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'New pandemic' in Germany caused by virus variant prompts lockdown through Easter
nbcnews ^ | 03/23/2021 | Reuters

Posted on 03/23/2021 2:49:51 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

BERLIN — Germany is extending its lockdown until April 18 and calling on citizens to stay at home for five days over the Easter holidays to try to break a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Chancellor Angela Merkel said early on Tuesday.

In talks that ran deep into the night, Merkel pushed the leaders of Germany's 16 states to take a tougher stance to fight the pandemic, reversing plans for a gradual re-opening of the economy agreed earlier this month after a sharp rise in the infection rate.

"We are now basically in a new pandemic. The British mutation has become dominant," Merkel told a news conference.

"Fundamentally, we face a new virus of the same kind but with very different characteristics. More deadly, more infectious, and infectious for longer."

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: germany; lockdown; new; pademic
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New pandemic!!!!!!!!! British mutation!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Space suits for all!
1 posted on 03/23/2021 2:49:51 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In perpetuity.


2 posted on 03/23/2021 2:50:47 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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“The British mutation” of the virus that’s racist to refer to as the “China virus”.


3 posted on 03/23/2021 2:51:06 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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British mutation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is NBC news now responsible if any Brits get attacked?

4 posted on 03/23/2021 2:51:32 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (F*ck Joe Biden!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

right “VARIATION” bullshit will never end because guess what?? viruses do not stop with the variants.


5 posted on 03/23/2021 2:52:00 PM PDT by snarkytart
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How is Trump still doing this?! In Germany?!


6 posted on 03/23/2021 2:52:07 PM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPC8zB-JPSg)
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Germany is extending its lockdown until April 18 ...

Sounds like a year ago "flatten the curve".

I gather each new variant will require another flatten the curve cycle.

7 posted on 03/23/2021 2:54:36 PM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both.)
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The Atheists and Muslim-lovers in charge are trying to exterminate Christianity.

Target the Christian holy days.

Will there be a Ramadan lockdown?


8 posted on 03/23/2021 2:57:49 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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Eternal ‘pandemic’.
Thou shalt bow dow to me.

(A Hitler has got nothing on A Merkel)


9 posted on 03/23/2021 2:58:53 PM PDT by A strike ( McConnell and Pence to Gitmo. Barr and Fauxi to Florence supermax. Roberts to Terre Haute.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another day, another pandemic variant. It goes on and on.


10 posted on 03/23/2021 3:06:14 PM PDT by Gahanna Bob
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I may they find the address of the idiot who made this decision and make life unbearable for them.


11 posted on 03/23/2021 3:06:56 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Germany has had a full year to train people and build facilities to deal with this disease.

The people of Germany should be outraged that they are being crushed under the heel of government which is both out of control and incompetent.


12 posted on 03/23/2021 3:14:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Let them stay locked down.


13 posted on 03/23/2021 3:14:41 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Pathetic Pierre Delecto, the Pestiferous Potentate of Enchanted Chones.)
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The people of Germany should be outraged that they are being crushed under the heel of government which is both out of control and incompetent.

Germans prefer being crushed under the heel of government which is both out of control and competent.

14 posted on 03/23/2021 3:15:52 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Pathetic Pierre Delecto, the Pestiferous Potentate of Enchanted Chones.)
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Is there a limit to how much the coronavirus can mutate? By Yasemin Saplakoglu - Staff Writer February 11, 2021

The possibilities are seemingly endless. https://www.livescience.com/how-much-can-coronavirus-mutate-variants.html

15 posted on 03/23/2021 3:20:34 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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Shocking as this is it seems our gov is not the worst.


16 posted on 03/23/2021 3:26:06 PM PDT by genghis
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“Germans prefer being crushed under the heel of government which is both out of control and competent. “

I see what you did there. See Mussolini for on time trains. I know he was Italian but see John Belushi in Animal House for the how to make the transition.


17 posted on 03/23/2021 3:28:03 PM PDT by nomorelurker
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It would suck to be a German.


18 posted on 03/23/2021 3:35:49 PM PDT by NWFree (Socialism is legalized plunder)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

British mutation of Chinese virus


19 posted on 03/23/2021 3:36:37 PM PDT by exinnj
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We need to have a breathalyzer.


20 posted on 03/23/2021 3:39:58 PM PDT by Paladin2
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