Posted on 01/18/2022 4:26:39 PM PST by Tipllub
SYDNEY — The Pacific nation of Tonga, scrambling to recover from a devastating volcanic eruption on Saturday that sent tsunami waves halfway around the world, faces a new threat: a potential “tsunami” of coronavirus infections.
Aid groups and defense officials from Australia and New Zealand are working on contactless ways to deliver water and other vital supplies to the remote archipelago kingdom, which is one of the few places in the world to remain essentially free of the virus. (Residents went into a brief lockdown in November when a single case, Tonga’s first, was detected in a person at a quarantine hotel.)
“As much as we are going to send assistance, we will still need to follow the covid-19 protocols to keep the people in the population safe, rather than … [have] a tsunami of covid hitting Tonga,” a senior Tongan diplomat in Canberra, Curtis Tuihalangingie, told Australian public radio Tuesday.
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Not Babylon Bee. They’re more worried about people getting the sniffles than rescuing from a volcano.
Just had to shoehorn in COVID.
Really, Washington Post? Really?
The Omicron Sniffles are coming for you Tonga!
Hide under your beds!!!
Of all the things to worry about.
So ridiculous.
They should be really worried about all that Global Warming
Aid workers have a bad history of bringing disease heath and human trafficking to countries they are “helping”
One would think they would be most worried about diseases such as MRSA, E-Coli or Sepsis.
These people are sick… Very very sick. How you can connect those dots is beyond me
so ridiculous
God help them if they start having to read the Washington post.
“We had a massive volcanic eruption.”
“And the tsunami. Don’t forget the tsunami.”
“And communication was cut. We were pretty much isolated from the rest of the world.”
“But the worst thing? The worst thing was that Larry got the sniffles.”
“Oh, yeah. That was awful.”
Ivermectin, quercetin, nasal spray, vitamins, zinc pecolinate.
Are you people vaccinated ?
90% of the people there are obese. covid is not their friend.
I’m glad to see that Tonga is still swinging through the trees with his monkey Cheetos.
Yep, if they actually, really cared.
They could send only the vaccinated, surely THEY can’t spread the virus. /S\
They’re all going to get Omicron some time.
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