Posted on 12/01/2021 4:50:58 AM PST by Kaslin
A new COVID-19 variant, reported from sub-Saharan Africa on Wednesday, has caused many developed countries to halt travel from that region without delay. All except America, which, thanks to Anthony Fauci, dithered and ultimately put into place a tepid plan to go into effect on Monday.
As if viruses don't spread and kill on holiday weekends.
As soon as news of the possibly super-contagious variant dubbed omicron was announced on Thursday, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan and Australia cut off visitors from the affected African countries.
So did France, Italy, Germany, Spain and other European Union members. European Commission spokesperson Dana Spinant explained that "we need to act very fast" and take all precautions "to prevent the virus from entering Europe."
But White House medical czar Fauci said on Friday that travel bans "were something to think about ... but you want to make sure there's a basis for doing that." He's more concerned with mollifying the World Health Organization, which opposes travel bans, than keeping Americans safe. This is the same WHO that covered up China's efforts to hide the contagiousness of COVID-19, then sponsored a phony investigation of the virus' origins and insisted the Wuhan lab was a "very unlikely" source.
Allowing travel from southern Africa to continue, even for three days, has put the United States at needless risk.
U.S. regulations require all airline travelers to present proof of vaccination -- but read the fine print. The regulations exempt travelers from countries where vaccination rates are very low. That's crazy. Just 6% of Africa's population is vaccinated.
To quantify the danger Fauci created by delaying the travel ban, consider two flights that landed Friday in Amsterdam from Johannesburg and Cape Town, with 600 passengers in all. On arrival, 10% of those passengers tested positive for COVID-19 and were subjected to tests for omicron. Thirteen, it turns out, carried the variant.
It's plausible that 10% of passengers arriving in the United States from South Africa over the weekend carried the virus as well, including some with omicron. Thank you, Dr. Fauci.
Little is known about the variant except that it has some 30 mutations that could make it more dangerous than previous versions of the virus. It has already eclipsed the delta variant in parts of South Africa, including Johannesburg.
Two cases of omicron have been detected in the United Kingdom, both recent travelers to South Africa, and one case has been detected in Italy, a traveler from Mozambique. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report no cases yet in America. An effective travel ban is important to delay and reduce the risk here.
South Africa's response to the travel bans has been inexcusable, too. The country's health minister, Joe Phaahla, called travel restrictions a "knee-jerk reaction," a "witch hunt" and "punishment." Truth is, South Africa and neighboring countries should be volunteering to prevent their citizens from traveling to other countries and spreading the omicron variant while so little is known about its dangers.
One thing scientists have learned battling COVID-19 during the past two years is that lockdowns don't work but travel restrictions, if put into place swiftly, do.
An August 2020 study in the Journal of Travel Medicine found that by rapidly cutting off travel with China on Feb. 1, 2020, Australia averted a much larger epidemic. Another study in BMC Infectious Diseases this year showed that travel restrictions, together with other measures, helped Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea avert COVID carnage.
You wouldn't know that listening to Fauci. He slammed former President Donald Trump's travel ban against China before it went into effect, parroting WHO's advice. Last week, he once again put globalist concerns ahead of what's safest for Americans.
To defend against omicron and future variants, the United States needs to improve its capacity to spot and track them with genomic sequencing, the technique used in Africa last week. America ranks 28th in the world in its tracking ability. Thank Fauci for that, too.
It will take time to determine how dangerous the new omicron variant is, but the proof is already in on Fauci. He's got to go.
Am I the first person to wonder if China isn’t modifying new variants, then releasing them to places like Africa (where they have a LOT of mining operations going on)?
The purpose to keep the West occupied and weakened while they continue to build?
Yea, conjecture I know.
Evil is capable of anything, except good.
Crimes against humanity.
In early 2020, Fauci & Gates had filed for patents on a number of ‘vaccines’ that didn’t even exist yet.
HMMMMM.....
He’s a psychopath.
If you want to know the incalculable harm he’s done to millions of people, this country, “science”, the medical industry, and his march to put Big Pharma essentially in charge of the government, plus why Peter Navarro calls him the most evil man he’s ever met and a serial killer/mass murderer, read just the Introduction to RFK Jr’s book “The Real Anthony Fauci”. I’m still so sickened by the Intro that I haven’t even been able to move on yet to Chapter 1.
The book is currently $2.99 for the Kindle version on Amazon .... I got my money’s worth just reading the Introduction. If you get the book, SPREAD THE WORD .... America needs to wake up ... The Death Gnome needs to GO.
https://www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Childrens/dp/1510766804
How is it that he is, at best, not behind bars?
It wouldn’t surprise me if fauzi is involved. This clown is living his best life.
if China isn’t modifying new variants,
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No need , that’s what leaky vaccines do
They turn every body injected with it into ADE Petri dishes
Millions of separate varient labs world wide
THAT is the danger of leaky vaccines.
He don’t do crap to me!
You folks can have THIS for FREE!!
One of these days; a few thousand Richard Dreyfuss types are going to remove their masks...
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