Governments are panicking un-necessarily over the new Covid variant
As soon as South Africa announced it had found a new covid variant with unusual mutations, the world went into panic mode.
Stocks fell, governments like Japan banned all travel to their country. People started muttering darkly about new lockdowns. You would be forgiven for thinking that we had time-travelled back to November 2020.
But it is 2021. Not only do we have vaccines, but diligent countries have vaccinated at least 70% of their countries.
The correct response was that of the UK government. Everything has been open and normal in Britain since 19th July. 70% of the population is fully vaccinated and 30% have been given a third booster jab.
The government's response to the new variant was to say they're bringing forward booster jabs for whoever wanted it, but other than that they were leaving everything open and people should live normally.
We can't keep panicking at every variant. The vaccines work and we need to learn to live with covid.
I think some governments feel pressured by the "save lives at all costs" brigade. But ruining your economy costs lives too - it's just not immediately obvious.
Yes. The amount of businesses ruined by lockdowns is huge.
That is what they want you to believe
They are not in panic
It’s all in the plan for you to to think they are in panic mode