(12-21-2020, 09:08 AM)F2d5thCav Wrote: So, amid the latest inability to reach a trade agreement between the UK and the EU, France and other EU countries have now closed their borders with the UK. No freight is moving between the continent and the UK.
The public explanation is the "new strain" of COVID found in southeast England.
Or is it just hardball politics ?
Notably, when COVID first arrived in Europe (and tens of thousands died in Italy and Spain), the movement of people was restricted. But not goods. The trucks continued to move and deliver their cargo.
But now, as the French government faces the reality of their access to British fishing waters going away ... well, GAWRSH!, we need to close the borders because something something virus.
It is hard to imagine the EU being fondly recalled in the future. At best, it will be recalled as an unbounded excess of bureaucratic zeal compounded by a fatal disconnect from reality.
Cheers
Some of the US Democrats are calling for the same thing, citing the same reason. It's almost like a Soros-esque plan to attempt to force the UK back into the EU sheep-fold, isn't it?
From what I understand of this new strain, it's no worse than the old one, although it is alleged to spread somewhat faster - 7% faster according to some reports. which really ain't much. The genie is already out of the bottle and hammering the US, so why worry about it now? No point to shunning the UK when the covid barbarian is already inside the gates here, so I have to ask myself the WHY, the real reason behind these actions, and that is what I come up with a Soros-esque plan by Globalist Marxists to attempt to force the UK back into the sheep fold from which they are escaping, the effort this time being to attempt to choke 'em out.
ETA: Someone else said 70% faster, so they must have left a zero off the first estimate I read. Now I wonder what sort of viral engineering would cause a virus to spread faster without making it any more dangerous? HOW does it spread faster? Is it jumping through masks? jumping more than the six foot separation distance on tiny little virus legs? Something stinks to me about this "mutation"...
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