Posted on 07/14/2021 10:57:56 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
BARCELONA — Last month, as Europe finally lifted COVID-19 restrictions, the mood was jubilant across the continent. Outdoor mask mandates and curfews were dropped, Americans were cleared to resume travel to tourist mainstays, and hopes rose that life would quickly return to normal.
The swift spread of the Delta variant, however, has upended all of that wishful thinking and is offering a warning to the U.S.
Fast becoming the dominant strain of COVID-19 across Europe, Delta is wreaking havoc in Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Spain alone reported nearly 44,000 cases on Tuesday, doubling the number recorded one week ago. Trying to blunt the effect of the strain that is expected by August to account for 70 to 90 percent of all cases in the EU, countries on the continent are clamping on new restrictions to counter a mutation that is at least twice as infectious at the variety that shuttered the world in 2020.
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That sounds like an opportunity to me.
The US needs to stay open, surge ahead, if take the hit (if any).
biden’s rise to power plunges the planet into uncertainty -—Trumpsters offer a warning to the world.
Out of control government is out of control.
The Dems. will close down the county right before the mid-term elections. In that way, more people can vote by mail again, opening the door for more fraud.
It’s a hype. A sleight of hand that allows turning on or turning off lockdowns as they deem necessary for their social engineering and stacked-deck capitalism, ie tech dominance over traditional business.
Blue states will shut it down, to win the next election.
I may be missing something here but while the European numbets show an increase in positive test results, fatalities are still down. The UK has been in a delta spike for two months yet its fatalities are running 20 to 30 daily. Way way down from this past winter.
World Economic Forum wants to run the world’s economy and run the world and ruin the world...
And yet Biden and the Democrats have INCREASED illegal immigration and “refugees” and refused to lock down the border.
Another bad cold comment by a Freeper with “conservative” in his handle. The stink of GOPe is upon it.
Meet the new strain
Same as the old strain
The “open borders” policy is absolute proof that the current variants of Covid are a big nothingburger.
A virus with a 99% survival rate?! OMG we’re all gonna die.
I’m still not getting the experimental jab.
Israel only had one Covid death in June. Delta is mild.
What surprises me is that most people I mention this to already knew. American people are wising up.
I like the LAMBDA Varian better - sounds so good: laaaammmdaaaa.
“I was resting comfortably, face down in the gutter
Life was serene, I knew where I was at
“There’s no hope for him,” my dearest friends would mutter
I was something dragged in by the cat. Then ...
Just in time
I found you just in time”
meanwhile a group of texas demonrat politicians break covid restrictions by flying across our country without masks and proving we’re being lied to about the severity of the so called “deadly covid virus”...
“Another bad cold comment by a Freeper with “conservative” in his handle. The stink of GOPe is upon it.”
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Hmmmm…. so you think lockdowns are good for an economy?
...doing everything possible to require COVID passports. The Nazi roots of the EU want to reinstate control over travel - one part of the ‘great reset’.
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