On 21/12/2020 11:04, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
alan_m wrote:
On 21/12/2020 06:52, jim.gm4dhj wrote:
Shortages and rationing coming our way.....panic buy now ! ..... this
time we need to ...... I've done mine freezers are full ..... this is
the big one.....

I read a few warnings to the farming communities about not taking
certain livestock to market today because it was likely that there would
be very low prices because exporters wouldn't be buying. It was expected
that the rest of Europe may impose travel and trucking bans and to/from
the UK in an effort to stop the spread of the new variant of the virus.

Must admit to wondering how political this is. Is this 'new' version of
Covid really just in the UK - or have we just noticed it before others?

Viruses mutate all the time, so variants are to be expected. This one
seems to have originated in Kent, so probably is still mainly confined
to the UK. Other countries probably have their own new variants, but
whether or not they have found them is another matter.

But of course limiting movement of anything and everything is likely to
help contain the virus.

Although, if everybody followed the guidelines, it probably wouldn't be
necessary.


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Colin Bignell