Posted on 11/26/2021 1:54:24 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Golf, cricket and rugby became the first major sports to be affected by the new COVID-19 variant on Friday, prompting fears of renewed travel restrictions and disrupted events just as they were returning to normal nearly two years into the pandemic.
European golfers withdrew midway through the season-opening DP World Tour tournament in Johannesburg and were scrambling to catch flights out of South Africa. Visiting cricket and rugby teams were doing the same.
Golf was the first to be hit by the emergence of the new B.1.1.529 variant that was initially identified in South Africa and is causing concern over fears that it may be more transmissible than current variants and resistant to vaccines.
Organizers of golf’s Joburg Open, which started Thursday, said it would continue even after at least 23 mostly European players pulled out in the hours after South African health authorities announced they had detected the new variant. The tournament was later reduced to a 54-hole, three-round event ending on Saturday “to help non-South African resident players, caddies and tournament support staff return to their home countries,” the organizers said.
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I also thought of another reason for this ‘coming from Africa”:
Africa has had the fewest cases of covid reported by any continent, They have been mostly using Ivermectin, HCQ, Zinc and common antibiotics to treat, and as prophylaxis. And the peasants in the first world countries were starting to notice. Big Pharma and the evil politicians and the WEF ‘utopians’ can’t be having that.
So they introduce a new more deadly variant there, either via a new more highly weaponized bioweapon, or just a fear porn propaganda campaign with no basis in reality, to reinforce that “new vaccines are the only things that will save us”.
At least no more vuvuzelas.
Notice there were stories appearing the last few weeks on how covid was pretty much a non event in Africa? And now SHAZAM! The biggest scariest deadliest covid of them all comes from Africa. WHAT BS!!!
What a surprise.
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