[livius]

Highly unlikely. What is more likely is that the lockdowns and travel bans are meant to keep the population from knowing what’s happening in the outside world or from getting any independent ideas.

The so-called Delta variant is even less lethal than the original, which they had exaggerated to begin with. Fear is the best means of control and our masters, both in China and in the West, have made full use of this golden opportunity that has been handed them.

[The Duke]

I've got a 58-year-old buddy, formerly in perfectly good healthy, who contracted this "variant" and has been in the hospital, struggling to stay alive, the past several days.

He has been told to expect a lengthy recovery.

I still have suspicions that this is a regular flu virus - but regardless, it is a serious bug.