By Tom Head
New year, new variant? Apparently not. Scientific experts – including our very own Tulio de Oliveira – have torn the so-called ‘COVID fearmongers’ to shreads this week, after the emergence of a new virus mutation was logged in France.
NOTHING TO FEAR OVER ‘NEW VARIANT’ LINKED TO FRANCE
Unfortunately, a discourse that required calm and rational analysis was hijacked by some hysterical commentators instead. Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, who has made a name for himself as an extreme pessimist throughout the pandemic, got his facts wrong once more this week.
The zero-COVID fantasist was all too keen to alert his 671 000 followers that a new ‘variant from hell’ – named B.1.640.2 – has been traced to a region of Southern France. He claimed it had sent cases rocketing in the region, and was responsible for overwhelming ICU beds there…
