccine.

So what are they and what are our so-called leaders intending?

I am fortunate to be a retired, disabled veteran with a decent pension and a home in the woods. So I am still a “pureblood”.

But I’m afraid for some of my family and friends who have taken both and some a third.

We are living in Bizzaro World.


16 posted on 01/09/2022 3:48:57 AM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: libh8er

This small case proves jabs don’t do that either, apparently.

The vax doesn’t clear out the virus: you are making the virus, part of it anyway.

Either way, this shows that all the precautions, protocols and jabs don’t do diddly.


17 posted on 01/09/2022 4:07:20 AM PST by Adder (Proud member of the FJBLGB community: /s is implied where applicable.)
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Stupid penguins.
18 posted on 01/09/2022 7:27:15 AM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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That’s how you know it’s working.


19 posted on 01/09/2022 11:20:06 AM PST by Trillian
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That what u wrote there is Fauci approved.

Sheesh Freepers? Utter non-sense lib ask that ur post b deleted.


20 posted on 01/09/2022 5:17:14 PM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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