Posted on 11/26/2021 2:04:57 PM PST by dynachrome
Isobel Frodsham Fri., November 26, 2021, 10:34 a.m.·3 min read Watch: South Africa angered by travel restrictions due to new variant
Scroll back up to restore default view. The chairwoman of the South African Medical Association has described the travel restrictions imposed on the country as “hasty” and the reaction from other countries as “a storm in a teacup”.
Dr Angelique Coetzee said it was too early to tell what impact the B.1.1.529 variant would have.
She told BBC News: “We think it is a premature decision that has been taken, I think it is a hasty decision.
“I would understand if it was two weeks later and we know much more about this viral infection that is going around, or this mutation, but for now, it is like a storm in a teacup.
“We have only become aware of this viral mutation, or the new strain we are seeing, last week.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...
Didn’t the lefties hown when Trump banned tavel from China and Europe? What gives?
Unsanctioned travel restrictions related to Ebola unravel the global social contract
We are currently facing the worst Ebola outbreak since the virus was isolated. On Oct. 28, 2014, Australia became the first country among high-income nations to institute a restriction on travel from the three West African countries at the centre of the outbreak: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.1 Canada followed suit on Oct. 31 by similarly refusing visas to residents of, and recent travellers to, these countries. 2 Days later, the World Health Organization (WHO) demanded justification for these measures because they are not consistent with the spirit of the revised International Health Regulations of 2005.3
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330134/
Travel ban = racist!!!!
I think the big reason this sudden hysteria is happening is the many news stories last week saying that Africa was having comparatively few COVID cases.
Got to keep the CONSTANT FEAR going; people might get distracted by the holidays.
We ARE being lied to. She just told you. They have known about this since last week. Why do we only learn of it now?
The WHO and Fauci crowd being Chicken Little.
If this variant is a flop many will be inconsolable.
We are being lied to.
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We are being lied to = New Normal
Not being lied to = Aberration/DJT.
Isn’t this xenophobic?
Biden hates black people. (he really does)
A new variant or a contrived story to give cover for a “vaccine” that does not work very well?
If the airport wasn't shut down within seconds of the discovery of the variant, it's already too late.
How true. Think of all the people, who make the masks, who will be put out of work when 6 billion masks are no longer needed each day.
Africa lecturing other countries. LOL
Quarantine is ALWAYS political.
Has been since the dawn of man.
Sympathetic women hate it most.
Ask Fauci. He started all this BS in 1999.
Biden imposed a travel ban today. There is NO science telling him to do so. Pure political decision to look “quick” and “decisive”. What a joke.
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