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UK coronavirus variant on course ‘to sweep the world'
CNBC ^ | 02/11/2021 | Holly Ellyat

Posted on 02/11/2021 11:20:42 AM PST by TexasKamaAina

A variant of the coronavirus that emerged in the U.K. and has now been identified in over 80 countries could become the dominant form of the virus worldwide, according to the head of the U.K.’s genetic surveillance program.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biowarfare; covid; dooom; ukvariant
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The main reason I'm posting this is to relate a question my half-Chinese daughter (my wife is 3d gen Chinese-American) asked me: Why can we say "UK variant" but not "Chinese virus" or "Wuhan virus"? We all know the answer but it is something I hadn't noticed or thought about.
1 posted on 02/11/2021 11:20:42 AM PST by TexasKamaAina
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To: TexasKamaAina

Because big media hates white people


2 posted on 02/11/2021 11:22:15 AM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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To: TexasKamaAina

When I imitate an English accent, people think its funny. When I imitate an Indian (dot in the forehead Indian, not feather in the headband indian), they think it’s racist. :)


3 posted on 02/11/2021 11:23:31 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: TexasKamaAina

Because it’s racist. Infectious diseases throughout history have been named for geographic locations where they were thought to have originated: Spanish flu, West Nile virus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Zika and Ebola, to name a few.

I guess it’s because it insults our true leader.


4 posted on 02/11/2021 11:25:56 AM PST by albie
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To: TexasKamaAina

We are all going to die unless we commit economic suicide!


5 posted on 02/11/2021 11:26:33 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far greater danger from authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: TexasKamaAina

Obviously, people are becoming less fearful of the virus. It’s time to “turn up the heat”.


6 posted on 02/11/2021 11:26:38 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: TexasKamaAina

“The entire aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and, hence, clamorous to be led, by an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
H.L. Mencken


7 posted on 02/11/2021 11:26:57 AM PST by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: TexasKamaAina

I want folks to realize, we have no idea if these variants
have morphed by themselves or not.

Foreign nationals have access to Great Britian, and it would
most likely be very easy to plant variants in public places.

From a little after the start of this, I began to view this
as potential biological warfare.

I still lean in that direction.

Some of the new waves in the U. S. came at very convenient
times for the haters of American. Just on cue one might
say...


8 posted on 02/11/2021 11:27:12 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: TexasKamaAina

Can’t loosen the grip. The political class is enjoying it too much.


9 posted on 02/11/2021 11:27:57 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: brownsfan

There’s been a near constant level of rioting in Europe from the lockdowns. Personally, I’m hoping that a couple of the lockdown politicians get caught by the rioters. Might scare the rest of them straight.


10 posted on 02/11/2021 11:29:26 AM PST by ferret_airlift
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To: TexasKamaAina

Nice for the Brits to be #1 in something other than tooth decay.


11 posted on 02/11/2021 11:30:15 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Walrus

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” ― Mark Twain


12 posted on 02/11/2021 11:31:43 AM PST by JennysCool (2020: Aging “world socialists” promoting their ideology by scaring the crap out of gullible people.)
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To: cuban leaf

Just try...”Yo what up dog”


13 posted on 02/11/2021 11:33:33 AM PST by albie
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To: TexasKamaAina

Speaking of the UK, here’s a quarantine meme that’s apropos...

https://imgflip.com/m/politics/tag/outlander


14 posted on 02/11/2021 11:35:13 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: TexasKamaAina
Why can we say "UK variant" but not "Chinese virus" or "Wuhan virus"?

I suspect it's because our white liberal 'elites' get off on humiliation... and whipping themselves and we also become the victims of their self hatred and control freak needs.

15 posted on 02/11/2021 11:37:54 AM PST by GOPJ (If democrat thugs are gonna kill me - I'm gonna try to have it done before "the showers"...)
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To: TexasKamaAina

For the same reason the South African variant is call the South African variant....................


16 posted on 02/11/2021 11:37:56 AM PST by Red Badger (SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Great Reset. We must love what we destroy, in order to build, back, better. And now for a little song in joyous celebration...

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world

17 posted on 02/11/2021 11:38:32 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: TexasKamaAina

Putting on my 3rd mask.


18 posted on 02/11/2021 11:38:40 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tagline Under Review)
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To: ferret_airlift

Would love to see them get the Khadhaffi treatment


19 posted on 02/11/2021 11:39:21 AM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: billorites

I nearly swallowed my dentures.

The UK variant is now actually the Kent Variant (no big deal) and the new super-worrying, lockdown-extending, no-vacation this year, Bristol Variant.


20 posted on 02/11/2021 11:39:48 AM PST by LordOddsocks
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