[deanhills]

This whole Covid variant thing has me also puzzled.  Tonight on the news South Africa learned that its flights have been banned from the UK from today with immediate effect and some of the other European countries are following the example of the UK because the virus variant from South Africa is according to the UK more contagious than the variant from the UK.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...train.html

Now tonight I read this thread about the UK variant, and am now wondering whether the UK is doing this to South Africa, just to take attention away from how more serious the UK virus is.  I feel very sorry for those from South Africa who flew to the UK recently for Christmas, as they have all been put under immediate quarantine after two of the passengers from South Africa in the UK were found with the virus, and it was found the South African strain is more contagious. Like how do they decide that? On what scientific basis? Also, how will countries be able to use an international vaccine if there are so many different strains of the virus?  And how the dickens can we trust any of this info that comes our way?  Even the stats these days feel sometimes as though they have been faked.