“Another new variant of the coronavirus in the UK”, this one from South Africa, “highly concerning,” this variant is “yet more transmissable and appears to have mutated further” than the first variant found in the UK that necessitated a Tier 4 shutdown of London this week.

I would not be surprised AT ALL if the vaccines are ineffective or much, much less effective against this South African strain. The emphasis with which this Brit spokesman distinguishes the South African strain even from the other UK variant is alarming.

I confess that I am becoming pessimistic about the whole COVID situation. Nobody has it under control anywhere. It has bounced back on the continent, there are these new strains now in Britain, it is out of control here in the colonies, cities are dying around the world. This thing is like the Plague in the Middle Ages. It is ending the world as we know it.