Prime Minster Boris Johnson announced a wholesale lockdown of London and southeast England on Saturday.
DECEMBER 21, 2020
NY Times: The Coronavirus Is Mutating. What Does That Mean for Us?
NY Times: Boris Johnson Tightens U.K. Lockdown, Citing Fast-Spreading Version of Virus
The variant is up to 70 percent more transmissible than earlier versions, officials said.
DECEMBER 21, 2020
NY Times: The Coronavirus Is Mutating. What Does That Mean for Us?
NY Times: Boris Johnson Tightens U.K. Lockdown, Citing Fast-Spreading Version of Virus
The variant is up to 70 percent more transmissible than earlier versions, officials said.
REBUTTAL BY
Oh
no! Just when you thought it was almost time to remove your mask, visit
your favorite restaurant, go to the gym or hug a loved one at Christmas
time --- out of locked-down / locked-in London comes word of a new and
nastier Son of Coronavirus "mutation." Yes, that's right. Stupid-19 is
about to become even Stupider 20 & 21. From the first-listed
article:
"Just as vaccines begin to offer hope for a path out of the pandemic, officials in Britain on Saturday sounded an urgent alarm about what they called a highly contagious new variant of the coronavirus circulating in England."
From the other article:
"Alarmed by a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson abruptly reversed course on Saturday and imposed a wholesale lockdown on London and most of England’s southeast, banning Christmas-season gatherings beyond individual
"Just as vaccines begin to offer hope for a path out of the pandemic, officials in Britain on Saturday sounded an urgent alarm about what they called a highly contagious new variant of the coronavirus circulating in England."
From the other article:
"Alarmed by a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson abruptly reversed course on Saturday and imposed a wholesale lockdown on London and most of England’s southeast, banning Christmas-season gatherings beyond individual