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I am not sure what media you are following on this, but I bet they are beating the dangerous-variant drum pretty hard. Here we are aware of it, right now it is taking over in Italy and in some regions in Sweden, basically stopping the natural decline of this last wave.
Regarding the UK it was very serious, and it did transmit more easy. Difference was that they were much better prepared, but it still was not a good situation at all. Some other European countries have seen this variant-wave as well.
I am not exactly sure, maybe I misunderstand your point a bit. But the variants, in our case the UK one, even if not more dangerous, is definitely causing a quicker spread. That does not mean it can not stay at a handful of cases and nothing more, this also happened in several countries. They basically continue to see cases from time to time but for whatever reason it does not take hold. This was more or less the case here, for a long while they saw some cases of the variant but nothing more. Now it has apparently started to spread much more, and restrictions are incoming
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The vaccines cannot come in fast enough.... I am still very very much sick and tired of this shit!