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.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Autos Vehicles market dead. Housing COL unaffordable. Gasfuel heating ⬆
TARF “variant”
Magically the new super scary variant rolls out with canned ready to push stories across the bosrd. It must have a great publicist team on retainer.
Unexpected!
And just in time to get all the leftists scared again so they vote for the criminal democrat taliban party in the mid-terms.
Imagine that?
It’s almost as if it were planned that way!
this is all by design by corrupt, globalist elites
What a shock. /s
Better shut down the economy again!
Normality, sixty-something guys keeling over. Got it.
Here’s a thought experiment.
Since shutting down society with lockdowns does not seem to be working, how about shutting down government by lokcing them down just for two weeks. Just to flatten the curve. Worked in Belgium some time back and for almost two years....
They taking the SinoVax?
Oh, nooooeeee …. just when we were “nearing normality”.
We’ll never be normal again. EXCEPT FLORIDA, OF COURSE.
The lifelong professional ruling elite class will never let go of their emergency powers.
And we will do nothing to change any of this
Meanwhile, our military -- which has ONE JOB -- seems unwilling or unable to protect the United States from this completely obvious threat.
I like the idea of shutting down government. Add corporate media to the shutdown and we’re all back to normal in 7 days or less.
“European golfers withdrew midway through the season-opening DP World Tour tournament in Johannesburg and were scrambling to catch flights out of South Africa.”
*****
That’s pretty hardcore, now extrapolate that around the world before Christmas and that may be what we are looking at happening.
Whether it’s a reasonable precautionary action or corporate media / government driven delusion, I have no idea. Could be both.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.