Super Covid is Here, and You Should Be Very Worried
The Next Phase Isn’t Just About Vaccines. Mutant Strains of Supercharged Covid Are Emerging, and They May Be Here to Stay
2020’s been an abysmal year, and it’s only fitting that it ends with something that many of us have worried about since the beginning of the pandemic now beginning to happen: a newer, worse strain of Covid. The virus mutating into an even more virulent and or deadly form.
I have some (very) bad news to share with you, and neither of us has time to beat around the bush. Say hello to “Super COVID.” It’s about to spread across the West, courtesy of Boris Johnson (you can thank him later.)
What on earth — and who on earth — is that, you might ask, worried? You should be.
Boris Johnson is Britain’s cartoonish Prime Minister. He took to the podium today, to make a startling announcement. And wherever you are in the world, this concerns you, and it concerns you seriously and deeply. I think you should sit down and listen because this is something you need to know.
A newer, worse strain of Covid has emerged, he said — or admitted. The virus has mutated. Uh oh, that doesn’t sound good, you’re probably thinking to yourself. You’d be correct. He went on to tell the dismal, grim, shocking story of it, to a jaw-dropped nation.
Let’s start with the numbers — these come from the BBC, by the way. The new strain of Covid is 77% more infectious than the existing one, the one that’s already hit. And yet it’s not any weaker. It’s just as deadly as the old one. Let me summarise that. There’s a new strain of Covid that spreads almost twice as fast and is just as lethal and dangerous as the existing one. Maybe you see why I call it “Super Covid.” If it sounds scary, that’s because it is.
Super Covid appears to have begun in London, or somewhere else in the South of England — and it’s already 60% of new Covid cases in London. It’s spreading, to put it kindly, like a terrible wildfire, overloading Britain’s National Health Service, pushing it to breaking point, because it’s twice as infectious, so there’s a massive, massive spike in how fast how many people are getting it.
