Waiting for the British posters to say that the UK is in Europe.
I don’t get the “joke”
As one official on TV said the other day: we’d rather overreact, impose bans and measures now and risk being wrong, than do nothing and deeply regret it later.
Knock-knock.
It’s funny because it’s true.
Its just politicians acting like they’re doing something.
Slightly off topic but it wasn’t until the omicron variant that I learned that Omega is not the next Greek letter after nu and that omicron exists in the first place.
Always thought that the math and physics at university made me a pro at Greek letters but I guess Omicron is of little use when it is the same looking as the letter O (didn’t stop nu though)
There is the letter Xi before Omicron, did you know why they had to skip it?
good for thing for the labels. Otherwise who would have known?
Barricade everything? Our response has been “stop flights from Southern Africa and maybe wear a mask in shops if you feel like it”. Life is basically as it was here, you can see it in the death figures where we have had considerably more, but more stable deaths, because nothing is really shut or different anymore.
People are _really_ trying so hard to make an agenda out of something that really isn’t.
When it first appeared, it was a Virus that came from china, also touted sometimes as the Wuhan virus. The WHO quickly announced this was wrong and gave it the covid name officially. Even though it did come from china, we had a lot of 50 centers come out and try to blame every other country saying it came from the US who brought it to the military games. Then Australia called for an investigation of its origins and china said it came from Australia. Then Japan pissed them off and it now came from there (and the sewers of Italy, spain, india, Brazil, frozen fish from Norway, auto car parts…anywhere that wasn’t china, but it was “racist” to say it came from china, just no where else) Ironically, then they started to make excuses and try to deflect similarities to the Spanish flu, and how that didn’t come from Spain (almost certainly correct) and that it instead, came from Kansas, which, as a fact, there’s no evidence to say where it actually comes from, with actually as much, if not more, that it could have come from [china](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu) (Search for china in the article, as it’s too long to quote here) and, just like today, china misreports the flu and does it in a way that makes it _look_ like they don’t have it.
But regardless, WHO made it clear that calling it by a location is wrong. Which, is fair, just not consistent.
However, when the Alpha strain appeared, now it was the British Strain. This seemed quite an accepted term, and hell, even _in_ the UK, some called it the Kent variant. As many pointed out then, it’s unlikely it came from the UK but because the UK has one of the highest genome sequencing, they found it. This is also a similar argument appearing now, where you’ll find a lot of SA saying they have the best in the world, but _this_ isn’t true. Of course, due to HIV they do a lot more testing compared to surrounding nations, but they aren’t at the top, but this is irrelevant, apart from the fact we’re seeing the exact same thing repeated.
However, when countries put the UK on the red list, if you checked the UK subs such as unitedkingdom or UKpol, you would see almost (not 100%, but very high) everyone saying things like “good, I don’t blame them” or things like “maybe this will teach Johnson to take it seriously” very few people apart from the trolliest or trolls cried “It’s racist!”
The same for the Delta Strain, or even the ones from Brazil. Although we’re repeating the history over and again, it’s only this time (and china) that keep trying to push an agenda that it’s racism (while they, especially in regards to china, were _very_ quick to lable it the British strain, or the Indian variant)
Whether or not shutting down borders works is a different argument, but, a country’s government doing what it thinks is right for it’s own people is _not_ racist. Regardless of the fact it’s already here or not (and many made some argument that because it was in Belgum that it was the same as being in Germany, as if Europe is all one country) it doesn’t matter, just because it’s already here (where ever here is) doesn’t mean “oh fuck it, let’s just keep importing more from areas with already high amounts” it means the governments want to slow it down as best as possible, and it’s much, much easier keeping a lid on it with its own citizens it knows have it, than just keep bringing more in.
A governments responsibility is to its _own_ people, and doing what it can to limit the spread, regardless or not if it truly works (for every study that says it doesn’t there’s one that says it does) is _not_ racist, and people need to get a grip and stop trying to make an agenda when there isn’t one, especially when it was fine for half of them to do it to Britain, Brazil or India.
The unvaccinated are ruining this for everyone. European leaders should find a way to give them the vaccine.
‘UK and Europe’
Why is it Uk & Europe… Uk is part of Europe… >.<
Belgium was even worse.
We started a ban on South Africa and other southern African countries after we already had a case … from Egypt!
Japan has the correct spirit. They just banned everyone!
So we should just let the door open en start an air bridge with South Africa?
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Author: Rico Schacherl
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Source: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-11-29-cartoon-tuesday-with-rico-78/
Isn’t UK part of Europe?
Pretty much.
UK no longer in Europe?
Waiting for the British posters to say that the UK is in Europe.
I don’t get the “joke”
As one official on TV said the other day: we’d rather overreact, impose bans and measures now and risk being wrong, than do nothing and deeply regret it later.
Knock-knock.
It’s funny because it’s true.
Its just politicians acting like they’re doing something.
Slightly off topic but it wasn’t until the omicron variant that I learned that Omega is not the next Greek letter after nu and that omicron exists in the first place.
Always thought that the math and physics at university made me a pro at Greek letters but I guess Omicron is of little use when it is the same looking as the letter O (didn’t stop nu though)
[Omicron and travel restriction in one diagram](https://i.redd.it/i455yytpcr281.jpg) (hypocrisy and racism not shown)
There is the letter Xi before Omicron, did you know why they had to skip it?
good for thing for the labels. Otherwise who would have known?
Barricade everything? Our response has been “stop flights from Southern Africa and maybe wear a mask in shops if you feel like it”. Life is basically as it was here, you can see it in the death figures where we have had considerably more, but more stable deaths, because nothing is really shut or different anymore.
People are _really_ trying so hard to make an agenda out of something that really isn’t.
When it first appeared, it was a Virus that came from china, also touted sometimes as the Wuhan virus. The WHO quickly announced this was wrong and gave it the covid name officially. Even though it did come from china, we had a lot of 50 centers come out and try to blame every other country saying it came from the US who brought it to the military games. Then Australia called for an investigation of its origins and china said it came from Australia. Then Japan pissed them off and it now came from there (and the sewers of Italy, spain, india, Brazil, frozen fish from Norway, auto car parts…anywhere that wasn’t china, but it was “racist” to say it came from china, just no where else) Ironically, then they started to make excuses and try to deflect similarities to the Spanish flu, and how that didn’t come from Spain (almost certainly correct) and that it instead, came from Kansas, which, as a fact, there’s no evidence to say where it actually comes from, with actually as much, if not more, that it could have come from [china](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu) (Search for china in the article, as it’s too long to quote here) and, just like today, china misreports the flu and does it in a way that makes it _look_ like they don’t have it.
But regardless, WHO made it clear that calling it by a location is wrong. Which, is fair, just not consistent.
However, when the Alpha strain appeared, now it was the British Strain. This seemed quite an accepted term, and hell, even _in_ the UK, some called it the Kent variant. As many pointed out then, it’s unlikely it came from the UK but because the UK has one of the highest genome sequencing, they found it. This is also a similar argument appearing now, where you’ll find a lot of SA saying they have the best in the world, but _this_ isn’t true. Of course, due to HIV they do a lot more testing compared to surrounding nations, but they aren’t at the top, but this is irrelevant, apart from the fact we’re seeing the exact same thing repeated.
However, when countries put the UK on the red list, if you checked the UK subs such as unitedkingdom or UKpol, you would see almost (not 100%, but very high) everyone saying things like “good, I don’t blame them” or things like “maybe this will teach Johnson to take it seriously” very few people apart from the trolliest or trolls cried “It’s racist!”
The same for the Delta Strain, or even the ones from Brazil. Although we’re repeating the history over and again, it’s only this time (and china) that keep trying to push an agenda that it’s racism (while they, especially in regards to china, were _very_ quick to lable it the British strain, or the Indian variant)
Whether or not shutting down borders works is a different argument, but, a country’s government doing what it thinks is right for it’s own people is _not_ racist. Regardless of the fact it’s already here or not (and many made some argument that because it was in Belgum that it was the same as being in Germany, as if Europe is all one country) it doesn’t matter, just because it’s already here (where ever here is) doesn’t mean “oh fuck it, let’s just keep importing more from areas with already high amounts” it means the governments want to slow it down as best as possible, and it’s much, much easier keeping a lid on it with its own citizens it knows have it, than just keep bringing more in.
A governments responsibility is to its _own_ people, and doing what it can to limit the spread, regardless or not if it truly works (for every study that says it doesn’t there’s one that says it does) is _not_ racist, and people need to get a grip and stop trying to make an agenda when there isn’t one, especially when it was fine for half of them to do it to Britain, Brazil or India.
The unvaccinated are ruining this for everyone. European leaders should find a way to give them the vaccine.
‘UK and Europe’
Why is it Uk & Europe… Uk is part of Europe… >.<
Belgium was even worse.
We started a ban on South Africa and other southern African countries after we already had a case … from Egypt!
Japan has the correct spirit. They just banned everyone!
So we should just let the door open en start an air bridge with South Africa?